Um, the program isn't connecting to itself is it (two symmetric clients)?. Forgive me for speaking out of turn, I haven't looked at DRb yet... James.
2008/4/19 larry talley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't know what it means, that is why I am asking my question. But, > FYI, I do have code in my program that calls sleep, when one player is > waiting for the other player to make a move. I have tried sleeping > for different amounts of time... 1 second, more, less, etc. And after > sleeping then I check (via DRb remote object invocation) to see if the > other player made a move yet. What seems to me to be going on is that > there is only one shoes app, despite two different copies of my > application, and two windows on the screen... and it seems that when I > put one of my "games" to sleep, the other one is asleep also, so there > is never an opportunity for the second player to make a move. > > I may be completely off base about what is going on, this was just my > impression. > > I haven't done sophisticated troubleshooting. But the game was > working when played on two computers over the net, but when I changed > DRb to talk and listen at 127.0.0.1 and ran 2 instances on the same > computer, then it locks up as soon as the initial move is made (and > that is the point where the sleep and wait for the other move is > initiated.) > > Sometime this weekend I may spend some time and troubleshoot this a > little more systematically. > > Larry > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Tim Inman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > WooHoo this one sounds fun! > > > > > > Ernest Prabhakar wrote: > > > > > > > > On Apr 18, 2008, at 2:22 PM, //engtech wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Does this mean you can't have more than one shoes app of any kind > > > > running on the same machine? Please tell me that isn't so. > > > > > > > > > > > > > I assume this means the GUI only supports one app at a time. > Presumably > > you can invoke multiple apps from the command-line, which would then run > > independently... > > > > > > -enp > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:51 AM, larry talley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > We have developed a multi-player networked game that currently > works > > > > > when run with players on separate computers, but, when we try to > run 2 > > > > > instances on one computer, it fails. Our game uses shoes > (currently > > > > > 0.r532) for the GUI, and DRb for networking magic. > > > > > > > > > > I believe the problem may have something to do with how shoes > manages > > > > > running 2 shoes apps simultaneously on one computer. It appears to > me > > > > > that there is only 1 shoes process running when I have 2 shoes > apps > > > > > running on this computer. And, when 1 game enters a sleep state > while > > > > > waiting for the other game to make its move, I believe that the > single > > > > > shoes process goes to sleep. > > > > > > > > > > I sure could be wrong about this diagnosis. But if I am right, can > > > > > you think of a way to force my two game instances to run in > separate > > > > > shoes instances? > > > > > > > > > > Do you have any other advice regarding what I am trying to do? > > > > > > > > > > Development, testing, and demonstrations will be much easier if we > can > > > > > get 2 game instances to run on one computer. > > > > > > > > > > Larry > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > http://InternetDuctTape.com > > > > Subscribe by RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/engtech > > > > Subscribe by Email: http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=76839 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
