The data will be transmitted as the length followed by the serialized data. This allows the command
data to be different for every command type in the future.
This gives user visual feedback that the refresh is still pending, and
prevents people from clicking again and again thinking nothing is
happening. This is especially true for connections that fall back to
TURN, as that takes a few seconds to kick in.
Additionally, prevent clicking on the button again while a refresh
is pending. This is only delaying a successful result.
When you are query several servers at once, it is rather unclear
for which server you got a popup. Instead, show any errors on the
server itself.
This is only true for the query-part. Joining a server still gives
an error popup to tell you about any issue.
Nobody really paid attention to the lobby window, and it completely
missed its purpose. Most people don't even wait for companies to
show up, but just hit "New Company".
This in turn means people create a lot of unneeded companies, while
they "just want to watch the game" or join another company.
Instead, "Join Game" now just joins the game as spectators.
Every outgoing connection, either TCP or UDP, triggered
NetworkInitialize(), which triggered NetworkUDPInitialize() which
first closes all connections.
Now the problem was that "Search LAN games" found a server, added
it to the list, after which (over TCP) it queries the server. This
closes all UDP sockets (as that makes sense, I guess?), while the
UDP was still reading from it.
Solve this by simply stop initializing UDP every time we make an
outgoing TCP connection; instead only do it on start-up.
In this mode you do register to the Game Coordinator, but your
server will not show up in the public server listing. You can give
your friends the invite code of the server with which they can
join.
This removes the need to know a server IP to join it. Invite codes
are small (~7 characters) indentifiers for servers, which can be
exchanged with other players to join the servers.
Normally TCPConnecter will do a DNS resolving of the connection_string
and connect to it. But for SERVER_ADDRESS_INVITE_CODE this is different:
the Game Coordinator does the "resolving".
This means we need to allow TCPConnecter to not setup a connection
and allow it to be told when a connection has been setup by an external
(to TCPConnecter) part of the code. We do this by telling the (active)
socket for the connection.
This means the rest of the code doesn't need to know the TCPConnecter
is not doing a simple resolve+connect. The rest of the code only
cares the connection is established; not how it was established.
Rename the zero-parameter NetworkValidateClientName to NetworkValidateOurClientName to make it clearer it is performed on our client name, and to make it a non-overloaded function to aid with the variant being added a few commits later
It now follows very simple rules:
0 - Fatal, user should know about this
1 - Error, but we are recovering
2 - Warning, wrong but okay if you don't know
3 - Info, information you might care about
4 -
5 - Debug #1 - High level debug messages
6 - Debug #2 - Low level debug messages
7 - Trace information
The code mixed up "client has quit but we already told everyone"
with "client lost connection, handle this".
Split up those two signals:
- CLIENT_QUIT means we told everyone and the connection is now dead
- CONNECTION_LIST means we should tell everyone we lost a client
This meant that on opening the Multiplayer window, if you had more
than one server configured, it would one by one cancel all pending
queries and send a new. Result: only the last server was updated.
The most common case never needs access to it anymore. Make the
one exception to this explicit. This means the fact that we
store it is now an implementation detail.
Michael Lutz