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CydandClaude Fable 5 9f79508257 LocalConsole: the in-process marshal that ends missions
Domain correction from playtest: hand-fed eggs are a developer shortcut
- a mission only ends on a console command, so the clock hits 00:00 and
counts up forever. Even single-player games need a console marshal.

RPL4CONSOLE is that console. Like the real one it lives on its own
thread: it owns the mission clock and raises the stop request at the
selected length; the app-manager per-frame hook (new gPerFrameHook seam
in APPMGR, called while the application global is live - the loop
condition NULLs it on exit, which ate the first attempt) executes the
engine-safe part, dispatching the same StopMissionMessage TeslaConsole
sent. Final scores flow in through a new RP-layer sink
(gConsoleScoreSink in RPCNSL): RPPlayer feeds it the same score it
sends a real console at mission end.

It also inherits the launcher role: the application tears down after a
stop (arcade pods were relaunched per mission by TeslaLauncher), so
WinMain respawns the process when the console ended the mission,
landing back on the race-setup screen. L4NetworkManager grows
FeedLocalEgg (the single-user egg-inject path, callable mid-session)
for the future in-process loop.

Verified end to end: menu -> 3:00 race -> stop dispatched exactly on
time -> final score collected (host 1 = 4113) -> process respawned with
the front end up. -egg runs stay unmarshaled (the dev shortcut).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-12 18:10:02 -05:00

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#pragma once
#include "..\munga\style.h"
//########################################################################
//########################## RPL4 Local Console ##########################
//########################################################################
//
// The single-player marshal. Hand-fed eggs are a developer shortcut: a
// mission only ends on a console command, so without one the timer hits
// 00:00 and just counts up forever. This is the in-process console for
// front-end-launched games - it watches the mission, dispatches the
// same StopMissionMessage TeslaConsole sent when the selected length
// expires, and when the pod returns to WaitingForEgg it brings the race
// setup back up and feeds the next egg (or quits if the player closes
// the menu).
//
// Installs itself as the application manager's per-frame hook.
//
void
RPL4LocalConsole_Install(int mission_seconds);
// True when the last mission ended under the console's control (timer
// stop or pilot exit). WinMain then plays the launcher role - the
// arcade launcher restarted the pod after every mission - and respawns
// the process, landing back on the race setup screen.
Logical
RPL4LocalConsole_ShouldRelaunch();