user_count_change event problem

[itsmylifesoham]

hi,

i noticed a very peculiar behaviour.

Earlier i was maintaining an onlineuserlist by listening to the user_enter and user_exit events in the lobbyroom.

so lets say Mr.A is in the lobbyroom he would be listening for user_enter, user_exit. so when Mr.B comes in then A's onlineuserlist will display A,B.

i heard that enabling these two events is bandwidth intensive if lots of users come in the lobbyroom and leave it very frequently. so i disables these two events in the roompermissions&events in admin tool for the lobby room. now only user_count_change event is enabled. and now Mr.A listens only to user_count change. the funny behaviour now :

1. Mr. B enters the lobby room. MrA is getting the user_count_change event saying uc:2 but i am seeing that the

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(event.params.room as sfsroom).userlist

for the user_count_change event contains only Mr.A ! why not Mr.B also since uc = 2 ?

2. Now i saw this problem and went serverside and enabled user_enter user_exit along with user_count_change.
on client side still listening only to user_count_change. This time when Mr.B joined, Mr.A got the user_count_change event, and the

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(event.params.room as sfsroom).userlist

was containing both Mr.A and Mr.B which is what i wanted!

the Q is does user_count_change event require user_enter and user_exit to be fired? if so where is the bandwidth saving?

any ideas?

thanks.

[itsmylifesoham]

hi again,

i was trying to think to myself why this user_count_change event was made. and i think i might have been wrong in
thinking it as a more efficient replacement for user_enter and user_exit events. I think it was designed more for just notifying the number of users and changes in that number when you are not joined into that room.

So i am gonna quit using that event and stick with good old user_enter and user_exit events, and user the user_count_change where it is designed to be used hope that might help someone who is confused when to use user_count_change event and is trying to access the userlist in the event.params.room that comes with a user_count_change event.

[Bax]

That's it!