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Yellow Screen with the blank text
Posted: 13 Feb 2007, 22:35
by godnecromancer
Bug in version 2.0.5:
When I access the screen of objectives, appears a yellow screen with the blank text of the objective and later that I press keyboard key ESC, appears the correct screen of objective with the image of deep without problems. It has as to remove this screen before yellow?
My machine:
Kubuntu 6.10
Kernel 2.6.17-11-generic
Drive Nvidia 1.0-9746
Geforce 6600GT
P4 2.4 GHZ
1 GB RAM
Re: Yellow Screen with the blank text
Posted: 14 Feb 2007, 15:45
by cybersphinx
That's where the videos were shown, just press escape to get by it. (Should probably be removed, since we don't have videos to play, and the subtitles are shown in the box afterwards again...)
Re: Yellow Screen with the blank text
Posted: 14 Feb 2007, 18:56
by DevUrandom
I tried to remove it a while ago... It leaded to the ugly crashes you experienced in 2.0.4. Thus I reverted it again. Maybe later we find a better solution than the one I came up with at that time.
Re: Yellow Screen with the blank text
Posted: 14 Feb 2007, 20:09
by cybersphinx
What kind of crashes? Easy to reproduce? Any links to older discussions of that?
Re: Yellow Screen with the blank text
Posted: 14 Feb 2007, 21:02
by DevUrandom
Very easy to reprocude: Start a campaign game, in the 1st mission move your units out of your base, wait a while. The following cutscene is ended by a crash. Maybe you can find more info in older posts on the mailinglist.
Re: Yellow Screen with the blank text
Posted: 15 Feb 2007, 00:44
by cybersphinx
Simple solution: in src/seqdisp.c:514 add an immediate "return FALSE;" to seq_UpdateFullScreenVideo. No crashes here. The difficult part is finding out what parts of the sequence stuff are now useless.
EDIT: return TRUE in seq_StartFullScreenVideo (src/seqdisp.c:402) works better.
Re: Yellow Screen with the blank text
Posted: 15 Feb 2007, 04:24
by DevUrandom
I thought that, too. It turned out to be not true... Issues arised later on. Maybe they are now not as obvious as at that time. Whatever you do, it needs to be very very thoroughly tested...
Re: Yellow Screen with the blank text
Posted: 15 Feb 2007, 11:49
by cybersphinx
What kind of issues? I couldn't find anything on the mailing list, any pointer when that was?
Re: Yellow Screen with the blank text
Posted: 15 Feb 2007, 12:58
by DevUrandom
I think it was around 2.0.4... If I remember correctly, I introduced that feature into 2.0.4 and had to take it out after the release. But maybe it was even before that. You could also have a look at the bugtracker, even though I couldn't find anything immediately, I think there was a bugreport on it.
Re: Yellow Screen with the blank text
Posted: 15 Feb 2007, 13:41
by cybersphinx
Yeah, I found a post
here, and some SVN revisions (67 seemed to introduce the bug, 266, 304, 329, and 330 fixed it).
https://gna.org/bugs/index.php?6735 has a savegame attached, that hangs at the second intelligence window... The question is, how compatible are savegames between releases? I saved the game in the first mission, when the video is triggered, but not shown yet, and that doesn't hang. But that's just one briefing, not two successive ones... Is there an earlier point in the game with two briefings? Playing to campaign three might take a while...
Re: Yellow Screen with the blank text
Posted: 15 Feb 2007, 14:09
by Giel
cybersphinx wrote:
Yeah, I found a post
here, and some SVN revisions (67 seemed to introduce the bug, 266, 304, 329, and 330 fixed it).
https://gna.org/bugs/index.php?6735 has a savegame attached, that hangs at the second intelligence window... The question is, how compatible are savegames between releases? I saved the game in the first mission, when the video is triggered, but not shown yet, and that doesn't hang. But that's just one briefing, not two successive ones... Is there an earlier point in the game with two briefings? Playing to campaign three might take a while...
Not sure about the savegame compatibility for the 2.0.x branches. You might however want to try the "let me win"
cheat