frontend

Overview ¶

Package frontend provides interactive processing of front end pages and access to the backend game. Note that a 'page' can be anything from a menu of options to choose from to a simple request for a password.

The frontend is responsible for coordinating the display of pages to a user and processing their responses. These pages cover logging into the server, account creation, player creation and other non in-game activities. When the player is in-game the frontend will simply pass any input through to the game backend for processing.

Pages typically have a pair of methods - a display part and a processing part. For example accountDisplay and accountProcess. Sometimes there is only a display part, for example greetingDisplay.

The current state is held in an instance of frontend. With frontend.nextFunc being the next method to call when input is received - usually an xxxProcess method.

Each time input is received Parse will be called. The method in nextFunc will be called to handle the input. nextFunc should then call the next xxxDisplay method to send a response to the input processing and setup nextFunc with the method that will process the next input received. Any buffered response will then be sent back before Parse exits. Parse will then be called again when more input is received.