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all my programming has gone into stuff you cant see when u start the game

i dont have much to show.. just my source control lol

yea i currently just print stuff to the console

hey guys, do u guys create a "log" type class for your games, that generates log files and stuf like that? should i bother doing that?

hey every1, i created a book mark of some chat here but i cant figure out how to access my bookmarks... any1 know how?

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well thank you for the help youve given me a couple ideas on how to get started with this solution

good idea

ok good call

and then wheni finish both branches ill flip a coin

i will make a branch for both approaches

lol

ok but then when my server gets a standby command how can i be sure that it is the local client that sent it and not a rogue user?

i will try doing that but just curious what way would u write it?

that sounds like a good idea

hm

so it doesnt wait at all it just checks to see if any request came in since the last time it checked

thats what i was trying to avoid lol

but i mean in a real game scenario the server will be doing all of its serving duties so it isn't sitting waiting for connections... it just polls for any connection requests when it has time to

but it is not limited by any kind of sleep or anything... so it will run as fast as possible right? eatup allmy cpu?

the reason being identical is so i dont have to change any code

i wnat the server to pretty much identical to a dedicated server though... the dedicated server would just loop continuously looking for connections.. if my server isnt running then i have to figure out someway to start it before i can send connection packets to it right? this is assuming i put it in a seperat eprocess

o yes that is true

but it would have nothing to do

well it will have its own continuous loop running eating up cpu i would guess

because if the server process doesn't eat up resources then i hav no problem having it running all the time while i play on some remote server...

but what i wanted to know is if its possible to run say a client and a server process, but now have the server process eat up resources?

i mean it was my choice to do so....

my design was to start a client only, because if you want to join a dedicated server, i dont want to have a local server running all the time because it would waste resources... or can i make the server process sleep somehow and not take away any performance when im connecting the client to a remote server?

but im not sure how to do that from the client... i would have to go back up to the engine and request it to be done right?

the biggest issuei have right now is that from the client, you can create a new server in its own process.. like if you decided to host a game for example

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but then that means the engine and client for exmple will be strongly coupled, because the engin creates a client and the client has to store a pointer to the engine that created it.... thats bad right?

hey every1, i have an engine class in c++ that when run either creates a server or client. i have some engine functions that iw oudl like to call in the server/client, but dont want to store a pointer back up to the engine. would it make sense for the server and client to inherit from the engine?

where should i put this function: int randomInt(int low, int high)? i dont know the best place ina project to put this, using C++

i have a child process in win32 which inherited a pipe handle.. i did this by setting the child's stdout to use the pipe handle.. is there another way of passing the pipe to my child without overwriting stdout/stdin?

anyone here used anonymous pipes in the windows api ?

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