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hpoonis2010
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 27, 2021 8:52 am   

More strange behaviour
 
I was offerd the opportunity to post a crash report...but what is the point?

Aardwolf has the bility to deliver {tags} for many things. For skills/spells:

{affon}135 - successful cast of ability
{affoff}135 - ability expired

Using these should make triggering for re-cast a breeze...or so one would think. Nothing triggers at all.

I have ability triggers, actions, etc in a separate package. I can run scripts in that package quite happily.

Another package deals with comm channels, and they also have tags (as well as gmcp data). These work in their own package also.

Any ideas where to look for problems regarding triggers not firing?
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hpoonis2010
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 27, 2021 9:35 am   
 
I suspect it is definitely to do with the insane amount of settings each window can have. I deleted all windows and let the triggers re-create them. First time out, no change...and I get cmud exeption errors. I restart a few times, delete windows again. I get another restart and a child window gets a connection also, I kill that and I get logged off completely. Restart again...now seems to be working...

...and I have no frikkin idea why. It is MADDENINGLY FRUSTRATING.
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hpoonis2010
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 27, 2021 12:44 pm   
 
It is a complete f**king nightmare. Windows are handled EXTREMELY badly. I can now see NOTHING. Every window/child window is just a blank, white space.
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hpoonis2010
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 27, 2021 5:11 pm   
 
Any gurus out there can clear up window behaviour, cause I just am not getting it. I am trying to localise everything for a package, so surely any windows being used by triggers, etc in that package, should exist in that package?

Reading previous threads...going way back...suggest that a window can be created within a package. I tried manually creating windows for my packages which output information.

That failed with blank, white screens. So I decided to alter my scripts to specify the window. Thus, I now end up with <package>/window. Yet still I get no output. Once again, my 'abilities' (skills/spells) package triggers are not working, and that package is also not outputting text anywhere.

How does, package inclusion work for packages included for the main session window? By default, I see that some packages I open from my main session have only themselves checked when I check the 'advanced' properties. and others have all packages available to them. Which should be selected?
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hpoonis2010
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 27, 2021 5:20 pm   
 
It seems that specifying <package>/window is useless as the window STILl gets created in the main session as a child window.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 28, 2021 3:51 am   
 
Usually, all the windows are mart of the main session, because there is only one layout file.
You would set it so that the package is only visible in the window in question, not put the window in the package.
This would be on the advanced tab of the window object in settings.
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hpoonis2010
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 28, 2021 10:13 am   
 
Yeah. I have tried it all ways. When the first idiot instance (this time around) of it occurred that was when (after I blitzed the entire session) I decided to try windows in the package.

THIS is the kind of thing that would get picked up on bug reports, todo or something else where a full-price product was still actively being used - and not vigorously ignored by money-taking folk.

I am thoroughly pissed off with it, to be frank. After almost 2 years of this kind of issue, where non-documented happenings appear to wreck the entire experience, I am thinking I shall drop this product.

I'd return to zmud if it had gmcp protocol support. Thus, I think a different client is going to have to suffice.

Whatever, thank YOU for your help. Without your support this software would have ended in the archive bin years ago.
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hpoonis2010
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 08, 2021 3:01 pm   
 
Although I can have:

#VAR sessionName %gmcp.char.base.name

I can #SH @sessionName and see a valid charname. It cannot be used as a caption (either directly, %gmcp.char.base.name, or via a variable.). All I get is a blank caption.

Should I wait for bug fixes?
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hpoonis2010
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 9:36 am   
 
. Question
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