[CF-Devel] save client settings on server

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The philosophy behind my approach back when I did that port w/ per-character
bindings is that the keybindings are, like you pointed out, part of the
character.  I agree that the keybindings should not be kept on the server
since different computers will have different keymappings.  The reason I
chose to use the character's name as the name for the keybinding was that
the character name is unique on each server.  The issue that crops up is:
what happens when someone uses the SAME character name on other servers?
That's why I recommended that anyone who has the time to modify the code to:
1. check to see if a folder with the server name exists
    if not, create that folder
2. store the character keybindings in that folder under the character's name

shouldn't be that hard.  Just don't have the time w/ the projects at work.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Wedel" <
     
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Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 2:40 AM
Subject: Re: [CF-Devel] save client settings on server


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        Before the client was seperated into the client, the keybindings were
     
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      as part of the character.
     
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        However, this has its own problem - start a new character, and you need
     
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      re-do all your keybindings.  Play on a different server?  Redo all your
     
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      keybindings.  And there are certainly platform/keyboard specific
     
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        Given that I tend not to shift around computers I play on, I may not see
     
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      much an issue of tieing keybindings to characters.  If you know you are
     
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      play on different computers, the keybindings (and all preferences for that
     
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      matter) are stored as simple text files, and easy to copy/move about.
     
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        i really don't like the idea of storing this information on the
     
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      player file.  It adds a bunch of complications, for IMO not a lot of gain.
     
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        That said, I could certainly see a case to be made to be able to have
     
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      configuration/keybinding files (all stored client side), and being able to
     
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      select the ones you want to use.
     
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        Thus, you may say 'I want to load by fighter keybindings file' or my
     
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      file or whatever else (I personally think it also being based on character
     
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      would be bad, although perhaps handy just so you don't have to say what
     
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      file to load).
     
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