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

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

On 2012-09-08 17:05, Mike Bourke wrote:
> 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.

At the time it happened, the only windows on the screen were Game Status and
Stock Chart.  The others were minimized.  (Game Report still wants to display
at its old bottom right location, which is completely off the screen now; the
only way I found to get it back was to right-click the icon in the Windows
taskbar and select Maximize.)

> 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.

What can I set in the Configuration?  If there were options to reduce the
font size and to change the starting place for Game Report, the problems
would go away.