Text misplacement bug

Post by **WWTBAM** » 14 Feb 2006 05:37

Could the people who are having the text bug could you place a list of any suspect grfs you have found please.

eis_os · Post by **eis_os** » 14 Feb 2006 08:32

As far as my tests showed it seems to not depend on a certain grf,
my way to reproduce the crash was to have A LOT different grfs active and disableing erailsw.grf. I guess I will end up packing all grfs together I have and send them to Josef but that doesn't mean it will trigger this bug on his pc.

Post by **WWTBAM** » 14 Feb 2006 08:34

the reason i also want them is so i can create a cfg and do real dos testing on 98.

eis_os · Post by **eis_os** » 14 Feb 2006 08:37

Well it doesn't mean you shouldn't post your cfgs, the best way would be a newgrfw.cfg and a ttdpatch.cfg with as less as possible grfs and configuration switches.

Ohh, and it aswell matters if you have a grf inactive or not in the newgrf file, atleast here. (The bug is not dos specific)

Post by **WWTBAM** » 14 Feb 2006 08:51

i geuse.

George · Post by **George** » 14 Feb 2006 09:07

http://george.zernebok.net/download/dev ... /14022006/
http://george.zernebok.net/download/dev ... 6/font.rar

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 14 Feb 2006 15:10

The problem is that the grf which causes this seems to be different on every computer. I have tried many different cfgs that people have sent me, none of them caused the bug for me and no amount of my own experimentation did either.

So I'm at a loss. It evidently overwrites the width of the "space" character, so that the text becomes too wide and breaks at every space.

As for why it's different on every computer, I have no idea...

George · Post by **George** » 14 Feb 2006 16:15

Patchman wrote:The problem is that the grf which causes this seems to be different on every computer. I have tried many different cfgs that people have sent me, none of them caused the bug for me and no amount of my own experimentation did either.

So I'm at a loss. It evidently overwrites the width of the "space" character, so that the text becomes too wide and breaks at every space.

As for why it's different on every computer, I have no idea...

what test can we do to help you?

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 14 Feb 2006 16:26

I wish I knew... I'll keep trying various configs and maybe one of them will do the trick for me...

Flamelord · Post by **Flamelord** » 14 Feb 2006 18:16

If it's different for everyone, wouldn't that mean it would be more efficient to have a certain random sample of people who don't have the problem with their configs to send patchman theirs? Testing otherwise working ones may be the easiest way to find one, from what I read.

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 14 Feb 2006 20:49

There's a good chance that we've identified the bug now, thanks to a lot of help by Oskar who has been able to reproduce it.

Here's a test version that hopefully fixes it. Please report any successes or failures after trying it.

TrueSatan · Post by **TrueSatan** » 14 Feb 2006 21:01

first short test (with trams and newbridges on)
and it works for me so far.

good work you two

George · Post by **George** » 14 Feb 2006 21:07

fixed. Good work!

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