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[Hakaku]

He's referring to another issue, i.e. the reason why I brought that up was because I had originally aliased all of Deva's bot commands with their ASSS counterparts, to make commands more familiar to older staff. Not having billing access, I never knew that some of these commands were used by the biller, so by aliasing them, I essentially blocked them from being sent to the biller. MTN helped me resolve the blocked commands, but I was curious as to why ASSS stops these commands from being logged (cmdman.c), but doesn't stop them from being used by another module, or at least still forward them to the biller rather than blocking them entirely at the zone level.

I realize the issue with this is that it creates a biller-dependancy and is best avoided, but not everyone has knowledge of the main SSC biller itself, which we've already become dependant on.

[Dr Brain]

For the curious, commands can be routed directly to the biller using ?\command, such as ?\login.
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Smong> so long as 99% deaths feel lame it will always be hyperspace to me

[phong]

How's it coming on 1.5 brain? Any estimated release dates? (Winter 09')

[Dr Brain]

The list of bugs remaining for 1.5.0 is here.

There are 11 bugs on that list as I write this, but only #10 and #52 need significant amounts of code.

As for a release date, I expected to have this done a month ago, so clearly my estimates aren't worth much. We have come a long way though: Closed Bugs

[phong]

Thanks

[JoWie]

would it be possible to add a capability or modify "bypasssecurity" in the security module so that any warnings about exe / map / setting checksum mismatches are not logged? (Unless I am missing some existing setting)

All the red warnings about subchat are getting a bit annoying

[Hakaku]

Another small request, would it be possible to add both the name of the user who was banned, along with the name of the user who performed ?kick in ?listmidbans ? Just seeing a macid along with the time left doesn't tell me much.

[Cheese]

would it be possible to use the util.c file as a shim for functions?

like every time the core is recompiled, adding the current functions in util.c into the core, so that the file doesnt need to be manually added to every project?
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[Dr Brain]

It's only on windows that they have to be manually added. They're not part of Linux modules, since it can take the function bodies from the loaded asss core.

[Bak]

[Animate]

Argh, come on, I see only two errors left!

[Animate]

Well, crap, I didn't log in so I can't edit my post. Anyway. While I'm here, I might as well ask a couple questions.

Back when I was actually trying to program modules there were a couple things that would have been a MAJOR convenience to me. While neither of them are strictly necessary, they'd certainly go a long way towards making modules easier to write.

First off, I don't think there's a way to pause for a variable amount of time. I remember trying to write an event manager similar to the popular MERV event plugin, or Smong's python event module. Anyway, I'd need to take a vote, which means waiting for some set amount of time for players to actually vote. I believe I had to set a timer, break my current function, and have the timer call a new function to continue my code. Now, what I was hoping for was some function or macro to call that would just... wait. Some kind of delay function. Only I don't actually know if it's possible to have one module delay without tying up all the other modules, without using a timer. At the very least, though, I think it could be abstracted away from the user.

The other thing I remember... I don't think there was ever a CB_SPAWN. And that would've helped a lot. I remember Bak had a work around with his initial.c, and it didn't look hard. Is there a reason no one made a CB_SPAWN? It'd have to go off whenever players entered or changed ships or respawned(Bak I believe checked every time a player moved to see when they had respawned), but it seems like it should still be part of the core.

Anyway, I'm really just wondering if those things don't exist for some specific reason, or just because no one ever made them.

[Dr Brain]

Those errors are likely fixed, but have yet to be retested.

There's a few finishing touches. The hardest part will be figuring out how to package the release. I hope to have it out to you guys in a few days if everything goes smoothly.

EDIT: you reposted right before me... To answer your questions: a delay would cause the server to die horribly. Use timers. It's the only way. CB_SPAWN has been added for 1.5.0.

[Animate Dreams]

Well, I'm happy for CB_SPAWN. As for a delay, I was thinking along the lines of a sleeping thread. If I understand what sleeping is for a thread, it lets the thread pause for either a set amount of time or until it gets awoken, without making the other threads stop. I mean I'm sure the modules aren't working like threads, but I just hate having to break my logic for a 3 second pause. I guess if it's not possible though, then whatever. Life sucks. Unless you want to rewrite the core so each module runs in its own thread. Schedule for 1.6.0?

[Dr Brain]

If you want your own thread, then feel free to make one. I'm not about to quadruple the system requirements by adding threads for each module just to cater to lazy programmers.

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[Bak]

the main loop interface has a settimer function