Add AirBattle support

[maximusvladimir]

Sir, we need Air support.

How it works:

1. Download the launcher at: http://bit.ly/airbattleexe. (Please use this URL, so we can keep track of statistics.
2. When the user launches the game from BattleBattle, it will download jars for the first time, it will then launch the game.

Notes:

• Currently, when the game is updated, it requires a manual delete of the files in %APPDATA%.airbattle\bin. In the future, it will replace these files when it needs toupdate.
• The only file downloaded from GitHub is current.jar.
• The log is stored in the directory of app.exe, named pyram.log. Currently the Game is not using GameKit, so there is no DebugWindow currently (it will be added in the future).
• The app.exe located in the repo is not the one used. The app.exe should never be used. It was how I originally planned on storing it, but I want to avoid hosting stuff on Github.

[maximusvladimir]

In the future, when you do this:

try {
 Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime() ;
 Process p = rt.exec("app.exe") ;
}
catch(Exception exc) {
}

You will be also to specify parameters:

try {
 Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime() ;
 Process p = rt.exec("app.exe -debug -windowsize="+requestedWindowWidth+","+requestedWindowHeight) ; //etc
}
catch(Exception exc) {
}

[ThomasGaubert]

Alright sounds good, I'll have to figure out a way to define special run configurations.

[maximusvladimir]

Apparently bit.ly has an issue with redirecting to .exe files. You will probably need to use the direct link (it's at the bottom of the bit.ly warning page).

[maximusvladimir]

So I am a little curious as to how battlebattle is updating games. I was thinking that battlebattle would compare a local hash of the file with a remote hash (which would be a file containing rhe hash, so you wouldn't have to redownload the executable each time when checking for updates)?

Also, I was wondering if the fact that AirBattle is an exe is causing any problems?

[ThomasGaubert]

Right now I was planning to do a system similar to NavalBattle (if local version code is lower than the one on the server, the game needs to be updated). Of course each game would have a separate version code (as well as the BattleBattle client itself). I was thinking of using hashes to verify the updates (though this entire process is subject to change).

I have no idea if an exe will cause problems or not. In theory it should be okay (assuming the user is using Windows, of course). I haven't exactly gotten to that part of the program yet, so I honestly have no concrete idea.