Bots in Bot Directories can't join the battle

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Bots in Bot Directories can't join the battle #5

Closed manimonji closed 2 years ago

manimonji commented 2 years ago

Describe the bug when you want to start a battle, you may choose bots are in bot directories, but you only can choose from joined bots(i dont know what is this means). but you can start bots local (i dont know what is this).

flemming-n-larsen commented 2 years ago

I need some more information about the issue.

Bots can join your server from your network/the Internet. All bots joining the server are listed in the "Joined bots".
The "Bot Directories" lists all the bots found on your system that you have added to the game.
The "Running bots (locally)" shows the bots you have booted from your system. As soon as they boot (correctly), they will join the server.
With "Selected bots" you choose which of the joined bots you want to battle and press "Start Battle".

I guess I will need to add some documentation/guide in how to use the UI.

flemming-n-larsen commented 2 years ago

@manimonji I have made a description of how to use the GUI application. I hope this helps to understand it? https://robocode-dev.github.io/tank-royale/articles/gui.html#gui-application

manimonji commented 2 years ago

Thanks @flemming-n-larsen , it helped me a lot! But it is difficult to read some texts on the website. I know you're not a web developer, but you need to fix the site's interface. I'm a web developer if you want I can improve the site user interface! Do not consider this an insult

flemming-n-larsen commented 2 years ago

@manimonji Thank you for the feedback. 🙂

I do not consider it as an insult, but constructive feedback for how to improve the documentation, which I appreciate. I welcome help with improving the documentaion. So you are welcome to give it a shot doing a PR. Perhaps a small one to begin with to understand what you are trying to achive first.

The Robocode Tank Royale Docs is made with VuePress using plain markup and plugins, which makes it easy to write documentation the same way as the ReadMe.md files. I want to stick with the markdown syntax and keep it simple to maintain the documentation.

And it is important to incorporate the various documentations from e.g. Javadoc and Docfx, i.e. generated static HTML. And in the future more documentation formats might arrive for API for other platforms besides Java/JVM and .Net. But this documentation can be kept under their own directories on the GitHub docs.

flemming-n-larsen commented 2 years ago

I see we should continue the talk on Discussion #18