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

[brett l. <wak...@gm...>]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Erik Vos <eri...@hc...> wrote:
> Jim,
>
> That was a stupid oversight in the code. Sorry for that. I'm afraid I have
> never tested this situation.
>
> It's now fixed in the code base, and the error has disappeared.
> If you can't use that, perhaps Brett would be willing to publish a new
> pre-release?


Can do.  This time I'll build it with JDK 5. ;-)

>
> Best regards,
> Erik.

---Brett.

>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jim Black [mailto:jim...@ya...]
>> Sent: Tuesday 10 November 2009 20:50
>> To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
>> Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] 1.0.7-rc1 is up
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>
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