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I am having trouble posting new puzzles. What are the firewall requirements? Silverlight requirements?

There was some problem with connection to the robozzle-server when I solved another puzzle. In a minute, when connection was alive again, I voted for difficulty and pressed “Replay” button in the Silverlight client then refreshed the page of the puzzle and saw “Difficulty (1..5): 4.50 (2 votes)” and “Solved by 2 players”. So I guess server doesn't check whether puzzle was solved and it is possible to vote for difficulty without solving puzzle.

smylic, 3 months ago.

Some unicode symbols are replaced by question mark in comments. Moreover when I used check mark (U+2713) I've seen everything right immediately after posting comment, but check marks were replaced by question marks before my next visit of that page.

smylic, 4 months ago.

1) Check “Hide solved” in Silverlight client.
2) Solve at least 8 puzzles from 8 first pages. (Suppose that no new puzzles were posted during solving.)
3) Press “>|” to go to the last page.
4) See blank page.
(This wouldn't happen if you have at most 64 unsolved puzzles, so “Campaign” tab may be unsuitable.)

smylic, 8 months ago.

1) Login on the site.
2) Open any solves puzzle statistics.
3) Go to “my solutions” link.
4) See “Back to my solution list” link. But you haven't visit that page:)

smylic, 9 months ago.

When I use 3G connection it is always a problem to sign in in Silverlight client. The only possible way to sign in is to wait for automatic login, but once autologin is broken it doesn't work until successfull manual sign in is done. When I try to login manually I enter my login and password, press button “Sign in” and wait... for ages, but nothing is done (about 600Kb are recieved, then connection is closed), buttons in form are inaccessible. And there is even no button “Retry”:)

Discovery of the second bug is caused by the first one:) One my solution hangs in js client. (I tried exactly the same in Silverlight client and it works.) But I don't know how to show it (I mean that other users shouldn't see it)...

smylic, 23 months ago.

800 × 480 issue is not a problem at all. I just took my old EEE PC into business trip and had some spare time to play RoboZZle:) And since I had found bug, I had reported about it.

smylic, 23 months ago.

Thanks for all the bug reports.

- Links to design patterns should now be clickable.
- My Solutions link will now appear if you are logged in with a capitalized username.

Smylic: Is the 800x480 resolution issue a problem for you? I did not expect people to use Robozzle on such low resolutions.

kraker: Yeah, the Silverlight plugin and the Robozzle site have separate logins. You have to sign into both. I am not aware of any easy solution on avoiding that.

igoro, 23 months ago.

If someone posts in comments link to design pattern (i.e. http://robozzle.com/index.aspx#design/aaayBBaaaaayBBaaaaaycBaaayBBdBaaayBBdBBdaydaaBBdayBBaaydayBBiBBdaaaByBBdaaaBydaaaaaBBdaaaaaBBdaaaaUBaa) it is not clickable.

Smylic, 23 months ago.

It is impossible to login in Silverlight client when screen definition is low (i.e. 800 × 480), 'cause "login" button is above visible area (in IE and Chrome).

Smylic, 24 months ago.

On a puzzle's page, the My Solutions link does not appear if your logged in username does not match the case of your username at the time you solved it.
For example, I solve most puzzles with my username all in minuscule letters. While logged in with my username all in majuscule letters, the My Solutions links do not appear.

STICKY, 24 months ago.

When you want to comment you have to go for a second time through the login. It seems to me this is by design, but since a number of weeks I arrive at the My-page after loging in.

kraker, 25 months ago.

Thanks, sticky. The bug should be fixed now.

igoro, 27 months ago.

http://robozzle.com/forums/thread.aspx?puzzle=2572
Characters in puzzle title cause error in HTML.

sticky, 27 months ago.

My apologies for the "hacked" solutions. I'm working on a version of Robozzle for Windows Phone 7, and one of the earlier builds of my app had a bug that caused solutions to be submitted to the server in such a way that they appeared to be one command shorter than they actually were. As soon as I realized what had happened, I let Igor know so that he could fix the server code and scrub the malformed solutions.

Trango, 27 months ago.

Thanks for pointing out the comment count bug, smylic!

Regarding the P.P.S.: Yeah, I programmatically scanned through all the solutions, verifying that they are all correctly formatted (i.e., each solution string contains 5 delimiters, even if some functions are empty).

igoro, 28 months ago.

Open any puzzle by its ID (e.g. go to http://robozzle.com/index.aspx?puzzle=144 ) and see "0 comments" regardless of true number of comments.

P.S. Thanks for fixing previous bug!
P.P.S. I hope you checked all acceepted solutions, and there is no too short one now:)

Smylic, 28 months ago.

The data corruption issue that Smylic pointed out should now be fixed. I also fixed the server validation, and so improperly formatted solutions should not get accepted in the future.

igoro, 28 months ago.

Thanks, Smylic!

The two solution legths you pointed out are due to a minor data corruption issue. The user (trango) uses his own client that at some point submitted slightly misformatted solutions. And, due to a bug in the server validator, those solutions slipped through. I will look into resolving the issue soon - I'll post here when done.

igoro, 28 months ago.

Igoro, look at
http://robozzle.com/puzzle.aspx?id=27
http://robozzle.com/puzzle.aspx?id=2532
I'm sure length 4 solution is impossible in both this puzzles... Please check it.

Smylic, 28 months ago.