Portalborn · published
Hello everyone!
This is a small update that finally finishes a bug that took several attempts to track down.
Fixed: Window layout no longer breaks after logging out
The last patch fixed the layout breaking when you closed and reopened the game. Mr. A (who wishes to remain anonymous) then found the half I'd missed: closing the game with the X button worked, and exiting through Settings worked—but logging out to the character selection screen and entering the game again caused the layout to break all over again. He also noticed something I hadn't: you didn't even need to quit the game for it to happen.
That turned out to be the key.
Returning to the character selection screen follows a different startup path than launching the game from scratch. Along that path, the interface was measuring the game window while it was still hidden, so it recorded the wrong size and never corrected itself afterward.
The bug only affected a fairly specific situation: playing in windowed mode with the interface zoom set larger than the available window space. If you normally play maximized, you would probably never have encountered it, which is a large part of why it took so long to identify.
Both startup paths now behave the same, and your interface layout and zoom settings are now preserved regardless of how you leave and re-enter the game.
Thank You
I also want to publicly thank Mr. A (who wishes to remain anonymous).
This one took four separate bug reports, complete with before-and-after screenshots and even experiments he ran himself using different window sizes.
Three of my theories about what was causing the problem turned out to be wrong.
Each time he came back with another observation that narrowed the search further, and the final one—"I don't even need to quit the game."—was the clue that finally led me to the real cause.
Sometimes the hardest bugs aren't fixed by writing more code—they're fixed by someone making one more careful observation.
Four bug reports, four fixes, and considerably more patience from him than I had any right to expect.
Thank you, Mr. A. Your persistence genuinely made Portalborn better for everyone.