How to avoid SDL flooding ?

[tachzusamm]

I made a python script which reacts on SDL changes in OnSDLNotify.
Now, based on the state of an SDL variable, or more of them, I make further changes (writes) to other SDL variables.

But in this case, each player gets notified in OnSDLNotify, and therefore each player would cause further SDL changes - which could end in SDL flooding or unnecessary network activity, I assume.
It would be sufficient if only the player who initially caused the first SDL change does further changes of dependent variables.

How can I achieve this?


Does the playerID in OnSDLNotify ("def OnSDLNotify(self, VARname, SDLname, playerID, tag):") identify the player who caused the SDL change?

[diafero]

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Make sure your Python script somehow has access to a scene object on the main page of the age (or any page that's guaranteed to be loaded for everyone in the age). Then call isLocallyOwned on that scene object, and only handle the SDL events if it returns True. Client and server cooperatively ensure that there's always exactly one client owning a page, so by checking who owns the page this scene object is on (which is what isLocallyOwned does), you can be sure that there's one "master" player doing all the SDL event handling. When that player unloads the page, the server will make a new player the master and tell it that (s)he now owns the page.

[tachzusamm]

A-ha. That explains it nicely, thank you diafero.
(I was already wondering what isLocallyOwned does; its method name is not very self-explanatory. Sounds more like "pwned!!" )

And:

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