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Re: [glob2-devel] more in game notices on errors
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Andrew Sayers |
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Re: [glob2-devel] more in game notices on errors |
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Sat, 28 Jan 2006 02:55:20 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.11 |
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 10:17:56 -0800, Kyle Lutze wrote:
> how hard would it be to have dialouge boxes pop up on some of the
> errors, such as when buildings.txt differs when you try to join a game,
> it could say something like "Your versions differ, please upgrade and
> try again" or when it desyncs instead of the game crashing it brings up
> a box like the one where you win that says "you've desynced"
I know I always say this, but this is something that would be easier in
the map rewrite. I spent a lot of time working out a debugging system
that would let you cleanly throw an exception that unwinds out of the
game, and could be caught and handled with a pop-up.
- Andrew