Scoreboard

A text application for Unix based systems, that shows a table with ranking, player names and player scores - a scoreboard. Used for LAN parties or any competitions. Just a fun little application, one of my first C++ apps.

Example of output

  ________________________________________________________________________  
 | RANK   | PLAYER NAME                                          | SCORE  |  
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  
 | 1.     | Valmir                                               | 50     |   
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | 2.     | Shade                                                | 26     |
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | 3.     | Kentril                                              | 25     |
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 | 4.     | Wormik                                               | 23     |
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Status

File manipulation is not implemented yet.
Regular expression comparison for player names not implemented yet.

Requirements

g++ min. version 7 (C++17)
Makefile

Installation

Extract into a dir and "install" using make command

Commandline Usage

Shown when "./scoreboard --help | -h" used:

./scoreboard [-p P] [-s S] [-m M] [-sf file] [-hf histFile] [-h] [--help]  
Options:  
 -p P		Initializes scoreboard with P players, where P is the number of   
 			players, max being a set limit of players.  
 -s S		Sets S players that will be shown when score table is print.  
 -m M		Sets maximum number of players (Player limit).  
 -sf file 	Sets a file path to a save file, scoreboard will now print to  
 			a file instead of STDOUT.  
 -hf file	Sets a path to a history file with printed scoreboard, data  
 			will load into the current scoreboard.  
 -h|--help	Shows this message.

Notes:

If both arguments "-p" and "-hf" are used and are valid, first players
are initialized and after then the history file is loaded, but players
are added only up to the current available limit.

Scoreboard Commands

print | scoreboard | show | score	- shows current score table  
player 	-> add [<name>] [<score>]  
		-> remove ( all | (<name> | <rank>) )  
		-> rename (<name> | <rank>) <new_name>  
score	-> add (<name> | <rank>) [<number>]  
		-> reset ( all | (<name> | <rank>) )  
win		-> <name> | <rank>  
loss	-> <name> | <rank>  
set		-> show <SHOW_PLAYERS>  
		-> plimit <MAX_PLAYERS>  
		-> file <path_to_file_for_saving>  
save	-> // nothing if file specified  
		-> <path_to_file_to_save>  
		-> history <path_to_save_history_file>  
load	-> history <path_to_history_file>  
		-> players <path_to_player_name_file>  
help	- shows this message  
exit	- shuts down the scoreboard app

Limits

Number of players and limit
- by default 0 players are created
- by default soft limit of players is 255
- by default hard limit of players is 65535 (unsigned short)
- players can be initialized with default names and scores (Player, 0) with commandline option "-p P" up to the set limit
- limit can be set using commandline option "-m M" or using command "set plimit <MAX_PLAYERS>"
Number of shown players
- affects output of scoreboard, shows only first N players, where N is the limit of players that can be shown
- by default shows all players
- can be set only up to the hard limit of players
Player name
- maximum length of 32 characters
- regular expression: ^([a-z]|[A-Z]|[0-9]|[_@$-])$
- if no name provided, player with a default name is created
Player rank
- player can be referenced by name or by rank - position in the scoreboard
- can be only positive number
Player score
- by default is set to 0
- can be in range from -9999 to 9999

Comments

Maximum players
soft limit - 255, can be changed

When setting a limit players above the limit will be deleted automatically

Player Names max - 32 chars + possible chars (N), N up to 65534 and \0 -> 8
Player(1) -> 40 chars hard limit
11111111112222222222333
12345678901234567890123456789012
if no name provided, a name will be generated automatically in a format:
"Player(%d)", N

is unique, if name already there, (N) is appended

TODO

TODO exceptions
no repetition of code -> make macros or functions rather
todo includes

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