U61 (v1.0.0) - Known bugs




Major bugs
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  Client hangs when server is unavailable
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    When connecting to an unavailable and/or inexisting server, U61 might
    freeze. This is because the "connect" function (form the low-level
    communication layer) blocks and does not return until the server is found.

  Game slows down and freezes
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    This is due to some inperfections in event handling. What happens is that
    the game core spends more time displaying things than processing events.
    Therefore there's a growing time gap between what's displayed and what's
    being calculated internally, at an event level. And the situation gets
    worse and worse as the display gets slower since the engine has to
    anticipate many frames. So the game chokes to death... I'm trying to find a
    compromise between real-time constraints and performance issues.



Minor bugs
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  When connecting on a server, the game seems to choke
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    Well, this is I hope only a temporary behavior, which should be changed in
    the future. The point is that when a client connects itself on a server, it
    gets a whole history of what has been happening on the server, and it can
    take quite a time to process.

  Win32 event dispatcher received WM_QUIT
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    You might get this message if you run U61 in windowed mode under Windows
    and close the application by clicking the standard "cross" which is in the
    top-right corner of the window.

  Problems starting a network game
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    If you compile the game with the "official" ClanLib-0.5.0 release, you
    might be unable to start network games under Linux, with the server
    complaining that it can't bind itself correctly. This is due to a very
    minor bug in ClanLib which has been corrected now, however you shouldn't
    use CVS snapshots of ClanLib to compile U61. Instead, you should use my
    home made "http://www.ufoot.org/archive/ClanLib-0.5.0-for-u61-1.0.0.tar.gz"
    release of ClanLib, which is slightly modified so that this bug does not
    occur anymore.

  Unable to type dots and other weird characters
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    Due to some limitations in key handling in ClanLib, you might get trouble
    trying to type characters such as "." or "-". This is very annoying since
    you need them to type ip addresses and/or machine names. Still, there's a
    workaround for ".", which is usually the most annoying character: simply
    press the space bar on your keyboard and it will enter "." instead of " "
    if you are editing a server name.

  The numpad keys won't work
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    Again, this is due to the fact that ClanLib is still under heavy
    developpement. I'll try and do my best so that this bug is fixed some day,
    since it is very important for U61 that all the keys work correctly.

