With the new http stuff, at least for now, it takes longer to get things
communicated and so killing games after 2 seconds of runtime meant no
moves ever got made. Making it configurable, and passing 10 (seconds)
means nearly all games in a large test run complete reasonably quickly.
ACK doesn't need to wait 2 seconds for a reply, and when it does so the
next send waits too. Eventually we'll want to combine messages already
in the queue into a single send. For now, this makes things better.
using g_add_idle() for each piece of data received on the (background)
curl-query thread wasn't working. They were getting starved, and I think
some were considered duplicates and never scheduled. So add a single
timer proc called every 50 ms and a queue that it checks and into which
the network thread can put stuff.
So far uses curl and json-c to send b64-encoded data to new script
which is able to echo the data. Next that script will need to open a
UDP socket to the relay and return results that appear before timeout.
Make face-up tile picker util method return void and add mechanism for
passing in selected tiles asynchronously, as has been done recently with
the rest of the once-blocking util callbacks. Works perfectly in the gtk
case. Likely crashes in curses (if picking face-up option is on.) In
java all the callbacks are there but rather than put up a UI we pretend
the user says "pick 'em for me" each time. Putting up a UI is next.
Continue conversion of alerts that required blocking the JNI thread. Now
board_commitTurn() takes a second boolean indicating whether phonies
found have been approved by user. Common code informs user, and if he
approves client code calls board_commitTurn() again. In case where
turn's lost there's no call to make back, but there's the undesirable
change that if a robot moves next its move will be reported on top of
the turn-lost alert. Ideally new alerts would appear under, not on top
of, those that have not yet been dismissed.
Next step in converting util_ methods that required blocking: blank tile
assignment. Now post a query and add a method that the client code can
call when the user's decided. Include enough state (col, row, and
playerNum) so that it's probably pretty safe.
Probably breaks curses build, but for gtk and Android
turn move and trade confirmation into a two-step process, making
board_commitTurn() non-interactive when called with a second
parameter. The old blocking util methods now return void and it's up to
the client code to interact (on the main thread) then re-call
board_commitTurn() if appropriate.
First attempt to stop blocking the jni thread: instead of returning a
password from a util_ method, have it include enough state that the UI
can return, put up a dialog, and then pass that state and the password
back and have them matched up again. I think this will work for the
remaining blocking Alerts too.
