High score screen doesn't work like expected

[sharkwouter]

I ran into this with the game example keep-left from this website: http://rupert.id.au/tutorials/gamemaker/examples.php

I noticed the following differences between the scoreboard in Game Maker 6:

• You're not able to enter you name
• The message "press to close" isn't shown
• The background configured for the scoreboard is not being shown
• The configured colors for the scoreboard are ignored
• The font used doesn't match the configured one
• Scores are not saved, not even during a single session

Also the following, but I personally don't care about these:

• No border is shown
• The scoreboard is not a separate window and instead covers the whole screen

I was able to reproduce this on both the example and a new example. I was able to reproduce this for the platforms Windows, Linux and SDL.

Here are some screenshots for comparison. I ran the original exe file with wine as well:

[sharkwouter]

There was an attempt to fix this with #1973

[RobertBColton]

I believe this has to do with ENIGMA not having the dialog from #1973 which was deprecated by GMSv1.4.

So we implemented highscore_show using draw_highscore which is in fact still a supported function in GMS2.
https://docs2.yoyogames.com/source/_build/3_scripting/4_gml_reference/drawing/text/draw_highscore.html

[le-incroyable1-dev]

Hi ! I'm new here. This is my first time contributing to open source. Any help on how I can help fix the issue ??

[RobertBColton]

Have you installed ENIGMA yet? That's a good place to start.
https://enigma-dev.org/download.htm

Once you have ENIGMA installed it is very easy to change the source files and they will automatically be recompiled. ENIGMA is divided into different systems (enigma-dev/ENIGMAsystem/SHELL/) for platforms, audio, and graphics. There is a universal system as well where the highscore functions are implemented.
https://github.com/enigma-dev/enigma-dev/blob/master/ENIGMAsystem/SHELL/Universal_System/highscore_functions.cpp

[k0T0z]

I'm working on this issue so I tried to run the game in the example (keep-left.gm6) in LateralGM but it refuses to run but returns -1073741819 can you help on this? @RobertBColton

[RobertBColton]

Any time the game returns a large negative number it's generally a crash. You can build the game in debug mode, install GDB if it's not already, then following the debugging guide I wrote.

https://enigma-dev.org/docs/Wiki/Debugging

This will help you find source and line number of what is causing the crash.

[k0T0z]

okay I followed those steps but the problem is it returns a large negative integer on debugging also, the other problem is when I looked at the directory where it build the executable to, I didn't find any executable so when running (gdb C:/msys64/tmp/egm3870279439369633378.exe) it outputs the below paragraph:

C:\Users\saifs>gdb C:/msys64/tmp/egm518996892078311101.exe
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.6.1
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "mingw32".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/...
C:/msys64/tmp/egm518996892078311101.exe: No such file or directory.
(gdb)

is the problem because I'm using mingw32 on a 64-bit machine or anything else? @RobertBColton

[JoshDreamland]

Does the command work if you ls or stat that file instead? You may need to use the more Unix-like /c/ representation, rather than the Windows C:/, depending on your terminal environment.

[k0T0z]

thanks @JoshDreamland, it's done