Yes, now that would be possible, but perhaps misleading in some scenarios. (It would of course require the mod author to maintain some globally-available server with the latest version, and then write the client code to do that check.)
It's a slightly different scenario though than the one originally described, though. For instance if you had a beta version as mentioned below, you wouldn't get that message when on beta and connecting to non-beta, or you would get it erroneously when not on beta, etc. At 2007/11/17 12:40 PM, Christopher Harris wrote: >Or in the dll init function check for new version then display a message box >saying there is a new version out. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Adam Maras (memzero)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 1:34 PM >Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Proper mod versioning? > > >Well pardon my lack of knowledge on the situation, but couldn't you: >1. Set a version constant in the code >2. Check to see if the server and connecting client's version match >3. If they don't, disconnect with a custom message? > >Could all this occur before class table checking, like right on connect? > >// Adam Maras (memzero) > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Well, you can always put the version number in the name of the server, >>which may be what he's doing? >> >>Really though what you want, per previous discussions, is a way to alert >>users to the existence of a new version when they try to connect and fail. >>And ideally a way to seamlessly perform the update via Steam. >> >>At 2007/11/17 11:54 AM, Adam Maras (memzero) wrote: >> >>>Garry's Mod beta (somehow) has [BETA] preceding the Game column contents >>>in the server, if I'm correct. Perhaps you could put the version in that >>>data field so that people can look specifically for servers of their >>>version. >>> >>>// Adam Maras (memzero) >>> >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>>>For what it's worth the last few times I asked this, the answer was >>>>basically "no". >>>> >>>>At 2007/11/15 10:39 AM, Jeremy wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Is there a way to do proper mod versioning? >>>>> >>>>>Disconnect: Server uses different class tables. isn't a very useful >>>>>error message when clients try to join wrong version servers. >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
