Descriptive Problem Summary:
When you use CONTROL_FREAK_MACROS or CONTROL_FREAK_ALL, macros set on .dms files are ignored.
Numbered Steps to Reproduce Problem:
Set client.control_freak to CONTROL_FREAK_MACROS or CONTROL_FREAK_ALL
Define macros on a .dms file
Compile your environment including the .dms file
Try to use the macros you've defined
Fail
Expected Results:
Macros are run
Actual Results:
Macros are ignored
Does the problem occur:
Every time?? Yes
In other games? Yes
In other user accounts? Yes
On other computers? Yes
When does the problem NOT occur? Never
Workarounds: None
ID:2540306
 Jan 27 2020, 6:05 pm
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Jan 27 2020, 8:36 pm
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Lummox JR
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There is a workaround: define macros in the skin file.
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There is no workaround for the .dms to work and still have control_freak on. There are workarounds that don't involve using them. But then there'd be a workaround for everything: just don't use the feature :p
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DMS is deprecated. define your macros in the skin file.
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Investigated further. Apparently the use-case for DMS is that there is no way to declare a macro in a library that gets included in the parent environment since you can only have one skin file.
In this case, I'd call this a bug. | |
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The man made a good case. He convinced me.
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Agreed that this looks like a legit bug rather than a case of deprecation. Once I have a test project to examine I'll get on it.
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The real fix would be letting us use multiple dmf files in a single environment; just merge them together like maps, let the developers worry about conflicts.
Then we could have interface files just for macro sets and the sort. | |
The macro format of interface files is quite a lot easier to deal with, making it fill the niches where dms files are still used for them is a better long-term solution.
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As an update on this bug, I discovered it's not as trivial a fix as I hoped. The problem is the same mechanism that loads .dms macros from the client script (compiled-in .dms) also loads old-style local macros, and can't differentiate between them because of how they're handled. So I need to make some more changes to make this work.
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