your Germany 0.o

oh, in the move vian convoy, therea drop down, you can select move by land and that should fix your problem

blarg lemme re type

Okies, if you have a army on a beach territory and a fleet next to it, if you choose another territory that is a beach territory it will give you the option of convoying it there of moving by land. Just use the last drop down menu to change it

@xcurlyxfries#1 - you're right of course. Silly me. But I have had a glass or 2 of a really excellent, and cheap, red wine (Las Moras). I don't normally drink red wine, but I'm back on the Atkins diet again. Its the only diet that ever worked for me. I lost 3 stone (42 pounds) last time. [You're not allowed beer (or white wine) on the Atkins, only red wine and meat [you should see my breakfasts ;-D].

@xcurlyxfries#2 - blarg lemme have another glass of that red wine. ;-)

@xcurlyxfries#3 - It doesn't let me get that far. I have only 2 options that it will accept. "Hold" and "Move via Convoy". If I try to select anything else (like, say "Move to Ruhr") then, when I click on "Update", it changes back to "Move via Convoy".

If I try to select something else like "Support Hold" it offers "at Ruhr | Burgundy" in the drop down. Whichever one I select it changes to blank when I click "Update".

If I try to select "Support Move" it also changes to blank when I click "Update".

Unless I select "Hold" or the "Move via Convoy" I can't select "Finalize".

Bumpitty bump bump.

Which unit are you trying to order? Is the move possible that you're trying to order?
If you really think this is a bug, could you email me a printscreen (emails in profile, make sure to put 'phpdiplomacy' somewhere in the subject) or take it up on the dev forum? It's hard to understand just what the situation you're describing is over a forum.

I too have come across this problem and it is not specific to any particular order/unit/province as far as I can tell.

Simply put, the drop down menus for previously un-entered unit orders go blank and cease to "drop down".

So for example you can have for example:

"Fleet Marseilles MOVE" as the first part of the order but after you update the orders the next box to select the province you are moving to simply refuses to list the options so you are left with:

"Fleet Marseilles MOVE *blank box*"

I am pretty sure it is a bug as it has only started recently. I have since discovered that restarting your browser works like a charm (though a little annoying to have to do). Perhaps some weird interaction with my browser? I use firefox btw.

@figlesquidge

Sorry I don't have any screen shots to show you. It has only happened to me twice as far as i can remember. Next time I'll record the incident for you!

That being said, a screen shot won't really help you. It's difficult to show malfunctioning drop down boxes in a screen shot!

bump

Alamothe - why did that need bumping :S
Ichthys - fair enough, although I'm sure you can screen-grab with them open. I was rather just hoping it would help point out another factor you haven't noticed that would help explain it.
It won't be because you use firefox - last time I heard it was the most common browser on the site.

fig, you can't get a screen shot using alt-prtscrn or ctrl-prtscrn with the box open as it will automatically close on you. But, they could view it's source and send that an you could send the drop down had no values in it.

Whilst its not the main issue, I just tested it (FF3,Vista) and it worked fine using prtsc,alt+prtsc.
Still, a view-source would be interesting as well. To see what it actually printed even though it's obviously wrong.

Email sent, with five jpg's of the various stages of trying (and failing) to enter a movement order. Thanks Figlesquidge.

@Alamothe - <Alt><PrntScrn> does capture the part of the drop down list that is on top of the active window.

Hmm, very strange. I'm not really sure what I was hoping to find I must admit, but as you say everything seems fine. Not that I didn't believe you, was just rather hoping to see someone else strange that would be connected in the same bug and could be solved together.
Have you tried it with Norton disabled etc? Again, I can't understand what effect it could have, but if you could isolate the problem it would be easier to solve. Saying that, perhaps someone else with a better mind than mine can 'see' the problem.
Or indeed, someone with better knowledge of the code. I've done quite a bit on it, but I'm no where near as familiar with 0.8x as I was with the 0.7x series.
Sorry :(

Ok. Thanks anyway. I hope it goes away after the turn cycles.

Oh and I experience the problem on both a Vista machine and an XP machine, with both MSIE and Firefox.