Re: [Realtimebattle-devel] Exceptions

[Erik O. <er...@ma...>]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Benoit ROUSSEAU wrote:

> > How is the appropriate function to do to quit? Is it to add a QuitEvent to
> > the_eventhandler? We have to cleanly join all threads and that sort of
> > thing before it is allowed to quit.
> 

Yes, that was the idea, but it is maybe better to make quit() function
in the EventHandler, which could be called directly.

> 
> For the moment, it seems to be use to quit a game and not the program,
> but we don't have made any specification about that... 

No, the QuitEvent was intended to shut the program down, but a lot more
work remains on that. I leave it to Ragnar to handle the thread-joining
and all that.


> I think that 'quit the program event' shouldn't be a Game Time Event, but
> a Real Time event, and should work like the 'shutdown' command...

Or maybe not an event at all, since to should occur immediately, not at a
specific (later) time.

/Erik