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jakery

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Friendly Error Messages upon freezes

Sometimes I freeze at the splash screen, or at the "trying to load world" screen. I'm left wondering if the thing is ever going to load or if it's frozen indefinitely. If something's wrong and EE can't load, display an error message explaining that there was a problem. It's much better than leaving us in the dark.

Pawlowic

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Re: Friendly Error Messages upon freezes

Agreed. Also,it should be like this "There has been an error . . . Return to lobby?

BillyP

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Re: Friendly Error Messages upon freezes

I agree with this.

Also, as Pawlowic mentioned, a 'Return to lobby' button on the 'Trying to load world' screen would allow players to choose another world to play without having to refresh the page.

Betaguy

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Re: Friendly Error Messages upon freezes

Omg I was just to say what Pawlowic said

NikK

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Re: Friendly Error Messages upon freezes

I agree with/like this thread

JadElClemens

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Re: Friendly Error Messages upon freezes

But if the game is frozen/can't load, how is it going to load an error message?

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Onjit

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Re: Friendly Error Messages upon freezes

But if the game is frozen/can't load, how is it going to load an error message?

LOL
how true

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jakery

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Re: Friendly Error Messages upon freezes

But if the game is frozen/can't load, how is it going to load an error message?

If a program you write is freezing, you find out what causes the freeze and code in a fix. If a freeze comes with a thrown error, and it's not some kind of program loop bug (infinite while loop/stack overflow) your fix looks like this:

try{ //code to load lobby } catch (error) { //code to display an error message to the user if the lobby failed to load. }

If it's not a thrown error, then it's "if/else" or "switch:case" to detect a load failure, and code to display an error message.

You'll be quizzed on Friday.

Last edited by jakery (Apr 25 2011 7:27:53 am)

Cyclopsicle

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Re: Friendly Error Messages upon freezes

mhmm

Pike270

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Re: Friendly Error Messages upon freezes

You guys having a case of this?

Pike270 wrote:

I have the same problem with my great world. Heres a solution:

To get past this you need to make sure your logged in. Open 3 tabs with the Direct Level Link in the URL. 1-2 of the tabs will load successfully load.

-For Kongregate Users: Use the above method. Then in a 4th tab go on Kongregate and enter your room from Kongregate.

NOTE: You may have to change the name of your level temporarily to get it to appear in the lobby.

NOTE 2 If you do not haveyour level link open 3 tabs with the lobby and ener your room with all three simultaniously. At least 1 tab will load. don't forget to retrieve your level's link.

jakery

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Re: Friendly Error Messages upon freezes

You guys having a case of this?

Pike270 wrote:

I have the same problem with my great world. Heres a solution:

To get past this you need to make sure your logged in. Open 3 tabs with the Direct Level Link in the URL. 1-2 of the tabs will load successfully load.

-For Kongregate Users: Use the above method. Then in a 4th tab go on Kongregate and enter your room from Kongregate.

NOTE: You may have to change the name of your level temporarily to get it to appear in the lobby.

NOTE 2 If you do not haveyour level link open 3 tabs with the lobby and ener your room with all three simultaniously. At least 1 tab will load. don't forget to retrieve your level's link.

Edit: Erm, it's happening this morning, but I'm not going to get into it here because this is Game Suggestions. I'll post my new wild theories in Bug Reports later.

Last edited by jakery (Apr 25 2011 7:30:04 am)