Create a "Submit Score" Button

Started by Jean-Bob

Jean-Bob Lv 1

hi, not sure if i must place this under suggestion or bug but here goes.
i have been pretty annoyed by a recent story of bad luck: the MDF in my town is saturated, so my connection is unreliable and i am frequently and randomly disconnected. the button to reconnect to chat is cool (for some at least), but scores are not submitted. i've been ranked 78 on puzzle 642 with a score of 10,672 when in fact my score was 10,913 like 4 hours before the closing of the puzzle. what that score tells me is that my score hasn't been updated once in at least 24 hours though the notification icon was green and the game thought i was (re)connected to the chats. i'm not sure of what i precisely want, either or all:

  • when we reconnect to the chats, scores are force submitted
  • when we have a new best score, send score and change notification icon to red if impossible (i don't understand why it stayed green)
  • have a submit score button
    thanks for giving a thought to that case

Bletchley Park Lv 1

I have had TWO clients die on me because the light shines nicely green, no scores are updated, clicking the light kills the client. changing this to a BUG.

tamirh Lv 1

looking into this. were there any particular circumstances you've noticed for when it crashes when you try to reconnect?

Jean-Bob Lv 1

as i'm using a peculiar configuration i'm not sure i can be of any help (devprev windows version running on ubuntu through wine). if the game thinks i'm connected while i'm not and i ask for some connection needing feat like opening the solutions window or changing puzzle, it hangs.

Jean-Bob Lv 1

argh, no edit button. don't know if this still happens on new devprev. passive connection needing feats (well i guess they are) like new high score, game rankings didn't make the game hanging/crashing. i've not tried all active ones but i suspect they're all crashing sources

Bletchley Park Lv 1

Nothing in particular, no.

Some of the errors found in the log:

Warning: Unable to locate database file scoring/score_functions/SecondaryStructurePotential/phi.theta.36.HS.resmooth
Error: ERROR: Database file open failed for:
Warning: Unable to locate database file scoring/score_functions/SecondaryStructurePotential/phi.theta.36.SS.resmooth
Error: ERROR: Database file open failed for:

and

SRVR_THRD error: Error: database returned invalid result at time 1351728177 (......\rosetta_source\src\game\application\novice\boinc\Boinc.cc:445)

and

SRVR_THRD error: Bad bool format for Online: ''. (......\rosetta_source\src\interactive\util\Dictionary.cc:247)

and

SRVR_THRD error: Transferred a partial file: Error contacting server. (......\rosetta_source\src\game\application\novice\boinc\Boinc.cc:86)

and

SRVR_THRD error: failed to open/read local data from file/application: Error contacting server. (......\rosetta_source\src\game\application\novice\boinc\Boinc.cc:86)

and

SRVR_THRD error: Error: database returned invalid result at time 1351728139 (......\rosetta_source\src\game\application\novice\boinc\Boinc.cc:445)

Hanto Lv 1

In my case the client doesn't crash,it stalls instead, forcing me to load up another client which generally takes care of the issue, at least for a while. Also assuming the new client loads up properly my scores are updated very rapidly and I do use the minBW option.
It seems that 3 buttons ( reconnect/disconnect/send-score )are being asked for. I guess on non-active clients a send-score button would be okay for those who worry about such things. However for the sake of active internal IRC clients, I would rather see the reconnect/disconnect buttons, as they should cycle the connection if suspicion exists about said connection and in my case at least if the connection is re-established, updated scores soon follow…