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[orange08]

I hate it when the GM8 sprite editor freezes on me when I try to leave it and save the sprite. (Happened several times now)
That's the only bug I'm aware of.

Edited by orange08, 07 March 2011 - 09:09 PM.

[Dark Matter]

The surface transparency bug. This is extremely annoying.
Here's the topic describing it.
Here's the bug tracker entry
It has also been reported on the YYG bug tracker, but I'm not sure that really gets looked at anymore.


I know you said only 1, but there's one more small one.
Script editor undo bug

Edited by Dark Matter, 07 March 2011 - 09:47 PM.

[Davve]

Random error messages that starts appearing sometimes whenever you move the cursor or click. Not sure if this is such a big problem to others, but it have happened to me a couple of times in the past, and once today.

[ellisvlad]

I'm not sure what causes it, but often, especially after screen resolution changes the pane with all of the sprites/objects/rooms/etc. has the text go partially white, and I have to hover over each item of text to view it, it happens more when lots of groups of objects/sprites are open, any clue as to why this is happening and if we might see a fix?

[Abyssaldemon]

Not sure if its a bug, but it is rather annoying being able to click around outside the script editor when it is open, but when execute code is open you are bound to that box until you click the green check.

[ugriffin]

I don't know if it's because I usually develop on OS X or what, but it seems to me like GM8's filesystem functions are buggy... and don't find what they're supposed to find.

[Big J]

file_text_read_real() Bugs
file_text_read_real() bugs (Game Maker 8.0 only)

The bug report was made for 1 bug, but there are actually 2 bugs:

1. file_text_read_real() skipping zeros.
2. file_text_read_real() not going to next line in the file when reaching the end of the line as seen in previous Game Maker versions. This was undocumented and it breaks compatibility, so it's clearly a bug.

DRM is a big bug, but not a GM bug.

Edited by Big J, 12 March 2011 - 11:15 AM.

[NakedPaulToast]

Does your "one per customer" mean only one bug per person, or one bug per post.

I'm thinking that it's per post so you can take advantage of the reputation as a bug priority, but will accept on bug per person, if that's what you really meant.

I'd also suggest people not +1 right away, all that will do is skew the +1's to the bugs that are posted first making skewing the reputaion towards bugs that are reported first, not bugs that are more important.

Edited by NakedPaulToast, 07 March 2011 - 10:03 PM.

[Rusky]

Surfaces/room transitions in 3D. As demonstrated by the SurfaceFix DLL/extension, it's a rather simple problem to fix.

[Andy]

I hate it when the GM8 sprite editor freezes on me when I try to leave it and save the sprite. (Happened several times now)
That's the only bug I'm aware of.

This, I have lost good work do to this bug, please fix it.

[flexaplex]

When checking collisions against an instance with image_xscale or image_yscale set to 0 the game will freeze. The freeze only occurs when checking collisions against two instances that are actually colliding though.

I know noone cares about this bug but it's easy to fix so :p

By the way:
List of known game maker bugs

Edited by flexaplex, 07 March 2011 - 10:35 PM.

[IceMetalPunk]

I don't remember if this was fixed in GM8 or not (and at the moment I don't have access to GM to check it), but I remember a bug where using draw_line_width_color to draw a 0-length line crashed the game completely. draw_line_width worked fine, as did draw_line_color, but not draw_line_width_color. Obviously, it's simple to work around (check if the length is 0 and don't draw it), but it's still a simple but fatal bug that shouldn't be there.

-IMP

[Docopoper]

The surface bug is due to pre-multiplied alpha on certain nvidia graphics cards if that helps.

my 'Bug':

There is no function to check if a file is open for reading/writing and you get an error if the file is open in another programme as that makes it skip the opening of the file...

[flexaplex]

I don't remember if this was fixed in GM8 or not (and at the moment I don't have access to GM to check it), but I remember a bug where using draw_line_width_color to draw a 0-length line crashed the game completely. draw_line_width worked fine, as did draw_line_color, but not draw_line_width_color. Obviously, it's simple to work around (check if the length is 0 and don't draw it), but it's still a simple but fatal bug that shouldn't be there.

-IMP

Was fixed for GM8.

[paul23]

The surface bug is one of the biggest annoyances in gamemaker.. - The simple fact it is unavoidable on certain is quite a problem. (Even clearing the surface manually, drawing a point & clearing it again produces the bug).
Had to switch to C++ and rewrite the collision system/destructable system for one of my games... (Mike's too quick in bug fixing here) - btw does that option 2 "remove" the background or does it just work like "normal mode"?

@IMP: that bug was fixed already.
@Doco: not sure if this is really a solution, but you can check the result of the file_open commands: if they're negative gm couldn't open them.

Other bug I saw:
When you "search" for an empty string (in the script editor) gamemaker gives an access violation.

Edited by paul23, 07 March 2011 - 11:02 PM.

[ParodyKnaveBob]

Mr. Mike, thanks for opening another "what can we fix" topic.

EDIT: Awesome quick fix for that surface bug--good job, and thank you! $:^ ]

Since you put "bug" in quotes, I'll suggest not a bug per se but something that should be easily fixable: Some areas of the manual are not very clear at all--and on a similar note, some actions in GM use language inconsistent with the manual (and GM's concepts in general). I can mention custom transitions (for which torigara created a wonderful tutorial in which he aptly stated that the manual does document it, but crams way too little information under one condensed function description), but a more important issue is objects and instances. For some reason, I recall earlier manuals trying to describe the difference between abstract "chair" and an actual chair in the room, but I don't see this in the manual now; however, the description could still use a good illustration, like an object being a blueprint for a chair, and an instance being the chair--no matter how many chairs you create or modify or destroy, it doesn't affect the original blueprint, but if you destroy the blueprint, then you can't create any more of those chairs (or of course if you modify it, you build a new, different kind of chair each time). (Using a consistent illustration like that throughout the manual should help remove many questions that get asked, especially for when people use object_add() and object_delete() in completely the wrong manner.)

And little details like this don't help matters:
Test Instance Count
text in window: If the number of instances is a value
text in tooltip: if number of objects obj_name is Equal to 0

I don't mean to write so much (in light of the thread's rules), but I wanted to express something tangible in relation to the short version: The manual's great for the most part (in my opinion), but it could use some serious editing in a good few places, preferably by a native speaker/writer of the language. And if GM's various action text could be more descriptive and consistent, then more power to ya. $:^ J Hm, I feel that un/documented deprecated functions sticking around version after version are a related issue (in the sense that they also cause many unnecessary confusions/questions asked on the forums), but you may feel that's stretching into multiple issues. $:^ ]

Either way, many regards,

Edited by ParodyKnaveBob, 07 March 2011 - 11:22 PM.

[Docopoper]

@paul23
Wow, the manual needs an update, I've been using GM for 7 years and I didn't know that...

@mike
I don't think the all alpha = 255 is the problem: I'm fairly sure that pre-multiplied alpha is causing the problem (I have researched this quite a bit because is is exceedingly annoying) - If you can't see why this may be then look at this - it perfectly explains the problem:

http://gmc.yoyogames...pic=474273&st=0

Example gmk: (post 6 in link above )
www.messy-mind.net/temporary/premultiplied.gmk

Edited by Docopoper, 07 March 2011 - 11:26 PM.