Bug 79441 – ball in trackballs game start's moving by itself (with patch fixing it)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Yasha Davidov 2005-01-25 04:02:51 UTC]

Sometimes after few games ball in trackballs game (games-action/trackballs, trackballs-1.0.0.ebuild ) starts moving by itself. This bug is described in the url.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run the game
2. Play few levels with keyboard and mouse

Actual Results:  
Ball is moving by itself

Expected Results:  
Ball shouldn't move

This problem can be fixed with the simple patch wich was publicated in the url
above.
diff -ru trackballs-1.0.0-orig/src/player.cc
trackballs-1.0.0/src/player.cc
--- trackballs-1.0.0-orig/src/player.cc Sat Mar 20 02:04:32 2004
+++ trackballs-1.0.0/src/player.cc      Sat Mar 20 02:05:32 2004
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@
 
   if(!Game::current) return;
   if(!playing) return;
+  dx = dy = 0.0;
   Map *map = Game::current->map;
   health+=t * 0.4; if(health > 1.0) health = 1.0;

This bug was found long time ago but there is no new versions for a long time.

[Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2005-01-25 17:05:40 UTC]

fixed.  Thanks for the bug report and patch.