noobie question

hamish · Post by **hamish** » 25 Jan 2011, 18:30

Hi this might sound dumb. But what is best practice for sending an event to all clients that originates from a timed event on the server when you don't have a user?

Post by **Lapo** » 26 Jan 2011, 08:09

Check the last "HowTo" in this article from the docs:
http://docs2x.smartfoxserver.com/Gettin ... wtos#item7

cheers

hamish · Post by **hamish** » 26 Jan 2011, 08:33

Thanks for getting back to me, but it didn't answer the question. Setting up the timer is shown in the howto. but how do you raise an event in all connected clients for a room or zone without having a user object?

Actually i think i've got it... update the room variables?

Post by **Lapo** » 26 Jan 2011, 09:21

Without having a user object? This is not very clear to me.

In order to send messages to one or more clients you use the server side send(...) method from your extension which takes a List<User> as the recipient list.
You can obtain the list by taking all users from a Room, a Group of Rooms, an entire Zone etc...

What you suggest is also valid too. If you use Room Variables you will immediately update all clients in a specific Room.

hope it helps