Using Netlib??

[pspfreak9]

Yeah i started using youresam's netlib and.. It tried making the netlib example included to run on a background image but it wont work?? If you didnt understand what i just said i mean i want the netlib example to have a image as its background instead of a black background.

[SG57]

Wow... Just add:

image = Image.load("image.png")

-- add this somewhere in its main loop:
screen:blit(0,0,image)
screen.flip()

[BlackShark]

no no no, SG, thats WAY to hard for us to comprehend....
but really, what DID you have down in your code pspfreak?

[pspfreak9]

Man i tried that already ive done this before but it wont work with this i have no idea why
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I just printed text on a background but when i put the netlib stuff the background turnsblack

[youresam]

The netlib example's text uses print. You cannot blit images over print. You need to do a screen:print. The example was not exactly designed to be built off of, so I recomend writing your own program using netlib.

[SG57]

I never knew LUA had a debug console... Neato...

[BlackShark]

Originally Posted by SG57

I never knew LUA had a debug console... Neato...

...?Thats my line... but ya, thats pretty cool

[pspfreak9]

Oh ok thanks Youresam.

[youresam]

Originally Posted by SG57

I never knew LUA had a debug console... Neato...

Yep, it uses pspDebug

Also, debug.debug() in lua almost works....oh well.

[pspfreak9]

In Netlib is there anypiece of code i could use that deletes a id if no data is sent for a certain amount of time??

[youresam]

Um, deleting IDs in netlib isnt needed, so I didnt add that feature to v2. May I ask what you are trying to do?

[pspfreak9]

Yea, sure see in my game I plan to send x,y coordinates to the server and recive them at the other PSP thus having the 2 players move. But if the player leaves the the player just stays in one spot using the x,y coordinates that was last used. I wanna make it so that it that person times out the id is deleted so they wont just freeze on the scrren.

[cools]

well if you need some help using netlib for a 2 player game, just check out my guide.

http://www.cools.biaklan.com/Tutorial/ or one of the links in my sig!

[pspfreak9]

Your guide is very impressive. Very appreciated. Suprised it hasnt got stickied.
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Cools in your tut you put this line:

netsend("StickArena_room" ,info,"w")

It gives this error:

Bad argument to netsend

I changed it to this:

netsend("StickArena_room" ,"info","w")

Was that the right thing to do??
If someone but cools is reading this you might wanna read his tut to understand where i am.
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anyone...??

[youresam]

UGH my domain went down today so I cant show you the 'official' netlib tutorial

Anyway, just send something like "OFFLINE" to tell it that the other has left.
And heres the way netsend works:
netsend(id, data, mode)

so to send "hello" to the variable bob you would do exactly:
netsend("bob","hello","w" )

cools tutorial is more like showing you how I wrote my connection code for games, but he made a few mistakes (like the info part)

[pspfreak9]

Ya but if I send "offline" The player the stands there frozen which interfers with the game play any ideas??

[youresam]

If it recieves "OFFLINE" it should exit the game.

[pspfreak9]

Why dont i just create a quick version of the game show it to you later beacuse i'm not sure of what your saying right now will work.

[youresam]

Your saying that in the event that the other user suddenly quits, you want your PSP to do what?

[pspfreak9]

Just wait please i'll PM you when i'm done with coding (this could take a while)

[cools]

Didnt i say somewhere it was an optional step? Oh well... The info thing... yeah... It sent over which car to send over, so the other psp would be able to load the correct picture.

Trust youresam!

[pspfreak9]

When I do netsend how can i send over A VARIBLE??

netsend("whatever",(VARIBLE),"w")

Like that ??

[youresam]

in lua:
whatever = "hello world"

in netlib:
netsend("whatever","hello world","w")

so yeah, I think you got it.

[pspfreak9]

Sorry, I think you got what i said wrong. I meant whatever would be the ID and I want the variable to the DATA. So like this:

VARIABLE =x+10
netsend("ID",(VARIABLE),w)

and the VARIABLE is constantly changing so i cant just type in the variable itself.

[youresam]

Ok, so lets say you want to assign p1_score to the variable score:

lua:
p1_score = score

netlib:
netsend("p1_score",score, "w")

[pspfreak9]

Oh i get it you didnt put quotes around the score. Thx
P.S. While your here i have to ask this:
In that example you gave with Netlib you know where it says buffer =...( A bunch of stuff) Could I do this:

if buffer =OFFLINE then
(function)
end
Can i do that?? OFFLINE would be the data

[youresam]

Yeah, that would work.
if buffer == "OFFLINE"
But remember, the other person would have to send "OFFLINE"

[altunozara]

i still dontget what netlib is

[youresam]

lib I wrote for making lua games online

[pspfreak9]

Can your netlib do something like this:

x = 240
pad =  Controls.read(); 
   if math.abs(pad:analogX()) > 20 then 
      px = x + pad:analogX() / 180; 
   end

xs = px
netsend("xs",px,"w")

When I do this it says bad argument for netsend. I think net lib cant have things like x+10 If that is true is there any way I can do it??
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Oh man, Youresam got banned again.
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anyone???