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List:       kde-games-devel
Subject:    Re: [Kde-games-devel] Configure problems of Capitalist v0.1 with KDE 2.2 ?
From:       Rob Kaper <cap () capsi ! com>
Date:       2001-06-26 13:22:18
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:01:24PM +0200, Daniel Hermann wrote:
> It client/server communication is already prepared to give clients rights
> to execute server commands directly, e.g. configuration commands or
> "start". But most of this isn't implemented yet. But it should be easy to
> find out how to play by reading the help.

Should I even dare to ask about a GUI implementation for this? Last night I
added a popup to KMonop, RMB on any estate gives you the options to
(un)mortgage it and buy/sell houses/hotels. Sweet.

> Yes. The serialization and deserialization is really difficult. But I
> think it's not impossible to use other languages which can deal with bytes
> and bits, and convert the received bytes to int8, int16 etc. But I admit
> that this is not a nice protocol to have many different types of clients,
> written in various languages, especially weakly-typed scripting languages
> like Python. But again, that was not my intention.

Hm, come to think of it, there is a Python DCOP binding so it should be
possible. :-)

Rob
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