> Huh? Are you talking about not being able to see the current score of players > on the server or something else? You mention sending them messages to "catch > them up to what's happened". The only thing that happened before the new HLTV > observer client joined was that people changed their score. When you connect > to the HLTV server you should have up to date score information.
Not in my experience. If you jump into a TFC HLTV server, for example, you'll initially have no stats on any of the players on the game. You don't even know their team. As the players get kills, capture the flag, or whatever, you'll see their names get the right color on the scoreboard and you'll get their score. The client's picking up on the player info as the HLTV proxy gets messages about what's happened. What you'd want is for the person connecting to the HLTV proxy to be able to get all the players score info from the start and not have to wait for something to trigger the individual messages. > Perhaps you are trying to "buffer up" some other the previous events that > occurred on the server then send those out to a new client when they join. You > can't do that. That data is long gone. That would be like trying to get the > radio station to hold their broadcasting when you turn off your radio, then > pick up where you left off as soon as you turn it back on again. It don't work > that way! :) Exactly. You don't want a buffer of all the messages sent. You want one "This is where things are now" message. See what I mean? _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
