Lobby Development
Development < Lobby Development
Lobby client development
The lobby protocol description can be found here.
There are currently three working public lobby clients available, and two in development.
Springlobby
Springlobby is the official lobby client of spring and is bundled with the Spring engine in the installer. It is a cross platform C++ project and uses the wxWidgets library. You can browse the sources and submit issues on its website.
TASClient
It used to be the official lobby client. It is a Windows-only project in Delphi. 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://tasclient.licho.eu/TASClientLatest.7z Contact Satirik on the lobby itself or on the forum to get help.
QtLobby
Qt lobby is currently the fastest lobby available and is very stable. It is cross platform, programmed in C++ and uses the Qt library. Use its project page to post issues, download or browse the sources.
Lobby server development
Protocol
TASServer
The current lobby server is old and not maintained. It's a java project using php for admin interface. You can download the sources (svn://springrts.com/svn/spring/Lobby/TASServer/) or browse them on the websvn.
UberServer
Currently in development, the future Spring lobby server is a Python project made by aegis. You can browse the sources or download them using its git repository (git://springlobby.info/git/aegis/uberserver.git). You can also contact aegis on the forum or the lobby to get more information.
