Re: [Rails-devel] 18EU leftover stations bug (was 2x Bug Reports 18TN Rails 1.7.3)

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

yes included

On 05/30/2012 03:41 PM, Mike Bourke wrote:
> I have generated a save file for the appropriate moment in an 18EU game. Is
> this fix part of the new 1.7.5 version? If so, I'll check it out and report
> back.
>
> Mike Bourke
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Frey [mailto:ste...@we...]
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 May 2012 8:07 PM
> To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
> Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] 18EU leftover stations bug (was 2x Bug Reports
> 18TN Rails 1.7.3)
>
> Follow-up on the display station issues:
> I have fixed the general issue that the display of tokens was not
> updated after undo/redo of actions. (Typical move related bug in the
> rails1.x branch).
>
> Could someone either verify (using the rails1.7.x branch) that this also
> fixes the bug below and/or provide a save file that allows to test the
> case (if not, for further investigation).
> Stefan
>
>
> On 05/20/2012 08:58 PM, John David Galt wrote:
>> On 2012-05-20 08:29, Mike Bourke wrote:
>>> Question1: If you save the game and then reload it, do these leftovers
>>> vanish? Question2: Do they interfere with other operating runs i.e. still
>>> function as a rail head?
>>
>> Investigating these questions has produced interesting results.
>>
>> Q1: Yes and no.  Performing a "save game" and then "load game" at a point
> after
>> the minor companies have merged shows the same map as before.  (Turning
> the
>> "map" option off, then on in the menu-bar of the Game Status window
> similarly
>> does not change the map shown.)  However, if you exit completely out of
> Rails,
>> restart the program, and THEN reload the saved game, the leftover stations
> go
>> away.  Clearly then, this bug has to do with the GUI engine being
> unwilling to
>> generate a new map window unless it is aware the contents have changed.
>>
>> Q2: I don't yet know the answer to this one.
>>
>> In trying to answer Q2 I discovered another bug.  The Final Minor Company
>> Exchange Round in this game ended with all players holding more than 60%
> of at
>> least one major company (which must then be sold in the ensuing stock
> turn).
>> Rather than do that right away, I saved the game as soon as the Exchange
> Round
>> was finished and it's the first player's stock turn.  Result: "Load game"
> hangs!
>> The progress indicator gets to 92% and stops there, and I had to stop
> Rails from
>> Windows Task Manager.
>>
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