[gameprogrammer] Re: [ANNOUNCE] NewI\O Alpha Version 0.07 (Build 043)


Whats the paint_demo like to use over a low
latency link? I have a 180 msec ping to apps.newio.org (with 18 hops),
so its a bit painful.



Is it? That is unfortunate. I am not meeting my performance objectives
then. I may have to look at additional performance enhancments, such
as combining messages.



Well maybe painful was to strong a word to use, you can notice the lag between when you, say, change colours, and quick mouse clicks seem to be ignored. I seem to have to hold down the button for a fraction of a second longer than I normally would in both the paint_demo and the mouse_test to register a click. These things are merely superficial though, this project is really cool!

How about a brief overview of what happening behind the scenes sometime? I figure that the client is sending events to the server (mouse click, mouse movement, keyboard events) and that those events are basically SDL events, but what does the server send back? It cant be a bitmap of what to show, is it things like "put a red pixel at position foo", "put the character 'X' somewhere"?


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