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Network / Latency

« on: March 02, 2014, 02:55:34 pm »

Hi everyone. Im currently trying to make a multiplayer action game, and i figured it would be a good thing to measure latency somehow in order to place bulllets for example. Is there a way to measure latency in sfml?

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Network / Blocking/unblocking sockets

« on: July 16, 2013, 07:35:51 pm »

I have been trying to set up a tcp and udp network, and i want to use nonblocking sockets. However i noticed that when i'm using nonblocking sockets the return code for udpSocket.bind() and tcpSocket.connect() doesnt return sf::Socket::Done even if the operation was successful. My workaround was doing this:

tcpSocket.setBlocking(true);
if (tcpSocket.connect(ip,port, sf::seconds(3) ) != sf::TcpSocket::Done){
   std::cout<<"Failed to connect TCP"<<std::endl;
   tcpSocket.setBlocking(false);
}

Is this intended and is this a good or a bad way to do it?

EDIT: tcpSocket.receive() also returns sf::Socket::Done when it doesn't receive anything in nonblocking mode