Re: [Dev-C++] 'extern const' and std::vector

[David M. <ci...@ya...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ioannis Vranos" <iv...@at...>
To: <ci...@ya...>
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 2:33 AM
Subject: RE: [Dev-C++] 'extern const' and std::vector


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David McKen [mailto:ci...@ya...]
> > Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 3:53 AM
> > To: Ioannis Vranos
> > Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] 'extern const' and std::vector
> >
> >
> > I must say thnk you to those who helped me.
>
>
> At firs ti have to note that you sent the email only to
me. I guess you
made
> this by mistake? :)
>

Whoops my bad..

>
>
> > Istill have one question thoug about using a pool of
> > threads for a 'round
> > robin' approach. How would I implement such a system?
My
> > current idea is
> > that all the player objects will be in a vector and I
have
> > an int pointing
> > to the one that has been most recently processed. Once
a
> > thread is avalible
> > it reads this varible and moves on to the next object
in
> > the vector
> > (starting at the begining if it has reached the end),
> > updating the integer
> > so the next thread knows which object to process? Any
> > suggestions (or better
> > yet some example code) would be appreciated.
>
>
>
> I do not know thread magic (yet)...
>
>
> > BTW Ioannis we plan to make it multi-OS the library we
are
> > using is Opentop.
> > Unfortunately our goal to become truly os-independent
is
> > proving harder than
> > we thought. If push comes to shove we will stick with
the
> > *NIX and Win32
> > (none of us on the developement team have a Mac to
> > playaround with).
>
>
>
> Why don't you use OpenGL, isn't it portable?
>

This is the server we are talking about. Opentop does not
provide any
graphics classes.
The server is purely textbased. We hope to make a client
that will be
graphical (For that
we can use OpenGL).Opentop provides wrappers for various
things (threads,
sockets, etc).

>
> My sugggestion is do not use Win32, use  .NET instead.
>
>
>
>
> Ioannis Vranos
>
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> * Alternative URL 1: http://run.to/noicys
> * Alternative URL 2: http://www.noicys.cjb.net
>
>


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