Colorado bugs

[+Geofellas]

How about setting up a bugzilla "known issues" list or something similar? Trawling through forum postings is not the most efficient way to find this kind of info.

 

Anyway, in case it helps, field testing a cartridge revealed the following bugs on the Colorado I had to work around. These did not manifest themselves in the Emulator.

 

1) Asking for player input in code that executed as a result of triggering a task's OnClick event displayed the input event screen but there was no "Answer" button to press to actually enter the input. I had to work around by triggering the input request from talking (custom command) to a character instead - the same input then worked just fine.

 

2) An item's OnClick event would not trigger - I just got the item description. The workaround was to create a custom command.

 

Thanks

Edited August 27, 2008 by Geofellas

[+roolku]

2) An item's OnClick event would not trigger - I just got the item description. The workaround was to create a custom command.

 

I run into this issue - don't own a Colorado myself and had to deduce it from a user report. Then I searched the forums and found this post. I would support the idea of a bug tracker so one can find out about these issues before releasing a cartridge. Or maybe it could be added to Twolpert's excellent wiki pages?

 

Anyway, what is the best workaround? Check for a Colorado (how?) and add a custom command? I would really like to save the PPC players from having to go through this workaround as well, as it kind of spoils the story to click a button called "ugly workaround for buggy Colorado software".

 

Cheers

Roolku

[+roolku]

Anyway, what is the best workaround? Check for a Colorado (how?) and add a custom command? I would really like to save the PPC players from having to go through this workaround as well, as it kind of spoils the story to click a button called "ugly workaround for buggy Colorado software".

 

To answer my own question....

 

I have added the extra custom command (duplicating most of the onclick action) but if the onclick action is executed (because it runs on a PPC or because the Colorado player has been fixed) as part of this action the now unnecessary workaround is removed.

[+MtnGoat50]

Anyway, what is the best workaround? Check for a Colorado (how?) and add a custom command? I would really like to save the PPC players from having to go through this workaround as well, as it kind of spoils the story to click a button called "ugly workaround for buggy Colorado software".

 

To answer my own question....

 

I have added the extra custom command (duplicating most of the onclick action) but if the onclick action is executed (because it runs on a PPC or because the Colorado player has been fixed) as part of this action the now unnecessary workaround is removed.

Any chance of getting some sample code. I've run smack into the same problem. Works fine in the emulator but not on the Colorado...

[+roolku]

Any chance of getting some sample code. I've run smack into the same problem. Works fine in the emulator but not on the Colorado...

 

You can do it in the builder, no coding (as such) involved.

- create a new command for the item YOURITEM and call it "Colorado workaround" or depending on the context you may get away with something less jarring like "Examine"

- duplicate the functionality of "When the player clicks on the item" in "When Examine occurs" (depending on what you are trying to do you may need small adjustments)

- add an action at the end of your "When Examine occurs" script: "zitemYOURITEM.Examine enabled false"

 

Good luck

[+MtnGoat50]

Thanks!

 

I'm trying to set up a cartridge where people visit different locations and have to answer a question to move on to the next location. When a player enters a zone I display a message directing them to the tasks button where I've made active and visible a task called question. When they click on it, it's supposed to get input. This works fine in the emulator but when I try it on the Colorado it doesn't work. I just get the task description but none of the "on click" events execute.

I don't see a commands window in tasks so it looks like I may have to make my questions "items" instead of "tasks" to use your work around?

 

Thanks again for your help. This has been very frustrating, I thought I was almost ready to publish when I discovered this problem.