Talk:OHRVER.TXT

FyreWulff While I try to figure out FreeBASIC and implement net-code into the OHR (for update purposes only), this is the page for the OHRVER.TXT file the code will download and read to figure out what to do. I would like discussion on it's format and/or what the reserved numbers should be.

Mike C. Ummm... I fail to see the purpose of this. The absolute last thing we want is for the OHR to attempt to connect to the internet every time it opens. Much less to pop-up a message saying it's out of date, and much less to automatically update (not that it would, no one would ever allow that code to see the light of day).

FyreWulff I already have the general experience from implementing this kind of tech into my rNet prototypes. All I have to figure out is how to translate what I've done into FreeBASIC. If not net connection can be found, the OHRRPGCE does nothing. By the way, this is currently done from a "Maintainence tasks" submenu, it doesn't automatically try to access the internet upon startup.

Bob the Hamster: Interesting. I have mixed feelings about this. Like Mike, I don't want to see the OHR doing net access on opening, and I am a bit uncomfortable with having any networking code in the trunk, but I am still interested in seeing where you are going with this. How do you envision this feature being better than just downloading a newer version manually?

FyreWulff Like I said, it is experimental.. but it goes a long way towards user-friendliness. The netcode should remain easily seperable; all the base programming is sitting off in netwin.bi and netlin.bi. And I am totally not going to be the person that programs any sort of in-game internet multiplayer, because that would take the OHR being designed for network play in the first place. If enough people are totally against this, I can understand, I won't bother trying to start my own branch, I'll just make it an external program. But it's cool (at least for me!) to have integrated auto-update abilities.