Re: [Eliot-dev] Some Eliot issues

[Olivier Teuliere]

Hi Joan,

Thanks for reporting these issues, I was not aware of them.
Items #3 and #4 seem particularly bad.

December is going to be a very busy month for me, so I may not have
time to fix them before January. I will try though.

In the meantime, could you provide more information about #5 please:
 - Does it crash before or after creating the game?
 - Do you have a way to reproduce it? Maybe with a specific master game?
 - Does it work to "Load the auto-saved game" after the crash?

And about #6, have you tried setting the LANG environment variable
before starting Eliot from the terminal?

Cheers,
Olivier

On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Joan Montané <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some days ago we (Catalan players community) play an important tournament
> with Eliot as tournament software. Some issues were found when using Eliot.
>
> Note: we use Arbitration (duplicate) mode, using a Master game template, and
> DISC 2.5.12 [1] (Catalan word list)
>
> Issues:
>
> 1. If you need to add manually a move (word and coordinates), because it
> isn't in list of movements (word-coordinates-score), then it's always
> computed as invalid move (0 punts). An easy workarround is set 0 as game
> listing limit, so all moves are computed and listed in move list.
>
> 2. Sometimes, after pressing"Search" button, list of movements is empty. No
> moves are shown. A workarround is type a filter and clear it. Then moves are
> shown in list of movements.
>
> 3. A weird and bad thing (maybe is It related with 1?). In a game 3 players
> play same movement (word, coordinades, score), but Eliot assings different
> scores!? One player gets 46 points, and 2 other players get 0 points! I
> attach game file (Mundial2015-mati-Mancor.eliot). See round 9: PRES 15H
>
> 4. Very close to 3. There were moves zeroed incorrectly. See round 7 of 2n
> attached file (Mundial2015-mati-elPrat.eliot). Round 7, MOCARIA 5D is a
> valid movement, but computed as zero by Eliot. :(
>
> 5. Sometimes, When you create a new game with a Master game Eliot crashes
> (Catalan dictionary, Arbitration mode). I cann't get you any hint. Eliot
> rashes and closes automatically.
>
> 6. Minor issue. I was unable to change language menus on OSX. Neither
> Catalan, Spanish or French. On OSX Eliot only shows menus in English. On
> Linux or Windows I was able to change Eliot language menu.
>
> Issues 1 to 4 are really a problem for us (Catalan community). We are trying
> to promote duplicate scrabble variant, and Eliot is a great tool, but such
> issues are a pitty. I dont' know if these issues are shared by other
> lang/dictionaries, or they are caused by digraphs tiles (French distribution
> are free of them).
>
> Any help?
>
> Yours,
> Joan Montané
>
> [1] http://diccionari.totescrable.cat/versio/eliot.zip
>
>
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Olivier