Hello everybody
Few months ago I started to play with SMFL and i decided to make RPG like game simply for learning purposes.
And just because i like the concept of MMO i wanted to use simple client<->server communication using TCP sockets.
But after some time (and few hundreds of poorly written lines of code) i ran into one major obstacle that i think i overcomed but not very nicely. Thats why i'm asking you mighty Greybeards for some guidance.
To the point.
In my main client thread i have functions like this (code is written from head but i hope You get the idea):
sf::Vector2f CInputHandler::sendCmdGetPos()
{
listening = false;
std::string cmd;
sf::Vector2f pos
if (socket.recieve(packet) == sf::Socket::Done)
{
packet >> cmd;
if(cmd=="playerPos")
{
packet >> pos;
listening = true;
return pos;
}
}
}
And everything would be fine and dandy but i also have separate thread for asynch calls from server (something like player "Kupa" logged in)
void CInputHandler::listen()
{
while (1)
{
if(listening)
{
socket.setBlocking(false);
if (socket.recieve(packet) == sf::Socket::Done)
{
packet >> cmd;
if(cmd=="playerLoggedIn")
{
packet >> name;
printf(name)
}
}
}
socket.setBlocking(true);
}
}
And well it works but seems like not really clean way to solve the problem. Maybe somebody have better way to solve this?
Thanks in advance for responds,
KryQ
