TF and Air Unit Selection Glitch

[Don Bowen]

Inappropriate, sorry.

[n01487477]

Don't worry guys -
It's actually amusing [:D]

People here know me and what I contribute.

Nuff said.

[pws1225]

ORIGINAL: n01487477

Don't worry guys -
It's actually amusing [:D]

People here know me and what I contribute.

Nuff said.

Yep.

[PaxMondo]

ORIGINAL: pws1225

ORIGINAL: n01487477

Don't worry guys -
It's actually amusing [:D]

People here know me and what I contribute.

Nuff said.

Yep.

+1

Oh yeah ... still uncalled for.

[michaelm75au]

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

ORIGINAL: michaelm

ORIGINAL: Capt Cliff



Version 1.0.4.1106i ... right from the DL site and it appears to be the most current. I don't use the beta patches.

There has been several fixes applied during beta to try to stop this. The latest fix being in beta 1108q9 (end of Oct 2011)[:)]

I'm running 1108r3, the latest beta and it still does it constantly.

If it is doing it constantly to you, can you give me a save and EXACTLY how to reproduce it.
The fact it is not always repeatable, defeats my efforts in trying to isolate and fix it. It hasn't been from lack of trying or ignoring the problem.[:)]

[HansBolter]

ORIGINAL: michaelm

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

ORIGINAL: michaelm




There has been several fixes applied during beta to try to stop this. The latest fix being in beta 1108q9 (end of Oct 2011)[:)]

I'm running 1108r3, the latest beta and it still does it constantly.

If it is doing it constantly to you, can you give me a save and EXACTLY how to reproduce it.
The fact it is not always repeatable, defeats my efforts in trying to isolate and fix it. It hasn't been from lack of trying or ignoring the problem.[:)]

Just saw this post and am at work. Will send a save tonight, but not sure how to describe what sets it off. It happens on both air squadron and taskforce selection quite regurlarly (constantly may have been a bit of an overstatement, but it definitely feels like more than occasionally as Pax quite rightly tempered his description) . Have never noticed if it stops with a quit and reload. Will try and find time to run a few tests tonight before sending the save.

[PaxMondo]

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

...(constantly may have been a bit of an overstatement, but it definitely feels like more than occasionally as Pax quite rightly tempered his description) .

It happened to me again today as I was shifting air groups around and resizing them for my CVE's (the ones that have no airgroups to start). I exited, reloaded, and went back to the task (still had a couple of more groups to do) and no problem.

So, I do see it, but I cannot repeat it. Sorry Michael. I'm still no help. Hopefully Hans will have a repeatable error for you to chase ...

[HansBolter]

I'm sorry to have to report that the limited time I had to chase it last night left me unable to make it happen again. It certainly undermines my claim that it happens more than occasionally.

Since getting back to work finally 5 months ago after nearly 2.5 years of unemployment I am a little too mentally fatigued to play in the evenings and most of my AE time comes on the weekends. I hope to be able to put some time into the game this weekend and see if I can repeat this glitch.

Thinking about it last night, I seem to recall that it happens when selecting from one of the lists rather than from the icons arrayed horizontally across the base display. If you access the TF or Air Squadron lists from either the icons on the far left of the base screen or the icons on the map is when you seem to get the cascading selection. It always cascades to the next unit on the list while showing a yellow outline around he originally selected icon on the base display.

I'll send you a save if I can successfully repeat it this weekend.

[Richard III]

Ya know, I`ve never seen this. Could it be possible it`s something in the custom exe." command line switches" ?

Running the Beta, mine is just -fd -altFont -deepColor. That`s it. no CPU switches.....

[USSAmerica]

Richard, that's possible.  I generally run with the -cpu1 flag, and it did wonders for cleaning up lag I had in my user interface.  I only see this issue occasionally, but it's kind of like an "anit-lag" where it's like a double click instead of a single one, and you have to back up to the previous group, etc, in the list to get to the one you intended. 

Could be a good clue for michaelm to start with.

[Crackaces]

ORIGINAL: USS America

Richard, that's possible.  I generally run with the -cpu1 flag, and it did wonders for cleaning up lag I had in my user interface.  I only see this issue occasionally, but it's kind of like an "anit-lag" where it's like a double click instead of a single one, and you have to back up to the previous group, etc, in the list to get to the one you intended. 

Could be a good clue for michaelm to start with.

Ahhhhhhh two threads colliding! A mutex issue maybe ...

[Crackaces]

I just something like described had this occur, but it is not reproducible [restart from sav file did not make this happen again]

Click on a air unit that belongs to a HQ .. in this case the RAF 221 .. click on "show 221 group RAF" that brings up a list of squadrons I clicked on a different group to move it to a different base .. the action affected the orginal selected group ....

But again .. the second and third time doing this after going back to the original save file did not repeat the problem ..

Is this action/method threaded? If so there is a problem ... if not .. then complete unexplained weiredness ..

I hope that helps ..

[HansBolter]

Last weekend I played for 5 hours on Saturday and never had an ocurrence.

I played for 4 hours Sunday and had one ocurrence.

Tonight I have had three ocurrences in one hour.

I still don't think it is reproducible on demand and may be tied to some kind of UI lag as some one suggested.

Continued effort to track it down may be chasing ghosts in the machine, but here is a screenshot of teh latest ocurrence:

Note the tanker TF is selected but the Aussie ASW TF two TFs down the line/list is displayed. I selected the tanker TF from the list accessed through the on map TF icons.