The SE4 companion - Why the long wait?.

Ruatha · #1 June 10th, 2004, 10:27 PM

New suggestions:

-Button to PBW game forum.
-Change Game links in drop-down box to graphic PBW.
-Change PBW options (turn mails, password etc)
-The setup guide page, with option to add/remove start menu and desktop icons, and guide through all settings.
-Make all ALT-keyable

What's been done:
Retrieves deadline from mails, now that PBW is up again I'll start tomorrow to retreive it from the website aswell.
Also included timezone setting and autodetection for timezone and default SMTP server.

[ June 10, 2004, 23:28: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

Ed Kolis · #2 June 11th, 2004, 03:26 AM

Is anyone else having trouble getting the tool to save settings between sessions? I can't even get it to remember my PBW login, which kind of defeats the purpose of the program...

bearclaw · #3 June 11th, 2004, 05:57 AM

Mine will save my settings just fine, and opens up other files perfectly (I LOVE that!), but when it trys to auto launch SE.exe, I get an access violation in the Companion.exe. It refuses to do anything more and anything I've done that session is lost. Oh, and it doesn't launch SE either...

Ruatha · #4 June 11th, 2004, 09:29 AM

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Originally posted by bearclaw:
Mine will save my settings just fine, and opens up other files perfectly (I LOVE that!), but when it trys to auto launch SE.exe, I get an access violation in the Companion.exe. It refuses to do anything more and anything I've done that session is lost. Oh, and it doesn't launch SE either...

Hmm, I'd love to know what is happening here..
can you post the manual command line from the favorite settings and any "used mod" from teh favorite settings aswell? (is it v 0.75?)
I'd really like to know as I'd want to make it as crash proof as possible!

[ June 11, 2004, 08:32: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

Ruatha · #5 June 11th, 2004, 09:31 AM

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Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Is anyone else having trouble getting the tool to save settings between sessions? I can't even get it to remember my PBW login, which kind of defeats the purpose of the program...

Hmm, the app tries to save the inifile to the same location as the app is, can you look in that directory and see if there is any INI file at all there?
I'll make an error routine for 0.8 concerning saves and loads of ini file!

BTW, have you set the "App should autostart when windows start" option.
I remember something similar once when it autostarted, will look into it.
Would appreciate all info you can give.

I'd really like to solve this as it will make it lesser chance that it will happen again.. that's the sole purpose of Betas

[ June 11, 2004, 11:10: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

Ed Kolis · #6 June 11th, 2004, 03:00 PM

Yes, I set the autostart option, and no, it didn't autostart when Windows started...

The program is installed in the folder "d:\Games\SE4 Gold\Tools\companion072"... or something along those lines, can't remember the final folder - but perhaps it's the space in "SE4 Gold" that's messing up your path?

Can't check for INI file now, I don't have my laptop with me... but I do seem to remember several INI files with various names in that folder.

I was also having the problem that Bearclaw was having with SE4 not launching from the autolaunch; I could launch it from the "select game" where you pick a .gam file, but not the autolaunch...

Fyron · #7 June 11th, 2004, 07:48 PM

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Originally posted by Ruatha:
ver 0.75 (Ragnarok Mod) is released:

Should play mod games even for Ragnarok

http://ruatha.homelinux.org/companion075.zip

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