#STATIC in terminals - The Pfhorums

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So about a year ago when patching together Eternal X 1.1 b4, I discovered the #STATIC terminal tag and put it to some good use throughout all the terminals, representing things like remote terminal overrides and AIs downloading into your internal network and all kinds of nifty things like that.

I just started giving it another playthrough tonight after not touching it all year, and almost immediately discovered that every instance of a #STATIC tag causes a hard crash of Aleph One. I've tried all combinations of different preference settings to see if I fudged something up, and also tried running the released version of EX1.1b4 freshly redownloaded from the site to make sure I hadn't changed something in the interim, with no luck.

Is something broken about the #STATIC tag at the present? Is that known about already, being fixed, deprecated...? I'd really like to keep the cool new effects I implemented last year and not go tear them all out again now.

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Aug 14th '14, 12:30

Not deprecated, not being fixed. I didn't know it wasn't working. It would be great if you could post system specs, or even file a bug report on SF so we don't forget to look into it. Thanks!

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Aug 15th '14, 05:34

Here is the crash report OSX generates:

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If you could remind me both where to find AO's own crash log file, and where to submit a bug report on sourceforge (I'm looking at the bug tracker here and not seeing any way to submit a new one), I'd be happy to file a report there too.

Thanks!

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Aug 15th '14, 13:26

There's a "Create Ticket" button in the left hand sidebar. You may have to be logged in to SourceForge for that to appear.

I'll try to reproduce this but I don't have any machines running Lion!

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Aug 15th '14, 19:49

I updated the bug tracker page to mention the login step, to make it a little less confusing. The guide to reporting bugs includes a section on finding the Aleph One log. On OS X, it's in the standard ~/Library/Logs directory, and you can view it in the Console app.

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Sep 18th '14, 22:16

I just tested this bug further by adding a single #STATIC section between the first two #PICT sections of the first terminal on Ne Cede Malis in an otherwise stock Infinity setup, and it happens there too, so it's nothing about just Eternal.

I also tested for the bug in older versions back to 1.0.2 stable and confirmed that it was introduced in 1.1b1 (the 2013-07-07 release).

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Dec 25th '14, 03:34

Happens to me as well. Aleph One v1.1 crashes hard at #STATIC, v1.0.2 runs without a hiccup. Wonder what could have changed between then and now.

Also posted in the tracker ticket with system specs and a crash report.

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