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Mods => Modding Center => Topic started by: TheLuciferSausage on October 29, 2008, 05:54:07 pm
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Hi there,
I have been searching around and asking some Trem colleagues for any stand-alone text-based console for Windows that allows you to use Tremulous commands to connect to servers, chat and everything but without all the 3D and graphics stuff, just a simple console so that you can see what's happening in the server and send commands or chat.
A friend of mine has it but for Linux. I also saw a post a few days ago where someone had implement the console for the Wii.
I have searched for any Quake-engine solution but no luck.
I am not the right person to develop such thing since my knowledge on this networking stuff is equal or less than 0 but I am pretty sure there is something there to connect to a server in text-mode only. Maybe through UDP or even MS-DOS/Telnet?
Can anyone point me to the right direction?
Or provide the link to a post talking about this for Windows? (sorry to duplicate if that's the case)
Thanks guys,
TheLuciferSausage
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it doesn't exist for windows (cmd.exe doesn't provide the features needed to make the console code work on windows, and sdl gets rid of it on windows too)
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If the demand is big enough, I'll slice an hour off my schedule and write a command-line PHP script for this.
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If the demand is big enough, I'll slice an hour off my schedule and write a command-line PHP script for this.
it'll take more than an hour, and there's a 90% chance i would have to delete it because of how it works.
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Care to elaborate?
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/
Why not enable it on windows and just disable it by cvar. Then those with a real terminal can use it.
Also, cygwin comes with rxvt and xterm etc.
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/
Why not enable it on windows and just disable it by cvar. Then those with a real terminal can use it.
Also, cygwin comes with rxvt and xterm etc.
1) it's a bit of a pain to steal stdout/stderr back from sdl
2) convince the ioq3 devs.
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That better windows Console you linked just spawns an instance of cmd.exe invisible in the background and reads the text from every x ms. If you set x too high it's choppy, and if you set it too low, then your skinned console starts taking up a significant chunk of your CPU. It's not really the greatest but it's probably the best that can be done. :(
Anyhow, it's not adding any features of the sort that kev would be talking about, unless skins and transparency are really vital to the i/o handling. :)