KGS Bugs

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This page can be used to file bug reports about anything which is KGS related. Usually it will be the client. When filing bugs, please make sure that you include enough information so that it is possible to reproduce the bug. This is usually easiest if you explain step by step what you did, what happened, and what you expected to happen.

Please do not post bugs from beta tests here. I often do not check here while working hard on getting a release ready, so posting bugs here means that they probably will not be fixed before release. Please email them to wms@igoweb.org as requested in the beta test info.

General Info

The [ext] Jago bug report checklist is a useful guide for filing bug reports.

Version gathering tips

To see fixed bugs go to /Fixed.

Please, do not enter wishes here. Instead go to KGS Wishlist.

Barthoze: To help beta testing of future versions, I'm preparing a KGS features and behaviour list, that also gives the expectable behaviour of the client/server.

If anyone has an idea how to put order into this page, it would be appreciated :)

Editorial question

wms: Should I remove things that simply are not bugs from this page? There are a bunch. In the wishlist, I never remove things no matter what I think of them, but here maybe I should?

Cheyenne: If the bug has been fixed and is not likely to be seen again, it should be okay to remove the bug report. May want to have a section for "Bugs currently known" and a section "Working as designed" for those things that are commonly reported as a bug

wms: OK, it's been 24 hours. Here I go. :-) I removed all non-bugs, all bugs I fixed, and bugs that I'm fairly sure are caused by a user's particular system. Some of the bugs removed are not yet in any release, but I'm taking them out anyway.

rubilia: Is this referred to as the ladder ones will be fixed in future, anyway? It feels somewhat confusing to know of bugs being mentioned neither here nor at /Fixed, although still appearing. Supposedly, you don't want us to report them again?

wms: Yes, I probably should have put them in the "fixed" file. Sorry. If you know a bug was here before, please do not re-file, either I don't consider it a bug (in which case it belongs in the wishlist) or else I have already fixed it.

KGS and CGoban2

Unsorted


Ansgar?: cgoban doesn't handle the AB/AW properties correctly. Try the following sgf:

 (;FF[4]GM[1]AP[Firefox:0.8]SZ[9]AB[aa:ac];AW[ba:bd][ad])

In the second node, the black stones in the corner are removed, although the sgf standard says: "Adding a stone doesn't make any prisoners nor any other captures (e.g. suicide). Thus it's possible to create illegal board positions."

 java version "1.4.2_04"
 Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_04-b05)
 Java HotSpot?(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_04-b05, mixed mode)

I also noticed that F6 brings the 'Help' button into focus (a magenta rectangle appears around the word Help). F8 has no visible effect. If there's anything else I could do to see what causes that situation - write on my homepage lest I forget to check this page.




Localization

(Sebastian:) In German, "forfeited" is translated as "ungültig". This actually means "invalid", which confuses people when they're faced with escapers. A better translation would be "verwirkt".

KGS Plus

Repeat credentials

(Sebastian:) When signing up, I had to enter my user name and password three times and my CC information twice. I hope I'm not billed twice - please check. (I'm using IE 6.0.2900.2149.xpsp_sp2_rc2.040610-1520)

License Agreement Display

(Sebastian:) There seems to be no schema assigned to the license agreement. When I click on the link to read it, it downloads it, and no schema with it, so IE has to display it in its default view.

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

And if your client (like MSIE) does not understand XHTML, it starts with:

 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
 <html>

Either way, the appropriate DTD is clearly marked. If you find invalid HTML or XHTML on a web page of mine, please email me about it, I will fix it.

(Sebastian:) It starts like your first option. I'm not sure how it's supposed to look, but IE displays it in its default way, with all the tags showing, as if it couldn't access the DTD. I'll send you a screenshot.


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