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carlfoxmartenSo I tried working on my Tetris-Power project again, only to find out why I'd dropped it last time: It was full of bugs.
(if it was literally full of bugs, it'd be easier to fix)
Something I'd done when upgrading the font system seems to have caused major bugs to show up elsewhere in the code, and even rolling back the font system doesn't seem to have fixed everything.
I'm racking my brains trying to find out what the problem could possibly be, but I'm not having much success just yet.
If I can remember how, I'll try to roll it back several versions to see where I went wrong, but chances aren't so good that it'll be that easy to fix.
(plus, there are some beneficial changes I've made since then, so there's no telling if I'll be able to undo all the damage I've done to it)
Though if I can't get anywhere with this, I'd hesitate a lot before I rewrite the whole thing from scratch...
(maybe I'll remember to put in more debug stuff and lots more comments)
Incidentally, I'm starting to work on my graduation application so I can get out of university for a bit.
Currently, I'm working on an appeal to use an arts course for one of my liberal arts credits, and need to find information dating all the way back to the Spring of 2005, which was less than a year after I got my very first "proper" computer, which means that I didn't have a good system set up for making backups.
(I'd had an old 286 with 1MB of RAM running Windows 3.11 and something like MS-DOS 6, so an upgrade to Windows 98SE was a huge jump)
However, I've still found time to try fixing Kathy's site under Internet Explorer (after about six months to a year, that is), and I just might be onto something, I'm just not sure if it works completely.
(if it was literally full of bugs, it'd be easier to fix)
Something I'd done when upgrading the font system seems to have caused major bugs to show up elsewhere in the code, and even rolling back the font system doesn't seem to have fixed everything.
I'm racking my brains trying to find out what the problem could possibly be, but I'm not having much success just yet.
If I can remember how, I'll try to roll it back several versions to see where I went wrong, but chances aren't so good that it'll be that easy to fix.
(plus, there are some beneficial changes I've made since then, so there's no telling if I'll be able to undo all the damage I've done to it)
Though if I can't get anywhere with this, I'd hesitate a lot before I rewrite the whole thing from scratch...
(maybe I'll remember to put in more debug stuff and lots more comments)
Incidentally, I'm starting to work on my graduation application so I can get out of university for a bit.
Currently, I'm working on an appeal to use an arts course for one of my liberal arts credits, and need to find information dating all the way back to the Spring of 2005, which was less than a year after I got my very first "proper" computer, which means that I didn't have a good system set up for making backups.
(I'd had an old 286 with 1MB of RAM running Windows 3.11 and something like MS-DOS 6, so an upgrade to Windows 98SE was a huge jump)
However, I've still found time to try fixing Kathy's site under Internet Explorer (after about six months to a year, that is), and I just might be onto something, I'm just not sure if it works completely.
