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[Reuzel]

Hi there!

I've been lurking for some time now but now I have a pressing question:

In my new fort (v0.31.12[LazyNewb Pack]) I've got several raising bridges, and I need to connect them to some levers. In the lever menu I choose link to bridge and the game allows me to select the desired bridge with + -. Thereby, the screen jumps to the bridge in question. Everything fine so far. If I press enter to select that particular bridge, however, the display focuses on a different bridge! Sure enough, if I proceed building the linkage by selecting two mechanisms it is the lastly displayed bridge that gets connected.

Has anyone else seen this annoying behavior?

[Lytha]

Yes, and it happens with doors, floodgates, and the other objects to which you might want to link to as well.

The bug isn't that it's actually linking to you what it did show you in the end - the bug is that the camera doesn't switch properly to the objects in question when you're selecting your bridge/door from that long list.

The list displays stuff in building order - oldest bridges at the top, youngest at the bottom. Try to remember in which order you've built them or just build your setup slowly and always select the bottom-most for the time being.

[petersohn]

There should be a yellow X showing which bridge you selected. The only problem is that the screen jumps to a different bridge. This is a bug, yes. However, if you press space (?) the screen will jump to the yellow X.

[Cotes]

Yes, the game always zooms to previous bridge you had selected. It is however the bridge that you actually select that you link, not the one the game happens to be zooming on when you cycle through them. And when you go to the mechanism selection, the game does zoom on the correct bridge.

[Quietust]

I've found that clicking in the Dwarf Fortress window (as long as you have mouse designation enabled, which you should) will force the camera to zoom to the correct location, so at least there's a workaround.