[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6707) Announce server on LAN

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Per I. Mathisen wrote:

>
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, andrearo@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > One of the features I miss in Freeciv is to get a list of servers on the
> > LAN that the client can connect to, when setting up local games. So I just
> > had to implement it :)
>
> Ok, I had a look at it :)
>
> In xaw, when no server is found, the LAN server dialog starts up after
> some annoying delay and is tiny, same width as update and close buttons
> and same height as the three widgets, where the lan list widget is a tiny
> strip. The dialog should pop up immediately in the right size, and the
> contents of the list widget should be updated as servers are found. When a
> server is found not at first but through 'Update', the dialog becomes much
> too wide, and the lowermost two buttons fall slightly off the dialog's
> bottom edge. In both cases, the uppermost text widget only displays 'S'.
> When you press 'LAN Servers' when there is a server to be found,
> everything displays fine but the dialog is still a bit too wide.
>
> Gtk2: Looks all fine. Is it possible to do a refresh automatically when
> clicking on the tab? Other games to this, and it is convenient. Someone on
> irc also requested short-keys - do with that suggestion as you will :)

No please, I like to know when I am doing something which will lag the
client. The refresh button is fine.

> Didn't test gtk1. You can leave updating other clients' to their
> respective client maintainers if you want.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa