This is a plugin for Russian AI Cup local runner that can be controlled by the strategy a player is developing. Plugin is based on the source that was provided by AI Cup committee.
Plugin is controlled by the property file named visualizer-plugin.properties placed in the same directory where .properties file which is used by local runner is stored.
Currently there is only one value that plugin will honor, plugin-port-number, which is the port which plugin listens for incoming connections. Default value is 13579.
Plugin starts a server thread that accepts only one connection to its port number. Then it starts communicating with other party using line-level text protocol.
Currently known commands are:
begin pre/begin post- start queueing commands to be displayed either before or after main drawingend pre/end post- mark either "pre" or "post" queue of commands as ready to be displayedcircle x0 y0 r0 <color>- draw a circle at (x0, y0) with radius r0 and colorcolorfill_circle x0 y0 r0 <color>- draw a filled circle at (x0, y0) with radius r0 and colorcolorrect x1 y1 x2 y2 <color>- draw a rect with corners at (x1, y1) to (x2, y2) with colorcolorfill_rect x1 y1 x2 y2 <color>- draw a filled rect with corners at (x1, y1) to (x2, y2) with colorcolorline x1 y1 x2 y2 <color>- draw a line from (x1, y1) to (x2, y2) with colorcolortext x0 y0 msg <color>- showmsgat coordinates (x0, y0) with colorcolor
Color <color> is actually an r g b triple of floats where 0.0 0.0 0.0 will be black and 1.0 1.0 1.0 will be white.
Well, this is actually up to the user... currently there is very simple debug client implemented in Python provided.