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conor
Member
Just stepped into an odd one. I am unable to select peers from the GameKit peer picker when fastdirector is enabled. The odd part is that I can interact with the list (scroll up/down) and select cancel but the actual peer is not selectable. Turning off fast director fixes the problem.
Anyone have any thoughts on what would cause this?
cheers,
conor
Korki696
Member
Hey Conor,
This problem has come up before if you do a search. But i also searched on google and i found this solution:
http://thinkitdifferently.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/gkpeerpickercontrollerdelegate-and-cocos2d-workaround/
It should work that way.
-Lars
Carpy
Member
I highly recommend you don't use fastdirector at all.
In the current 0.8 build fastdirector works fine on my 3gs but the game stutters on the 3g, on the previous version it was the other way around. (on iphone 3.0)
So unless you have a bunch of iphones to test with don't use it!
Zemm
Member
For my project I ended up using @riq's suggestion in the post I linked and am using the regular Director with an interval of 1/240. I get 50-60fps and a working PeerPickerController, whereas when it was at 1/60 I was dropping into the 20's when too much network communication was going on.
let me clarify some points regarding FastDirector:
- FastDirector implements it's own main loop
- it dispatches events from it
- it calls the real main loop from it
FAQ:
why the FastDirector have problems with UIkit and other objects ?
I don't know yet, but it does not integrate well with UIKit objcets (GMKit included)
Does it loose events ?
Yes and No. FastDirector, with it's default configuration, doesn't suit all the games.
You should customize it (see Director.m).
Probably you should enable DIRECTOR_FASTDIRECTOR_FAST_EVENTS and play with the "seconds" variable.
But my game is slower with FastDirector. Why?
FastDirector is not slower. But it is not magical either. You should customize it for your game, and you should understand that the main loop is trigger as fast as it can, with the implications of that, like delta times less constants.
But I don't want to learn the internals of FastDirector. What should I do ?
Probably you should not use it then, because at some point you will need to customize it if you are losing events.
Btw, my UIKit objects behave differently if I add them as a subView of AppDelegate's window than if I add them as subView of Director's openGL View. For example, I couldn't customize UIActionSheet properly if it was added to openGL view, but succeeded if it was added to AppDelegate's window.
Can somebody explain me the difference? Maybe something similar is happening with fast director...
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