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Commented Issue: Error Creating a DirectDraw Surface [10579]

BrettEden — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:40:47 GMT

It's throwing this exception when I run it in Vista x64:

Created Issue: Managed DirectX dll not working in Windows 7 x64

shiften — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:33:05 GMT

Both the 2.0 release and the most recent code base (35111) refuse to work in Windows 7 (x64) complaining about being unable to load the DirectX 7 COM DLL. I did try compiling it in x86 CPU mode.

Commented Issue: Error Creating a DirectDraw Surface

JBoman — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:49:32 GMT

It's throwing this exception when I run it in Vista x64:
Comments: ** Comment from web user: JBoman **

The client crashed straight away in Windows 7 64-bit. Set WIndows XP SP2 compatibility but no joy.

Any workaround for this?

Commented Issue: Error Creating a DirectDraw Surface

Tyren — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:01:46 GMT

It's throwing this exception when I run it in Vista x64:
Comments: ** Comment from web user: Tyren **

You should consider migrating to XNA.

Created Issue: Adding organism results in "Dead organisms can't move" exception message

timerickson — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:34:00 GMT

Adding any organism in either Terrarium or Ecosystem mode results in "Dead organisms can't move" error message.

This message arises when, in the InitializeNewState method of both PlantSpecies and AnimalSpecies, an attempt is made to IncreaseRadiusTo a value when StoredEnergy == 0. This method and many others throw an Exception if attempts are made to change OrganismState properties while IsAlive == false. This includes the setter for EnergyState. EnergyState is initialized to the default of 0, so there is a chicken-and-egg problem.

Created Task: Move codebase to .NET 4.0 platform

bsimser — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:56:56 GMT

Yup, time to get off the pot and update this to the latest and greatest. Breaking changes as it'll break any existing organisms but it has to happen for the sake of progress (and to get off the legacy codebase once and for all)

Created Issue: Rebuild web services using WCF

bsimser — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:54:50 GMT

The existing web services were built pre-1.1 days. Time to rewrite them as WCF services for the .NET 4.0 platform.

Commented Issue: Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: '44011' Key being added: '44011'

kkdf2 — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:09:39 GMT

im getting this issue a lot, if i try to check if it contains the error is pass to the next function, so checking if the key exists or not was not the solution: this at

SortOrganismsForDisease...
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.
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if (!((AnimalSpecies) organismState.Species).IsCarnivore)
{
if (animalsToKill.Contains(speciesName))
{
addList = (SortedList) animalsToKill[speciesName];
}
else
{
addList = new SortedList();
animalsToKill.Add(speciesName, addList);
}

addList.Add(strength, organismState); ///// <- Exception here
}
Comments: ** Comment from web user: kkdf2 **

Hi.
I also encounter this problem oftenly. And Terrarium gets terminated due to Exception.

It may cause when over 400 creatures are in the terrarium.

Sorry. I don't know how to solve it.

Commented Issue: Rebuild web site and services

SocalSam — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:56:19 GMT

The web site code is horrible (it was built on 1.1) so looking at rebuilding both the website and web services.

The website would be rewritten using ASP MVC instead of Web Forms. This would make things more "discoverable" and provide "personal" pages for each bug (e.g. http://www.terrariumserver.com/bugs/mybug/stats)

The web services could be redone using WCF which should provide some more features (encryption, compression come to mind but maybe others).
Comments: ** Comment from web user: SocalSam **

How about insects instead of bugs, for software it might be confusing.

Created Issue: Rebuild web site and services

bsimser — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:24:45 GMT

Commented Issue: Feature Request: Would like to partition the terrariums so that lower quality creatures can compete

bsimser — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:21:11 GMT

One of the things I didn't like about the old terrarium was that once a few well-designed creatures were released into the wild, they tended to dominate all of the ecosystems. This was great for competition and incentive to innovate, but I found it a bit off putting when starting out with terrarium. I'd like to see terrarium add different partitions, like "beginner", "intermediate", and "expert" ecosystems, and a mechanism to have particular creatures "win" in an ecosystem level and then get banned so they need to participate in a higher level, so that newcomers can try their hand at competing in the beginner level against other beginners.

I suppose that a beginner would want to be able to submit creatures at any level, but expert organisms would get banned from lower levels (and enter some kind of hall of fame with stats for that level).
Comments: ** Comment from web user: bsimser **

Interesting idea. I'm not sure how you can determine a "win" scenario (other than complete domination of the ecosystem). Also not sure how the levels would differ in creature design (development is development is development after all). Maybe you only get 50 points for beginner, 75 for intermediate and 100 for advanced (plus the restrictions you mention about expert organisms not being able to participate in lower level ecosystems). A big topic that needs some thought around it's features, but a great idea!

Created Issue: Feature Request: Would like to partition the terrariums so that lower quality creatures can compete

NetSplinter — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:19:24 GMT

Closed Issue: WebChart assembly fix not in Source Code

bsimser — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:35:45 GMT

The issue was fixed in the server zip was not fixed in the source zip.

Commented Issue: WebChart assembly fix not in Source Code

bsimser — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:35:36 GMT

The issue was fixed in the server zip was not fixed in the source zip.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: bsimser **

This is fixed in changeset 23297 and higher.

Commented Issue: Error Creating a DirectDraw Surface

andress — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:36:17 GMT

It's throwing this exception when I run it in Vista x64:
Comments: ** Comment from web user: andress **

...following up on my attempt to change the Renderer assembly to use DirectX 9, it turned out too involved for a Saturday project, so after 4-5 hours I dropped the effort altogether. I guess I got a bit overconfident :-}

Commented Issue: Error Creating a DirectDraw Surface

andress — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:58:41 GMT

It's throwing this exception when I run it in Vista x64:
Comments: ** Comment from web user: andress **

Hey all. A comment on the project's home page like "Vista users click here..." pointing to this work item would be helpful. Would save a few of us some research time (nothing bad with research...hehe). Will try the DX9 upgrade myself, we'll see.

Created Issue: Target animal disappeared.

Pepepaco — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:16:31 GMT

for some reason, the targetAnimal != Null return false, when im sure it isn't, so bug keep searching for new targets. i tested on others carnivores i found on internet and same issue, im still not so sure if it could be a logic problem. but i could not find a way for my carnivore to stick to one target.

regards.

p.d.
i wonder if there is a list of all know issues so i can stop spamming this forum :P

Commented Task: Use strongly typed collections

christian_b — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:18:01 GMT

The system uses ArrayList as it was originally created before generics and List<T>. The aim would be to move towards using IEnumerable<T> and generics where possible to create a more descriptive codebase.

Note: Some methods in OrganismBase like Scan() return ArrayList so this might be a breaking change to user created organisms.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: christian_b **

I believe that this move could greatly enhance the coop between other .NET languages such as F#. For example, I managed to create a simple plant and herbivore with F# but a more complex type is not possible due to a security violation, which I believe comes from what is generated by F# under covers - Until know I could not track that error down to its root cause.

Created Issue: Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: '44011' Key being added: '44011'

Pepepaco — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:51:01 GMT

Commented Issue: Error Creating a DirectDraw Surface

kfinke — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:24:25 GMT

It's throwing this exception when I run it in Vista x64:
Comments: ** Comment from web user: kfinke **

I have Vista64. I copied the DLLs (the dx7vb.dll and dx8vb.dll were COM, I put them in a folder under my project and ran regsrv32. The other appeared to not be COM, so I copied it to system32.) It got a little farther, but still died. I ended up changing the Platform under Build options to x86 for both the Renderer project and the Terrarium project. Appears to be working!