Zugg Software :: View topic - [2.09] Another way to get package level settings

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

I can't quite think of anything else to do with them, but here is how to make them.

1. Launch CMud (I am still working on finding a way to have a bug not require this step Laughing

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2. Close Sessions Window (ESC)
3. Open Package Editor (CTRL-G)
4. Make a new module, and give it a name
5. Make a new setting and give it a name
6. Right-click on your new module in the tree and select Delete
7. Answer No to the delete settings within question

Again I really can't think of where else they should go, so maybe this report is more of just a fishing expedition for ideas. At least that is what I was telling myself as I made the joke with step 1.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Just to follow up on this, since I hadn't made a crash yet I decided I needed to find one Twisted Evil

. I went out of my way to try to create a situation that would crash. Oddly I couldn't forcibly create a crash, what I was thinking of had to do with this reported situation and CMud handled it perfectly. I was getting tempted to make a joke report about #TEST causing a crash, just because I thought that might be the only one I could find.

Settings outside of a module/window do cause a crash though, and it seems to be caused by trying either spell check or syntax display one of these settings. The crash has wildly swinging addresses for the error, the stack dump is always the same. The crash takes some patience to generate, but is replicatable. Some minor changes and additions to the steps above will cause it.
5. Make new alias, give it a name and put something in the script field
8. Left-click back and forth between the untitled window setting and the alias setting until it crashes

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:46 am

Perhaps you could just not be allowed to delete a module that contains settings? It's easy enough to select them all and MoveTo. Perhaps the "no" option on the popup asking if you want to delete the settings could open MoveTo or something similar?

Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:36 pm

Well, I'm glad that it was at least hard to get it to crash ;)

Fang's idea is possible, although if it doesn't really crash, then you can just let people move the settings back into a valid module/window.

I want to allow deleting a module/window that has settings...I just need to make sure it's clear that the settings within the module/window will be deleted and not give the option to not delete them. Usually when someone wants to delete a class/module/window they already assume that it's also going to delete the settings inside.