[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by AxisWarlord

Hi all, I'm a newbie to this forum.

I've been playing SPWWII ever since SSI issued the game - have an original copy - but have only recently purchased the Shrapnel CD and had time to do some editing.
I'm an OOB purist (ie. I like it historical) and have tried some mods for the German OOB - which has numerous problems and missing units from 41/42.

The problem I have is that I do not seem able to save my Mods.
Even though when I look in Windows explorer the spob file has the current date of save.
What am I missing??

For example, spob016.obf, I try correcting Formation #1077 - PzAufklZug(gep) - classed as #11 Armoured Car, but Should be Class #24 APC(Halftrack) as this is where all the other PzAufkl units reside.
I make the change, switch over to the Load/Save Tab, click on spob016.obf and Save and/or Save As, but the change does not seem to stick???
Even when I exit the program and re-load the spob016.obf, the change is not there.
What obvious step am I missing??
(I'm sure it's probably something obvious - ie. a blond moment.)

I'm really hoping someone can help me out today before I head out to dinner, wife and son are treating me to Birthday dinner.

Regards,
Mark

1) If you have Windows Vista or higher, I hope you have remembered to install the game to a directory outside the default /program files/ hierarchy.

The new Windows does strange things with files, if you make the mistake. It sometimes squirrels the files in odd places (under your user folder usually) and/or simply refuses to let applications write data.

Install your game to say C:\Games\SPXXX, if you have Vista or Windows 7.

2) I'll assume that you have read the Mobhack Help -> Toolbar Buttons and Menu Items section. In particular, the section on the save button:

Save Button - saves the current item's data to memory. Note that this is the ONLY way to save your changes to memory - moving off the current item has the same effect as a cancel (all changes not saved are lost). [F12] note that this will only save your changes to the OB data held in memory - you require to save to file to put your changes into effect!. (see Save button above, or the save file menu item below)

Mobhack is a database editor. Each item is treated as a record. None of your changes to a record are saved until you press the commit button - here the red tick save button or the F12 function key. That saves the changes to that record in the local RAM copy of the OOB file database.

If you do not commit your changes to a particular record - then they will be discarded on leaving that record. Nor would they be saved to the file on the load/save dialogue, since you have not committed your changes to the database.

Andy