dumb question

midknight

what's the diff between an event and operation?

thanks

Boris

The event is sent from the server to the client.
The operation is sent from the client to the server.

dreamora

alternatively, custom events are sent from clients through server to clients without any server processing involved other than the message relay.

Doug Wolanick

This was something that confused me too.

I have server side logic that sends events (like round over).
I have client sent events (like bullet fired)

The way I see it, events are just types of Operations. There are a few standard types of operations: join, left, eventRaised (maybe more, cant see code right now)

So when the client sends a bullet fired 'event', Photon wraps it in an operation of type 'eventRaised' and sends it to the server. Then the server does a switch statement on that operation and sees that it is of type 'eventRaised' so changes it into an 'event' and passes it to the event handler.

dreamora

events are just data packets


where as operations are instructions you send to the server (operations are always client -> server or server to itself)