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Article #28659Re: TTDPatch 2.5 beta 9
From: jixor
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:39
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:39
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Thats great, your really putting some serious work into this, its going to be one solid piece of software I expect! Thanks for all your effort. Cheers, Steve. Josef Drexler wrote: > Hi TTDPatch fans! > > Despite announcing in my last email that beta 8 would be the last 2.5 > beta, I've now released beta 9 at http://www.ttdpatch.net/src/ > > There were still a number of bugs to be fixed in beta 8, and I'd like to > have the bugfixes tested a bit more before releasing a stable version. By > now, the number of open bugs for the 2.5 version on the tracker > http://wiki.ttdpatch.net/tiki-view_tracker.php?trackerId=1 is negligible, > so unless new issues crop up in this version, there's a good chance that > we'll be able to release the 2.5 stable version soon. > > If you reported a bug in earlier versions and it still isn't fixed in beta > 9, I urge you to create a new ticket on the bug tracker to make sure that > I will fix it before the stable release. > > As is appropriate for a beta version, practically all the changes are > bugfixes. I won't even attempt to summarize them here, if you're > interested see the complete list below. > > Now please enjoy the new beta, test it extensively and do report any bugs > you find, both new or old! > > Josef > > > All changes in 2.5 beta 9: > - by Csaboka: > * bug fixed: turning newindustries on reintroduced the "temperate > banks on tropic" TTD bug > * fixed crash when enabling new industries in existing game > - fixed cargo type FE not working in action 3 > - debug switch 'r' to not run TTDLOAD(W).OVL directly > - fixed crash when running out of memory > - fixed crash while processing action 1/5 blocks with pseudo-sprites > shorter than 8 bytes > - fixed bug reserving several pieces on a tile when train fails to reverse > - fix base graphics not getting loaded unless another .grf was loaded as > well > - fix pathfinding issues with irregular station if north tile not part of > station > - fix missing cargo type suffix in train info window > - by DaleStan: > * Fix bitswitches with all bits set off being read as if the switch > was off. > * Fix gamespeed switch being written to ttdpatch.cfg as unsigned. > * Make Cht:Face work without a space between the : and the F. > * Fix Cht:Face potentially returning "Cht:Face h". > * Fix Cht:Face and Cht:Used overwriting their names with the returned > value. > * Make Cht: XXXX ? always show cost even for cheats that don't cost. > * Make Cht: XXXX ? not set the bit in Cht: Used. > * Use zlib to compress ttdprot?.bin. > - correctly display non-ASCII characters in directory names > - fix crash with directory names containing characters with no glyphs in > Unicode mode > - by Lakie: > * fixed a bug in resizing depot windows when 32px mode was on > - fixed bogus sprite error when calling a procedure beyond sprite 255 > - by JGR: > * split first line of land info window as necessary > * fix window resizing code with >127 entries > - fixed station overbuilding to adjust the overwritten tile's numtiles > - by stevenh: > * miscellaneous tram fixes > * show tram depot graphics in tram construction window > * fixed incorrect display of tram tracks on bridge with adjacent > level crossing > * fix bug causing some newly built roads to also have tram tracks > * change message for first vehicle arriving at station to indicate > trams correctly > - add "name" property in addition to "desc" for switches.xml categories > - prevent loading multiple GRFs with identical GRFID (except for FFFFFFFF) > - fix lockup when reversing train with multiple reserved pieces on a > custom bridge head > - fix consist variables/callbacks not being updated when selling wagon > - add bridge sounds to callback 33 (via generic feature 6 callback) > - fix "line too long" warning if it's a bit switch description (or any > other comment) > - correctly translate characters B9, BC and BD in UTF-8 mode > - don't crash when trying to display a text ID that's out of range > - allow action 12 to overwrite unicode characters 9E..BD > - calculate speed for new vehicle after var 40+x cache is initialized > - ensure map and news history windows are not larger than screen when > loading game > - fix news history sometimes having wrong number of items after loading > game > - don't abort grf initialization due to resource conflict > - prevent trains from reserving a path out of a depot if the surrounding > signals are manually set non-PBS signals > - fix new aircraft getting wrong cargo type > - prevent cursor keys from interfering with hotkeys in DOS > - fix new freight aircraft having incorrect capacity, and try use callback > 15 to determine capacity if enabled > - fix draggable diagonal track building track across the entire map when > moving cursor into different window or outside of map > - fix no-fail GRM operations not working > - remove miscmods.loaduntilgreen, it was never actually implemented > - allow CB18 to use the cargo translation table >
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