[SOLVED] Leave a Room & Responses in JS

[jream]

Hey Guys,

I have a question about leaving a room and responses. I'm using the JS framework and wondering how to leave a room, eg:

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// I have a room called Test Room I can see via UnionAdmin, and I call this but Its not correct:
orbiter.getRoomManager().leave('Test Room');

I also didn't understand how to get the results of an event, because the leave() method returns void, but there are these constants:
http://unionplatform.com/docs/orbiter/a ... AVE_RESULT

Is there a common method for fetch leave.leave_result(), or any result for that matter, eg:

orbiter.getClassName().result(CONSTANT);

Thanks
Jesse

[jream]

I figured it out.

Everything ties into the events, so I create a room:

Create a room (Once orbiter is instantiated)

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orbiter.getRoomManager().createRoom('fake');

Call methods on the room:

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var thisRoom = $.orbiter.getRoomManager().getRoom('fake');
var occupants = thisRoom.getNumOccupants();


Handling the Events, each section has its own Object of Events, so Room/RoomEvent, RoomManager/RoomManagerEvent

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orbiter.getRoomManager().addEventListener(net.user1.orbiter.RoomManagerEvent.ROOM_REMOVED, roomRemovedListener, this);

or

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roomInstance.addEventListener(net.user1.orbiter.RoomEvent.JOIN, function(e) {
    $("#chat-box .posted-messages").html('<p>Connected to chat..</p>');
});

[colin]

hi jream,
to leave a room:

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orbiter.getRoomManager().getRoom("YourRoomID").leave();

as you discovered, most of the Orbiter and OrbiterMicro APIs are event-listener based, not event-callback based, so you write most event code like this:

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someObject.addEventListener(eventName, listenerFunction, optionalThisArg);

where someObject is the object that dispatches the event (e.g., Room), eventName is the string name of the event (normally a constant such as net.user1.orbiter.RoomEvent.LEAVE), listenerFunction is the function you want to run when the event occurs, and optionalThisArg is the object on which you want listenerFunction invoked.

for the record, your example:

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roomInstance.addEventListener(net.user1.orbiter.RoomEvent.JOIN, function(e) {
    $("#chat-box .posted-messages").html('<p>Connected to chat..</p>');
});

is perfectly valid. registering an inline anonymous function and no "this arg" (as in the preceding JOIN example) is a common way to code when you don't ever want to remove your event listener.

colin