Scripting Questions

I've been going through all of the provided scripts, just making sure I understand what each function is doing, and picking up how the scripting language works.

Here are a couple of questions that I haven't been able to turn up satisfactory answers for:

1. In "torque\example\common\server\clientConnection.cs", in the function "GameConnection::onConnect( %client, %name )" there are the following lines:

$instantGroup = ServerGroup;
   $instantGroup = MissionCleanup;

My question is: What do those 2 lines *do*? I know (more or less) what ServerGroup and MissionCleanup are for. My question is what do these assignments accomplish?

I've found several references to $instantGroup throughout the scripts, but most often only as an assignment like above. And nothing ever seems to actually *use* $instantGroup.


2. While I'm here, in the same function, the hosting player is automatically made superadmin of the server:

// if hosting this server, set this client to superAdmin
   if (%client.getAddress() $= "local") {
      %client.isAdmin = true;
      %client.isSuperAdmin = true;
   }

However, just a few lines later:

// Set admin status
   %client.isAdmin = false;
   %client.isSuperAdmin = false;

Is this the bug that it appears to be? Because regardless of the player's "local" status, and having been made superadmin earlier, these last lines always execute.


Thanks for your help!

-David
Samu Games
The Journal