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I just noticed, so thought I would voice it, that the game doesn't remember the fact that you've revered the mouse wheel. I noticed it because it's a particular bug-bear of mine that the mouse wheel be used to zoom out when rolling forward and zoom in when rolling backwards.

It makes far more sense to me...so I thought I would tell you that I have to change it each time I load COTA.

Very minor though...I almost feel guilty about pointing it out, being as so much hard work has gone into this over the past couple of years. Sorry.

JudgeDredd (Billy);

How do you like COTA over HTTR, the first one? I played the first one a lot but I haven't been able to play COTA yet. Heck, I been trying to get some time in on TOAW3! They belted out Puresim, then TOAW3, now COTA, and I had to buy all three. That makes over fifteen Matrix games I believe. However, I'm not complaining. [;)]

Thanks, Larry.

I love COTA...but never played HTTR (which wasn't the first of the series by the way...it was Red Devils Over Arnhem). But I think it's great.
 
I, like you, bought Puresim, TOSW III and now COTA...I'll just have to NOT buy any more games for a year!

Believe it or not, we brought up stickiness of settings (in particular mouse) over and over again. Put for some reason that mouse code proved to be very recalcitrant and would not bend to the will of the various programming interns Dave had assigned it to.

That's fairy snuff....but...(sorry to keep on)...I would've thought it was a simple case of storing the value of the checkbox (maybe in an ini file) and checking that setting on startup and setting the checkbox appropriately. The code is already there to reverse the mouse wheel action...so on startup, get the setting of the checkbox, set the setting for the checkbox and then execute the code which is already executed on the user interaction with said checkbox.
 
Anyway, like I said, with the game so polished and great fun, it's a minor thing. Nuff said on it. You boys go and enjoy your little break before getting tore into BftB...and that means you too Mark.

Actually...I've just went to start the Tutorial again (new game) with Realistic Orders and I was surprised to scroll the mouse forward to find that DID zoom in....the setting is checked. I don't know what happened before then!
 
Lets just call it PICNIC!!

The setting only sticks sometimes. There must be different code paths and not all were fixed.

Sadly this is my legacy bug [:(] From memory, saving the settings was the last thing I worked on before I went back to uni, and I didn't quite catch all the bugs before I left (although I thought I had)

I've stepped through that code a number of times. I'm not really sure why it doesn't work. Logically it should be as simple as saving the value and then setting it again when a new game is started (It worked for the rest of the buttons). Sadly it doesn't work out that way. The scroll setting must sometimes be reset after initialisation, but I'm not sure where.

I'm heading back to Panther in a few weeks. We'll have to see if I can remedy my mistake then. Unless Dave has more important things for me to mess up.

ORIGINAL: Punch
I'm heading back to Panther in a few weeks. We'll have to see if I can remedy my mistake then. Unless Dave has more important things for me to mess up.

That's good news - see you soon [8D]

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

It hasn't re-manifested itself since I first reported it.

<G> Dan I'm not sure we should let you loose on that one again. [;)]
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Actually Dan I noticed the other day that there are two places mucking around with these values and so I bet it's been done in one and not the other. We'll look at it soon.