Exult Studio crash

[David - L@Zar0]

Hello, Exult Team,

First of all thank you for your big job, referring to all Exult develepment.

I am trying to translate into spanish SI+SS (SS never out in Spanish) and for that I must translate all game (well I decided that). I am traying to translate window UI text and I am using Exult Studio trying to Export/Import shapes to gimps.vga. I have not done this yet, but i want report that problem in Exult Stuidio:

Platform: WinXP, SP2 Professional Spanish version.
U7 Installed to testing: Black Gate _ FOV and Serpent Isle _ SS
After install Exult Studio and launching from install program, it runs well, withouth crashes, can open shapes, images, etc... (it has default image editor gimp-remote, which in win32 platform i don't know if it exists).

Anyway. Then after the first run of Exult Studio, I close the application (normally). After that I try to run it again and crashes every time. To solve this I must uninstall a install again Exult Studio.

If you need some debug/file dumps tell me and I try to help.

Best Regards to all of you.

Great job.

[David - L@Zar0]

Ah...one more thing...

In exult.cfg I have a section in modifying usecode and text.flx files.

Regards.

[David - L@Zar0]

More testing...

When the first time, after installed the application, that runs fine, it gets exult.cfg file on exult directory. By default gets BlackGate.
Then I change Serpent Isle game, all is readed correctly.

When i click on FONT0000.VGA the application has a crash and it must be closed. studio_err.txt says:

------------------------------------
Error while listing files: El sistema no puede hallar la ruta especificada.
Error while listing files: El sistema no puede hallar la ruta especificada.


Warning, trailing slash in path: "c:\u7si\static\map01\"
Warning, trailing slash in path: "c:\u7si\patch\map01\"
Warning, trailing slash in path: "c:\u7si\static\map02\"
Warning, trailing slash in path: "c:\u7si\patch\map02\"
Warning, trailing slash in path: "c:\u7si\static\map03\"
Warning, trailing slash in path: "c:\u7si\patch\map03\"
Warning, trailing slash in path: "c:\u7si\static\map04\"
Warning, trailing slash in path: "c:\u7si\patch\map04\"
Warning, trailing slash in path: "c:\u7si\static\map05\"
Warning, trailing slash in path: "c:\u7si\patch\map05\"
Warning, trailing slash in path: "c:\u7si\static\map06\"
Warning, trailing slash in path: "c:\u7si\patch\map06\"
Warning, trailing slash in path: "c:\u7si\static\map07\"
Warning, trailing slash in path: "c:\u7si\patch\map07\"
Warning, trailing slash in path: "c:\u7si\static\map08\"
Warning, trailing slash in path: "c:\u7si\patch\map08\"
Warning, trailing slash in path: "c:\u7si\static\map09\"
Warning, trailing slash in path: "c:\u7si\patch\map09\"
Warning, trailing slash in path: "c:\u7si\static\map0a\"
Warning, trailing slash in path: "c:\u7si\patch\map0a\"
--------------------------------


and studio_out.txt says:

---------------------------------
Black Gate : found
exult_bg.flx : found
Serpent Isle : found
exult_si.flx : found
combos.flx 6
POINTERS.SHP 1
SPRITES.VGA 1
SHAPES.VGA 1
PAPERDOL.VGA 1
GUMPS.VGA 1
FONTS.VGA 1
FONT0000.VGA 1
---------------------------------

Regards

[Dominus]

you are running the latest snapshot of both Exult and Exult Studio?

[marzo]

I don't think the problem is his version of Exult & Studio; I also get the crash when I click font0000.vga. Looking on Google, I came up with this
Apparently, font0000.vga is used in an ancient Origin Windows screensaver (as in Windows 3.x) and it is not part of the game itself.

[Dominus]

true, it crashes when trying to view it. Strangely I don't remember a crash there before. But it's been a while since I've looked at SI in ES.
(btw. nice new game chooser dialog)
I still wonder why it then fails for David after every start...

[marzo]

I still wonder why it then fails for David after every start...

True. David, could you post your exult.cfg?

(it has default image editor gimp-remote, which in win32 platform i don't know if it exists)

It does: Gimp for Windows.

[drcode]

I've probably never clicked on that file, but I'm guessing it's not a true U7 .vga. I'll try it tonight.

[Wizardry Dragon]

That crash has been there since I first started editing with ES.
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Lead Designer,
Ultima VII: The Feudal Lands

[David - L@Zar0]

Ok, here is my Exult.cfg file:

-----------------------------------------------------





c:\u7bg


(default)


jmsfx.flx




c:\u7si


(default)


jmsisfx.flx


C:\Ultima7\tools\traduESP




1




yes



yes


none


digital




yes


none



no


0




no


0



1.0000


-1


yes


digital




yes



no




yes


no


no


yes


no


yes


no


no


no



0


original


no



8


yes


yes




320


200


2


2xSaI


no


no



1.00


1.00


1.00





serpentisle


gimp-remote -n


0



1024


738




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waves files installed also and working. The Exult works very well I have no problems. The crash is with Exult Studio in Win32. I've tested it with section in SI on and off and it crashes anyway.

One more thing:

I am using BG_FOV and SI_SS. BG_FOV using a spanish patch and SI_SS some files updated by my own (but not for MAPs as I don't work with them like stderr_out says). I only work with SHP/FLX files.

Regards.

[David - L@Zar0]

If you see at the Application Error message from win32, you see what is the DLL that gets the error and i think it is form GTK libraries

[David - L@Zar0]

I am using Exult Official 1.2 and Exult Studio 1.4.x from date 2006-08-20 17:28. Not using SDL pack, as I assume this is not necessary.

[Gunnar]

You should use the same version for exult studio and exult

[Dominus]

It's not the cause of the crash, but you really don't have a choice, if you want to use Exult Studio you HAVE to use the snapshot of Exult as well. It's just not going to work otherwise.
What do you mean with SDL pack?

[marzo]

Gunnar is right; Exult Studio and Exult 1.2 don't mix very well. What version of GTK do you have?

[David - L@Zar0]

OK. Tested Exult 1.4.x Snapshot and Exult Studio 1.4.x. The same thing happens. Using GTK that comes with Exult Studio.

I belive that could be something in my computer, as it only fails to me...

I've solved all the problems with shapes/flx files with the Tools and other editors/hexa editors.

I am going...

[quenn]

did anyone come up with a solution for this? i got exactly the same problem

[quenn]

crash diagnosis looks like this:

AppName: exult_studio.exe AppVer: 1.4.0.1
ModName: libgtk-win32-2.0-0.dll
ModVer: 2.6.9.0 Offset: 001c86cd

may something in my windows machine produce problems with gtk?
what exactly is gtk? (sry for lower planes questions, i really don´t know anything about open source and coding.)

[drcode]

GTK is a GUI library that provides the usual dialog boxes, menus, buttons.

[quenn]

thanks on that one