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

[Mike B. <com...@ip...>]

It sounds to me like the game 'freeze' is another case of the user interface
problems stemming from the small screen size - he is simply unable to find
the correct control to move the game on from wherever it is freezing. Just a
suspicion, though - it's possible that the small screen is causing some
positional element in the display to return an invalid location. That would
probably point to a bug not in the game but in the OS environment - a java
bug, or a bug in the compiler or wherever.

We tend to think of the support infrastructure as being perfect and
infallible relative to our own software, but sometimes its not, and we can
spend a lot of time assuming that the software we've written is the cause of
a bug. When there is a breakdown of the software environment, it can be the
last place we think to look, and sometimes it should be higher up the list.

If there IS a bug beyond the user interface problems, that would seem the
place to look.

Mike Bourke
Campaign Mastery http://www.campaignmastery.com
Co-author, Assassin's Amulet http://www.legaciescampaignsetting.com



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