Combat Report Slider Bar Bug?

[Chad Harrison]

This was a problem that I was having pre-patch. I *assumed* someone else was having it, and reported it, so I never did. And you know what happens when you assume . . .

Anyways, after the combat animations, sometimes the silder bar (sorry, dont know a better word) on the side will be very short, and the report itself will be infinitely long. In other words, if I try to drag the scroll bar down manually, it will get to an all white page and you can keep going down forever.

The screenshot below shows on the top what it looks like when its broke, and on the bottom, what it normally looks like.

This occurs in PBEM and against the AI, in every scenario I have played, when I press escape during the animation, when I dont, when I click on the button to close the animation, and when I dont. In other words, it occurs periodically no matter what I do.

I am running in windowed mode with 64 bit Vista, on a Core i7.

Thanks

Chad

[Montbrun]

The mouse wheel works too...

[Chad Harrison]

Yes, but thats not the point. You can mouse down to infinity.

[afspret]

I've had this happen as well and made mention of it in a thread, in tech support I think a couple of weeks ago.

AFAIK, only other players with similar problems made comments, but I don't think any of the developers did (I could be wrong, its been a while since I checked & don't remember where I posted it).

[Rainer]

Unrelated to windowed mode (or Processor). I see it too.
Happens in Full Screen mode as well.
A bit annoying but no show stopper, I think.
There are other Human Interface glitches (see for example thread "v1083c. Bug fix not fixed").
Hope the devs put them on the laundry list, if only to be addressed when the tension has eased off a bit.

[michaelm75au]

If you have a post turn save (which should contain the reports), can you leave it here.

[Rainer]

Setup Data:
Version 1.0.1.1083c
No Mods, Default Map
Switches:
-altFont -cpu1 -dd_def (Full Screen)
-altFont -cpu2 -dd_def -w (Windowed)
Scen 9
Game date: Dec 10 and 11, 1941

Did a complete re-run of the last two turns (Dec 10 and 11, 1941) windowed and full screen.
The issue didn't show.
So it's either Edsel Murphy or the issue has been fixed with the beta patch (1083c).

Will monitor and report (post a save) if run into the issue again with refernce to this thread/post.

EDIT: Chad, did you do your screen shots with the patched version?

[Rainer]

Setup Data:
Version 1.0.1.1083c
No Mods, Default Map
Switches:
-altFont -cpu1 -dd_def (Full Screen)
-altFont -cpu2 -dd_def -w (Windowed)
Scen 9 Allied vs AI
Daily Turns
Game date: Dec 12, 1941

OK, got it.
The screenshot shows the table in three stages (slider fully up, slider moved a bit, slider fully pulled down).
The slider itself never moved.

Save BEFORE in next post (only one attachment per post allowed).

EDIT: The shots were made in Full Screen Mode.

[Rainer]

This is the save (turn 12) for my last post.
Save file "wpae012.pws" is zipped.

Note: The save is BEFORE the event.

[JocMeister]

I have the exact same issue.

[michaelm75au]

I can't seem to replicate.

1. Does it affect all combat reports or just air combat for instance?
2. And it is only the report after each combat and not the full report available in the next turn?

[ny59giants]

It seems to be only with air combat reports and it is also intermittent (I worked years ago for 13 years in electronics, so I know how hard it is to find these type of problems).

[Rainer]

I can't seem to replicate.

I re-ran the turn, and it showed exactly the same.
I then re-ran the turn "windowed". Same result.


1. Does it affect all combat reports or just air combat for instance?

1. Not only air combat (see screenshot). However, during the same turn several combat reports showed with the slider operational.

2. And it is only the report after each combat and not the full report available in the next turn?
2. Combat report next turn showed OK (see screenshot).

[michaelm75au]

Thanks,
I'll go back and look at the common code which build the interim reports.
Maybe something will jump out at me [:D]

[Rainer]

Not the hottest issue at the moment, I think, but I appreciate your perseverance.
Really, I am grateful for people like you, Don, Joe and all the others and what you are doing for us.

[michaelm75au]

It's one of those little problems that gets under my skin, and I keep scratching at it...

[Rainer]

Setup Data:
Version 1.0.1.1083c
No Mods, Default Map
Switches:
-altFont -cpu1 -dd_** (Full Screen)
Scen 9 Allied vs AI
Daily Turns
Game date: Dec 12, 1941

The issue seems not to be related to the -dd Command Line Switches (as I suspected).
I did the test with
-dd_def, -dd_sw, -dd_hw, and without any dd switch.
The result is always the same.

[Chad Harrison]

ORIGINAL: michaelm

If you have a post turn save (which should contain the reports), can you leave it here.

Sorry for the delay, I was away from the computer the whole weekend. I see that a number of others are having this problem too. I just did my PBEM turn this morning and had quite a few report do it; air bombardments, amphib assaults and so on. Its is definately not just limited to one type of report.

ORIGINAL: Rainer

EDIT: Chad, did you do your screen shots with the patched version?

Yes, the screenshot was from the patched version. But I have had this problem before the hotfix, after the hotfix and after the beta patch. As I said above, I assumed someone else had brought it up so I never did.

Again, not a showstopper, but I know the devs hate little stuff like this lingering. Bunch of perfectionists [:D]

[Chad Harrison]

ORIGINAL: michaelm

I can't seem to replicate.

1. Does it affect all combat reports or just air combat for instance?
2. And it is only the report after each combat and not the full report available in the next turn?

1. No, it occurs with all types.
2. Yes, it is only the report itself. The full report looks fine (there's not 1000's of spaces or something).

[kingwanabee]

FYI
This bug still happens frequently even with the new patch.