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Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I tried to alter my status bar, as mentioned in previous posts. Now if I try to copy and paste anything into the command line, the command line expands but then begins to move up and down along with other parts of the program. I can't click on or do anything and have to close it through the task manager. It's hard to show since it's moving, and not something easily capture by a still pic.

Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 9:34 pm

Should always show a step-by-step process of recreating the bugs so that others can confirm it. Otherwise, it will not be noted. :P And if you can capture a video of it, that'd be cool. :P

Charneus

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I cant, because I dont know what triggered it. All I know is that when I copy and paste text into it now, it goes freaky. I have no way of capture video.

Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 9:58 pm

Sure you do; there's enough free software out there that something's going to work for you. To the almighty google!

And, well, something weird must've happened to screw it up, or it wouldn't be happening. Make a copy of your CMUD folder so that the borked files are still around and see what you need to do to fix it (new layout, reinstall, fresh reinstall, whatever) and then try to break it again. If you can't make it break, then it shouldn't be a problem :P

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I have some more stuff to back up I think, before I do that.

Edit:

And there's a ton of junk out on the web, so unless someone has a suggestion I'm not going to risk searching for a video-capturing program.

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

So here's an avi of the bug. I've found out that it only actually occurs on this one session, all of my other sessions are just fine.

http://www.savefile.com/files/1551464

Wizard Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 1368

That looks scary Shocked

. It is probably some layout collision. E.g it looks like the textbox tries to increase its height to fit the contained text, and then something in turn tries to decrease it.

Edit: From following the layout in the video it is very easy to recreate this bug :-). it is very important that the command line is beneath the mapper, and fills the entire row including beneath the mapper. Filling in the command line with text and then decreasing the window height slowly, seems to increase the probability that the bug will occur. You actually see how the command line size start to oscillate a bit too much before it eventually gets into the loop.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I deleted and remade the session to fix it. But if you've found out what caused it already, then I don't think I need to do anything further! IT is a cool bug to watch though.

Enchanter Joined: 09 Sep 2007 Posts: 605

Sorry for sidetracking... I've noticed that first and 3 last buttons on your main toolbar have their text description on the right side, while others have their texts placed below images. Do others have the same? I had the same in the bugged upgrade 2.18->2.25, but after a clean install these all text descriptions was placed below images. Are there any preferences that controls toolbar buttons appearance?

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

Yeah right click the button. Zugg said it wasn't a bug and that players suggested that feature to be able to change each button by itself. Now you have to right click each button and show caption or image on top. You can have all the buttons showing differently.

Enchanter Joined: 09 Sep 2007 Posts: 605

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I didn't change anything though? How is it not a bug if that's the default and it goes screwy?

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

No no not your problem. I was responding to Arde and the main toolbar button statement.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I think Rorso gave a way, but I'm not sure I understand it. Please help, it's done it again and I don't want to have to keep deleting my connections Sad

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Oh, by the way, this time it didn't have the mapper.
http://www.savefile.com/files/1575269

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Wizard Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 1368

It's the same bug. Notice that the command line is beneath both the output and the tells frame, so it is similar layout like in the case of the mapper.

Usually in the standard case the command line is only beneath the output frame.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Right, so is there a way for me to fix it if it happens?

Wizard Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 1368

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 5:24 pm

Sorry for the delay in responding. We were painting the house this week and I was too exhausted to respond to the forums.

This is definitely a well titled post..."freaky" is right! First, thanks for taking the time to create and post those AVI video files. There were very useful.

Looks like this is a windows messaging loop where windows is sending a resize message, which causes the command line to resize again, which then sends another resize message, ending up with an infinite loop. I've added this to the critical bug list and will try to get it fixed for the next version.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Thank you! Very Happy

Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 6:22 pm

I think I got this fixed in 2.26. What is happening here is that there is a maximum height for the command line where it will stop expanding and add a scroll bar to the command line instead. This happens when the command line height exceeds half the window height. When it hit this threshold, it was changing the command line height, but this would also cause the window height to change (the docked window), causing the calculation of 1/2-window-height to change. Basically it was a bad recursive formula that was causing a loop.