Server States (Open, Closed, Locked)

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- Leighland - 24-12-2006

Thanks dave, this is much easier than setting up a separate test server lol. Can just boot everyone off and do your work. Which is nice Smile

I also took the liberty of posting my own code. I hope you don't mind. If so, delete it :p. I'll understand. I just think it's a good feature and it is relatively easy to implement. Regardless, here it is, free of charge:

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Difficulty: 2/5

This is of great use to me, and I'm sure other will use it to. Thanks to Dave for the tutorial.

This is my code, the messages and such can be changed to suit your liking.

Open up frmServer and click the menu editor.

Add the following things to the menu:

Code:
&Server States

        Caption: &Server States

        Name: mnuStates

        Checked: UnChecked

----Open

        Caption: Open

        Name: mnuOpen

        Checked: Checked

----Close

        Caption: Close

        Name: mnuClose

        Checked: UnChecked

----Locked

        Caption: Locked

        Name: mnuLocked

        Checked: UnChecked

Click OK.

Now, Click on the &Server States menu, and click Open.
Add this code to the sub routine:

Code:
If mnuOpen.Checked = False Then

        mnuOpen.Checked = True

        mnuClose.Checked = False

        mnuLocked.Checked = False

        ServerState = STATE_OPEN

        Call GlobalMsg("The server is now running in Open State!", GlobalColor)

    End If

Now, Click on the &Server States menu, and click Close.
Add this code to the sub routine:

Code:
If mnuClose.Checked = False Then

        mnuOpen.Checked = False

        mnuClose.Checked = True

        mnuLocked.Checked = False

        ServerState = STATE_CLOSE

        Call GlobalMsg("The server is now running in Closed State!", GlobalColor)

    End If

    Dim i As Long

    For i = 1 To MAX_PLAYERS

        If IsPlaying(i) Then

            If GetPlayerAccess(i) < ADMIN_MONITER Then

                Call AlertMsg(i, "Sorry, the server has been closed to the public. You have been disconnected. Watch the forum for a post regarding this.")

            End If

        End If

    Next i

As Dave explained above, this is the code used to boot the players off the server. This code shown here will boot anyone with an access level of 0 and send a global message notifying other admins that the server state has been changed. For those of you who don't know, the AlertMsg command sends a pop up message to the user then disconnects them from the server. They click OK to clear the message and their client will close. Thus, removing them from the game.

Now, Click on the &Server States menu, and click Locked.
Add this code to the sub routine:

Code:
If mnuLocked.Checked = False Then

        mnuOpen.Checked = False

        mnuClose.Checked = False

        mnuLocked.Checked = True

        ServerState = STATE_LOCKED

        Call GlobalMsg("The server is now running in Locked State!", GlobalColor)

    End If

    Dim i As Long

    For i = 1 To MAX_PLAYERS

        If IsPlaying(i) Then

            If GetPlayerAccess(i) < ADMIN_DEVELOPER Then

                Call AlertMsg(i, "The server has been restricted to admin only access. You have been disconnected. Watch the forum for a post regarding this.")

            End If

        End If

    Next i

This does the same thing as the above sub routine, except it boots everyone who is of Access level 0, 1 and 2.

Now, open up modConstants and add the following to the botton of the module:

Code:
' Server state constants

Public Const STATE_OPEN = 1

Public Const STATE_CLOSE = 2

Public Const STATE_LOCKED = 3

Now, open up modGlobals and add this:

Code:
' Server State var

Public ServerState As Byte

Open up modHandleData and search for "usechar".

After this line:

Code:
Player(index).Charnum = Charnum

Add this:

Code:
If ServerState = STATE_LOCKED Then

                    If GetPlayerAccess(index) < 3 Then

                        Call AlertMsg(index, "Sorry, the server has been restricted to admin only access. Check the message board for details.")

                    End If

                    Exit Sub

                ElseIf ServerState = STATE_CLOSE Then

                    If GetPlayerAccess(index) < 1 Then

                        Call AlertMsg(index, "Sorry, the server has been restricted to moderator only access. Check the message board for details.")

                    End If

                    Exit Sub

                End If

That's it, I feel like I may have forgotten something, so if so, tell me and I'll edit this post Smile

. Enjoy

- Dragoons Master - 24-12-2006

I think this had an old tutorial, a looong ago, since I have this stuff on my game and I KNOW I didn't developed it. Just can't remember who did it...

- Leighland - 25-12-2006

Yea, well Im still sort of a newb at this lmao, I didn't know what an Enum was until about 12 hours ago when I searched for it Tongue