jfrazierjr wrote:Yea, that was me.
Wow, and I thought my memory was shot. Or at least, I think I remember thinking that my memory was shot. Now I'm not so sure.
I got it mostly working for a player to auto logon to a specific server instance with a username/password, but unfortunately, that computer got destroyed and I don't have enough motivation to redo the work. My original thought was to be able to create player links that a GM could build to let users login without going through the normal login screen. I had started on a way to start a server and thats where it got lost.
Hmm, "player links"? So this would be something that would start MapTool and then provide the server name from the RPTools registry (or the direct IP address) along with player name and password? Interesting idea.
If we had something like that, it could be put into the JNLP file and then be super easy to get into a particular game. I could add the required data to the Customization section on the Launch page and the GM could give a player a URL that would take them to that page with prepopulated fields; they just click the MapTool link and they're good.
I like it!
Perhaps that same approach could tie into starting the server in an automated fashion. Instead of selecting Player it would select GM, then it would need the name to register at RPTools (or the IP address if direct), the passwords to use, and the campaign to load by default.
