Re: [glob2-devel] more in game notices on errors

[Andrew Sayers]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 10:17:56 -0800, Kyle Lutze wrote:
> how hard would it be to have dialouge boxes pop up on some of the 
> errors, such as when buildings.txt differs when you try to join a game, 
> it could say something like "Your versions differ, please upgrade and 
> try again" or when it desyncs instead of the game crashing it brings up 
> a box like the one where you win that says "you've desynced"

I know I always say this, but this is something that would be easier in
the map rewrite.  I spent a lot of time working out a debugging system
that would let you cleanly throw an exception that unwinds out of the
game, and could be caught and handled with a pop-up.

        - Andrew