Browser link for FSHost

[wesleyroyer]

Russell,
Is it possible to make a link in an internet browser (or even the kneeboard in FS) that can tell FS2002, 2004, or FSHost Client to join a FSHost server? I know that you can do that in teamspeak. If I wanted to join a TS server, I could make the link "teamspeak://serverip:serverport". Is there a way to do that for FSHost?

Wesley

[Russell Gilbert]

Hi Wesley, sorry for the delay.

I've spent quite a lot of time trying to make something like that work in FS2002 and FS2004, but they way they use DirectPlay makes it very difficult.  In one case I was able to get it to auto-connect, but then FSHost didn't receive any of the data from that player -- I have no idea why.

FSHostClient is different though, since I built it myself.  I haven't looked into how difficult it would be to have it auto-connect, but it's a possibility.  One place would be from a web page, like you said, and another would be from FSHostSpy.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Russell

[wesleyroyer]

Hey Russell.  I haven't been on in a while, but I was just wondering if there was any progress on this.  I was interested in writing a simple program that allows you to connect to a FSHost server and TeamSpeak 2 or 3 with just one click.  I can use the TS2 link to connect a player automatically, and I can use the TS3SDK to build a plugin that does the same thing, but I don't know of a way to get FSHostClient to connect.  I don't really care much about 2002 or 2004 since none of the people that are on my server use it anyway, and like you said, it would probably be too difficult to do anyway.  If there is a way to have plugins on FSHostClient, then I could probably do it myself, though it would probably be easier just to add that functionality.  Something like fsx://server.com/N123ABC would connect to server.com using the name N123ABC. Thoughts?

Wesley