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Game hangs in the beginning of first tutorial when in full screen mode

Open nyq opened this issue 11 months ago • 2 comments

Describe the Bug

I have just downloaded the game and am trying to learn it. So I started with tutorials. The first one ("Basic control") progresses to the point where you need to show building spaces (which is literally the first interactive step that you get to make) and then the game hangs, displaying "wait" mouse pointer forever.

To Reproduce

  1. Start Widelands 1.2.1 on Windows 10.
  2. Click on Options button in main menu.
  3. In Interface tab ensure that Windows Size option is set to Fullscreen (this is important because the bug only happens in full screen and you won't reproduce it in windowed mode).
  4. Click on OK button to dismiss Options dialog.
  5. Click on Single player button in main menu.
  6. Select Tutorials menu item.
  7. Select Basic Control item in the list and press OK button.
  8. Click on OK button to dismiss welcome dialog.
  9. Press T key to dismiss Objectives dialog.
  10. Click OK button to dismiss Building Spaces tutorial dialog.
  11. Press OK button to dismiss another Building Spaces tutorial dialog.
  12. Click on Show/Hide button in the bottom menu and select Show Building Spaces item in the popup menu (this is important because the bug only happens when mouse and menu is used, you won't reproduce it if you use spacebar keyboard shortcut to accomplish the same goal).
  13. The game will hang.

So, two important points:

  1. You must be in full screen mode to hang the game, and it does not hang in windowed modes
  2. You must use the mouse and menu hang the game when selecting Show Building Spaces, it does not hang when using a keyboard shortcut.

Expected Behavior

The game should not hang in the first step of the first tutorial.

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Operating System

Windows 10 64-bit

Widelands Version

1.2.1

Enabled Add-Ons

None, brand new installation of the game.

Additional Context

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nyq avatar May 17 '25 19:05 nyq

Mirrored on Codeberg as #CB5100.

bunnybot avatar May 17 '25 19:05 bunnybot

frankystoneMirrored from Codeberg On Sun May 18 10:16:35 CEST 2025, frankystone wrote:

Probably related (or the same cause?): #6584 https://codeberg.org/wl/widelands/issues/4804#issuecomment-2340669 https://codeberg.org/wl/widelands/issues/4804#issuecomment-3216753

bunnybot avatar May 18 '25 08:05 bunnybot

I have had the same thing happen in maximized window mode too, but have managed to make it past by switching back and forth bestrewn the options before launching the scenario.

Possibly related, but when picking a specific resolution size the title bar will disappear as if in fullscreen mode, but the taskbar will remain.

I am using Windows 11 24H2

Dave247 avatar Aug 02 '25 15:08 Dave247

tothxaMirrored from Codeberg On Wed Oct 01 02:18:24 CEST 2025, Tóth András (tothxa) wrote:

Please check whether #6891 fixes this.

bunnybot avatar Oct 01 '25 00:10 bunnybot

tothxaMirrored from Codeberg On Mon Oct 13 01:33:54 CEST 2025, Tóth András (tothxa) wrote:

Fixed by #6891 according to https://codeberg.org/wl/widelands/pulls/5251#issuecomment-7677070

bunnybot avatar Oct 12 '25 23:10 bunnybot