My apologies, it was PM OnoTo who asked (he is on our dev team and was integrating the client cvar query stuff for AMX Mod X, I was doing it for Metamod). He told me he'd gotten no reply, and he's not signed up for this list anymore so he couldn't ask himself :)
Looks like we had bad timing though. Thanks for the update, we're looking forward to this. ---David "BAILOPAN" Anderson http://www.bailopan.net/ > Who did you ask and when? I don't have any emails from you. > > We are working on a new revision of this subsystem that will include the > information you need to connect requests to responses. We expect to have > it available soon, I will announce it on the hlds_apps list when it is > live. > > - Alfred > > ----Original Message---- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 1:11 PM To: > [email protected] Subject: [hlcoders] HL1: Bug in client > cvar querying > >> Hello, >> >> We tried asking Valve about this directly but got no response. >> >> The client cvar querying stuff is broken (as I explained earlier) >> but the >> appropriate fix was denied. Our workaround for this was to implement >> a >> queue system in Metamod on the unwritten guarantee that the client, >> unless they disconnected, would always give a reply to a client cvar >> query. >> >> Unfortunately this isn't the case - if you query a client with an >> unknown/non-existant cvar, you never get a reply, completely >> invalidating >> the queue idea. I can think of three solutions: >> - We have to set a time-out time for cvar replies (UGLY!) >> - Valve makes clients reply with empty or preset/special string. >> - Valve fixes the API so query callbacks get the queried cvar name. >> >> This is a serious bug which basically makes this nice new system >> entirely >> useless. Any suggestions from Valve's end? >> >> Thanks, >> >> ---David "BAILOPAN" Anderson >> http://www.bailopan.net/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> archives, please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
