NetSubControl

NetSubControl is a subcontrol, it provides a way for game clients to communicate shared state to each other and to server agents. All games have access to an automatically shared state in the form of a hash table (also known as a mapping or associative array) that is synchronized among the game's players (clients), with notifications whenever a property is added or modified.

Initialization

You should always access netSubControl via the gameControl, don't try to instantiate the object directly.

<actionscript> public class MyGame extends Sprite {

   public MyGame () {
       _ctrl = new GameControl(this);

       //you can either access the NetSubControl via a handle
       //like this
       _net = _ctrl.net; 
       _net.get("myProperty"); 

       //or like this directly via the control object.
       _ctrl.net.get("myProperty");
       

   }

   protected _ctrl :GameControl;
   protected _net : NetSubControl; 

} </actionscript>

Setting Properties

When you set a property it is immediately distributed to the other clients in the game. Reading a property is immediate, you are reading the properties that have already been distributed. When a client connects to an already-running game, any properties already set will be available.

Other Links

• GameControl
• Whirled API Documentation for NetSubControl

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