Mac v6 beta test

[Skyld]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Ok uploaded a new version for Skyld.
Changes:
- improved copy&paste, instead of using "mac-plain-text" it's now using utf8 to exchange data
- palletized tilesets which are drawn on layer 0 are forced to be RGB (no alpha), which should fix the problem that Skyld had

Works great

[cbk1994]

Copy and paste is much better

There are still problems with windows sticking, also when closing profiles, they still appear in the Window menu. I'm guessing the window just needs to destroy or so.

When you quit the client, the main window closes, but the external windows stay open for a second until the "Graal has unexpectedly quit" message comes up. This seems to always happen.

Also, there are still some focusing problems, especially noticeable with the playerlist. You have to click the window to focus, then click on the row you want. It doesn't feel natural, like it does with the dockable playerlist on Windows. Also, the playerlist doesn't always update correctly until you mouse over the list while focused. This isn't fixed with the Login2 updated playerlist, which makes me think it's probably a client glitch.

Modifier keys in GuiTextListCtrl's still aren't working.

[Admins]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

Also, there are still some focusing problems, especially noticeable with the playerlist. You have to click the window to focus, then click on the row you want.

That's kindof standard behaviour on Mac though (with Safari, iTunes), not sure if it's easy to change.

[Admins]

I've uploaded a new version, Skyld will soon give it to beta testers:

- improved the window behaviour so they should close/disappear correctly and not give errors
- when the window loses the focus then any menus shown in the window are closed
- faster tiles drawing
- some new scripting commands (player.showEmoticon(filename), showEmoticonByKey(VK_A), onPKZoneChanges)

[Admins]

Any feedback for the new version?

[Skyld]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Any feedback for the new version?

The external windows are still not always being destroyed properly when switching servers (i.e. opening Scripted RC on UN and then going to Zodiac, it still stays open). Those ghosted windows are no longer crashing the client but they should be closed. This problem only ever started happening on any of these clients on Snow Leopard since I was not aware of it happening before.

Something odd is also happening when the client closes (either by Esc, Cmd-Q or Graal->Quit); it is freezing temporarily and then bringing up this crash report:

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: 0x000000000000000d, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Application Specific Information:
objc_msgSend() selector name: release

Thread 0 Crashed:  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libobjc.A.dylib               	0x00007fff86e4b120 objc_msgSend + 44
1   com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x00007fff813dd246 _CFAutoreleasePoolPop + 230
2   com.apple.Foundation          	0x00007fff81b8ce87 -[NSAutoreleasePool release] + 158
3   Graal                         	0x00000001003e9b0c ConcreteClassRep<BigDataStartEvent>::~ConcreteClassRep() + 812
4   Graal                         	0x0000000100001e74 0x100000000 + 7796

Other than those, it seems to work quite excellently.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Any feedback for the new version?

I don't think it's been distributed yet to beta testers.

[Skyld]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

I don't think it's been distributed yet to beta testers.

I uploaded it yesterday, it should be a download link in the client.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Skyld

I uploaded it yesterday, it should be a download link in the client.

My bad, I'll take a look in a minute .

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Feature
- shadow for text (GUI, showimgs) can have a different alpha value than the text itself

This "feature" affects the iPhone as well. Is there a way to change the shadow alpha (not seeing anything in scripthelp) until it's fixed?

[DustyPorViva]

Not exactly specific to the Mac, but is skewed polygon textures fixed in the newer version? Right now it distorts the texture at the crease, making the feature virtually useless:

[Admins]

Good news: the Windows v6 beta test can be started in a few days.

[cbk1994]

There is sometimes a bug that when you start the client, the window remains totally black until you move the window (the native Mac window, not the login window) or resize it.

[Skyld]

Emoticons are not always moving properly when the player is warped while the emoticon is visible. It stays in the old place and either moves after a second, or doesn't move.

[cbk1994]

I can't seem to upload files using Client-RC on any servers (Era, Era Dev, Testbed).