[Scummvm-devel] Simon the Sorcerer appears to leak all it's audio ram

[Joost Peters]

How about showing a TimedMessageDialog (#ifdef'd to DS) informing the 
user that some speech was skipped, the reason why it was skipped and 
that it shouldn't be reported as a bug?   A bit intrusive perhaps, but 
still better than crashing or not supporting the game at all IMHO.

Regards,
Joost


Max Horn wrote:
> On Mo, Juni 4, 2007 15:46, Eugene Sandulenko wrote:
>> On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:33:32 +0200 (CEST)
>> "Max Horn" <max at quendi.de> wrote:
>>
>>> 1) Neil's way, which silently ignores if a failure occurs to load a
>>> sound (this change would be inside an #ifdef DS, of course). Kirben
>>> is opposed to this, quoting additional bug reports which would
>>> supposedly turn up. Kirben, can you please elaborate a bit on this --
>>> what kind of bugs would crop up due to this?
>> Neil's approach is to do not attempt playing speech when malloc() of
>> speech buffer fails. This is really bad and is unacceptable because in
>> simon1 CD there are no subtitles. That means that with this hack some
>> sentences will be just silently skipped without any knowledge of the
>> user, so the user may lost track of what's going on.
>>
>> Imagine situation when some item description will not fit in DS memory.
>> I mean voice over. There are no subtitles. So any user's attempt to
>> hear that description will produce no result. Is that good?
>>
> 
> Of course not, that's why we call it a hack :-). But: Is a crash better,
> though? I am still waiting for a viable alternative suggestion.
> 
> As it is, though, I can *imagine* situations where a player is confused
> because of missing some text. But do those actually occur? So far I am
> only aware of this problem occuring in the intro, where missing the text
> is completly harmless. Does it occur in any other spot?
> And did we get any bug reports over this for the 0.9.x series?
> 
> 
> So, yes, this hack is rather evil. But given the short time we have, and
> the lack of good alternatives (the only one I heard about came from me,
> I'll be happy to hear about more), it seems to still be the best thing to
> do. And based on actual experiences made with it so far, the consequences
> seem not to be quite as bad as they are painted here.
> 
> 
> All the best,
> Max
> 
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