agaricus5
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Re: My DROD has stopped working (0)
My DROD has stopped working again, except it's more like a sort of degradation than a direct bug.
What has happened this time is similar to last time - when I try to edit something, DROD locks up, sending out warning/error noises around 5-10 times a second, and inflating the dats to twice their size.
This time, however, it happened suddenly, and without any warning. However, although I can't reproduce this particular form of the bug, I am suspicious that it has ahd something to do with problems I had with the hold previously. When I removed any scroll in Bavato's Dungeon, after leaving the room, DROD gave me a warning noise. On checking the .err file, it seemed that DROD could not find the location of the text of the scroll, so although I deleted it, DROD did not find the original location of the text, or something similar, so it couldn't delete it in the .dat file.
I suspect that with the deletion of lots of scrolls with this problem, there is a lot of this sort of superfluous data floating around, and so somehow, DROD has become confused about the location of something, and so has corrupted itself.
On using an old set of backups I have, and re-importing Bavato's Dungeon into it, I find that deleting a scroll in this dungeon gives this same warning noise, although since it has only happened once, DROD did not do anything else odd. This prompts me to think that it is not DROD that contains the problem, but the hold instead. You might want to check it to see if there is any superfluous data within it, or if there are any database problems within the hold.
Attached to this post are the corrupted files, and a copy of the latest version of Bavato's Dungeon.
Edit: I reinstalled DROD, and imported my old player file, and then Bavato's Dungeon. This time, deleting scrolls had no problems. Perhaps I was wrong, and it was more of a case of demos getting corrupted like last time? I did keep replacing test rooms in a test hold for testing outside the editor, which may have caused some demos created in the hold (I cannot remember) to become redundant or broken.
Edit2: I forgot to patch my DROD to 1.6.5, and did so just now. When I tried again with the scroll, I got the scroll deletion error noise again. Do you think that this problem I'm having could be specific to the 1.6.5 patch?
[Edited by agaricus5 on 08-02-2004 at 11:06 PM GMT]
[Edited by agaricus5 on 08-03-2004 at 11:18 AM GMT]
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