[Rails-devel] Game report - 1.7.8 - 18EU hangs

[John D. G. <jd...@di...>]

I recently had my monitor blow up and had to go back to one about 20 years old
with a smaller screen.  As a result I've had to twiddle most of the programs I
use so that they'll display reasonably on the small screen, and Rails is no
exception.  Still, I tried a four player game of 18EU.

The first thing I notice is that most of the windows are now too tall for the
monitor to display without scroll bars.  The two most annoying cases are the
Game Status and Map windows.

The Game Status window insists on re-sizing itself after every single action
(and that's typically twice per player turn; once after buying a share, and
again after hitting Done).  Even saving the game causes the window to resize.
And every time it resizes itself it is too tall for the screen, with the Done
(or Pass) button completely below the screen and (usually) the title bar part
way above the screen, thus requiring three manual moves per occurrence (drag
the whole window down by title bar to get to the top edge; then drag the top
edge down to make the window fit the screen; then drag the whole window up so
that I can get to the Done or Pass button).  I can only add that this would
not be quite as annoying if the Done or Pass button were within the area
controlled by the scroll bars, so it could be reached using them, and/or if
there were a keyboard shortcut for Done or Pass.  I would like to have the
ability to end any action by hitting "D" as I do in Colossus.

The Map window is not quite as bad, because it only re-sizes itself at the
beginning of each round.  However, its scroll bars control only the map
proper, so there is no way to resize the company-status lines below the map.
The result on my screen is that I have to view the map through a "mail slot"
about two hexes tall, with no way to make it bigger -- and I have to scroll
that "mail slot" to reach the controls for every single tile or token laying
action.

Anyhow: the attached game runs, under those conditions, until the end of
stock round 3.  Then instead of starting the next operating round, it stays
on the Game Status window, with the Treasury Shares column highlighted as if
it were the end of a company's turn, and with all controls disabled except
the Autopass button, which does nothing.  So I can't continue.