Lähdekoodi sivulle Tools and tips of BGA Studio

== Starting a game in one click ==

To start a game:
* Create a new table with your game.
* If you want to play a game with 3 players, specify that you want a maximum of 3 players at this table.
* Click on "Express Start".

== Stopping a game in one click ==

* Click on the "quit" icon on the top right of the screen.
* Click on "Express Stop".

== Switching between users ==

when running a game on Studio, you can use the little red arrow near each player's name to open a new tab with this player's perspective.

== Access to game database ==

Immediately at the bottom of the game area, the "Go to game database" link is an immediate access to the PhpMyAdmin tool to view/edit the tables of the current game.

== Save & restore state ==

Using links of this section, you can save the complete current (database) state of your game, then restore it later.

This is particularly useful when you want to develop a part of the game that is difficult to reproduce: you just have to save the situation just before, and then restore it until this part works fine.

We provide you 3 "slots": 1, 2 and 3. This way, you can save 3 different game situations.

Limits:
* the "restore" function does not work anymore when the game is over.
* a saved situation from a given table cannot be restored in another table.
* when you "restore" a situation, the current browser page is refreshed to reflect the updated game situation, but you have to refresh you other tabs/pages manually.

== Input/Output debugging section ==

This section shows you:
* The AJAX calls made by your game interface to the game server. AJAX calls (outputs) begins with ">"
* The notifications received by your game interface. Notifications (inputs) begins with "<".

Note: if you click on some notification title, you can resend it immediately to the user interface.

== Run from the chat ==

On BGA Studio, you can directly run a PHP method from the chat.

For example, if on your PHP you have this method:
<pre>
   function giveMoneyToPlayer($player_id, $amount)
   {
      // Do some stuff
   }
</pre>

You can call this method directly from the chat like this: "giveMoneyToPlayer(2564,2)".

== Dev Tips ==
'''Edit TPL''' <p>
To edit TPL with HTML code highlightings in Gedit under Ubuntu:

find gtksourceview directory in /usr/share, depending on your version (2.0, 3.0,...).
<br>
Here it's 3.0, then type in a terminal window:
<pre>
    sudo gedit /usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0/language-specs/html.lang
</pre>

then find 'globs' section, and change:

<pre>
    <property name="globs">*.html;*.htm;*.tpl</property>
</pre>