User:Ccw

This user is an MTA developer

2013 January 24

Propose source file banner credit overhaul

Problems with current source file credits:

• Little value as a goto guy guide
• No one knows when to add their name to the list
• Encourages file additions, rather than feature additions
• As an information source is it quite useless and eventually misleading

Suggest we have a credit file instead:

• One credit file listing areas of contribution
• Can also act as an overall dev history of the game
• Include the file as binary in each dll
• In game, allow client and server to generate dev credits file via command
• Can also be used to keep the main menu credit roll up to date

2012 October 7

Propose to add two new functions

addPreEventHandler and addPostEventHandler

Adding these will help solve the following problems:

1. Only the function that triggered the event knows if the event was cancelled

As wasEventCancelled is only valid after all addEventHandlers have been completed

(This also means its not possible to react to cancelling of inbuilt events)

2. Solve issue of cancelling events and really stopping them from doing anything

i.e. Cancel event in addPreEventHandler will stop addEventHandler being called altogether

3. Wanting to do things before/after events have occurred:

e.g. onResourceStart - Client has not been told to start yet, so some things like setPlayerTeam can't be done.

Adding addPostEventHandler("onResourceStart",...) means we can do stuff just after resource has really started on both server and client

Cancellation rules

Current (As it is now)

• All addEventHandlers are called.

Proposal #1

• All addPreEventHandlers are called.
• If the event is not cancelled by any addPreEventHandler then:

• All addEventHandlers are called.
• If the event is not cancelled by any addEventHandlers then:

• All addPostEventHandlers are called.

Proposal #2 (allows for addPostEventHandlers to detect addEventHandler cancellation)

• All addPreEventHandlers are called.
• If the event is not cancelled by any addPreEventHandler then:

• All addEventHandlers are called.
• All addPostEventHandlers are called. (wasEventCancelled() will be true if event cancelled during addEventHandlers)

Proposal #3 (allows for addPostEventHandlers to detect addPreEventHandlers and addEventHandler cancellation (but not distinguish which one))

• All addPreEventHandlers are called.
• If the event is not cancelled by any addPreEventHandler then:

• All addEventHandlers are called.

• All addPostEventHandlers are called. (wasEventCancelled() will be true if event cancelled during addPreEventHandlers or addEventHandlers)

2011 November 30

Notes for new ACL request system

In the resource meta.xml:

<aclrequest>
    <right name="function.kickPlayer" access="true"></right>
    <right name="function.banPlayer" access="true"></right>
</aclrequest>

Console command 'aclrequest'

aclrequest list
> aclrequest: BobsGame has 2 aclrequest(s) of which 2 are pending

aclrequest list BobsGame
> aclrequest: BobsGame [pending] for function.kickPlayer
> aclrequest: BobsGame [pending] for function.banPlayer

aclrequest deny BobsGame all
> aclrequest: BobsGame function.kickPlayer changed to deny (Console)
> aclrequest: BobsGame function.banPlayer changed to deny (Console)

aclrequest allow BobsGame function.kickPlayer
> aclrequest: BobsGame function.kickPlayer changed to allow (Console)

aclrequest list BobsGame 
> aclrequest: BobsGame [allow] for function.kickPlayer (by Console on 2011-11-29)
> aclrequest: BobsGame [deny] for function.banPlayer (by Console on 2011-11-29)

Script function #1:

table getResourceACLRequests ( resource theResource )

table return example:

{ {name="function.kickPlayer", access="true", pending="false", who="Console", date="2011-11-29" },
  {name="function.banPlayer", access="false", pending="false", who="Console", date="2011-11-29" } }

Script function #2:

bool updateResourceACLRequest ( resource theResource, string rightName, bool access, string byWho )

This only works with right names that are returned from getResourceACLRequests.
Calling updateResourceACLRequest automatically sents the 'pending' to false and also sets the 'date'.

Permissions

The following are protected by default and will need an entry in the ACL:

function.updateResourceACLRequest 
command.aclrequest

Release dates

History

Version	Date	Highlights	User comments
1.0	22 August 2009	First release	DP2 was better
1.0.1	02 October 2009	Crash fixes and less lag	1.0 was better
1.0.2	24 October 2009	Crash fixes	1.0.1 was better
1.0.3	17 December 2009	Sync improved	1.0.2 was better
1.0.4 (r1752)	7 June 2010	Security improved	1.0.3 was better
1.0.4 (r1854)	10 July 2010	Crash fixes	It crashes more
1.0.4 (r2033)	14 October 2010	Crash fixes	It crashes more
1.0.4 (r2106)	14 December 2010	Browser improved
1.0.5 (r2488)	27 March 2011	AC improved	It crashes more & 1.0.4 was better
1.0.5 (r2519/2520)	4 April 2011	Performance fixed	'It's almost as good as 1.0.2 now'
1.0.5 (r2560)	16 April 2011	Performance improvements
1.1.0	25 August 2011	Many new features	Possibly the worst thing that has happened in the history of the world
1.1.1	20 September 2011	Accumulation of post release fixes	Lags more than 1.1
1.2	17 December 2011	RakNet fix for serious network related problems	???
1.3	24 January 2012	Map Download fix + loads of misc bug fixes	???
1.3.1	03 September 2012	loads of bug fixes and a boat load of new features	1.3 was better