Ideas & improvements needed for RetroChess

[defnax]

Hi,
it would be nice that some one help on RetroChess.
to play with direct Friends or with Friends of Friends (Distant Contacts)

Play Chess with Distant People (GXSID & RSGXSTUNNEL )

• Send Chess invites via Distant Chat Message (GxsID & RsGxstunnel )
• Add a few "chess friends" which are GXS ids (and keep tunnels openned with them This way you can have status of friends.)
• When openning a game, request a tunnel to RsGxstunnel.
• As soon as the tunnel is open, notify the UI and start the game.
• Use the tunnel to send/serialize the chess data items
• Game lobby with distant contacts( for easyer start games when people are online for play games)
• Create new class RetroChessChatWidgetHolder for GXSID only or rewrite it to support both types
• Show on the Statusbar if the gxs tunnel is not lost for the chess game (green/yellow/red)

Ideas:

• Friendslist shows every one which has not the plugin too (needs to fixed)
• A game lobby with distant contacts too, which have the retrochess game installed/running (when possible)
• On Chess maindow it shows the active games, maybe remove leaved ones
• the timer doesnt works
• disable invite button when friend has no chess installed/running
• implement the move list
• show who won the game
• notify me when some one wrote in the Chess lobby ( Orange Chess icon and counting)
• sounds for black or white moves ( to hear movement)
• sound when a figure is removed/lost
• Leaderboard

ideas for the future:

• when its stable & usable adopt few more games (start as new fork RetroGames)
• https://napszel.com/CuteGammon/
• https://portnov.github.io/qcheckers/
• https://github.com/liuweilhy/NineChess
• https://github.com/KDE/kfourinline
• https://github.com/KDE/lskat
• http://gtetrinet.sourceforge.net/

https://github.com/retroshare/RetroChess

how to compile
copy RetroChess to
plugins/RetroChess

$ cd plugins/RetroChess
$ qmake
$ make

[defnax]

new request by Cyril:

Tunnel request should be done async. What you should do is:

• Method 1:

1.a - Open a tunnel using mGxsTunnel:
mGxsTunnels->requestSecuredTunnel(to_gxs_id,from_gxs_id,tunnel_id,RETRO_CHESS_GXS_TUNNEL_SERVICE_ID,error_code)

1.b - Wait for the tunnel to be established (using an async method) and test the status using
mGxsTunnels->getTunnelInfo(RsGxsTunnelId(tunnel_id),tinfo))
1.c - once the tunnel is established, use it to send/recv chess moves, player states, etc

OR

• Method 2:

2.a - Register p3RetroChess as a GxsTunnel:
RsGxsNetTunnelService::registerSearchableService(retro chess service)
2.b - Call requestDistantPeers() with some fake group Id (can be anything, but mostly something that your friends will know to answer. It can be a constant => all chess players will answer, or a code => only the ones with the invite will answer). The service will then manage "virtual peers" automatically for each of them.

2.c - Use sendTunnelData() to send to each virtual peer you want and reimplement receiveTunnelData to receive data.

The main difference is that: with method 1 you do the tunnel and peer management yourself.
With method 2, the GxsNetTunnelService does it all for you:
you just need to add the code in p3RetroChess to answer the calls from GxsNetTunnelService, and it will show you which peers want to play. You can then send data to them directly through GxsNetTunnelService.