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    pappupappu Member
    edited December 2016 in Plugins
    Hi,

    Am coming back to gideros world after a looong time ( 3 years ) and i have been following it on and off.. I am looking at it again to write a game for fun !!.. And first thing i want to do is to write a plugin to use websockets.

    I was wondering if there is a existing plugin for the same.
    else
    Can someone point me to a latest tutorial for writing a plugin. I did a google search and found some which are couple of years old.. If nothing has changed since then for plugins i will use them and refresh my memory !:)

    Finally I promise if i have a working plugin I'll give it back :-)

    (Also I had to create a new account since i am not receiving emails on my old account)
    -uk
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    • simwhisimwhi Member
      @pappu Hopefully the guides will get updated soon. Let us know how you get on as I have a very keen interest in creating and maintaining plugins for Android this year.

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    • antixantix Member
      Me too. I am beginning to discover a lot of things that would be better as plugins myself.
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    • jdbcjdbc Member
      I was also interested in a websocket plugin.
      JDBC Games on Google Play
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    • PaulHPaulH Member
      I'm also very much interested in anything new about plugin development. I've written the API for a native mapping plugin, plus the Android and iOS native code to implement it, and just need the Gideros bridge between the Lua interface and the iOS and Android code. Ar2rsawseen had offered to help with that step to complete a mapping plugin, but I gather other aspects of life have taken priority, so that hasn't moved forward. I'd welcome help from anyone with completing this project.

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    • totebototebo Member
      +1 for a websocket plugin!
      My Gideros games: www.totebo.com
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    • hgy29hgy29 Maintainer
      Hey, maybe this is a dumb question but, what would be the use of a websocket plugin, beside HTML5 export ?

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    • vitalitymobilevitalitymobile Member
      @hgy29 I think it because of there are many game server support WebSocket (Written in node js, and open source on Github). And with WebSocket API support in Gideros, we have one client SDK that supports all platform (mobile and html5)
      Coming soon
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    • hgy29hgy29 Maintainer
      You mean that some game servers would support WebSocket ONLY ? Gideros actually supports WebSocket (ok, untested!) in HTML5 export, in fact this is done through luasocket automatically, ie opening a TCP conn from HTML5 through luasocket actually opens a WebSocket
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    • vitalitymobilevitalitymobile Member
      Yes almost of them support js client (WebSocket only).
      Ah, so you mean if we connect to game server from Gideros using TCP, when we export html5, it auto convert into WebSocket connection?
      Coming soon
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    • hgy29hgy29 Maintainer
      Yes, thats what I mean... or rather thats what I understood. We use emscripten to convert C to JS code, and they claim to convert native sockets to websockets internally. Well I read it some time ago but I can't find where in the docs exactly. Worth a try ?
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    • totebototebo Member
      If anyone tries this out I'd be very keen to hear the result!

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      My Gideros games: www.totebo.com
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    • pappupappu Member
      Sorry for being away for a while.. lua is hobby and java is pay :)

      Anyways the idea of websocket as rightly mentioned above is to be able to easily create and connect to websocket servers ( easily created socket.io ) making mulitplayer gaming much easier. I am currently experimenting with channel ( + django ) as server setup.. I have some version of websocket plugin working for android.. its in sending and receiving messages and can close gracefully. Will harden it up a bit before adding it to github.

      -uk

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