Wire Directional Radios!

[philxyz]

awesome
pleased to hear it!
do you have an approximate release month yet?
(obv you wont have a release date/time yet!! )[/b]

That depends how complicated certain bits get / how many times I refactor it to perfection

I would hesitate to give a release date other than "hopefully in the Q4 2007 timeframe". It will largely also depend on Erkle's release date for Wire 2.

[Aut]

Well then, I hope it's SUPER EXTREME AWESOME CAKE SAUCE

[philxyz]

I am to implement all the features I described as being final earlier in this thread for v1.0.0

[SamPerson12345]

Heh... once this comes out I'm gonna wire a yagi to a beacon sensor to relay coordinates to an automated turret in space!

[-=Fox=-]

I'm going to make an AM/FM data radio (if it has TX/RX Power detection and dynamic Frequency setting)

[philxyz]

That will lag like mad under the current design because every time you change the frequency, you force a re-polling of the channels and lots of table operations. It's more designed to take a frequency that you want to use, and stick to it. I don't want to make it too crazily functional

[-=Fox=-]

That will lag like mad under the current design because every time you change the frequency, you force a re-polling of the channels and lots of table operations. It's more designed to take a frequency that you want to use, and stick to it. I don't want to make it too crazily functional [/b]

Ah.. can you dynamically change the transmit power and detect that without having to re-poll stuff?

[philxyz]

Well, as far as i know, a big difference between wire and wire2 is that code only has to execute when something changes. Although this approach changes the functionality of some things (like the difference between the delta chip calculation and its expression gate variant), I do like the fact it eliminates the constant polling.

I plan to have a table laid out in a similar way to this:

antennae = {
**{ basefreq = 15, pol = "H", vector = {0.886, 0.212, -0.13}, pos = {356.04, -134.211, 0.057}, rot = {1, 1, 1, 1}, dB = 16.2, wireval = 1.617}
**{ basefreq = 170, pol = "X", vector = {-0.412, 0.82, -0.919}, pos = {356.04, -134.211, 0.057}, rot = {1, 1, 1, 1}, dB = 35.8, wireval = 1.820}
}

So, each time the frequency is changed, it forces a change that requires other antennae to know about. This makes sense of course, it's the right thing to do, but it will obviously operate more slowly than just sticking to one frequency.

That said, it can't get to be any worse than continual polling which is what wire1 does now anyway, and when a value is changed, depending on the parameters in the table, other receiving stations will have to be notified anyway.

In short, don't worry about it, we have to change the wireval all the time anyway to transmit something. But be aware that more code will need to execute in this situation because it needs to rediscover who can sense the signal on the new block of 8 frequencies.

The above is quite rough because I'm still working on it and thinking about this too, but it's more or less how it will be done.

Ooh, something changed.... Who does it affect?.... Set the new value....

rather than

Has something changed?
If yes, set it
Has something changed?
If yes, set it
Has something changed?
If yes, set it
Has something changed?
If yes, set it
Has something changed?
If yes, set it
Has something changed?
If yes, set it
etc

[Modulator]

Hey! I think it's the time for summary of finished features! It's been _long_ time and i can't wait

[philxyz]

It has been a long time, but I'm still here checking the thread in the short term while I've been juggling a lot of things like selling my car and filling in stupid tax forms and as such, I'm not as far along yet as I hoped. But all being well, you'll see something cool before the end of December.

But don't hold me to it because despite my best guesses, other people and other situations tend to demand things of me at short notice which take up my valuable coding time!



I've been finishing off the models, basically.

You'll see it when it's done, I certainly haven't forgotton you guys, don't worry

I check this thread nearly daily.