LifeViewer/Known bugs/Scripting

Currently known issues with LifeViewer script commands.

• STATE1FIT does not work as expected in [R]Super rules.
  • STATE1FIT may be deprecated in the future in favor of a new ALIVEFIT command in order to resolve this issue.

[R]Standard	[R]History
x = 3, y = 3, rule = B3/S23 o$obo$2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOFIT STATE1FIT THUMBNAIL THUMBSIZE 4 WIDTH 600 HEIGHT 600 ]] (click above to open LifeViewer)	x = 3, y = 3, rule = B3/S23History o$obo$2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOFIT STATE1FIT THUMBNAIL THUMBSIZE 4 WIDTH 600 HEIGHT 600 ]] (click above to open LifeViewer)
[R]Super	[R]Investigator
x = 3, y = 3, rule = B3/S23Super o$obo$2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOFIT STATE1FIT THUMBNAIL THUMBSIZE 4 WIDTH 600 HEIGHT 600 ]] (click above to open LifeViewer)	x = 3, y = 3, rule = B3/S23Investigator o$obo$2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOFIT STATE1FIT THUMBNAIL THUMBSIZE 4 WIDTH 600 HEIGHT 600 ]] (click above to open LifeViewer)

• Setting up paste commands that cancel out to produce nothing will have differing results in the range-1 algorithm versus the general-range algorithm.
  • At T=0, in the range-1 algorithm, a dead cell is visible in the thumbnail, but is not present in the popup viewer; in the general-range algorithm, it is present in both cases. In both cases, dead cells will manifest from T=1 onwards.
  • The dead cells in the general-range algorithm, besides the first two, will never fade.

Standard	General
x = 1, y = 1, rule = B3/S23 ! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ PASTEMODE XOR PASTET EVERY 1 PASTEDELTA 1 0 PASTE o! 0 0 PASTE o! 0 0 THEME Book THUMBNAIL THUMBSIZE 4 WIDTH 600 HEIGHT 600 ]] (click above to open LifeViewer)	x = 1, y = 1, rule = R1,C2,S2-3,B3 ! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ PASTEMODE XOR PASTET EVERY 1 PASTEDELTA 1 0 PASTE o! 0 0 PASTE o! 0 0 THEME Book THUMBNAIL THUMBSIZE 4 WIDTH 600 HEIGHT 600 ]] (click above to open LifeViewer)

• Attempting to customize the colour of GRIDMAJOR in a hexagonal or triangular rule, or a square grid rule with a GRIDMAJOR interval of 0, will not display an error.
  • This is unlike when trying to color cell states which do not apply to the active rule, as well as bounded grid edge cells in rules which do not specify a bounded grid; both cases produce an error to indicate that the customization is irrelevant.

Hexagonal	Triangular	GRIDMAJOR 0
x = 2, y = 2, rule = B/S0123HT o$2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ COLOR GRIDMAJOR Blue THUMBNAIL THUMBSIZE 4 WIDTH 600 HEIGHT 600 ]] (click above to open LifeViewer)	x = 3, y = 3, rule = B/S0123LV $3o$3o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ COLOR GRIDMAJOR Blue THUMBNAIL THUMBSIZE 4 WIDTH 600 HEIGHT 600 ]] (click above to open LifeViewer)	x = 2, y = 2, rule = B/S01234V 2o$2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ COLOR GRIDMAJOR Blue GRIDMAJOR 0 THUMBNAIL THUMBSIZE 4 WIDTH 600 HEIGHT 600 ]] (click above to open LifeViewer)

• Changing the color of "dead" in [R]Super or [R]Investigator will not change the color of any cell states. However, it also will not display an error indicating that "dead" is not a valid element to customize for these specific rules.
  • In [R]Standard and [R]History, "dead" will affect the colors of freshly-dead cells.
  • Attempting to customize the capitalized "DEAD" in [R]Super or [R]Investigator will display an error.

