The great game, but fix ERROR please!

[Fervore]

Hello,

the other day I bought this game and suddenly price changed from $1.9 to $9.9 somehow thus I spent 5 times more :( The game is great, so I'm happy playing it.

BUT there is a very objectionable error:
sometimes valid solutions are marked red if "highlight errors immediately" is unchecked. I'm suprised because game is from 2009 and error is rather simple.
(Screenshots are here http://img9.imageshack.us/i/errordn.jpg/ )


Another annoying thing is autostepping when marking candidates wrong. It is normal to hide numbers that are set, but no smart moves (with errors, see image above)...

Fix this error please...

[lmdemasi]

The deleting of all the 3,4 in one cage is caused if you hold Shift while pressing right-click. Maybe your shift key was being pressed when you tried to remove the 3,4 from the top.

[Fervore]

The deleting of all the 3,4 in one cage is caused if you hold Shift while pressing right-click.

Thank you for reply.

I have no shift actually pressed, but the game may had other opinion. Moreover I had no problem in eliminating other candidates and problems repeats because I had enough time to take all screenshots.


I tried to replay this level now and had no error, but during playtime I notice similar errors occasionally (and checking "highlight errors immediately" always helps but I do not like it).

[TwRecks]

The problem is actually with the Steam overlay acting with the game, not the game itself. If you open the overlay and then close it by clicking the highlighted text at the top, ingame will act like the shift key is being held down all the time, leading to the behavior you noticed. If you close the overlay with shift+tab, things work normally. So no telling if the problem is on Steam's code, the game's, or both. The solution is easy enough though; just use shift+tab to close the overlay instead of clicking the text, and you'll have no problems. Good luck!

[KHarward]

The problem is actually with the Steam overlay acting with the game, not the game itself. If you open the overlay and then close it by clicking the highlighted text at the top, ingame will act like the shift key is being held down all the time, leading to the behavior you noticed. If you close the overlay with shift+tab, things work normally. So no telling if the problem is on Steam's code, the game's, or both. The solution is easy enough though; just use shift+tab to close the overlay instead of clicking the text, and you'll have no problems. Good luck!

TwRecks for the win! That's usually what's happening here. If you accidentally hit the key to bring up the Steam interface within the game, the game ends up thinking that the shift key is down. And single elimination clicks can count as cage-elimination clicks (yielding the results reported above).

Thanks for handling this one TwRecks. You all have good memories :-)

Ken

[cwangersky]

A second way of fixing this, of course, is to hit Shift (I usually do both of them) after leaving the Steam overlay.

I don't know if it is something that can be fixed easily. What is happening is this: Your keyboard sends a signal when you press a key, and another when you release a key. The game sees the Shift key pressed, of course, because it is watching for it; it does not see the shift key released, because that happens while the overlay is active, and the overlay is then in charge of the keyboard. If you close the overlay by clicking the highlight text, there is no "Shift key released" signal for the game to see, unless you then hit Shift again and release it.

It is possible for the game to read the shift status, of course, but it would slow things down a lot for it to be doing that all the time. If the game could register with the overlay for notifications of when the overlay comes up and goes away, it could then read the shift status as the overlay closes, to resync itself with the keyboard... but I don't program in that area and I don't know if that's possible.

[turgon_pt]

This exact same error happens with Tidalis.

The first time I played that game I couldn't do anything because the Steam overlay caused the Shift key to be pressed, thus sending me into another mode. I thought the game had a bug and wouldn't work for me until I saw a user with the same problem being told to simply press Shift again.