Useful links...? http://tutorial117.easycfm.com http://www.intrafoundation.com/software/UDPClient.htm
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 8:21 AM, [email protected] [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I have been away from CF for a few years. > > My latest activities have been learning Cocoa and Objective-C so I can > program iPhone apps (mainly for friends and my own amazement). > > It's pretty cool to have all that power in your pocket! > > In an iPhone forum a question was asked: what/how to implement an > Internet multiplayer option to an iPhone game he has already published. > There are two basic needs: > > 1) Admin, Record keeping (user names, high scores), etc. > 2) Interactive mulltiplayer play of the game > > CF/SQL seems a natural for 1 using a standard web server interface > (HTTP/TCP). > > In this particular game (role playing) (HTTP/TCP) prolly would provide good > enough performance to satisfy his needs. > > However, some of the more advanced iPhone games use fairly Hi-Res 2D and > 3D graphics with fairly decent frame rates. The iPhone runs OS X (Unix), > OpenGL ES and has a separate GPU. > > This type of game would require more frequent interaction and more data > exchange. The HTTP/TCP connection and handshaking protocol, likely, has too > much overhead to sustain frame rates on the client iPhones. > > Most games use the UDP protocol (connectionless, unordered, no packet > delivery guarantee) with a specialized server app written in C++. > .. > I should mention here that all the heavy lifting is done on the iPhone > clients-- the server only needs to send data such as the x/y/z coordinates > of each player (plus some info on speed, weapon, direction). So, CF would > not be serving the multiplayer graphic displays, rathet only the data needed > by the iPhone clients to refresh their displays. If packets are lost, so > what-- just a momentary lag until the next one comes along. > > Whew! > > Here are my questions: > > 1) Can the latest/greatest CF efficiently handle UDP through sockets or > event gateways (or whatever) to make it a practical host of the multiplayer > play? > > 2) Has anybody done this? > > 3) Any examples, code snippets? > > Any help will be greatly appreciated! > > > TIA > > Dick Applebaum > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:317344 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
