TkXpInterface(VERSION)

NAME
TkXpInterface - a funky user interface for xpilots(6) (Client and/or Server)

SYNOPSIS
TkXpInterface

DESCRIPTION
TkXpInterface will give you a window showing all maps in the default xpilot map directory. On this machine it is set to MAPDIR. To choose a map file click on it, the bitmap image of the map will be displayed. The default map file you selected is MAP. TkXpInterface takes into account all options included in the map file you choose, and warns you if some options are unknown for Xpilots. you can move in different directories when you click on the directory name or when you type yourself the pathname, if the directory does'nt exist you back to the default directory. You can select a ship shape for your client. You can fix the gravity value with your mouse on the map drawing. You will also get a series of buttons and sliders to configure the server.

The configuration options are all related to each other, the act of selecting an option can cause the disabling of other options. For example, you cannot select that you wish to have Nukes if you have specified that there are to be no missiles.

Once you have selected the map that you wish to play and have set all the configuration options, click on the Start Server button. This will start the server in the background. You can start more than one server with different configurations (map, options) but you must select different port numbers.

You can also Save Copy Delete a map file and/or a compressed map file, if you save the map file all options you selected will be saved too.

To play the game, click on Play the Game.. This will start the xpilot client. You can connect to the Xpilots meta-server (non-interactive) METASERVER to play on a foreign server. All current servers can be sorted by names, FPS,... Just pass your mouse cursor on the choosen server to display all informations about it. If you click on a server name, and you activate the "Connect" button your xpilot client will be connected to this server. You can do a Ping on the remote server to test the connection. Note : When you start the xpilots client (in background), wait some secondes to let it establish the connection ! TkXpInterface creates some temporary files (for the bitmap and meta-server files) in the read/write TEMPDIR directory. If you click with the right-button a help window will appear to explain you the area where the mouse cursor is.

SEE ALSO
xpilots(6) xpilot(6)

AUTHORS
Yves-Henri Berne - Killer
Ramdane Ferhati - Frenchy

CONTACT
Comments, bug reports and suggestions are welcome by email to berne@ensisun.imag.fr or ferhati@aremihp.univ-lille1.fr

NOTES

Needs Tcl (tcl7.3) and Tk (tk3.6) to run. The configuration options have been written for xpilots version 3.1.x. It may or may not work with other versions.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First version of tkxpilots - Richard Oak
Maps to X11 bitmap file converter - Andrew Scherpbier