AbiCollab on Windows WORKS!

You heard me right! After some struggling with the use of a message-only window to integrate the TCP asynchronous IO into the single-threaded Abi mainloop, as well as some bughunting in the cross-platform parts of the code, it works!

 

First message sent over AbiCollab on Win32: “Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.” I thought it was prudent from a historical standpoint.

With the initial document sent over, I proceeded to test: with only intermittent ASSERTs, two-way editing of a document over AbiCollab on Win32 works! I also tested it across the real Internet, with Marc (instead of with Localhost), and it also works there!

Once I got it working, I went ahead and cleaned up some portions of the code and fixed some bugs - it is much easier to test things when you know how much is working. My schedule for the rest of the Summer of Code is as follows: Fix bugs until it feels “polished”, then, with any remaining time, work on the Gremlin to allow automated testing. The cooperative collision resolving will come later, when everything else is more stable.

For the daring or crazy, I have nightly builds which now include AbiCollab. To ensure that nobody thinks this is a real release (THIS IS NOT A REAL RELEASE!), I will only tell you that they are on my web site (Ryan Pavlik - Code Art Life on ClearDefinition), and that you should wait until Friday the 10th since they build late at night. (For the rest of you crazy enough to use a dev release but not crazy enough to use a nightly build, 2.5.2 will be coming down the Intertubes soon enough.) Have fun!

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