Originally posted by tlai1992Not that hard:
great idea except that would be kinda hard right?
[b]tlai1992[/b]
The RHP screensaver program, when launched, would connect to the RHP server and request images of all current games and download them locally. Then, the screensaver program would would proceed to display each one as a slideshow
-Ray.
Originally posted by rgoudieif it isn't hard to do and doesn't take up too much disk or memory space then i think it'll be a great idea!😀
Not that hard:
The RHP screensaver program, when launched, would connect to the RHP server and request images of all current games and download them locally. Then, the screensaver program would would proceed to display each one as a slideshow
-Ray.
tlai1992
Originally posted by rgoudieThat would put un-necissary strain on the servers, the site would grind to a hault.
Not that hard:
The RHP screensaver program, when launched, would connect to the RHP server and request images of all current games and download them locally. Then, the screensaver program would would proceed to display each one as a slideshow
-Ray.
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Originally posted by rgoudieI thought maybe, that when we moved in each of our games, the new board state could be stored in a cookie or something on our computer. When the RHP screensaver wakes up it looks in the cookie folder and displays any board states it finds that are reasonably current.
Not that hard:
The RHP screensaver program, when launched, would connect to the RHP server and request images of all current games and download them locally. Then, the screensaver program would would proceed to display each one as a slideshow
-Ray.
This means its not quite the current state - if your op has moved since the last time you looked at the game on RHP then the screensaver won't know about that - and if you have moved computers you are also a bit scuppered
Howeve the idea is that it would use fairly minimal extra bandwidth (because the client computers already know the board state, I think... although do they know it after your last move....?) and it could reuse the board editor functionality to display the images so I think it might be quite doable. Perhaps Russ could comment.
Originally posted by iamatigerAlright, fine. 😉
I thought maybe, that when we moved in each of our games, the new board state could be stored in a cookie or something on our computer. When the RHP screensaver wakes up it looks in the cookie folder and displays any board states it finds that are reasonably current.
This means its not quite the current state - if your op has moved since the last time y ...[text shortened]... tionality to display the images so I think it might be quite doable. Perhaps Russ could comment.
Yes, a more economical idea would be to have the screensaver program obtain the FENs for all current games and it would create the images itself.
-Ray.
Originally posted by iamatigerThat would be interesting, but one factor militating against that exact scenario is that this site is very browser-independent. That's a GOOD thing as it makes it easy for everyone to use their own preferences for hardware and software. Cookies are a W3C standard, but their implementation is not, i.e., cookies are stored very differently by different browsers on different OSs. MS Internet Exploder does store its cookies as files, but most other browsers that I know about do not. Furthermore, most browsers (and all good ones) do not allow you to save arbitrary files other than as downloads.
... stored in a cookie ... When the RHP screensaver wakes up it looks in the cookie folder
The result is that (even assuming that the screensaver is for MS Windows only) this implementation is not terribly portable or robust. Several other people have suggested that the screensaver contact the RHP servers to obtain FENs, which could be arranged, but it would certainly involve both additional network traffic an, more importantly, additional load on the RHP servers. I'm not (yet) convinced that this would be a good thing, but Russ would have a better idea of how much additional load would be tolerable. My guess is that the network traffic would not be a problem, in fact, it would be less than we use when we refresh just to see if we have any games waiting. 🙂 I'm not sure that querying the server in a screensaver is a good idea though.
It might be interesting to analyze. IMHO, the worst problem with that is that screensavers generally run when nobody is watching them so having your screensaver tell you that you have moves to make is probably not the optimum use of RHP's servers.
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Paul