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Detecting when a client has crashed

by Gordon Marsh · in General Discussion · 09/21/2006 (4:30 pm) · 7 replies

All,

In testing a Torque game, it is feasible for one or more of the clients to disconnect through a problem such as a crash, network connection going down etc etc.

Eventually the server realises that a client has disappeared and removes them.

In this eventuality I'd like to call a function to do some cleaning up - anyone know where I could call this from?

Thanks, Gords
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Associate Orion Elenzil
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#1
09/21/2006 (5:50 pm)
You want to run cleanup code server-side when a connection drops ?

- grep the codebase for "CDROP" in an echo() or con::printf. i think that's a good place to hook into that.

Torque Owner Gordon Marsh
#2
09/22/2006 (3:44 am)
Thanks for the hint Orion, I'll post back here when I find out exactly where this is...

Torque Owner Gordon Marsh
#3
09/22/2006 (4:42 am)
Cheers Orion, for anyone interested, I think the function needed is:

function GameConnection::onDrop(%client, %reason)

located in clientConnection.cs.

Thanks, Gords

Associate Orion Elenzil
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#4
09/22/2006 (1:02 pm)
Glad you found it Gordon! sorry i wasn't more specific, i'm on the road w/o my dev. env!
(actually, i'm on the road more or less evangelizing for torque, funnily enough)

Torque 3D Owner Stephen Zepp
#5
09/22/2006 (1:05 pm)
@Orion: awaiting email! (hehe, no, you don't owe me an email, but you just intrigued me...)

Associate Orion Elenzil
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#6
09/22/2006 (1:31 pm)
@stephen - ;) just sent you one from a gmail address.

Torque Owner Gordon Marsh
#7
09/23/2006 (6:46 am)
Is this Torque roadshow coming to the UK any time soon? :)