Turning off game step notifications & launching bot before waiting time is over

[a.st...@gmail.com]

Hi Stefano, and others,

I think we achieved this in an earlier discussion, but I cannot find it on here anymore: How to turn off the notifications (dark grey background with white font) stating "initializing game step, will be ready soon..."? I believe it had to do with the connection settings deep down.

Second, my game launches a bot when the maximum waiting time expires*. Would it be possible to launch it earlier (while the timer is > zero), to give the impression that a player connected before the timer hit zero?

Best,

Arjen

* ON_TIMEOUT_SERVER: function(player) {

this.CHOSEN_TREATMENT = 'bot';

this.dispatchWithBots();

return false; // prevents disposing the client

}, 

[Stefano Balietti]

Hi Arjen,

You can disable it with this command:

W.init({ waitScreen: false });

However, I believe this will disable all gray screens, including "waiting for other players..." So, you could handle this manually, e.g., by calling at the right moment:

W.init({waitScreen: true});

W.lockScreen("A player disconnected...")

setTimeout(function() {

    W.lockScreen("A player connected") // after a while, this is your BOT

    W.unlockScreen();

    W.init({waitScreen: false});

}, 10000);

This needs to be executed on the client side, so you might have an event listener for those commands. 

It is also a bit more complicated, because you would need to kill the timeout if the player reconnects.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Cheers,

Stefano

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[Arjen Stolk]

Grazie mille, that did the job. 

For a follow-up, what's the white bar/box at the top of the page called, and is it possible to query its dimensions, i.e. width on the page?    

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[shakty]

You're welcome!

The white bar on top is the header, you can get it as a div element with W.getHeader(); you can then use offsetWidth/offsetHeight to get its dimensions. Here are some more info:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4787527/how-to-find-the-width-of-a-div-using-vanilla-javascript

Cheers,

Stefano

[Arjen Stolk]

Excellent, thank you!

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