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(Message started by: Ethos on Oct 16^th, 2005, 3:28am)

Title: Playing under Linux
Post by Ethos on Oct 16^th, 2005, 3:28am

Is there anybody that uses Flash under Linux to play? I can play but I don't see text of pop-up windows (like when you win/lose), nor do I see any clock.

Title: Re: Playing under Linux
Post by Ethos on Oct 16^th, 2005, 5:01am

Never mind, I was missing some ghost-script font package.

Title: Re: Playing under Linux
Post by 99of9 on Oct 16^th, 2005, 5:54am

Thanks for posting the solution. I have the same issue when playing on linux - now I will download Ghostscript font sometime!!

BTW how did you figure out what the problem was??

Title: Re: Playing under Linu
Post by Ethos on Oct 16^th, 2005, 6:07am

I did a search on the Debian-user mailing list. I don't know what Linux distribution you have, but the package was "GS fonts for X11" as opposed to just GS fonts.

Sometimes Linux can be so frustrating!

Title: Re: Playing under Linux
Post by 99of9 on Oct 16^th, 2005, 6:15pm

Debian ;-)

It works, It works!!!

Thankyou thankyou.

Now we just need to find a way to prevent the 20ish move crash. Have you experienced that yet?

Title: Re: Playing under Linux
Post by nbarriga on Oct 16^th, 2005, 6:43pm

on 10/16/05 at 18:15:44, 99of9 wrote:

Now we just need to find a way to prevent the 20ish move crash. Have you experienced that yet?

I don't know if this is what you're talking about, but my browser crashes randomly when playing. Sometimes i can go a week without crashes, and sometimes its 10 crashes a day. Anyway i found that opera crashes a LOT less than firefox.

Title: Re: Playing under Linux
Post by grey_0x2A on Oct 18^th, 2005, 11:04am

I found that the number of crashes goes down conciderably under Opera. Unfortunatly Opera over caches some of the pop up windows, no big deal unless I want to watch games. So I use Opera for playing and Firefox for watching. Opera is now avaiable for Linux for gratis

BTW Omra: Is there any way to build a Java client? Since Linux is a first class platform for Java, and a thrid class platform for flash. I am a Java coder so I could help. Plus helping would likely give me a start on writing a Java bot. I have discovered the joys of gabage collect for doing AI programming, I really do not want to go back to C.

Title: Re: Playing under Linux
Post by omar on Oct 19^th, 2005, 3:17pm

on 10/16/05 at 18:15:44, 99of9 wrote:

Now we just need to find a way to prevent the 20ish move crash. Have you experienced that yet?

I think this is just a warning message that Flash gives if HTTP connections are kept open. I've been experimenting with XMLSockets in Flash and I think this will go away once I chance the client to use them.

Title: Re: Playing under Linux
Post by 99of9 on Oct 19^th, 2005, 5:13pm

On many systems it's much more than a warning - it totally crashes the browser.

But I think you're right, it occurs at a similar time to the warning produced by other systems.

Good to hear you're working on a solution.

Title: Re: Playing under Linux
Post by Fritzlein on Oct 20^th, 2005, 9:18am

Is this somehow related to the "invisible pieces" issues? I hadn't been bitten by that bug for a while, but it happened to me last night that Gnobot's camel was invisible when the board loaded up. When I had enough reserve I quit out of the browser and reloaded, which fixed the problem.

Fortunately I will switch back to high-speed Internet in about a week, and then the issues will go away or be irrelevant because of quick reloads.

Title: Re: Playing under Linux
Post by omar on Oct 21^st, 2005, 4:50pm

The invisible pieces problem is due to low bandwidth connections. After the client starts it issues a lot of requests to load the board and piece images. Sometimes some of the images don't load although it seems to the program that they did. In the next version I am going to bundle the images into the Flash client so they don't need to be loaded seperately. It's a little less flexible if I want to change the images, but avoids the invisible pieces problem.

Title: Re: Playing under Linux
Post by Fritzlein on Oct 21^st, 2005, 6:03pm

Thanks for the explanation about the inviso-camel. It's good to know it won't be a problem for me in the championship when I upgrade to broadband.

Title: Re: Playing under Linux
Post by omar on Oct 25^th, 2005, 6:19am

If you have SBC in your area you can get a good deal on a broadband connection; it's only about $15 per month. My dad recently got that at his place and it felt as good as my cable connection when I tried it.

Title: Re: Playing under Linux
Post by pallab on Nov 3^rd, 2005, 6:03am

Flash runs well in linux. But it crashes abraptly sometimes around 18-20 move.

Title: Re: Playing under Linux
Post by clauchau on Nov 3^rd, 2005, 1:31pm

An SVG client would be cool too.

There should soon be the efficient Renesis SVG plugins for most browsers on most OS - they announce a preview release in a couple of weeks now. It would be a bit better than Flash.

Title: Re: Playing under Linux
Post by doublep on Dec 6^th, 2005, 5:19pm

I really wish this problem was solved...

I think it's kinda retarded that a plugin crashes the browser completely, however, given the tight cooperation, there is hardly a way to prevent it (i.e. make the plugin crash itself only.)