Re: [Rails-devel] 1.0.7-rc1 is up

[Jim B. <jim...@ya...>]

I'm seeing a bug/problem with rails in a current 1830 game w. 1.0.6,  
it appears there's some fatal problems with adjusting stocks that are  
already at 'rock bottom'.

In this specific case (.rails file is attached), the NYNH is at one of  
the lhs corners of the stock chart (at $10), and Rails is crashing  
when the NYNH runs.

I see errors in the log --
   Cmdline configfile setting = null
   Configuration file = my.properties
   Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException
	at rails.game.StockMarket.moveLeftOrDown(StockMarket.java:278)
	at rails.game.StockMarket.withhold(StockMarket.java:196)
	at rails.game.PublicCompany.withhold(PublicCompany.java:1169)
	at rails.game.OperatingRound.nextStep(OperatingRound.java:809)
	at rails.game.OperatingRound.nextStep(OperatingRound.java:770)
	at rails.game.OperatingRound.skip(OperatingRound.java:1008)
	at rails.game.OperatingRound.process(OperatingRound.java:219)
	at rails.game.GameManager.process(GameManager.java:530)
	at rails.ui.swing.GameUIManager.processOnServer(GameUIManager.java:121)
	at rails.ui.swing.ORWindow.process(ORWindow.java:127)
	at rails.ui.swing.ORUIManager.cancelUpgrade(ORUIManager.java:1024)
	at rails.ui.swing.UpgradesPanel.actionPerformed(UpgradesPanel.java:257)
	at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java: 
2028)

Which appears to confirm that it's moving the stock price that's  
triggering this problem.

I tried to upgrade to 1.0.7 pre-release, to see if that fixed this-  
but no luck.  (same problem, in fact I think that log message I quoted  
above was actually from my test with 1.0.7.)

I can file the defect/incident- but, any ideas on how I might work  
around this and proceed with our game?  (Not sure we'll be able to  
play it out.)

thanks in advance, for any tips,
  -  jim