• chess bug

    From MCMLXXIX@VERT/MDJ to Digital Man on Tue Sep 29 18:57:49 2009
    So.. I've got two games that use probably 60% of the same code to run, using the chat engine, queue engine, and game lobby (chess and sea battle)

    out of nowhere, chess is now doing some crazy shit and I can't figure it out why. sea battle works fine, without any of the issues chess is having.

    I did make a few changes to the chess code recently, but even if I revert the code back to a previous revision that had no problems, im still having issues.

    It seems to be "skipping" parts of the script for no apparent reason, failing to fully draw the game lobby when the game loads, or when you exit a table.. and when you exit the game the external programs menu is invisible, no prompt at the main menu, but all of the commands still work.

    have you seen anything like this? and (see last two commits for chess.js and chessbrd.js) do any of my changes look like they might cause a problem?



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  • From Deuce@VERT/SYNCNIX to MCMLXXIX on Tue Sep 29 19:13:16 2009
    Re: chess bug
    By: MCMLXXIX to Digital Man on Tue Sep 29 2009 11:57 am

    It seems to be "skipping" parts of the script for no apparent reason, failing to fully draw the game lobby when the game loads, or when you exit
    a table.. and when you exit the game the external programs menu is invisible, no prompt at the main menu, but all of the commands still work.

    Try wrapping the entire script in a try/catch... maybe an exception is being thrown womewhere.

    have you seen anything like this? and (see last two commits for chess.js
    and chessbrd.js) do any of my changes look like they might cause a problem?

    I don't see a problem off hand, but have you ran syncjslint on it?

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  • From MCMLXXIX@VERT/MDJ to Deuce on Wed Sep 30 06:01:56 2009
    Re: chess bug
    By: Deuce to MCMLXXIX on Tue Sep 29 2009 12:13:16

    Re: chess bug
    By: MCMLXXIX to Digital Man on Tue Sep 29 2009 11:57 am

    invisible, no prompt at the main menu, but all of the commands still work.

    Try wrapping the entire script in a try/catch... maybe an exception is
    being thrown womewhere.

    I will give it a try and post the results here


    have you seen anything like this? and (see last two commits for chess.js and chessbrd.js) do any of my changes look like they might cause a problem?

    I don't see a problem off hand, but have you ran syncjslint on it?


    I looked at syncjslint once.... and had no idea wtf I was looking at


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  • From Digital Man@VERT to MCMLXXIX on Wed Sep 30 18:08:09 2009
    Re: chess bug
    By: MCMLXXIX to Digital Man on Tue Sep 29 2009 11:57 am

    So.. I've got two games that use probably 60% of the same code to run,
    using the chat engine, queue engine, and game lobby (chess and sea battle)

    out of nowhere, chess is now doing some crazy shit and I can't figure it
    out why. sea battle works fine, without any of the issues chess is having.

    I did make a few changes to the chess code recently, but even if I revert the code back to a previous revision that had no problems, im still having issues.

    Could it be a change in one of the lib/util files that is loaded() by chess.js?

    It seems to be "skipping" parts of the script for no apparent reason, failing to fully draw the game lobby when the game loads, or when you exit
    a table.. and when you exit the game the external programs menu is invisible, no prompt at the main menu, but all of the commands still work.

    That could be caused by an attribute issue (black on black?) or an abort char (Ctrl-C) left in the input/key buffer. I assume that if you hit 'Q' that the program section menu displays correctly?

    have you seen anything like this? and (see last two commits for chess.js
    and chessbrd.js) do any of my changes look like they might cause a problem?

    I haven't been running chess.js and don't see anything obvious in the recent commits. I think Deuce's suggestion of running jslint is a good one.

    digital man

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  • From MCMLXXIX@VERT/MDJ to Deuce on Thu Oct 1 19:17:04 2009
    Re: chess bug
    By: MCMLXXIX to Deuce on Tue Sep 29 2009 23:01:56

    Try wrapping the entire script in a try/catch... maybe an exception is being thrown womewhere.


    tried wrapping everything in a try/catch.. no results.. no result at all actually. not 100% comfortable with try/catch, so maybe I went about it the wrong way. but I'm guessing if there's no error thrown it doesnt even enter the catch() {}?


