It is now fixed and will be in the next update.

By William T Wilson (Sheap) on Monday, March 21, 2011 - 01:21 am: Edit

Excellent, thanks

By William T Wilson (Sheap) on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 06:03 am: Edit

Found another issue, there are a lot of ship defs that have '(' or ')' characters and the client can not download these. Lyran CM(C), Federation DD(M), Lyran DW(C), Tholian DP(REV), several others.

By Peter Thoenen (Eol) on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 12:10 pm: Edit

Sheap:

That is a known problem, I believe it's related to Java. For a long time I though it was a Windows file system issue but NTFS supports parenthesis in filenames just fine (try it if you wish).

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 06:30 pm: Edit

William,
Can you send me a bug report? I have no problem running under Windows XP Pro using an NTFS file system.

By Peter Thoenen (Eol) on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 07:58 pm: Edit

Paul: I def get this on Win 7 x64, how would I generate a bug report during the library download? Will your bug report mechanism capture this? (and at what point do you want me to generate it in the process)

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 08:40 pm: Edit

Peter,
Generate a bug report after the library download, by going to the "Help/Create Bug Report...". Send me the zip file created. This should log the errors that occur during the download and therefore tell me where the error is occurring.

By William T Wilson (Sheap) on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 01:00 am: Edit

Bug report sent.

By William T Wilson (Sheap) on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 01:01 am: Edit

My guess is that the '(' and ')' are not legal characters in HTTP requests and so the file can't be retrieved from the server. But that's just a guess.

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 07:18 pm: Edit

I was thinking the same thing. But here is the issue. It works for me on my Mac. If it was an issue with the request it would be on all platforms.

Unfortunately, I looked at the bug report sent and I don't the error I am looking for. I will double check the source code to make sure that it is not being suppressed.

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 07:29 pm: Edit

Ok. Just checked the code and it looks like it is not suppressed but not logged. The error should appear in a window that popups up but that is it.

Do you see a window popup with an error and the bunch lines of text in it? If so, can you Email it too me?

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 08:24 pm: Edit

BTW, I would need the text in the "Details" tab.

By William T Wilson (Sheap) on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 09:09 pm: Edit

For the Federation DD(M) this is what happens:
Two popups (one for the counter, one for the SSD)

"Message" tab:
Problem downloading the file Federation/DD(M).gif

"Details" tab:
java.io.EOFException
at java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.readUByte(Unknown Source)
at java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.readUShort(Unknown Source)
at java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.readHeader(Unknown Source)
at java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.(Unknown Source)
at java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.(Unknown Source)
at pd.pfranz.util.StreamUtil.downloadUrl(StreamUtil.java:883)
at pd.pfranz.util.StreamUtil.downloadUrl(StreamUtil.java:848)
at gub.plugins.game.GamePluginLibrary.downloadFile(GamePluginLibrary.java:78)
at gub.LibraryDlg$DownloadFiles.run(LibraryDlg.java:377)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

It looks like there was no debug information built into the client, so, you'll have to make do with what is here

The popup for the SSD is identical except the "Message" is:
Problem downloading the file Federation/DD(M).def

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 10:09 pm: Edit

William,
Try turning off the "Use Compression For Library Download" on the "Performance" tab in the "Options..." window. Go to the main window under the "Options" menu.

Paul Franz

By William T Wilson (Sheap) on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 10:46 pm: Edit

With compression off it seems to work fine.

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 11:04 pm: Edit

Yeah. I think it is a server-side issue with compressing the file the has parentheses.

I will look into this tomorrow.

By Peter Thoenen (Eol) on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 01:45 am: Edit

Paul:

Thanks for the new scroll feature. Can you reverse it though so it's more in line with the rest of the world default zoom scrolling behavior ;) [i.e. scrolling forward zooms in, scrolling backward out .. basically inverse scrolling]

Also can you make a fixed width or smaller "send feedback button" .. taking up the entire bar right of the dice is going to end up with lots of accident clicking.

Good catch on compression

By William T Wilson (Sheap) on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 03:13 am: Edit

OK on compression, though now that there's a workaround I don't really care any more ;)

Used to be that the scroll wheel would actually scroll the map, up and down - now if you turn the scroll-to-zoom off, the scroll wheel does nothing (that I can see). So, that is kinda worse. Not sure if horizontal scrolling with the mouse works still or if it ever did. Also, scroll-to-zoom setting has a problem where the option thinks it's off in the menu even though it is actually on, so to turn it off you have to actually turn it on, then back off again.

Why not put "send feedback" button in the main window instead of in a game room? It's in the way where it is and main window is a more appropriate place for it anyway (sending feedback is related to the client as a whole rather than to a particular game). Also the feedback button always seems to have the focus, so attempting to type with the main game window selected will click it.

It's nice to have this send feedback direct to the server rather than having to email the zipfile, but the overall feature was fine tucked away I think, you just don't need it that often.

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 05:29 am: Edit

Ok. The server side compression is is fixed.

Peter,
I will fix the scroll wheel so that it zooms correctly. When it comes to the "Send Feedback" button. I will see if I can constrain it.

William,
Dang!!! I thought I fixed the scroll wheel issue. I need to look at it again. I had it working correctly at one point.

When it comes to adding the "Send Feedback" button in every room. I did that to make it easier for people to find and hopefully, they will be more willing to give feedback on things more often. That is more than just bug reports. But bug reports and suggestions and any other ideas they have about the client.

When it comes to the focus of the "Send Feedback" button. The only time it should get the focus is when you press it. Though, I just check and there is a minor issue with the default focus being the button. I think I can fix that. I will try.

By Peter D Bakija (Bakija) on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 11:05 am: Edit

Over this last weekend, Barry and I were playing an Omega tournament game, Alunda vs Probr. The interface never recognized that the Probr ship moved; i.e. every time I pressed the "next impulse" button, I got a warning pop up window that "the following units didn't move : Probr Ship.", and had to click "ok" every time I wanted to go on to the next impulse. It didn't to this with the Alunda. Just the Probr.

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 06:40 pm: Edit

How did you set the speed of the Probr ship? Were there anything else that was an issue with the Probr ship?

By Peter D Bakija (Bakija) on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 07:08 pm: Edit

Nothing else seemed to be an issue with the Probr ship. I'm pretty sure Barry hit the "speed/EW" button to set the Probr's speed (as it looked like he was doing the same stuff I was).

By Peter D Bakija (Bakija) on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 07:10 pm: Edit

The new update is broken.

I just updated, logged off, and restarted. And now I can't see the map anymore. I entered some SFB tournament games, and could see SSDs and weapon statuses and the Impulse Chart, but the "board" button resulted in a white open nothing. I tried 2 different rooms. I tried opening my own room and loading a saved game (from yesterday). Nothing. I logged off and logged back in. Nothing. Something is broken.

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 07:26 pm: Edit

Peter,
Use the "Send Feedback" and I will look into it.

By Barry Kirk (Barrykirk) on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 08:04 pm: Edit

Agreed... I had the same issue with the update

As for the Probr, I don't think that was the Probr itself. Early on in the game, I lost my internet connection and got dropped out of the game.

I only had problems with the Probr after restoring the game.