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Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

I've been having many problems with CMud lately and they're accumulating.

Now, my mapper won't center itself when I walk. I tried choosing my name at the bottom left corner and using #track, didn't help.
CMud crashed and I restarted, now when I try to use #walk, it sends the shortcodes directly to the mud.

e
portal
portal city
12n
leave
6wh4n8whwhwkshnh2wk2wk9w

to which the mud responds with many
What?
What?
What?
What?

Also, my version of CMud, which was doing this before I upgraded to the beta.

when I first launch CMud, I'll get a small window (about 1/8th my screen size) and the character list will show up. I choose which player I want to log in as. It loads the mapper full screen, and in that 1/8th screen it loads with status window and my character. I have to drag that window over to where I'll get the 4 arrows to choose where I want to dock it.

I've tried saving layout, I've tried Shift-Click on my character, no avail.

Can anyone help me please?

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

sigh..

So now I shut down my mapper and now it won't follow me.. period.. I can't use #track, I can't click on the bottom left... it's just not following me.

It's on speedwalk not safe or slow
... HELP PLEASE :(

My game reboots in a few hrs and I suddenly have no maps...

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Hrm.. however if I move around on the map, and right click somewhere, it'll suddenly move the placemarker to the room I moved to...

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

I restarted CMud. The mapper is following me now, but it doesn't center movement. I don't have to right-click to get it to update.

However, I still can't use #walk, it sends the shortcode to the mud.

If I double-click on the map, it does however walk me just fine, room by room.

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:42 pm

If it doesn't send the directions to the MUD properly, that means the "English Directions" package is not being loaded. Click the Edit Session action for your character and go to the Files/Packages tab and make sure English Directions is being loaded. After loading your session, you can do a View/Directions and select All from the dropdown list in the upper-left to verify that the directions have been loaded.

Finally, in the future, please always mention what version of Windows you are using. If CMUD isn't installed properly on Vista, you can have all sorts of problems with files not getting saved, which could explain your layout problems. You also might want to install 3.03 to a fresh directory in case you have some corrupted files from any old beta versions causing problems.

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Sorry, this is Vista.

Thank you, that fixed the directions problem.

Enchanter Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 511 Location: USA

Zugg, any possibility this is related to my map centering problem?

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 6:02 pm

I don't think so. Sounds like this problem was with the English Directions package not being loaded. That shouldn't have anything to do with the map centering issue. I think the map centering issue is more related to the map not tracking the proper Location object, or somehow the auto-center option for the location object is getting reset.

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Zugg, this problem is back again. I restarted my computer and everything messed up.

Map didn't load, tracker didn't load, and even after I checked that english directions ARE loaded, it still sends the short code to the mud...
n
n
path
2n3w3nd

The weird thing I've noticed, is even if I double-click on my mapper to run me somewhere, it will highlight the entire path, but only run 3 rooms at a time.

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

What do your Mapper options look like? There've been problems (not just me, yay) with mapper options resetting, which can mess up your speedwalking.

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

I'm not sure I follow, what settings are you asking about specifically? they all seem ok

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

In the mapper, Config > Configuration Settings. For example, maybe try slow or fast walk instead of safe walk, make sure your prompt pattern is correct, etc.

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Aahhh hrm.. I did change it from 0 to 3, but I'm never in safe mode. I 'm in fast walk.

I changed it back from 3 to 0, and now I'm getting the clump of directions again.

Something's definitely wrong there.

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:49 pm

Sounds like the map viewer window has gotten detached from your MUD sessions window (which is where the English Directions are available). I'm assuming you can still type a short speedwalk path in your main MUD window, such as:

.n

and it works properly? If so, try typing the #LOC command to see all of your mapper location objects, and make sure the proper location is set. Then use the command

#TRACK locationname

to ensure the mapper is tracking the correct location object. That *should* restore the connection between the mapper window and the MUD window.

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Yes, .n works
#loc shows my current location
and no, #track locationname didnt' fix it

I've tried these before, I also tried in the order you put in this thread, and it's still not working.

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 6:08 pm

If you look in your Package Editor, do you just have a single "Map of ..." map object? And is it just #WALK that is broken? Can you double-click rooms to speedwalk?

You might try creating a new location object. Find out what room number you are in on the map by clicking on the room and hovering the mouse over it to get the mouse-over tooltip. It should show the room name along with the #xxx room number. Then create a new location object:

#LOC NewLoc xxx red

where xxx is the room number that you are in. Then type:

#TRACK NewLoc

and then start moving and see if a red marker starts moving on the map with you. Then see if speedwalking works with the new location.

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Failed.

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 6:58 pm

Try creating a new session. Load the new session Offline, then click the Map button to open the mapper. Use the File/Open menu in the mapper to open your existing map file for your other session. Does it work then?

Also, you didn't tell me if this was still just a problem with #WALK or also with double-click speedwalking.

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Oops sorry. When I try double clicking, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Haven't really figured out why.. I think it's the NW/NE/SW/SE dirs that don't work. I get a What from the mud cause it sends jklh commands instead of NW NE

#walk just doesn't work period. I get 2 normal dirs, then a clump of dirs

I'll try that new map session in a minute, unfortunately at this time I'm a bit occupied.

Thanks for your help Zugg. I appreciate it.

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Well, it's getting considerably worse!

I tried creating a new session, and every 30 seconds I get a cmud error, I've been sending you the reports but they won't stop.

The mapper works MOSTLY now, but it's still sending jklh commands as NW/NE/SW/SE, but it's sending them to the mud as j h l k .. not NW NE..etc

Cmud is virtually unusable on my computer now.

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:04 pm

Don't just send the error reports...they just get sent into a database that is completely disconnected from this forum. So post the error that you are getting here.

If you type

.j

on your command line, what does it send to the MUD?

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

I'm not sure what the error was. I shut down and restarted CMud several times, and the errors decided to stop. Sorry, thought the error reports were more helpful. I did however note in the error report something about the forums.

.j sends ne

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:14 pm

The error dumps are helpful in a general sense, but they get sent to a database and it's hard to connect them back to a specific forum post.

Not sure why the errors magically stopped...that's really weird. But I assume the #WALK problem is still occuring?

If you can reproduce the #WALK problem with a new session, then send me your *.dbm map file and your *.pkg session file to sales@zuggsoft.com and I'll see if it also fails for me here.

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Sent.

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:13 pm

Got it. I won't be able to take a look at it until next week though.