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RC3: Crash bug - TGB crashes when using a mousebind

by Dennis Harrington · in Torque Game Builder · 06/17/2006 (3:00 pm) · 4 replies

When binding the mouse with this syntax:

moveMap.bindCmd(mouse0, "zaxis", "zoomCamera();", "");

TGB crashes upon use of the mousewheel. (BTW, even if I include a second function in this command it still crashes.) But when using this syntax:

moveMap.bind(mouse0, "zaxis", zoomCamera);

Everything functions as it should. This crash also occurs with RC2.
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Torque Owner J. Alan Atherton
#1
06/17/2006 (3:37 pm)
This is not a bug, it's just incorrect usage. The mousewheel is not a button, it's an axis. So you don't have a press/release, which is what bindCmd is for. Use bind for axes, bindCmd for buttons.

Torque Owner Dennis Harrington
#2
06/17/2006 (3:42 pm)
Regardless of whether it's correct usage, TGB should not be crashing because of incorrect syntax/usage. I've had other experiences where even if a key has been bound incorrectly it didn't crash the entire app. It just threw up on error in the console. That's what this should be doing as well.

Associate Justin DuJardin
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#3
07/18/2006 (9:50 am)
Dennis,

This has been resolved and will be in the 1.1.1 release, thanks for the report!

Cheers,
-Justin

Torque Owner Dennis Harrington
#4
07/18/2006 (10:45 am)
Thanks for fixing this. Even though I now know better, I'm sure new users will be much happier to get an error instead of the app crashing. ;)