Hi list,
this a Request For Comments about downloadable maps, a useful feature in
wormux that would allow to retrieve additional maps from the wormux
website from within the game.
1) Listing
A xml file would list those information per map:
- Name
- Identifier (version number, CRC?) to differentiate versions or maps
- Author (optional, only small hint as to if the map is any good)
- Jpeg thumbnail (the one already available)
- Compressed (downloaded) and decompressed sizes (worth it?)
- An URL where to get a zip (probably easier handling through zlib only)
In addition, what about future:
- minimal version to understand the xml file?
- minimal version to play the map?
2) Display:
img|name|author|version|"new"/"updated"/no img|compressed size|raw size
- A listbox having items displaying the above, except url
- Buttons to: refresh list, delete map(s), download map(s)
- An info in each listbox item indicating whether the corresponding map
was already downloaded
3) Actual downloads
- Hitting "refresh list"
. Fetches list from 1), and update listbox from 2) (what about
displaying "new" and "updated" about maps?)
. Get the new maps' thumbnails (what about displaying a progress
indicator for this?)
. Update display
- Hitting "download map(s)"
. One or several maps at a time? does listbox allow this?
. Downloads and unpack to a temporary folder:
- wormux personal dir vs TEMP: security issues
- don't unpack a corrupt archive or incomplete map to user folder
. Move unpacked map folder to the expected final folder
- User personal maps folder or normal map folder? ignore it? test it
first? test it if the user wants that?
So far, this is what I've thought of. Do you see anything more? Do you
reject something?
Best regards,
Kurosu
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