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Beginner Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Posts: 13

Hi all,

I've been using the CMUD trial a couple of days now, and encountered some bugs which are really affecting usability. It's a huge shame, since CMUD is generally so much better than ZMUD!

#1: MXP gauges are created regardless of preference settings.

I took unchecking the "automatic gauges" in preferences to mean that they would no longer be created fpr hp/sp/st upon login, but no. CMUD creates new gauges at each login regardless of whether they exist already, resulting in the wretched things accumulating and needing removal. With this option unchecked, should they be created at all?

#2: While docked, the scrollwheel does not function in the mapper.

If the mapper is docked on the screen rather than left in its own window, the scrollwheel operates for the main MUD window rather than the mapper, even when the mapper has focus. This makes the mapper almost unusable for me, since I can't navigate around a map quickly using the wheel for zoom or pan/scan.

#3: Not so much a bug, but has the option to not underline MXP links been removed? I can't for the life of me find it.

I've had some other bugs show up, but they've been quite haphazard. I'll report them once I can actually reproduce them. :>

Zazou

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

#2. Zugg is currently in the process of converting the mapper from ADO to SQLite format, and he will be fixing some of the mapper issues. Prior to now (that is, this next beta cycle that Zugg hasn't released anything for yet), the mapper is line for line the same thing as is found in ZMud and isn't very CMud compatible. He'll be mapping it up in two or three phases, with the last phase taking the mapper concept light years ahead of anything out on the market today. Again!

#3. One of the things Zugg did with CMud was clean up the preferences pages. Several of the items that show up in ZMud still exist in CMud, but are now swept off the Preferences and accessible via the %pref() function. I haven't had to use it for anything just yet, so I couldn't tell you anything about it.

Beginner Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Posts: 13

Hi, thanks for the reply.

For #2, even if there are a lot of changes coming up for the mapper, one would hope that it would currently be bug-free in CMUD, since it /is/ a commercial product now, not just a beta.

And with #3... "cleaning up" the preference page is a strongly negative thing when it reduces useful functionality. :p There is an option in %pref() for "MXPUnderline". I've set it to 0, but it made no difference.

Beginner Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Posts: 13

Bugs:

#4: It's impossible (or at least far more difficult) to select a *link* rather than a *room* in the map editor, while this was easy in zmud. Obviously this makes toggling a link to a door much more laborious.

#5: If I've loaded the mapper from one window (call it Zazou), it's seemingly impossible to have it associate to a different connection.

#6: My layout is refusing to save, so I keep having to recreate it each time. I'm more than happy to provide more info to debug this, such as my layout file.

#7: The layout system itself seems to have some severe problems. A moment ago when I dragged the mapper out of its place (docked), it left a space there with the mapper title and such, and popped the mapper up in its own box, but unresponsive. After a little bit of fiddling around, trying to get this to work, well, my computer crashed. I have no idea how to recreate this, though!

I've also had problems with the MUD prompt sometimes loading in a bugged way, and flickering, while CMUD itself is unresponsive. Is this a known bug?

Beginner Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Posts: 13

Just a note:

Apologies for the brief explanations; it's mostly because I don't know whether things I'm mentioning are known or unknown bugs, or even things which have already been fixed.

I'm more than happy to provide as much help as I can in fixing them, though.

Zazou

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

#2. It's only been debugged enough so that old zmud code doesn't crash new CMud code.

#4. Identical to the way it works in ZMud

#5. The mapper is unable to work with multiple sessions. This is basically how it worked in ZMud, too, but the new docking system exposed even more problems with this so the problem's a little worse in CMud.

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 4:45 pm

#3: The Underline MXP option was replaced by a new "Style" that controls how MXP links are displayed. Go into the Styles Preference page and selec the URL Style and you can control how links look. This allows you to give URL links a color, make them underlined, bold, italic, or whatever you want.

#6,7: Hold down the SHIFT key and click the Open Offline option for your session to reset the layout to the default. Then you can adjust the layout and it should start saving again. It sounds like your layout file has gotten corrupted somehow.

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 5:19 pm

#1: I cannot reproduce this. When a MUD creates a gauge, that gauge is stored in your session preferences. So when you load your session in the future, the gauge will still be there even if the MUD doesn't recreate it. If the MUD sends another command to create the gauge, CMUD overwrites the definition of the previous gauge with the same name. So you shouldn't be able to get multiple duplicate gauges unless the MUD isn't sending the gauge command correctly.

If the MXP Gauge option is disabled, that *does* block the command sent from the MUD to create the gauge. But it doesn't prevent any gauges that were previously saved with your session from still being displayed. You need to manually delete those gauges if you don't want them.

MXP Gauges are created within the System/MXP class folder, so be sure you haven't moved them to some other folder or else they might get recreated.

Enchanter Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 511 Location: USA

Beginner Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Posts: 13

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:40 pm