[R]Standard	[R]History
x = 3, y = 2, rule = B2a3r/S obo$o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ STARTFROM 8 COLOR dead Green THUMBNAIL THUMBSIZE 4 WIDTH 600 HEIGHT 600 ]] (click above to open LifeViewer)	x = 3, y = 2, rule = B2a3r/SHistory obo$o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ STARTFROM 8 COLOR dead Green THUMBNAIL THUMBSIZE 4 WIDTH 600 HEIGHT 600 ]] (click above to open LifeViewer)
[R]Super	[R]Investigator
x = 3, y = 2, rule = B2a3r/SSuper obo$o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ STARTFROM 8 COLOR dead Green THUMBNAIL THUMBSIZE 4 WIDTH 600 HEIGHT 600 ]] (click above to open LifeViewer)	x = 3, y = 2, rule = B2a3r/SInvestigator obo$o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ STARTFROM 8 COLOR dead Green THUMBNAIL THUMBSIZE 4 WIDTH 600 HEIGHT 600 ]] (click above to open LifeViewer)

• Different errors will be produced when trying to customize the colors of history, mark1, markoff, mark2 and kill in a rulespace which does not support these states if they are specified as lowercase compared to uppercase.

Lowercase	Uppercase
x = 4, y = 4, rule = B3/S23 2bo$obo$bobo$bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ COLOR history Pink COLOR mark1 Pink COLOR markoff Pink COLOR mark2 Pink COLOR kill Pink THUMBNAIL THUMBSIZE 4 WIDTH 600 HEIGHT 600 ]] (click above to open LifeViewer)	x = 4, y = 4, rule = B3/S23 2bo$obo$bobo$bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ COLOR HISTORY Pink COLOR MARK1 Pink COLOR MARKOFF Pink COLOR MARK2 Pink COLOR KILL Pink THUMBNAIL THUMBSIZE 4 WIDTH 600 HEIGHT 600 ]] (click above to open LifeViewer)

• When changing the active theme, TRACKLOOP will not adjust, resulting in visual major grid line jumping.
  • For the following, change the theme to a theme with major grid lines such as the MCell theme.

x = 3, y = 3, rule = B3/S23 bo$o$3o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] [[ AUTOSTART THEME Margolus GRID TRACKLOOP 4 -1/4 1/4 GPS 5 ]]

(click above to open LifeViewer)

• Pasting something in [R]History via PASTEMODE COPY will cause any state-0 cells to become freshly-created state 2 cells.
  • This is in contract to pasting state-2 cells themselves: these are set as fully aged.
  • Expected behaviour would be for state 0 cells to be pasted as state 0 cells.

Input pattern	When pasted
x = 7, y = 7, rule = LifeHistory 7B$7B$2B3.2B$2B3.2B$2B3.2B$7B$7B! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ THEME Book THUMBNAIL THUMBSIZE 4 WIDTH 600 HEIGHT 600 ]] (click above to open LifeViewer)	x = 1, y = 1, rule = LifeHistory ! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ PASTEMODE COPY PASTET 0 PASTE 7B$7B$2B3.2B$2B3.2B$2B3.2B$7B$7B! 0 0 THEME Book THUMBNAIL THUMBSIZE 4 WIDTH 600 HEIGHT 600 ]] (click above to open LifeViewer)

• If a pattern that uses HISTORYFIT has its evolution modified by PASTE or Kill Gliders in a certain way, AUTOFIT will ignore all preceding history cells when calculating the box to fit the pattern to.

PASTE	Kill Gliders
x = 60, y = 3, rule = B3/S23 obo54bobo$b2o54b2o$bo56bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOSTART AUTOFIT HISTORYFIT PASTEMODE XOR PASTET 200 PASTE o! 37 27 THEME Book THUMBNAIL THUMBSIZE 4 WIDTH 600 HEIGHT 600 ]] (click above to open LifeViewer)	x = 10, y = 75, rule = B3/S23 obo$3bo$3bo5bo$o2bo3bobo$b3o4b2o67$4b2o$4bo$5b3o$7bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOSTART AUTOFIT HISTORYFIT KILLGLIDERS THEME Book THUMBNAIL THUMBSIZE 4 WIDTH 600 HEIGHT 600 ]] (click above to open LifeViewer)