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

["andrearo@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <andrearo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> > No please, I like to know when I am doing something which will lag the
> > client. The refresh button is fine.
>
> I was thinking of drawing the dialogs and returning control to the user,
> then updating the server list as servers became available. This is how all
> other games I know of do this.
>
> I guess that requires spawning a thread to do this update.
>

Yes, it makes sense to update the list of servers as they become
available. It now updates every 100 ms for 5 seconds.

(I don't care if the dialog is updated on start, or by clicking on
refresh...)

>In xaw, when no server is found, the LAN server dialog starts up after
>some annoying delay and is tiny,

This is also a problem with the current metaserver dialog: if the
metaserver has no servers, the Metaserver dialog will be tiny.
The patch fixes this for both Meta and Lan servers.

 Andreas Røsdal

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