patch 8 clipborard / practice mission bug

[Stalwart]

There may be a bug in patch 8 in the "Practice Missions" clipboard command.  Simply put, there may be an undocumented unenforced rule that the .mis / .res file names must not exceed 23 bytes.

Missions and flights within the mission "st_samurai_training.res" will display properly in the mission list when you click the command above.  Rename and re-deploy the exact same mission as "sta_samurai_training.res" and the "Practice Missions" command causes Aces High to lock up with a white screen, an error message, and a memory dump.

There appears to be a string length maximum that's being violated.  The clipboard is truncating and choking on it and/or the Mission Editor is not enforcing the maximum length at design and build time.  Clear as mud?

-Sudz- and company, does this check out?

 
Stalwart

[-sudz-]

It checks out but it would have failed anyway since the base file name is the same name as the Mission Group name.  And if you changed the base file name it wouldn't find the mission group.

Anyway, I fixed the mission editor to where your can't get over the letter-limit and crash the game.

Good find.

- Sudz

[Stalwart]

Thanks Sudz