[cod] Patch question

[Boco]

getClientCvar will probably never be a command because of the technical 
hinderances behind it.  The problem is that the client would have to 
send the server their cvar data.  So, what does the server do in the 
meantime?  Do they halt all execution of scripts until the server has 
the client data?  There is a delay period between the server asking for 
the client cvar, and the server retrieving the client cvar.  
Realistically, the only way to make it work would be to have 
getClientCvar be a blocking command which halts execution of game script 
until the cvar is received.

someVar = getClientCvar( "cg_drawfps" );
if ( someVar == "1" )
{

Let's use this bit of code.  Once getClientCvar is called, you don't 
instantaneously get the cvar from the client.  The server would have to 
ask for the cvar, and the client would have to send it back.  As there 
is a delay, you couldn't process the if statement because someVar is 
still undefined.  So you would have to make getClientCvar stop execution 
of the thread.  Now, I don't know how the scripting language is coded, 
but stopping execution of the thread to wait for the getClientCvar 
command might not be possible.  They might have optimized it in such a 
way that having a blocking command is impossible.

Of course, it still might be possible.  getClientCvar could be forced to 
only be legal in threads.  That way you can stop execution of only the 
thread.  Like a wait command.  Then they would need to make it time out 
if the client isn't sending info back.  So it could work.  But IW's 
refusal to add the command suggests some technical aspect preventing it, 
like I pointed out above.



[TRT]TazAnimal!{*} wrote:

>Not sure if anyone can answer this, but I know some of the IW guys 
>show up, so I thought I would throw this out....
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>If I were to be able to get to some function similar to setclientcvar
>(which is currently available) that would do the opposite, getclientcvar,
>then I would be able to program some cheat detection right into my mod.
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>Does anyone know if IW has added anything similar to that to the patch?
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>If not, how does one go about asking for things?  :-)
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>I know most people on the list may not have any idea, just hoping one 
>of the IW guys sees this and answers.
>
>Thanks,
>[TRT]TazAnimal{*}
>Brett Stinson
>TazAnimal at rifleteam.com <mailto:TazAnimal at rifleteam.com> 
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