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

[Erik V. <eri...@xs...>]

I can find no problem with your attached file, it runs fine and finishes
with a normal start of OR 2.1.
The behaviour you describe is typical for an uncatched exception - is
anything displayed on the console?

On your UI-related remarks: the interplay between cell resizing and
scrolling in Java Swing is an esoteric matter, at least to me - hopefully
someone out there has a better grasp on it than I do.

Erik.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John David Galt [mailto:jd...@di...]
> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 9:11 PM
> To: rai...@li...
> Subject: [Rails-devel] Game report - 1.7.8 - 18EU hangs
> 
> 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.