0002703: The Presence of a Primary weapon with the child flag will stop parsing.

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0002703	FSSCP	FRED	public	2012-08-24 04:25	2012-11-24 08:10

Reporter	AndrewofDoom	Assigned To	karajorma
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed

Summary	0002703: The Presence of a Primary weapon with the child flag will stop parsing.
Description	In the weapons editor when you modify a ship, if one of the modular tables (I've not tested with doing it with weapons.tbl proper) has a primary with the "child" flag, FRED will stop parsing all primary weapons in any consecutive files it loads. This is really silly since primary child weapons do work in FSO proper, but for some reason FRED goes nuts over this. The picture I've attached shows the bug in action. There are some primary weapons being shown there as a result of weapons.tbl being loaded first, but the next files don't show up at all. The next weapon that should have been seen was "CA-WPR90 Proton Gun" but since a primary big ship weapon called "Corona_Fragment" well before flagged as child it never shows up...nor anything after it.
Steps To Reproduce	1. modify or create a primary weapon that has "child" as one of its flags 2. Open FRED and go to the weapons tab in the Ships Editor. 3. Gawk at the lack of primary weapons to choose from. 4. ???? 5. Lose a lot of time and money!
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AndrewofDoom 2012-08-24 04:25 reporter	WheredaPrimariesGo.png (196,964 bytes) WheredaPrimariesGo.png (196,964 bytes)

karajorma 2012-10-28 01:50 administrator ~0013997 Last edited: 2012-10-28 01:51	Post a ships.tbl or tbm with this bug on retail data and I'll look at it.

MjnMixael 2012-11-19 20:20 manager	child-wep.tbm (8,888 bytes)

MjnMixael 2012-11-19 20:20 manager ~0014085	Reproduced on 9357. Tbm uploaded. AndrewofDoom, why couldn't you upload the tbm as requested?

Goober5000 2012-11-19 22:20 administrator ~0014089	Assigning to karajorma since there is now a TBM for him to look into.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2012-08-24 04:25	AndrewofDoom	New Issue
2012-08-24 04:25	AndrewofDoom	File Added: WheredaPrimariesGo.png
2012-10-28 01:50	karajorma	Note Added: 0013997
2012-10-28 01:51	karajorma	Note Edited: 0013997
2012-11-19 20:20	MjnMixael	File Added: child-wep.tbm
2012-11-19 20:20	MjnMixael	Note Added: 0014085
2012-11-19 22:20	Goober5000	Note Added: 0014089
2012-11-19 22:20	Goober5000	Assigned To	=> karajorma
2012-11-19 22:20	Goober5000	Status	new => assigned
2012-11-24 08:10	karajorma	Status	assigned => resolved
2012-11-24 08:10	karajorma	Resolution	open => fixed