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[Thiezar]

Hi! I'm brand new to PLAYER.IO. I'm really interested in developing multiplayer flash games and I decided to use this tool.
I'm doing the HELLO WORLD tutorial but it doesn't work for me
It works only if I upload the game code and delete the "development server" line.

Here's the server code:

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Collections;
using PlayerIO.GameLibrary;
using System.Drawing;

namespace MyGame
{
    public class Player : BasePlayer
    {
        public string Name;
    }

    [RoomType("MyGame")]
    public class GameCode : Game<Player>
    {
        public override void GameStarted() { }
        public override void UserJoined(Player player) { }
        public override void UserLeft(Player player) { }

        public override void GotMessage(Player player, Message message)
        {
            player.Send("Hello World");
        }
    }
}


in the Document Class in Flash, if I write the handleConnect function this way:

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private function handleConnect(client:Client):void{
trace("Sucessfully connected to player.io");
client.multiplayer.developmentServer = "127.0.0.1:8184";
client.multiplayer.createJoinRoom("helloworld","",false,{},{},handleJoin,handleError);
}


I got this output:

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Sucessfully connected to player.io
Error: You must specify a server type


so if I specify a server type this way:

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private function handleConnect(client:Client):void{
trace("Sucessfully connected to player.io");
client.multiplayer.developmentServer = "127.0.0.1:8184";
client.multiplayer.createJoinRoom("helloworld","MyGame",false,{},{},handleJoin,handleError);
}


I got this output:

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Sucessfully connected to player.io
Error: Could not find a game class with the correct room type: MyGame. You have to add this attribute: [RoomType("MyGame")] to your main game class. You can read more about this on our blog: http://playerio.com/blog/


But I wrote it!!!!! Where did I go wrong? Please help me, I really want to use PLAYER.IO. It seems great.

[Thiezar]

Despite of no answers to my post I solved the problem.
I just named bounce the room type in the createJoinRoom function, like tis:

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client.multiplayer.createJoinRoom("test","bounce",false,{},{},handleJoin,handleError);

But why does it works this way? I can't find any documentation for this function, just this but it doesn't help because there isn't a list of aviable room types.

[HAnz]

Here is some great reading that will help you get started:

http://playerio.com/documentation/getti ... mbopackage
http://playerio.com/documentation/tutor ... -tutorial/

[Thiezar]

Of course but this doesn't answer my question.

[HAnz]

The bounce room type is always created for a game, that is why it works. My guess would be that your production(development) server isn't using the right dll file containing your MyGame code.

If you follow the steps outlined here: http://playerio.com/documentation/getti ... mbopackage
you should at leats get it to work online, and then you can find the right dll in your production server and develop offline as well.

But if that doesn't help you should really just read and follow the instructions on the links I provided and that should get you up and running in no time.

[Thiezar]

You were right. I didn't use the correct .dll file. I didn't noticed it because the server loaded a .dll file by itself with the same name as mine :-p
By the way in the tutorials you linked me ( I had this problem just following them as I said so I knew about them ) it's not clearly explained to open the correct .dll file, just to run the server, and it's not explained how to use RoomTypes in the createJoinRoom function.
Anyway thank you