Zoom in/out action of compass on map broken by ace_map

[severgun]

Arma 3 Version: 1.80 (stable)
CBA Version: 3.5 (stable)
ACE3 Version: 3.12.1 (stable)

Mods:

- CBA_A3
- ace

Description:

• Zoom in/out action of compass on map broken by ace_map. Once you double click and move it, you can't zoom in/out it again, because Arma overwrite position[] and positionBack[] at Arma3Profile on disk.

Steps to reproduce:

• Double click on compass, move it around, double click again and again and again.

Where did the issue occur?

• Everywhere

Placed Modules:

• none

Solution

• Seems like setting zoomDuration to non zero value will fix this. (I tried 0.1)
  

  ACE3/addons/map/config.cpp

  Line 103 in 2cad71c

  zoomDuration = 0;

[commy2]

Isn't this intentional?

[severgun]

What intentional? Line 102 make it bigger. But you can stuck with zoomed out which is not readable. And all your efforts in line 102 went to hell.

So IMHO author want make it bigger and disable animation of resizing. But zero value gives undefined behavior.

[PabstMirror]

Vanilla Small
Vanilla Big
ACE Normal (it's locked to this size)
ACE - Big (keep scale change, but allow zooming)

            scale = 0.7;
            // zoomDuration = 0;

So I guess we wanted to remove the compass zooming and just leave it the big size all the time.
ACE does make it as big as you could get from vanilla
There does seem to be some weirdness in the profile, I think people would have to change it to fix zooming.

[severgun]

I can't get why not to allow zoom action? Why compass should stay at one size?
Also zoomDuration did not disable zoom action even if it was desired.

Now it can stuck at vanilla small.

[jonpas]

Because zooming compass is broken in the game. It can get stuck in small mode.

[commy2]

Isn't this also about the ruler being scaled correctly?

[severgun]

Because zooming compass is broken in the game. It can get stuck in small mode.

I have no stuck issues with mine fixed(or vanilla zoomDuration) version and 100% reproducible yours.
¯\(ツ)/¯

[commy2]

Not a bug, close?

[severgun]

BIS Fault?
How to reproduce stuck on vanilla?

[commy2]

Never heard of that. It doesn't scale so it fits the map grid.

[stale]

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[barman75]

Still no solution?
I have to edit class Compass in *.Arma3Profile file every time ACE breaks the code, to fix the position and size.

[commy2]

It's not an issue, so there can be no solution.

[severgun]

Still no solution?

Solution in ticket. Just create your own pbo which will overwrite ACE "feature".
zoomDuration = 0.3; Looks more pleasant to eye than 0.1

[dedmen]

Arma stores the compass position and size in front and back mode (zoomed in and out)
This ace feature of changing the transition duration to instant (which i wouldn't consider a important feature, 0.1 or 0.3 seconds sounds just fine to me?) breaks this Arma feature and can cause Arma to store the same position for both front and back, meaning you'll forever get stuck in either zoomed, or unzoomed and double clicking doesn't do anything as the other zoom mode has the exact same size stored in Arma profile.

This is an issue for every Control with zoomable object (its a base UI component) so BI cannot add a compass specific workaround for it.

When I checked on that issue a few weeks ago I could find about half a dozen people with the same problem of not being able to zoom their compass within a few hours, all of them running ACE.
And they get stuck at that point for ever, unloading ACE also doesn't fix it.

[jonpas]

Fixed by #8176.