Life tag testing

[rowett]

Build 394 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• added new Margolus THEME
• added new Margolus alias

Fixes in this build:

• fixed a tile boundary issue with Margolus rule

This build is a Release Candidate.

[rowett]

Build 395 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• removed close UI button from PopUp Viewer now window close button works
• switch to Pan mode when Population Graph is turned on (since it's not visible in Draw or Select mode)

Fixes in this build:

• improved touch event handling
• fixed scrolling help list on mobile devices

This build is a Release Candidate.

[dvgrn]

Looks like some recent build must have made Internet Explorer unhappy. The wiki shows a blank black-background LifeViewer for a moment, then just blankness when you try to interact with it.

Regular

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 patterns in the forums on Internet Explorer are fine until you click "Show in Viewer", but then they reset the view to the top of the page.

[rowett]

Looks like some recent build must have made Internet Explorer unhappy.

Just fixed it. I'll release it shortly.

[rowett]

Build 396 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• the PopUp Viewer Close button is back and now has a red background
• Margolus patterns now use GRIDMAJOR 2 for all Themes except Custom
• added a new alias

Fixes in this build:

• fixed Margolus even generation tile issue
• LifeViewer was broken on IE

This build is a Release Candidate.

[dvgrn]

Build 396 is now available on the lazyslug server...

Just noticed something odd about Build 396, from trying to open an oversized pattern in an old thread.

For a while, clicking on Show in Viewer for that pattern was making an empty LifeViewer pop up, with no error messages. But now it just seems to be incorrectly redirecting to "http://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=18715#" instead of displaying LifeViewer at all. This is happening on Chrome this time, not IE.

[rowett]

Just noticed something odd about Build 396, from trying to open an oversized pattern in an old thread

This has been fixed for the next build. Nice catch

[rowett]

Build 397 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• fixed capitalisation on error messages
• fixed crash on attempting to load patterns that are too big

This build is a Release Candidate.

[rowett]

Build 398 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• fixed an issue where sometimes touch events were deferring clicks

This build is a Release Candidate.


Build 399 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• Settings menu now has Pattern section
  • Rule (hotkey Alt+"R") prompts for a new rule
  • Save (hotkey Ctrl+"S") saves the current pattern as RLE to the source document node
  • Load (hotkey Ctrt+"O") loads the last saved pattern from the source document node

This build is a Release Candidate.

[rowett]

Any special requests for Build 400?

[dvgrn]

Any special requests for Build 400?

Hmm, can't think of anything offhand -- especially since if recent history is any guide, you'll be on to Build 401 before there's very much time to savor Build 400.

There was a regression bug that started bugging me a few weeks ago, but now it seems to have gone away again. Did you re-fix anything having to do with STOP not working when the stop time wasn't a multiple of the step size?

[rowett]

... you'll be on to Build 401 before there's very much time to savor Build 400.

Highly likely. I noticed a shorter release cycle gets better engagement from forum members. Plus if (when) I do break stuff I can normally fix it within 24 hours.

There was a regression bug that started bugging me a few weeks ago, but now it seems to have gone away again. Did you re-fix anything having to do with STOP not working when the stop time wasn't a multiple of the step size?

Nothing rings a bell. But if it's working now I'm happy!

[rowett]

Build 400 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• Settings menu buttons are now more descriptive
• new Settings menu Display setting: Auto Grid (hotkey Ctrl+"G")
  • turns on grid lines when switching to Draw and Select modes
  • turns off grid lines when switching to Pan mode
• new Settings menu Pattern action: New Pattern (hotkey Alt+"N")
  • creates a new empty pattern
• new Settings menu Info setting: Relative Gen (hotkey Shift+"G")
  • when #CXRLE Gen is defined toggles the generation display between Absolute and Relative
• State Slider now hidden for Generations patterns when states fit on display
• selecting a drawing state with hotkeys Ctrl+"0" to Ctrl+"9" now scrolls State Selection UI to show new state
• PopUp Viewer scales (is larger) on high DPI devices

[rowett]

Build 401 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• improved handling when plugin included multiple times

Fixes in this build:

• ignore trailing # for string substitutions
• fixed rendering with layers

This build is a Release Candidate.

[rowett]

Build 402 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• fixed title bar sizing
• handle conflicting accesskey attributes

This build is a Release Candidate.

[rowett]

Build 403 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• do not dim display if settings menu open and UI is hidden because of Auto Hide UI
• Margolus alternate rules were the wrong way round
• fix colour box alignment in Help when window scaled

This build is a Release Candidate.

[rowett]

Build 404 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• reverse playback for Margolus rules (hotkey "U" to toggle direction)
• toggle UI is now on hotkey Shift+"U"
• tooltips will now split at | to improve alternating rule display

Fixes in this build:

• tooltips now scale with window
• graph axes now scale with window
• close Help and Errors when UI switched off

This build is a Release Candidate.

[rowett]

Build 405 is now available on the lazyslug server

Fixes in this build:

• fixed alternate Margolus rules
• fixed a few Margolus aliases

This build is a Release Candidate.

[rowett]

Build 406 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• new script command [[ NOTHROTTLE ]] will disable playback throttling

Fixes in this build:

• allow reverse playback for reversible alternate Margolus rules
• Margolus rules can now use right hand tile column on the grid

This build is a Release Candidate.

[rowett]

Build 407 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• Margolus generation number is now in Help->Info->Grid

Fixes in this build:

• [[ PASTET EVERY ]] now works with Margolus reverse playback when Margolus generation >= 0
• fixed an issue where [[ PASTE ]] commands weren't happening on step back

This build is a Release Candidate.

[rowett]

Build 408 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• added new Reverse direction button to toggle playback direction for reversible Margolus rules
• improved Population Graph vertical fit

This build is a Release Candidate.

[rowett]

Build 409 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• Margolus patterns now show Margolus generation
  • absolute generation is shown in Generation Statistics (toggle with bottom left button or hotkey "G")
  • absolute generation is needed for Waypoint, Annotation, Stop, Loop and Paste commands
• added some new aliases

Fixes in this build:

• thumbnail launch was only working the first time on touch devices
• lock Direction button during waypoint playback
• reset playback direction to forward during waypoint playback

This build is a Release Candidate.

[rowett]

Build 410 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• Paste commands now allow blank cells in COPY mode

This build is a Release Candidate.

[rowett]

Build 411 is now available on the lazyslug server

Enhancements in this build:

• improved how Step Back works with reversible Margolus rules
• added a few non-totalistic aliases

This build is a Release Candidate.

[dvgrn]

Does this report from Saka ring any bells with you? He seems to have been unable to load Blogger pages containing LifeViewers (still at an ancient build, 259), for some time now. I'm not sure when the first report was, actually -- can't find a previous message offhand, but I'll keep looking.

Anyway, here's Saka's private message, and my initial answer -- but I was just making wild guesses, of course (you can probably tell). I'll let you know if any more detail comes back.

My current Blogger.com theme file is attached. I patched LifeViewer in there long enough ago that I don't remember why I did whatever I did -- just that something went horribly wrong, and I fiddled around with the theme HTML, feeling like a caveman trying to program a VCR, and eventually it all seemed to work, and I stood back and thought to myself something like

Hah, it work!
Throg happy!
Throg remember never ever touch Blogger template again....

blogger-theme.zip

Neanderthal-edited Blogger theme file

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Hi again, I don't know if it was ever fixed, but the giant JavaScript wall of text still appears on my PC at the top of every page. It also does not appear on my phone and LifeViewer on the article pages work just fine on my phone.

As usual I can see the LifeViewers on the home page of this site just fine with no wall of text.
My OS is Windows 10 Pro Version 1903, OS Build 18362.356
I am using Google Chrome Version 76.0.3809.132 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Additionally, I tested it on Microsoft Edge 44.18362.329.0 with Microsoft EdgeHTML 18.18362 (Whatever that is...) and the wall of text still shows.

The text wall also shows in Firefox 66.0.3 (64-bit).

Could this be an OS-specific problem?

Heres the text wall on all 3 browsers (Left: Chrome, Right:Firefox, Middle: Edge)

Thanks for the details! I can't see any behavior that's anything like this, no matter which browser I use. My OS is also Windows 10, so I'm fairly puzzled at the moment.

However, I'm far from being a Javascript expert, and I can imagine all kinds of weird things that could go wrong -- e.g., if for some reason your system didn't allow Javascript to load completely if it's over a certain size. LifeViewer is getting pretty big.

In your walls of text, can you read LifeViewer's code all the way from the beginning

//<![CDATA[ var da="function"== ...

to the closing

... "POPUPWIDTH",bj:"POPUPHEIGHT",Yc:"#"}; //]]

? Or is some of it going missing, and therefore the wall of text is popping up as an attempt to show the error?

Maybe an interesting detail: the part of the wall of text that's being displayed is

\n\n'), h.document.close(), etc. -- but the actual LifeViewer Javascript in that area looks like this:

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height="'+a.s+'" src="'+b+'" alt="'+k.mn+'"/>\n\t</body>\n</html>\n'),
h.document.close(),a.g.notification.F("Image Captured",300,!0)):a.g.notification.F("Could not open Image window!",k.vm,!0)}

So the text </html> is mysteriously going missing from the h.document.write call that has to do with opening a separate Image window. If that's happening at that point, then I suppose other things may be getting removed elsewhere -- at least in this wall-of-text copy of LifeViewer that's being printed at the top.

Just to be clear, when the wall of text appears, you can't scroll down to a working LifeViewer -- right? Might you have some kind of aggressive anti-virus program installed on your PC, that prevents HTML/script injection attacks by removing suspect HTML tags from "untrustworthy" web sites -- or something like that?

(I'm almost certainly barking up the wrong tree here -- for all I know, the "\n\n" display is supposed to be happening for some reason or other -- but, hey, at least it's a theory.)