Re: [simspark-devel] Countdown for Atlanta

[Joschka B. <jbo...@un...>]

Hi Yuan,

Yuan Xu wrote:
> Hi Joschka,
>
>
>> >>  .... If the
>> >> application is too busy for SDL to create appropriate events, do you
>> >> think it would make sense to have an other application ("referee") 
>> that
>> >> connects to the server as a monitor and sends commands using the 
>> trainer
>> >> protocol? This way we could make the game kick of and do drop ball at
>> >> least...
>> >>
>
> I found this in http://www.libsdl.org/intro.en/whatplatforms.html
>
> "Linux and BeOS support the SDL_INIT_EVENTTHREAD flag which, when
> passed to SDL_Init(), asks the event loop to run asynchronously in
> another thread. This is useful for color cursors that respond even
> when the application is busy."
>
> But initializing SDL with SDL_INIT_EVENTTHREAD can not get clear 
> effort ;-(

It sounded very helpful, but my tests so far also didn't get a clear 
result. In fact, the input can be best controlled in single-thread mode 
without using the SDL_INIT_EVENTTHREAD mode for me so far.

By the way, I think I'll write an email to the list today, asking for 
feedback on the timer. It's important to hear the teams' experience 
before we make a decision for Atlanta, I think.

>
> If the monitor and server run on one machine, it seems OK.
> But I have some problems while connecting the monitor via the net.
> If there is no agent, the monitor works OK.
> If one agent connected, and the full scene message is received, but
> the prefix size of message can not read correctly!
> It reminds me what happened in the agentspark before.
>
> Is there anyone know the solution?
>

Yes, this definitely sounds like a similar (or the same problem), but I 
didn't have time to check yet. Can anybody else observe the same problem?

Cheers,
Joschka