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| 01:16.50 | Zehra | What would be the proper procedure for adding a single boolean variable which would only need to be accessed in two locations within the client? (Both files are non-headers as well and DEVINFO does not seem to cover this.) |
| 01:17.30 | Zehra | This would be related to a minor bug fix within the client I am currently working on. |
| 01:18.57 | blast007 | that's far too vague of a question |
| 01:25.34 | Zehra | Alright. "playing.cxx" and "ScoreboardRenderer.cxx" are the files being used. Information on a "state" I wish to track would be within "playing.cxx", but I would need to be aware of that "state" in "ScoreboardRenderer.cxx", this would be a single boolean variable, but this does not seem to qualify enough for it to be needed as a global variable, so my question is what should be done to follow the coding conventions, as it seems it is not covered |
| 01:25.34 | Zehra | sufficiently within DEVINFO? |
| 01:27.23 | blast007 | what state? |
| 01:28.48 | blast007 | and how many times per frame would the current value of the state need to be read? |
| 01:29.09 | Zehra | I would add a state to see if a client has joined and remained connected to a server or not. |
| 01:30.12 | Zehra | As much as the input of the "huntKeyEvent" is used. |
| 01:30.22 | blast007 | is this to fix the hunt key when not joined to a server? |
| 01:30.26 | Zehra | Yes. |
| 01:30.54 | blast007 | then I'm unclear what the scoreboard *renderer* has to do with that |
| 01:31.24 | allejo | doesn't the client already have that information somewhere? |
| 01:31.31 | Zehra | Line 282: // invoked by clientCommands.cxx when '7' or 'U' is pressed |
| 01:33.02 | Zehra | allejo: It does to some degree, but not in an ideal manner as two boolean variables would need to be tracked. |
| 01:33.19 | allejo | the client should already know if its on a server. how does it decide not to render a scoreboard e.g. |
| 01:33.52 | allejo | the message key knows to display a "you can only send messages while on a server" message |
| 01:34.54 | blast007 | yeah, look for "use send only when connected" in clientCommands.cxx |
| 01:35.09 | blast007 | the solution is to just not call huntKeyEvent if you're not connected |
| 01:35.54 | allejo | ^ |
| 01:36.24 | Zehra | Will do. Thanks for the insights. |
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