Re: [Rails-devel] Making Rails more suited to fast interactive play.

[brett l. <bre...@gm...>]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:
>> This may not be possible, but I'd like some options to allow players to keep
>> control of their version of the game and prevent loading a new file if the
>> polling shows it's someone else's turn.  I imagine it would be annoying to
>> be looking at the stock market or be reviewing the game log, and suddenly
>> the game loads a new file and it's not even my turn yet.  In the event this
>> isn't possible, can we at least ensure that the window positions are
>> remembered, so if I'm looking at the stock market on a small laptop screen,
>> it isn't suddenly replaced with the map because an auto-load occurred?
>>
>>
>>
> EV: A ‘suspend polling’ menu item should be easy to add.
>

This might be easiest if the polling is implemented in a separate
thread from the main game. That will minimize its ability to block
redrawing and undo/redo.

---Brett.