Possible Reason for Corrupted Levels

[TingThing]

Hello everyone,


I made an important discovery today that I would like you to be aware of.


You know how you can click the "edit" button and get those red highlights over custom enemies/items/blocks etc.? Those red highlights will take you straight to edit the thing inside Game Setup. Well, apparently if you click on two of those highlights at the same time (for instance, if you have a custom enemy placed on top of a custom sprite, and so the highlights are on top of each other and you click on them both) it can cause a double-save of the level, effectively corrupting the file. When you return to the level it will probably give you an "invalid license" error when clear the entire file, forcing you to load a backup.


I have seen occasional reports of this issue happening, and I just found out one reason why. I will make sure this is fixed in the next update. Until then, be careful about clicking on those red highlights.


Best,
TingThing

[War]

Hello everyone,
I made an important discovery today that I would like you to be aware of.
You know how you can click the "edit" button and get those red highlights over custom enemies/items/blocks etc.? Those red highlights will take you straight to edit the thing inside Game Setup. Well, apparently if you click on two of those highlights at the same time (for instance, if you have a custom enemy placed on top of a custom sprite, and so the highlights are on top of each other and you click on them both) it can cause a double-save of the level, effectively corrupting the file. When you return to the level it will probably give you an "invalid license" error when clear the entire file, forcing you to load a backup.
I have seen occasional reports of this issue happening, and I just found out one reason why. I will make sure this is fixed in the next update. Until then, be careful about clicking on those red highlights.
Best,
TingThing

Thanks, I'd better start using backups from now. But by next update, I suppose you mean the non-beta testers would have to wait for the official release for getting the fix? Just asking that in case you wanted to make a 8.2.3 emergency patch, even tought it would be very complicated since you probably don't do backups of the old versions source code.

[TingThing]

I have some backups of old versions I would have to sort through them to figure out what I could publish. Since there are still automatic backups for all the levels, I will probably focus my efforts on getting 9.0 ready as soon as possible.

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So that explains the corruption!

[War]

I have some backups of old versions I would have to sort through them to figure out what I could publish. Since there are still automatic backups for all the levels, I will probably focus my efforts on getting 9.0 ready as soon as possible.

That's why you should hire a programmer honestly.

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That's why you should hire a programmer honestly.

Agreed.