methods

class

accessing

localServerIsRunning

returns a Boolean if the Coast Mediator is started.

interface specs

windowSpecs

specifies the userinterface for the launcher.

interface opening

open

opens a new launcher instance.

resources

mediatorLabel

returns the string for the 'Start/Stop server' Button depending on localServerIsRunning.

memoSetLogo

contains the background logo for the launcher

menu

calls MemoSetMenu

windowIcon

contains the windowIcon

windowIconMask

contains the corresponding mask for the windowIcon

instance

accessing

appClient

starts COAST, provides the MemoSetClient with the correct host and returns it

host

returns an proved value of servername

inverseColor: aColorValue

returns a the inverse color for aColorValue

randomColor

returns a randomly selected ColorValue

actions

all methods are called if the corresponding button or menuitem is activated.

help

opens the help file

joinGame

opens a SelectionDialog with the existing volumes and calls startGame: with the selected volume.

mediator

starts or stops the CoastMediator depending on the state of it.

newGame

opens a Dialog, asks for a new game name and then calls startGame:

playerColor

opens a ColorSelectionDialog and sets the color at the special volume '#users', changes the color of the colorbutton, too.

stopGame

exits the current volume

visitAragon

opens a browser with the aragon website by calling the method at MemoSetMenu class

visitCoast

opens a browser with the Coast website by calling the method at MemoSetMenu class

visitMemoSet

opens a browser with the MemoSet website by calling the method at MemoSetMenu class

aspects

server

a simple access to the valueholder for server

username

a simple access to the valueholder for username

dialogs

dialogAboutMemoSet

shows a short dialog about MemoSet.

dialogChooseGameType

ask which type of cards (subclasses of MemoSetCard) shoud be used

dialogChooseNewVolume

choose a new volume

dialogChooseVolumeFrom: volumes

choose a volume from the given list

dialogNewPassForUser: aUsername

ask for new password

dialogPassNoMatch

show a warning that the passwords don't match.

dialogRevalidatePassForUser: aUsername

let the user reenter his new password

dialogValidatePassForUser: aUsername

ask for the user's password

dialogWrongPass

tell the user his password was wrong

events

noticeOfWindowClose: t1

stops the MemoSetClient and the CoastMediator if the MemoSetLauncher window is closed.

serverChanged

whenever the server is changed, the username InputField should be cleared.

usernameChanged

if the username changes we have to update the usercolor. We read it at the special volume '#users'.

validateUsername: anInputBox

we have to validate the user here. There are two possibilities:

the user already exists

- then we have to check his password and accept or decline the change

the user does not exist

- then we first have to ask him for a password, check if he remembers and did no typo and then create a new user.

utility

setColorButtonColor: aColorValue

changes the color of the colorbutton to aColorValue

startCoast

starts the MemoSetClient if he is not already running

startGame: aName

enters the specified game

startGame: aName ofType: aMemoSetCardSubclass

creates the game with the specified type of cards (subclasses of MemoSetCard)

startMediator

starts the COAST mediator

stopMediator

stops the COAST mediator