Adding new game to KPat – trying to figure out crashing bug

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dissabte, 13 d’octubre de 2018, a les 11:14:37 CEST, Shlomi Fish va escriure:
> Hi Mr. Hufthammer,
> 
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 19:35:38 +0200
> Karl Ove Hufthammer <karl at huftis.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, KDE game developers,
> > 
> > I’m trying to add a new solitaire variant to KPat, based on the old 
> > Windows game Midnight Sunitaire. I don’t know if it has a chance to ever 
> > be accepted in the *official* release (for one, it doesn’t have a 
> > solver), but I find it fun to play.
> > 
> > I have gotten it to a state where it seems to work fine, except for one, 
> > quite severe, bug. If I press the ‘Demo’ button, KPat tries to solve the 
> > game. But when it runs out of legal moves to make, KPat just crashes.
> > 
> > My initial guess for reason for the crash was that I hadn’t implemented 
> > a solver. KPat then seems to just pick random(?) valid moves. But I have 
> > tried *removing* the solver for other games, and KPat does *not* crash 
> > for these games when it runs out of valid moves; the demo just stops.
> > 
> > I have examined my code, but haven’t be able to figure out the reason 
> > for the crash. I can’t see any significant difference between the 
> > implementation of my new solitaire variant and the other solitaire 
> > variants in KPat. Are there any developers here willing to take a look? 
> > I can upload the source code (e.g. to Phabricator).
> > 
> 
> I can try taking a look. Note that you can also push a branch to a
> forked repository on github, gitlab, bitbucket.org, SourceForge, etc.

Please don't suggest people to use non kde based solutions when we have kde based solutions.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Have you tried seeing
> https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Debugging ?
> 
> 	-- Shlomi
> 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Karl Ove Hufthammer
> > 
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