[ggo-discussion] Re: that capture counting bug

>When observing games, the number of prisoners held by each player is not
>displayed correctly.

Yes, stupid bug.

This happens when you move backward in the game, and then new moves are 
played and added "invisible". Then the current captures of the move you are 
currently navigating are used for calculating the new captures of the added 
move.

So if you are viewing move 20, and move 150 is made, move 150 will have the 
captures of move 20 (plus the captures made in move 150, if any), and all 
following moves after 150 will use the wrong captures base. When 
calculating the captures of a move, I need to copy the captures of the last 
move (149), but I accidently copy the captures of the current move (20).

If you never move backwards in a game, the problem would not occur. Also, 
Refresh reloads the correct prisoner number again (reads the info from the 
server). For the following moves the captures are correct again, until you 
start moving backwards.

Should be easy to fix. Thanks for the hint. It was mentioned, but I forgot ;(

  Peter

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