Typing } in text box crash the game | MMORPG Tycoon 2 | Page 1

tired inlet Dec 17, 2022, 10:59 PM

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Hey, this was found by @hallow knoll :
As written in the title, typing a } in a text box will instantly crash the game.

earnest holly Dec 20, 2022, 3:29 PM

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Probably because it is something used to close a function in the code so it went weird about it 😄

tired inlet Dec 20, 2022, 3:33 PM

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Yep ! I guess the testing of the test boxes was with a full block of code so it had both { and } so the game didn't cared much 😄

blissful kite Dec 23, 2022, 1:50 AM

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Yup, we embed { and } characters in text strings to mark substrings that need to be localised. If the player types those characters into text boxes all sorts of bad stuff can happen. (you get a similar crash if you type {{, for example. Or if you type {text}, then it shows up as <<text>> in the edit box and cursor positioning and stuff all get very confused). For now, I'm just preventing players from typing or pasting { or } into text edit boxes, just to sidestep the issue for now; can come back to it later to figure out whether there's a more clever solution. 🙂

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(that fix will be coming to the 'test' build in a couple hours)

blissful kite Dec 23, 2022, 1:43 PM

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And that workaround is now live in the 'test' build.

#Typing } in text box crash the game