Bugs

[Dr Brain]

Only the first few regions on a map will display. Later regions will be a s s i g n e d (stupidly coded swear filter) a color, but won't show up on screen. The regions exist, because they still show up on the tool tip. Makes it pretty much impossible to do region work in DCME.

 

DCME also seems to be stealing video memory for every other window. Firefox, Continuum, etc. all show up as white screens or with the stuff from the DCME window. It's annoying to have to close DCME before writing this post, for example. Hasn't seemed to crash anything or lose map data, though.

 

Also, not really a bug, but would it be possible to get the region combo box on a list box instead (part of the dock on the right hand side, for example)? The HS maps have tons of regions (on the order of 50), and it's annoying to work with a combo box that only shows 5 items at once. Even extending the length to 20 would make it better.

[Drake7707]

It seems that there is an issue with the bgPen tool. It doesn't leak in vb itself, but win xp has some serious issues with drawing windows after a while. I copied the code to use in my AI algorithm for gui drawing and i keep getting windows blacked out after a lot of drawing, even when the objects are deleted afterwards.

 

Either the bgpen implementation isn't used correctly, or there is a bug in the API. Perhaps switching to an alternative could fix some drawing issues

[Samapico]

Yeah... the speed improvements on the regions came with a high cost in video memory. I posted some test versions in the thread below this one. I think I managed to save up on ASSS regions memory with them, but I had no way to get actual numbers yet, so I don't know if it really works; but it's worth a try.

 

I might have to do something like... draw all the regions; other than the one selected on a single layer, cache the rest on disk, and only overlay that layer with the active region; since the only thing you can change is the selected region. This would significantly reduce memory usage for regions without affecting performance too much

 

Also, I just realized it might be nice if the selected region was drawn on top of the others with its actual color, instead of the MergePaint type drawing

mmhmm.

 

 

Also, just wondering, how much video memory do you have on your computer, Brain?

 

As for the combo box, we can't really change it to a list box, since that control is actually a custom one, with the 'visible' and 'edit' buttons and all... But because of that, we can easily make it show more items too

One thing that annoyed me while working with regions in a HS maps is that when you click the list for the drop-down, it doesn't scroll automatically to the selected item.

 

 

Stay tuned, I'm working on all this... I didn't notice the problem before the release because my 512MB video card can easily handle it; but people with 128MB or less will get blank screens easily

[Hate The Fake]

one of the problems ive had, is when uses the alphabet tool, it will sometimes show error then boot me out

[Samapico]

... What kind of error...

 

Help us here, a screenshot or the full error message. Attach your dcme.log file, I'll be able to see the error in there

[Dr Brain]

I've got 256MB.

[Corey]

yes brain, ive also had that problem, im glad sama fixed it iin the newest version.

[Samapico]

I tried to

 

But I did not

[Hate The Fake]

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh46/jrocko3/dcmeerror-1.jpg

 

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