You can do: "startai myai.3", which starts version 3 of "myai".
This is very useful for testing save/load code between different
versions of your AI.
However, when using this syntax, the AI got saved as "myai.3" as
name of the AI, instead of "myai". This caused several problems,
like indicating to the user the AI could not be found, but still
load the AI. But in all cases, the AI never got the chance to
load the saved data, making the whole reason this exists pointless.
By splitting the name and version already in the console command,
the code becomes simpler and AIs started this way now follow the
normal flow after initialization.
It was rather confusing that "library_name" was calculated, and
then not used to do the FindLibrary() call. Flipping those two
blocks around makes it a bit more sane to read.
When link graph jobs are cleared due to abandoning the game or exiting,
flag the job as aborted.
The link graph job running in a separate thread checks the aborted flag
periodically and terminates processing early if set.
This reduces the delay at game abandon or exit if a long-running job
would otherwise still be running.
Check if the job is still running two date fract ticks before it is due
to join, and if so pause the game until its done.
When loading a game, check if the game would block immediately due to
a job which is scheduled to be joined within two date fract ticks,
and if so pause the game until its done.
This avoids the main thread being blocked on a thread join, which appears
to the user as if the game is unresponsive, as the UI does not repaint
and cannot be interacted with.
Show if pause is due to link graph job in status bar, update network
messages.
This does not apply for network clients.
Various of PatchPacks (Spring 2013, Joker, ChillPP) used versions
slightly higher than ours. Of course, as time went by, this
caught up with us, and we are now almost pushing a new version
that would conflict with them. To avoid users creating unneeded
issues about "why can I not load my savegame", lets be ahead of
the curve and flat-out refuse to load them.
Version-wise, this is totally fine. We have ~32k versions to go
before we run out (0x8000 is masked by JGRPP; we should avoid
using that). At the rate we bump savegames, this is not going to
happen in any sane reality.
Apple Clang version 12 (bundled with Xcode 12) complaints about copying
small objects in range loop (-Wrange-loop-analysis introduced by -Wall).
This warning can be easily avoided by removing the reference from
the const pointer type.
This means that for NE/NW, it should have one more in case of
freeform-edges, and in case of SE/SW it should have one less.
Reminder: freeform-edges only adds VOID tiles on X=0 and Y=0.
This is for consistency; most other objects add a # to indicate
it is the Nth of that object, except for Trains / RVs / Ships /
Aircrafts.
This becomes painfully apparent with unnamed vehicles in groups,
which do get a "#".
Patric Stout