Lobby Development

Development < Lobby Development

Lobby client development

There are currently three working public lobby clients available, and two in development.

SpringLobby

cross-platform, C++, by BrainDamage & koshi

SpringLobby is the official lobby client of spring and is bundled with the Spring engine in the installer. It uses the wxWidgets library. You can browse the sources and submit issues on its website.

Zero-K

Windows, C#, by Licho & quantum

Zero-K project page

Alphalobby

Windows, C, by Axiomatic

Alphalobby is still very much work in progress. If you still wish to use it, source available from the mercurial repository, binary available on the springfiles page.

TASClient

Windows, Delphi, by Satirik

You can download the sources from the subversion repository (svn://springrts.com/svn/spring/Lobby/TASClient/) and browse them on the websvn. Latest binary version is always available here: http://springrts.com/dl/tasclient/TASClientLatest.7z

How to compile TASClient

How to customize TASClient

QtLobby

cross-platform, C++, unmaintained

Qt lobby is currently the fastest lobby available and is very stable. It uses the Qt library. Use its project page to post issues, download or browse the sources.

Libraries and frameworks

Spring-PythonBotFramework

cross-platform, Python, unmaintained

A bot framework written in python project page

Go SpringLobbyClient

cross-platform, Go

A simple client implementation of the lobby protocol in Go. project page

Lobby server development

Protocol

• HTML (may be out of date)
• XML (raw, always latest)

Download Systems

• Lobby Download Systems

TASServer

cross-platform, Java, by Betalord & hoijui

The previous lobby server, created by Betalord, using PHP for the admin interface. You can fetch the sources through git. Details can be found on the development site.

UberServer

cross-platform, Python, by aegis

You can get more information and download it at the github page