zex20913
Level: Smitemaster

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This was a weird bug, and I am unable to reproduce it. I was playing the "Dugan's Dungeon Revisited" hold, in the stair room on level 2. I had just hit the "move north" button, when my Norton Antivirus software started going. I stopped the scan, and thought nothing of it...but Beethro continued to the top of the screen and then was killed. I exited DROD, and then when I tried to reenter, it had no data, not even Dugan's. Like I said, tough to reproduce, but also a tad hazardous. This was in Build 34, but I don't think I've seen anything else touching on this.

[Edited by zex20913 on 08-09-2003 at 03:29 AM GMT: Build notation.]

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mrimer
Level: Legendary Smitemaster

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zex20913 wrote:
This was a weird bug, and I am unable to reproduce it. I was playing the "Dugan's Dungeon Revisited" hold, in the stair room on level 2. I had just hit the "move north" button, when my Norton Antivirus software started going. I stopped the scan, and thought nothing of it...but Beethro continued to the top of the screen and then was killed. I exited DROD, and then when I tried to reenter, it had no data, not even Dugan's.

I added some code to halt any key repeating (or mouse down handling) when the app loses focus in build 36. I don't think it's related to the data loss problem though (unfortunately). I hope there's just one nasty bug that's causing this data loss that people have been seeing lately, so I'll try to figure that out next.

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