The SE4 companion - Why the long wait?.

[Ruatha]

Originally posted by Ragnarok:
Hmmm, even with 0.74 I cannot get it to work. Same thing happens.
Here is the command line from the favorite screen

"C:\Program Files\Shrapnel Games\Malfador Machinations\Space Empires IV Gold\DevnullModGold\Savegame\MOMI.gam" "mypassword" "5" ""

BTW I do select the game from the mods savegame folder. But it still does not insert into the field which mod is being used.

Yes, it was bad programming from my side, and I can see the problem.
The auto function seraches for the word \MODS\ in the savegame path, as I thought that was where most mods where placed, the new manual function also tries to place the mods in that folder.
I'll make a 0.75 later tonight that will fix your problem, sorry.

(Now the compnaion would like your path to be
"C:\Program Files\Shrapnel Games\Malfador Machinations\Space Empires IV Gold\Mods\DevnullModGold\Savegame\MOMI.gam" "mypassword" "5" ""
(I'll fix it later tonight)

[ June 09, 2004, 14:40: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[geoschmo]

I was able to get the companion started on NT now. Thanks.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Ruatha:
I'll make a 0.75 later tonight that will fix your problem, sorry.

No big hurry. PBW being down has limited my need for this. I just thought I would try to help point out possible bugs.

But knowing how it works now I can change my directory system no problem. But I imagine everyones system will be different so maybe a way to make it work with all would be nice.

Perhaps if there is a way to make the program check 2 \'s back from the thisgame.gam file name. So in my case it would check "C:\Program Files\Shrapnel Games\Malfador Machinations\Space Empires IV Gold\DevnullModGold\Savegame\MOMI.gam"
but it would check the path backwards. I don't know if that is very clear or even if it would work.

[Ruatha]

Originally posted by Ragnarok:

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Originally posted by Ruatha:
I'll make a 0.75 later tonight that will fix your problem, sorry.

No big hurry. PBW being down has limited my need for this. I just thought I would try to help point out possible bugs.

But knowing how it works now I can change my directory system no problem. But I imagine everyones system will be different so maybe a way to make it work with all would be nice.

Perhaps if there is a way to make the program check 2 \'s back from the thisgame.gam file name. So in my case it would check "C:\Program Files\Shrapnel Games\Malfador Machinations\Space Empires IV Gold\DevnullModGold\Savegame\MOMI.gam"
but it would check the path backwards. I don't know if that is very clear or even if it would work.

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I was thinking of taking the most right part of the path to the selected mod and subtract the left that equals the length of the selected SE4.exe path +8 letters,( subtract the rightmost /Savegame/and gamename length that should fix it for everyone.

God geo, thanks for letting me know. I had no way of trying it on a NT machine tonight.

[ June 09, 2004, 16:54: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Ruatha]

ver 0.75 (Ragnarok Mod) is released:

Should play mod games even for Ragnarok

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

[ June 09, 2004, 18:38: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Ruatha:


Should play mod games even for Ragnarok

I got the Last one to work once you told me you were looking for the MODS in the directory. But this new Version works both ways. Thanks Ruatha! And you should thank me, I helped make your program compatible for all.

[Ruatha]

Originally posted by Ragnarok:

quote:

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Originally posted by Ruatha:


Should play mod games even for Ragnarok

I got the Last one to work once you told me you were looking for the MODS in the directory. But this new Version works both ways. Thanks Ruatha! And you should thank me, I helped make your program compatible for all.

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I do thank you!!
It's really good when people tell me that things go wrong instead of just sitting and thinking bad thoughts
I like bug reports, I can't test every possibility myself

[Ruatha]

Originally posted by aiken:
Request:
1. Option to hide Recent games and Favorite games dropdown lists from the main page.

Hmm, when I was about to do this I started wondering... why?
Isn't it easier to click on the game in a drop-down box instead of going through the "Choose game" browser?

Next Version will be much smaller, I've discovered the wonderful world of exe compression.
UPX compresses the current companion 1.76 from 2594K down to 853K, it's like magic!!

[ June 10, 2004, 18:15: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Ruatha]

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]

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...