    I don't see a problem off hand, but have you ran syncjslint on it?


    still no idea what to do with this.. ill take another look today

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  • From Mcmlxxix@VERT/SYNCNIX to Digital Man on Thu Oct 1 20:30:15 2009
    Re: chess bug
    By: Digital Man to MCMLXXIX on Wed Sep 30 2009 11:08 am

    I did make a few changes to the chess code recently, but even if I
    revert the code back to a previous revision that had no problems, im still having issues.

    Could it be a change in one of the lib/util files that is loaded() by chess.js?

    I've gone through them as much as I can, and I havent made any significant changes to any of them recently... and Sea-Battle seems to work without any problems. The only significant difference between the two is gameplay related.

    That could be caused by an attribute issue (black on black?) or an abort char (Ctrl-C) left in the input/key buffer. I assume that if you hit 'Q' that the program section menu displays correctly?

    the external progrs menu OCCASIONALLY reappears if i go in and out of chess a few times, but it's not consistent. it's not a black on black issue. it just seems to .. "break" the menus.. my main bbs menu is still a baja script, and it doesnt show a prompt either.


    I haven't been running chess.js and don't see anything obvious in the
    recent commits. I think Deuce's suggestion of running jslint is a good one.


    what exactly does jslint do?

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Mcmlxxix on Thu Oct 1 23:49:46 2009
    Re: chess bug
    By: Mcmlxxix to Digital Man on Thu Oct 01 2009 01:30 pm

    I haven't been running chess.js and don't see anything obvious in the recent commits. I think Deuce's suggestion of running jslint is a good one.


    what exactly does jslint do?

    It analyzes your script and tells you what is wrong (or potentially wrong) with it.

    digital man

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  • From Corey@VERT/TSGC to Digital Man on Fri Oct 2 02:19:02 2009
    Re: chess bug
    By: Digital Man to Mcmlxxix on Thu Oct 01 2009 04:49 pm

    Re: chess bug
    By: Mcmlxxix to Digital Man on Thu Oct 01 2009 01:30 pm

    I haven't been running chess.js and don't see anything obvious in the recent commits. I think Deuce's suggestion of running jslint is a good one.


    what exactly does jslint do?

    It analyzes your script and tells you what is wrong (or potentially wrong) w it.

    digital man

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    chess bug? sounds like swine flu.


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  • From Smole@VERT to Corey on Fri Oct 2 10:24:02 2009
    Re: chess bug
    By: Corey to Digital Man on Thu Oct 01 2009 07:19 pm

    what exactly does jslint do?

    Removes fuzzy balls from your code.

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  • From MCMLXXIX@VERT/MDJ to Smole on Fri Oct 2 20:31:48 2009
    Re: chess bug
    By: Smole to Corey on Fri Oct 02 2009 03:24:02

    what exactly does jslint do?

    Removes fuzzy balls from your code.

    I'm afraid that might leave me with a blank screen

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  • From sfahey@VERT/A2CBBS to MCMLXXIX on Fri Oct 2 23:40:04 2009
    Re: chess bug
    By: MCMLXXIX to Smole on Fri Oct 02 2009 01:31 pm

    Removes fuzzy balls from your code.

    I'm afraid that might leave me with a blank screen

    All this talk of people's fuzzy balls makes me uncomfortable.

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  • From Jas Hud@VERT to sfahey on Sat Oct 3 11:45:03 2009
    sfahey wrote:
    Re: chess bug
    By: MCMLXXIX to Smole on Fri Oct 02 2009 01:31 pm

    Removes fuzzy balls from your code.

    I'm afraid that might leave me with a blank screen

    All this talk of people's fuzzy balls makes me uncomfortable.

    Sean Fahey


    agreed

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  • From MCMLXXIX@VERT/MDJ to Deuce on Mon Oct 5 16:20:29 2009
    Re: chess bug
    By: Deuce to MCMLXXIX on Tue Sep 29 2009 12:13:16


    have you seen anything like this? and (see last two commits for chess.js and chessbrd.js) do any of my changes look like they might cause a problem?

    I don't see a problem off hand, but have you ran syncjslint on it?

    Finally made a test script for syncjslint.. it gave me a few hundred errors, most of which were "bad escapement" with the occasional false "missing ;" thrown in.

    all in all i didnt see anything that was serious in there.

    the strange part is, when this problem first surfaced, i reset the server and it was still there. yesterday I reset the server again and the problem is gone.


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