/// <summary>
/// Starts a new thread that will process a board in the background. The OnBoardCreated callback will be called when the board is complete
/// </summary>
private bool StartCreatingBoard(string id, string[] words, OnBoardFinished callback, int randomNumberSeed, long restartTime)
{
if (IsCreatingBoard(id))
{
UnityEngine.Debug.LogErrorFormat("Could not start board creation because the id \"{0}\" already exist.", id);
return(false);
}
// Create a new Board object
WordBoard board = new WordBoard();
board.id = id;
board.words = words;
board.randSeed = randomNumberSeed;
board.rand = new System.Random(randomNumberSeed);
board.boardState = WordBoard.BoardState.Processing;
board.stopwatch = new System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch();
board.restartTime = restartTime;
// Create a new ActiveThread object that will hold information about the thread/board
ActiveThread activeThread = new ActiveThread();
activeThread.id = id;
activeThread.board = board;
activeThread.callback = callback;
// Create the new Thread to start processing the Board
activeThread.thread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(() => ProcessBoard(board, words)));
activeThread.thread.Start();
activeThreads.Add(activeThread);
return(true);
}
public void Update()
{
// Checks for completed boards
for (int i = activeThreads.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
{
switch (activeThreads[i].board.boardState)
{
case WordBoard.BoardState.DoneSuccess:
case WordBoard.BoardState.DoneFailed:
{
WordBoard wordBoard = activeThreads[i].board;
OnBoardFinished callback = activeThreads[i].callback;
activeThreads.RemoveAt(i);
callback(wordBoard);
break;
}
case WordBoard.BoardState.Restart:
{
string id = activeThreads[i].id;
string[] words = activeThreads[i].board.words;
long restartTimer = activeThreads[i].board.restartTime;
OnBoardFinished callback = activeThreads[i].callback;
AbortBoardCreation(id);
StartCreatingBoard(id, words, callback, restartTimer);
break;
}
}
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Starts the creation of a board using the given random seed number. Passing the same seed will generate the same
/// board every time.
/// </summary>
public bool StartCreatingBoard(string id, string[] words, int randomNumberSeed, OnBoardFinished callback)
{
return(StartCreatingBoard(id, words, callback, randomNumberSeed, long.MaxValue));
}
/// <summary>
/// Starts the creation of a new board, if it takes longer than restartTimer (in milliseconds) then it will abort and
/// try again. Most of the time board creation takes less than a couple seconds but if there are alot of long words then the
/// board can get itself in a state that takes a long time to find a fit for all the words. The easiest way to reslove
/// this issue is to restart the board creation.
/// </summary>
public bool StartCreatingBoard(string id, string[] words, OnBoardFinished callback, long restartTimer)
{
return(StartCreatingBoard(id, words, callback, Random.Range(0, int.MaxValue), restartTimer));
}
