Script Question

#1 It is called from:

void GameConnection::onConnectionEstablished(bool isInitiator)

which is in gameConnection.cc

Here is a very short sample of script from joinServerGui.gui that makes a connection from client to a server:

function JoinServerGui::join(%this)
{
   cancelServerQuery();
   %id = JS_serverList.getSelectedId();

   // The server info index is stored in the row along with the
   // rest of displayed info.
   %index = getField(JS_serverList.getRowTextById(%id),6);
   if (setServerInfo(%index)) {
      %conn = new GameConnection(ServerConnection);
      %conn.setConnectArgs($pref::Player::Name);
      %conn.setJoinPassword($Client::Password);
      %conn.connect($ServerInfo::Address);
   }
}

It is the %conn.connect(...) call that sets off the chain of events that eventually results in GameConnection::onConnect being called if all goes well

#2 Thanks for the explanation! What in the script ultimately sets off this chain of events?

#3 Its been a little while since I traced through and looked at this code and script, but if I remember correctly

%conn.connect($ServerInfo::Address)

calls the following method in netConnection.cc:

void NetConnection::connect(const NetAddress *address)

At this point the torque networking code takes care of making the connection and if it is successful then GameConnection::onConnect call is made.

Also, you can put extra args in the %conn.setConnectArgs(...) call and they will be passed through to onConnect(...)

For example you could have the following:

%conn.setConnectArgs( $Name, $SkinName)

and have onConnect as follows:

function GameConnection( %client, %name, %skinName)

#4 No, they redid the connection code.

Although I wrote a wrapper function that does the same thing connect() did with the new connection method.