5.0.18 - Triple Msg Posts and Crash on Leaving Game

[John Franklin Rock]

Hello All,

Most recent issues with release 5.0.17 are that I am seeing the in game messages in triplicate:



And, when I leave or exit a game, it crashes:


Any thoughts?

 

[TMO]

I can confirm both these problems.

Regards

Tim

 

[Renato]

Confirmed !

 

[Stephen Harper]

Me too

 

[José L Orcastegui]

Confirmed

 

[Dave 'Arjuna' O'Connor]

OK I'll look into it.

 

[Dave 'Arjuna' O'Connor]

It's not happening here./ I need a save where there is triple posts and another where it will display that error message on quitting.

Please confirm the method of exiting the game. Do you do this via the Game Menu - ie by clicking on the Menu button in the toolbar and then selecting Quit.

 

[Dave 'Arjuna' O'Connor]

Re triple posts. What dialogs are open?

 

[Dave 'Arjuna' O'Connor]

OK I found the triple messages. This occurs when you have the Tools dialog open and I believe that's because I have failed to remove the original messaging code from there. In CO1 that was where the messaging code resided but once we moved to separate dialogs that could be dismissed I had to move that code to the GameWindow. I'll follow up on this.

 

[Dave 'Arjuna' O'Connor]

Actually it's not the Tools Dialog but the Orders dialog. The more I discover about this bit of code the less I like it. It attempts to incorporate code that needs to be available all the time but is doing so in a dialog that may be hidden. Not good. Looks like I have some work ahead of me to rectify this. My apologies folks but in the interim it may be best to use the 5.0.16 build. It won't have the messages but it will avoid the crash bug at the end when you quit and I suspect some other irregularities. I will aim to get this fixed by the end of the week, touch wood.

 

[rjantzi]

I'm also experiencing the crash bug. How do I roll back from 5.0.17 to 5.0.16?

 

[Dave 'Arjuna' O'Connor]

I've solved the triple posts issue and I think I have also fixed what I think maybe causing the crash. I believe that was caused by having a duplicate AddObserver() call. But to confirm that I need a save that produces the crash error on quitting. Can someone please provide me with that as I have not been able to reproduce that error here on my dev machine. If I can get that asap I can put out a new build.

 

[Stephen Harper]

I've solved the triple posts issue and I think I have also fixed what I think maybe causing the crash. I believe that was caused by having a duplicate AddObserver() call. But to confirm that I need a save that produces the crash error on quitting. Can someone please provide me with that as I have not been able to reproduce that error here on my dev machine. If I can get that asap I can put out a new build.

see attached - just 'leave game'

 

[Dave 'Arjuna' O'Connor]

Thanks Stephen. I fired up the LNL release version and confirmed that I do get the error. I then built a new release version with the changes I made earlier today and I don't get the error. So I reckon this is fixed now.

FIXED

 

[Stephen Harper]

Thanks Stephen. I fired up the LNL release version and confirmed that I do get the error. I then built a new release version with the changes I made earlier today and I don't get the error. So I reckon this is fixed now.

FIXED

Great! When you pussing 5.0.18 out the door?

 

[Dave 'Arjuna' O'Connor]

Stephen, please check out the Dev forum mate. I have posted a link there to a replacement exe. Can you please download it, run it and see if that fixes things on your machine and get back to me. Thanks.

 

[Stephen Harper]

Stephen, please check out the Dev forum mate. I have posted a link there to a replacement exe. Can you please download it, run it and see if that fixes things on your machine and get back to me. Thanks.

Dev forum? where is that?

 

[Dave 'Arjuna' O'Connor]

Silly me. Sorry. Here's a link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/30grdbw5xyacbog/CmdOps 5.0.17B.zip?dl=0
Just rename your existing exe and unzip this into your game directory. Then run it and load your save and see if you can leave the game OK.

 

[Stephen Harper]

Silly me. Sorry. Here's a link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/30grdbw5xyacbog/CmdOps 5.0.17B.zip?dl=0
Just rename your existing exe and unzip this into your game directory. Then run it and load your save and see if you can leave the game OK.

That sorted it!

 

[John Franklin Rock]

Outstanding! I installed the patched EXE and it fixed both issues. Thank you for the good work and lightning fast response.