[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde-games-devel
Subject:    [Kde-games-devel] KMessage* classes are ready now!
From:       Burkhard Lehner <Burkhard.Lehner () gmx ! de>
Date:       2001-04-20 22:15:16
[Download RAW message or body]

Hi, developers!

I removed a lot of bugs from the KMessageIO, KMessageClient and 
KMessageServer classes, and I think they should be somewhat usuable now.

I won't be home next week, so I will not have the time to work on it soon. If 
you want to, you can try to use these classes in libkdegames. You could use 
the following "translation table":

  KGameClient -> KMessageIO
  KGameNetwork -> KMessageClient
  KGameCommunicationServer -> KMessageServer

If you are missing features, feel free to insert them yourself, or drop me a 
little note. I will try to update the classes as soon as I'm back again.

I think the KMessageServer lacks one feature: Every new client must be 
reported to the master. (Or should it be reported to every other client?) It 
should be easy to create a new message type in KMessageServer, and define 
another signal "newClientConnected" in KMessageClient. Feel free to add 
yourself, otherwise I will do this when I'm back.

Bye,
	Burkhard

PS: I have some ideas about a very general "property system", using QString 
as a key to a property, QVariant as the value stored, and a 
QRegularExpression, so that every client can say which properties he is 
interested in. So only those clients interested in a property (or a group of 
properties) is informed about a change. What do you think about such a thing?

The code could look like this:

    listenToProperties (QRegExp ("board*"));
    changeProperty ("board" + QString::number (row)
                                       + QString::number (col),
                            QVariant (QString ("Black King")));

I have a lot of more ideas for this property system, but I still have to 
think about them.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Burkhard Lehner                         Burkhard.Lehner@gmx.de
Pfaffenbergstraße 101                      Tel: (0631) 1 03 63
67663 Kaiserslautern                    Fax: (0631) 3 10 52 15
               http://www.burkhardlehner.de/
_______________________________________________
Kde-games-devel mailing list
Kde-games-devel@master.kde.org
http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-games-devel

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]