Thread: A stern warning to those altering credits.ini
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Old January 7th, 2007, 05:45 PM
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Default Re: A stern warning to those altering credits.ini
Yeah, testing one thing at a time is the safest.

The credits.ini has a size limit of 160 lines and seems to have a particularly screwy failure mode if you exceed that. Not only do the credits break but it'll overflow and garble some pointers to interface strings. This will cause a crash when it tries to display a generic button like "CANCEL".

If we release another update I'll make it fail more gracefully (ie. just ignore any credits lines after 160). This was just sloppy coding on my part... Near the end of the project, seemingly insignificant part of the program, etc...