Minor Bug

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MarkSteere
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Minor Bug

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There's a minor bug with the cell highlighting. It only happens in about 1 out of 30 games. Sometimes a purple, selected man highlight will appear on two cells instead of just the one selected man cell. Other times, one of the yellow, selectable man cells will not be highlighted when it should be. It's a minor, harmless bug that can be cleared with a refresh. But it's an imperfection in an otherwise perfect adaptation, and I want to fix it.

As an amateur programmer, I'm using the system as intended, but sometimes there are system timing and out-of-sync errors that require workarounds. Professional developers have provided helpful suggestions, and one of the developers is actually getting involved with restructuring the program - both to fix the bug and to make the program more robust. It's a major overhaul for a minor issue, but this is what we're doing. I imagine it will probably break the games in progress. If that happens, please exit your game and start a new one.
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Re: Minor Bug

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The two bugs turned out not to be two different manifestations of the same problem. They were two, totally separate issues. Nessuno was able to track down one of the bugs and kill it. The solution was to move the dice roll from within one function to another. I NEVER would have figured that out.

Now there is only one (known) intermittent bug (the worst kind) remaining: ghost highlights. I will try to fix it myself using a time-tested technology - crossing my fingers. Makes typing difficult, but it's worth the sacrifice.

Nessuno, a professional and highly skilled developer, has been invaluable in bringing you Jokerball. Advice and suggestions are helpful, but only get me so far. Sometimes you need a pro to get in there, find the problem, and fix it. Nessuno did that - a few times. Thanks, Nessuno 🙂🙏
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Re: Minor Bug

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Ok, I THINK I fixed the ghost highlight bug. It was only happening in like 1 out of 20 or 30 games. Nobody every complained about it because it didn't harm anything. It was just a minor distraction. But it had to be fixed. And now it is - I hope. I'll have to wait and see. If I get through a lot of games without any problems, the program is almost certainly totally bug free.
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