I'm not sure if it's a bug with Allegro or not, but whenever I select something on a drop-down menu, it always ends up showing the previous thing on the list.
Drop-down menu bug
This is especially noticeable when selecting a palette from the "Data" menu. Confirmed.
This has been an issue ever since I started using ZC back in the 1.90 days. Every version I've ever used does this sometimes. I think its been brought up numerous times before.
You are referring to dropdown lists, not dropdown menus, yes? The menus are at the top of the screen. Dropdown lists are on dialogs. Are you using the scroll wheel on the mouse when you scroll through the list?
Ah, I can confirm this to a extent (not tested in the latest build). I did not pay attention to how I scrolled but the last time I was choosing enemies in the enemy list and item for the screen it would choose the one above what I chose -.-. I usually had to re-open the dialog and choose it (without scrolling since it is already visible) and it worked.
This bug is pretty old and I assume hard to track down. The bug occurs in dialog boxes and not in the menu.
I would guess that this is an off by one error. Perhaps the code that checks to see which menu item you click on gets out of sync with the actual state of the menu when you scroll.
Or "menu[curpos]" instead of "menu[curpos-1]". Or any number of other possible causes...
But yeah, this is ancient and annoying.
First of all, yes, I mean drop-down lists. And I didn't know the bug was this old! I guess there's really nothing that can be done about it?
aside from a few days/weeks/months of debugging it... no, nothing can be done about it :P
For some reason, I don't see it.
for instant, when choosing the "special item" for a screen, choose something and press "ok" then return and it should select the item above or below what you chose before.