b188

I made a mistake when fixing the bug for initializing bonuses of the ‘gains’ type. I only checked one of the two bits that I needed to check, and the less important one at that <ugh>. Unfortunately, that resulted in breaking a different set of bonuses, primarily with modifiers. That is now fixed. I’m sorry about that.

b186

Re-implemented some of the super-effort stuff I was working on, to better reflect intended usage.

Added IsHidden() function to GCATrait, which returns True if the trait is tagged to be hidden, False if not.

Made a small change in the process used to load characters, which should remove some calculations when assigning child items to their parents. Since there is a full recalculation made once the character is loaded, this should not affect any utility, just decrease loading times a bit for lots of child items.

There was a bug in correctly initializing bonuses loaded from saved characters, when those characters used gains bonuses (“to me from X” style). This bug could cause an issue that resulted in any such bonus causing an endless loop. That is now fixed.

b185

I added an error trap in the Info Pane code that looks for page numbers so that it change the mouse pointer to a hand over them. A user reported an issue that seemed to be caused by this, and I don’t know why. This trap will avoid crashing GCA in that circumstance, but the pointer won’t get changed to a hand if the error trap is triggered.

I added a new option to never even try changing the pointer to a hand over page numbers.

It’s possible to input illegal (control) characters into various fields in GCA. I’ve created a routine to strip those out during field validation, and I’m integrating it into the data entry fields. There are a lot of those, so I’ve focused on the ones most likely to recieve pasted text. Note that I can’t sanitize RTF boxes the same way, as the RTF control automatically escapes those special characters, so they’ll still be there in some form but hopefully shouldn’t break anything. (These places should be getting cleaned data now: Edit Traits, Advanced Edit, Edit Modes, Add Tag, Gen Info Box, Appearance, Campaign Log.)

I’ve added a check to the AddChild routine of GCATrait, which double checks that the child being added doesn’t have a key matching the parent it’s being asked to be added to. This should never actually be possible through normal operation, but could potentially happen if someone manually edits things in a save file or otherwise alters data externally. So this check should discard the AddChild operation. *NOTE* that this check being triggered likely means other data in the program will be broken!

b184

Updated the attack selection criteria for the Unified Attack boxes so that hidden traits will be valid selections if Show Hidden is On.

Some minor updates to BBCodeEngine.

Slightly adjusted some of the _bw versions of trait icons due to layer issues.

I’ve made some adjustments to the code that applies sizing logic to the body location boxes on the Protection body image graphic. The boxes now have a smaller minimum height, which should work better for most characters.

Added support for Super-Effort Carry to the Move & Encumbrance boxes.

Added scaling of very large carry weights through ton (t), kiloton (Kt), and megaton (Mt).

Added some scaling for attribute scores over 1M when drawing them to character lists, so they’ll show as M values.

Added to the Edit Traits dialog some features for setting an attribute to appear in the main attribute list or to appear in the Additional Attribute list. (Additional Attribute’s are primarily used with sheets.)

I’ve added Super-Effort Lift as well as the Super-Effort Thr and Super-Effort Sw damages to General Info blocks, when those features are available.

I’ve added a checkbox for Metric next to Character In Play on General Info blocks, to make metric characters easier to use.

* GCA Prime Sheet

This sheet, formerly known as Angry Owl Sheet, is now the GCA Prime Sheet, and will be a new sheet bundled with GCA. Included here for the first time.