Bug #9393
Transmission of stored EVA report destroys report if antenna cannot deploy
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Description
Steps to reproduce:
- Build a spacecraft with a service bay.
- Put an antenna in the service bay (see the attached screenshot for an example).
- Launch the spacecraft.
- Go on EVA.
- Take an EVA report.
- Reenter the spacecraft.
- Make sure the service bay is closed.
- Right-click the crew part and select "Review stored data".
- Find the EVA report.
- Click transmit.
- Antenna will now complain it cannot deploy.
- Observe that EVA report is now missing.
It might be more generic than this specific case.
Also, I suppose it might not technically be a bug, but a losing stuff you worked hard for because you forgot to open the service bay is never fun so it reduces usability.
History
Updated by #2
Updated by sal_vager over 8 years ago
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I think it's a bug, and I can cause it as well.
#3
Updated by TriggerAu over 8 years ago
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#4
Updated by bewing over 8 years ago
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It's more complicated than this. The report isn't lost -- it's queued for the antenna to send the next time it gets a transmit command. Or for the next time you set focus back to this craft.
#5
Updated by sal_vager over 8 years ago
So it's fixed then?
#6
Updated by Alchemist over 8 years ago
Updated by 
It's still a bug since the report is stuck in the antenna with no way to see it and get it to transmit specifically, other than making the antenna transmit something else.
Now that the antenna can return the science back if it recognizes the failure to transmit due to the lack of electricity, it should be capable to return the science back if it fails to deploy as well. Alternatively, the antenna may continue its attempts to extend, so that it does it automatically when the antenna is no longer stowed (interestingly, that's exactly what happens if you send something to the antenna while it's retracting and close the service bay before it starts extending - it will extend and transmit when you open the bay again)