Yves: TextBlitter object balloon bug (small one)

[Patrick]

Altough i know that the TB has serval bugs that will not be fixed, this bug i point out is really making the object useless and should be easy to fix. It has todo with a wrong offset calculation.

I attached an example.

(To find other bugs, just run the examples in the MMF dir, you will notice that some display glitches which do not occure when running in MMF1.5, but that is not what this post is about.)

Please fix the balloon offset/clipping bug :'(

[Patrick]

Here is the same example but using solid colors in the character-imagemap to clarify the bug. (look at the blue)

[Patrick]

is this going to be fixed?

[Yves]

It has been added to the todo/tocheck list.

[Patrick]

When can i/we expect an update where this is fixed?

[Yves]

I've absolutely no idea.

[Patrick]

Assuming i would be needing this object fixed by December... what is CT/me gonne do about it? i wouldnt want to push anybody, but what is important is that on release of my computer game all bugs have to be fixed. Actualy i think that will be somewhere in 2008, not december... but im asking now because it would be rude to extend the release of my game with XX months because of this. Altough it is my choice to use the object... but then again, i kinda rely on what MMF offers, expecting it to be functional.

[Yves]

Have you tried to contact directly the author of this object?

[Patrick]

Hello Yves. No i have not. That may be a good idea. I assumed ClickTeam had takenover the project of Christopher. I will try and contact him. Thank you.

[Patrick]

This is what Marcello replied...

The extension is no longer supported by Cellosoft, so your best bet is to try the Clickteam forums at www.clickteam.com. They took ownership of the source many years ago.

That is what i thought. So this brings me back at ClickTeam.
To be honest, even tough i dont know a thing about C++ i wouldnt mind looking into this myself (the sourcecode) because its just a matter of fixing offset positions which basicly is nothing more then changing or adding or substracting X from/to an existing value.