Patch for status command

[terencehill]

I've fixed status command. Now it's nicer to see, more readable and it displays the complete names (no more truncated tags).

The patch for this command is needed also to display more chars in names with lots of new color tags that I did. A name like ^xf00t^x0f0e^xf00r^x0f0ence ^4hill without this patch is shown with only 3 chars (a part the horrible truncated tag...): ter^xf0

Download link: http://sites.google.com/site/terencehill/Nexuiz/status.patch

And don't forget, this patch works only in your own server.

[divVerent]

I really am not sure whether this can be applied, or whether the output of the "status" command must stay the same to be compatible with other quake engines (some engines issue that command in the background, and parse its output).

However, there is a new command "cmd teamstatus" which shows a more detailed scoreboard than status. Maybe there could be a similar command that doesn't focus on the scores, but on ping and packetloss, and is also some "cmd". It could be aliased to "st" then...

[Alien]

Doesn't dp have own networking protocol?

[divVerent]

Yes, but:

1. it also parses "status" replies (for darkplaces_iplog.txt)

2. it does support acting as a Quake server, and people actually do that and connect with other Quake engines to DP. Your status patch currently breaks that.

[Alien]

Maybe it would be possible to differentiate output based on the protocol:
old status if protocol == NQ or QW and new status if protocol == DP. Problems would arise if other engines support DP protocol too and use status to parse info. Same goes for qstat.

[Asraniel]

probably just creating a new command will be way easier

[terencehill]

The problem in the current status command is that is actually unreadable.

You use it when u want to know or the ip of a player, or his number, to kick him or simply to send him a private message.

Therefore the command "cmd teamstatus" is unuseful for this goal.

But I've understood, this patch can't be applied, so I guess the things will stay as they are.

[[-z-]]

But I've understood, this patch can't be applied, so I guess the things will stay as they are.

But there's no reason another command can't be aliased, like 'superstatus'. The concern is just with breaking current systems.

[terencehill]

BY prompt of esteel, I've done a patch to the status command to displays in other 2 differents ways the informations on players playing in the current server, as the default way is very chaotic and unreadable. Now it's nicer to see, more readable and it displays the complete names (no more truncated tags).
So now the default command is still available, but if you put after status the number 1 or 2 you have 2 other different layouts.

* status 1 shows an extended layout with many infos,
* status 2 shows a semplified layout with the more importants infos.

Using these 2 new commands, the IPs of players are not stored in the file darkplaces_iplog.txt.

status 0 works in the same way as status.

Screenshot: http://sites.google.com/site/terencehill/Nexuiz/status_v2.jpg

Using parameters other than 0, 1 or 2, or using more parameters, it prints nothing.

The status command is server side so the patch can be tried only in your own server.

Download the patch here: http://sites.google.com/site/terencehill/Nexuiz/status_v2.patch.

[Alien]

Finally, no reason not to implement it. Congrats and thanks.