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Lee Johnson posted 02-15-99 01:53 PM ET
OK, just finished a game with the 2.0 patch applied. I had great fun playing it, but there were a few glitchy things:
- On a few annoying occasions, the mouse stopped working. I could move the pointer around, but nothing would happen when I left- or right-clicked on the map or on a radio button. If I Alt-Tabbed out of the game, the mouse worked fine in other windows, but not when I switched back to SMAC. The keyboard still worked OK, so I could fortunately save my game, exit, and reload.
- Sometimes when dragging a unit from one base to another, no Goto order would actually be registered. I would see a gold arrow pointer over the destination base, which went away if I left-clicked. However, the unit would just sit at its starting point, without moving at all. If I repeated the operation immediately afterward, it would work.
- The message summary window has some problems. When multiple messages (or long messages) are generated at the beginning of a turn, often these messages are truncated in mid-sentence (but never in the middle of a word, as far as I can remember.)
- Also in the message window, there is a problem with zooming to a particular event. Clicking on the little green arrow buttons would often produce no result. Sometimes, left-clicking in the window would bring up the zoom/erase/zoom and erase menu, but selecting zoom would not actually zoom the map to the event site. This was somewhat annoying.
These problems occurred under Windows 98 w/ DX6.0 installed; complete game installation with the version 2.0 patch applied. 800x600 resolution (determined by desktop.) I haven't tried 1024x768 to see whether these problems are related to resolution, but I suppose I could take a look to make sure.

Darkstar posted 02-16-99 02:33 PM ET
I have seen these problems in the *unpatched* version of the SMAC, so they aren't new.
The recognition of mouse button events just suddenly happens. Nothing, right or left button events are recognized inside SMAC. (But Win98 outside it has no problems.) I had this occur last night and had to use the keyboard shortcut to be able to save and exit. Annoying.
Long messages are cut off in midword (more than one line). They are cut in mid-letter. Very long (more than 3 or 4) will have whole bottoms cut off, and cut the bottoms of short messages. Another annoying thing. (It is nice to be able to review the events without having to guess which city has what problem...)
Still... great game. So many things they got right...
-Darkstar
Lee Johnson posted 02-16-99 04:24 PM ET
I didn't actually have much time to play SMAC before the patch came out, so I can well believe that these aren't new problems. It would be nice if they could be fixed, though. :-)
joachim posted 02-16-99 04:46 PM ET
I had trouble manipulating the units/improvements screen in the city window. When I wanted to build something new, I would open the window and click in the scroll area to move the display down by one screen, but often it would move down by two screens. In general it seemed to be unsure how many times I had clicked the mouse button.
-joachim
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Author	Topic: Various mouse and interface bugs
Lee Johnson	posted 02-15-99 01:53 PM ET OK, just finished a game with the 2.0 patch applied. I had great fun playing it, but there were a few glitchy things: - On a few annoying occasions, the mouse stopped working. I could move the pointer around, but nothing would happen when I left- or right-clicked on the map or on a radio button. If I Alt-Tabbed out of the game, the mouse worked fine in other windows, but not when I switched back to SMAC. The keyboard still worked OK, so I could fortunately save my game, exit, and reload. - Sometimes when dragging a unit from one base to another, no Goto order would actually be registered. I would see a gold arrow pointer over the destination base, which went away if I left-clicked. However, the unit would just sit at its starting point, without moving at all. If I repeated the operation immediately afterward, it would work. - The message summary window has some problems. When multiple messages (or long messages) are generated at the beginning of a turn, often these messages are truncated in mid-sentence (but never in the middle of a word, as far as I can remember.) - Also in the message window, there is a problem with zooming to a particular event. Clicking on the little green arrow buttons would often produce no result. Sometimes, left-clicking in the window would bring up the zoom/erase/zoom and erase menu, but selecting zoom would not actually zoom the map to the event site. This was somewhat annoying. These problems occurred under Windows 98 w/ DX6.0 installed; complete game installation with the version 2.0 patch applied. 800x600 resolution (determined by desktop.) I haven't tried 1024x768 to see whether these problems are related to resolution, but I suppose I could take a look to make sure.
Darkstar	posted 02-16-99 02:33 PM ET I have seen these problems in the unpatched version of the SMAC, so they aren't new. The recognition of mouse button events just suddenly happens. Nothing, right or left button events are recognized inside SMAC. (But Win98 outside it has no problems.) I had this occur last night and had to use the keyboard shortcut to be able to save and exit. Annoying. Long messages are cut off in midword (more than one line). They are cut in mid-letter. Very long (more than 3 or 4) will have whole bottoms cut off, and cut the bottoms of short messages. Another annoying thing. (It is nice to be able to review the events without having to guess which city has what problem...) Still... great game. So many things they got right... -Darkstar
Lee Johnson	posted 02-16-99 04:24 PM ET I didn't actually have much time to play SMAC before the patch came out, so I can well believe that these aren't new problems. It would be nice if they could be fixed, though. :-)
joachim	posted 02-16-99 04:46 PM ET I had trouble manipulating the units/improvements screen in the city window. When I wanted to build something new, I would open the window and click in the scroll area to move the display down by one screen, but often it would move down by two screens. In general it seemed to be unsure how many times I had clicked the mouse button. -joachim