Change in version 1.4.0.2
Features Added
- Application install and uninstall support
- Ignore button on msgbox window
- Score window was slimed down and a new places window was added
- Random reordering of robots before every game
- New cleareventvar command to reset event triggers
- Registry is automatically cleared if RB crashes
- Reload button in new match window
- Loaded robots count in new match window
- Computers with IE4 can now run Robot Battle
- Better error message when display adapter is set wrong
- If a robot had an error when reloaded by RB in slow disk reload mode the game could crash
- When more than 16 robots were loaded the energy and score windows would not sort in ascending order when the game was paused
- When locked, the robot selection combo remained disabled when a new match was started
- RB would not run on WinNT 4 SP3
- In rare cases RB could crash on exit
- Loaded robots could not be moved by less than 33 because they overlapped themselves
- After restarting a match, stored variables were not reset to zero
- The "fast scanning" technique was off by 10 degrees
- _dtcbearing system variable was always zero
- Score window was unusabley slow with large matches (20 or more bots loaded). *This was only improved not completely fixed.
- RB crashed when the inspector window was closed (IE4 only)
- Score and energy windows showed html code (IE4 only)
- Score and energy windows had a broken image instead of the sort arrow (IE4 only)
- Repeated calls to MsgBox could make it difficult to end or pause a match
- Redraw problems when the score or energy window overlapped the arena and was then closed (DX5 only)
- Robot selection dropdown list could cause redraw problems
- Once the arena was filled, expanding it did not allow more robots to be added
- Changing display color depth or resolution while RB was running caused it to crash
- Hitting tab or shift-tab to move between controls in match setup did not select text
- Hitting enter when certain controls had focus in the match setup dialog did not start the match
- Hitting escape when certain controls had focus in the match setup dialog did not exit the dialog
- When removing robots from the middle or top of the match setup list the robot info was not updated
