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The Black Box: reloaded again

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[ March 12, 2008: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]
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Nice. For what it's worth, there's a glitch in this when I use Opera - the marker doesn't appear in the region I click on (though it does appear at the exit point).
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Odd, what version of Opera are you using? I tested on Opera 9.26 (OS X) and all seems fine.
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Opera 9.26 running on Windows 2000.
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Weird. I brought up XP in Parallels and installed Opera 9.26. During the first run of the game, I saw the same symptoms: the initial port of a detour did not get its marker. Subsequent runs of the game functioned correctly.

Does your instance ever start acting correctly?
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Hm, now it seems kind of random. I tried restarting Opera, and it worked correctly for several attempts, then incorrectly on one. Tested some more and, well, sometimes it works, sometimes not. I don't notice any pattern.
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It's strange that Opera on OS X is completely well-behaved, but only the Windows version is exhibiting this issue. And non-deterministically at that.

And it's not like I'm doing anything hinky -- the image swap is triggered by simply adding a CSS class that changes the background image.
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Firefox on Ubuntu - I can place a few guesses and then after that the guesses are placed (per the message window) but the markers never show up.
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Dang, I had someone running Ubuntu test this and they said it worked fine. Guess the CSS implementations in the browsers aren't as robust as I had hoped. I may have to resort to less elegant ways of effecting the image changes. drat.
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I got a red ball on a red (direct hit) ray. Why would it do so? Can't paste an image here.
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Remember that a ray can bounce around inside the matrix. If at any point it runs head on into a ball, it will be counted as a "hit".

If you do feel that the game is in error (the Game Engine is entirely new so it's not out of the question), please send me an image of the final board at the email address on the Welcome Page of the game.
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I got it. The ray did bounce and hit another ball at 180. Thank you,
it's a fun game!
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Too cool!

P.S. My co-worker -- now addicted to the game -- using Ubuntu and Firefox reports no problems, Gregg, is the problem intermittent or easily reproducible?
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