No, I'm not confused. I know what dialog box is Mad talking about and that box IS NOT always empty. I've seen the content server banner there sometimes while conneting to a server, I'm sure. If it's not shown now, it must be a bug or something similar.
I also think is would be a nice idea, but actually it's not possible. There isn't any server side parameters, the banner is simply downloaded from an url given by the content server. Maybe it should go to the Steam's 'todo' list, but there is still a lot of more of important things to improve than a little banner... meanwhile use the new motd file, that was my suggestion. -- PiTaGoRaS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Di Schino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 11:27 PM Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Content hosting provided by... > The MOTD is one thing... but, actually, you guys are confusing two > different things. Mad is talking about the dialog box that displays > when you connect to any server. there is a progress bar above the > banner box. The progress bar shows "Establishing Connection", > "Validating resources" etc. The banner box is ALWAYS empty when you are > connecting to a game server. > > Everyone else is confusing this with the Steam Update dialog box. The > Steam client update dialog box shows the logo of the content server. > You only see this when you are updating your Steam client, as that is > the only time you are truly connected to a content server. This came up > on the list right after Steam was released. You guys have selective > memory. > > Mad has a point. If you are Dl'ing the map from my game server, for all > intents and purposes, my server *is* a content server. Even if you > arent Dling a map on connect, if this box is going to be empty during > the verify resources phase of the connection, why not let us use it? > The content server obviously pushes the image into this box, so why > can't our game servers do it? My guess is that there is a server side > parameter that we havent fingered out yet that we could use for this > purpose. > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
