Zugg Software :: View topic - [321B] Mapper seems to have misplaced room border colors.

Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 9:09 am

All the room border colors have disappeared from my map.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

can't reproduce, are you having other issues with rooms like unselectable or missing rooms? Did you recently use a converter on your map?

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Actually, I've noticed this for a while, but have refrained from posting until Zugg was ready to go back to regular mapper problems. If you put in room borders, exit Cmud, and restart, the borders will be gone. I'll post more details when Zugg is ready to deal with this kind of thing.

Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 8:46 pm

This map was converted when CMUD went SQLite. I don't have the same problem as Rehab. The map colors have been stable until now. I checked the database and both the Color and Param columns (where the border colors seem to be stored) contain the correct information. So what seems to be happening is that the border generator no longer does anything. Of course, I haven't checked the entire map. I am in the processing of doing so now. If I return to 3.17B, there is no problem.

Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 10:32 pm

I bump this because this is obviously not a problem with the mapper itself. Since border colors worked prior to 3.18B, then it must be a bug in the changes. Not only does the mapper not implement the borders which are already defined, but will forget any new ones added.
The mapper does put the values in the database so that is not the problem. Whatever changes were made to the data fetch routine is responsible for this bug. Again, I repeat, the problem is not with the mapper, but it is being affected by a bug that is probably affecting other parts of the current CMUD implementation.

Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:08 pm

By looking at the map database, it appears that the problem with border colors is related to the new data formats. From what I can see, border colors are stored as CMUD db records or, at least, something that can be interpreted as CMUD db records. It also appears that the old border color format was in the <key>keyvalsep<val>hashentrysep format. The format in 322B is a string list containing <key>=<val> entries. This would account for the disappearance of border colors from the map display. The border color generator is not understanding the new format.

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 5:16 pm

Thanks for pinning this down Anaristos. I think you are correct about what is happening. I'll add that to the bug list.