I'm doing my master thesis in computer science, and the topic for the project is "Managment of network delays in computer games". The software im going to use is Python with Twisted and Pygame. Right now I'm trying to get to know how different parts of Twisted interact with each other. And my first question is:
Is it possible to use Perspective Broker with UDP? I've tried modifying the examples here (http://www.twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/howto/pb-usage), with DatagramProtocol and so on, but I haven't got it to work. I suspect that it is impossible due to that UDPs is connectionless, but there's a lot of "magic" in Twisted, so I thought I'd better ask the pros'.
It is certainly possible, just not with the current version of PB. In any modified version (go for it!), I think you would need to provide client identifying info with each burst of data, or limit "connections" to just one client at a time per port, to keep track of things. I'm not a twisted expert, but I do use it extensively. I have also learned an embarrassingly large amount of stuff about low-level TCP/IP due to too much experience with a vastly inferior high-level language [1]. [1] http://tinyurl.com/5nrkp Ed Suominen Registered Patent Agent Open-Source Software Author (yes, both...) Web Site: http://www.eepatents.com