Changing Game Piece Layouts and Seeing the Results

yangtze · June 10, 2008, 10:16pm

Is there an easy way to see the results of game piece layout tweaks without having to close and restart Vassal?

Brent_Easton · June 10, 2008, 11:58pm

This is a known bug that is due to be fixed in either beta 3 or beta 4 of 3.1 Vassal.

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Brent_Easton · June 11, 2008, 1:49am

Michael,

I have sent the details on to Joel. There are more problems than the visualizer not working that need his magic touch.

B.

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Brent_Easton · June 11, 2008, 12:45pm

I can fix the visualizer so that when you change GPI parameters, the display changes. The problem I can’t fix is that the image is not saved to the module properly in 3.1. The current ImageOp stuff doesn’t handle the uncaching of images properly. All of the discussion was on the list, I’ll try and pull it together tomorrow.

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On 11/06/2008 at 8:05 AM Michael Kiefte wrote:

I just spotted this bug yesterday and was in the process of locating part of the problem. Before I saw the question, I thought I had some sense of what was wrong, but I could be naive. Could you send me the details you sent Joel, so I can decide whether to try to fix it myself or leave it to Joel?

M.

2008/6/10 Brent Easton <b.easton@exemail.com.au (b.easton@exemail.com.au)>:

Michael,

I have sent the details on to Joel. There are more problems than the visualizer not working that need his magic touch.

B.

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On 10/06/2008 at 9:30 PM Michael Kiefte wrote:

Brent, have you committed this fix to your branch?

M.

2008/6/10 Brent Easton <b.easton@exemail.com.au (b.easton@exemail.com.au)>:

Is there an easy way to see the results of game piece layout tweaks
without having to close and restart Vassal?

This is a known bug that is due to be fixed in either beta 3 or beta 4 of 3.1 Vassal.

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yangtze · June 11, 2008, 8:44pm

I now have a more serious problem. I’m trying to create more game piece images but everything I do results in an ‘Untrapped Error - IllegalArgumentException’ error message.

I managed to create a new game piece image with this error message repeating after every keystroke…

Any ideas?

Brent_Easton · June 11, 2008, 9:33pm

What version of Vassal are you using?

Does the same error occur using the latest 3.1-beta-2?

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yangtze · June 11, 2008, 10:09pm

I tried the new version of Vassal and now it won’t load the module. It gives an ‘Install Failed - EOF Exception’ error, along with an ‘untrapped error - NullPointerException’ message.

Here’s the error log:

[1998250798]
– OS Mac OS X
– Java version 1.5.0_13
– VASSAL version 3.1.0-beta2
– Manager
[808491624]
– OS Mac OS X
– Java version 1.5.0_13
– VASSAL version 3.1.0-beta2
– Editor
– Feldgrau version 1.0
[1998250798]
java.lang.NullPointerException
at VASSAL.launch.ModuleManagerWindow$MyTreeNode.findNode(ModuleManagerWindow.java:747)
at VASSAL.launch.ModuleManagerWindow$MyTreeNode.contains(ModuleManagerWindow.java:761)
at VASSAL.launch.ModuleManagerWindow.addModule(ModuleManagerWindow.java:589)
at VASSAL.launch.AbstractLaunchAction$LaunchCommandServer.reply(AbstractLaunchAction.java:297)
at VASSAL.launch.CommandServer.run(CommandServer.java:61)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)
[808491624]
java.io.EOFException
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.peekByte(ObjectInputStream.java:2498)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1273)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:348)
at VASSAL.launch.CommandClient.request(CommandClient.java:63)
at VASSAL.launch.Editor.launch(Editor.java:118)
at VASSAL.launch.Launcher.extractResourcesAndLaunch(Launcher.java:135)
at VASSAL.launch.Launcher$1.run(Launcher.java:122)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:461)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:190)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:176)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110)

Brent_Easton · June 11, 2008, 10:47pm

Hi,

Could you email the module, or a link to it so I can try it on the latest version. I think this is a bug that has been fixed.

Regards,
Brent.

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uckelman · June 11, 2008, 11:59pm

Thus spake “yangtze”:

What do you mean by that exactly? Could you be more specific?

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J.

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uckelman · June 12, 2008, 12:01am

Thus spake “Brent Easton”:

Brent, since you seem to know what this is about, could you state what
it is exactly that we’re fixing here?

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J.

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Brent_Easton · June 12, 2008, 1:30am

Joel,

This is the same bugs we where discussing last week

The Game Piece Image Visualizer does not update when you change any parameters
The new image does not get written/cannot be retrieved from the archive. You stated you need to create a new ImageOp subclass that supports the Game Piece Images, plus do something about removing images from the cache.

B.

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yangtze · June 12, 2008, 6:11am

I have uploaded the module to the vassalengine.org module page as a work in progress. I’ll try an attachment here too…

Thanks for looking at this, brent and others!

Don

yangtze · June 12, 2008, 6:18am

When I alter the properties of an individual game piece created entirely with the ‘game piece layout’ facility, e.g. the Panther piece (see module Feldgrau), I can’t see the results of my tweak when I drag the piece to the gameboard. I have to close Vassal completely, reopen it, open a new game, and then I can see the results of my tweak.

Now I can’t create another piece without seeing error messages at every step.

Brent_Easton · June 12, 2008, 10:35am

Hi Don,

I had no trouble opening and/or editing the Feldgrau module using the beta-2 of Vassal.

Is Feldgrau already in the list of modules in the Module Manager? If so, try removing it, then open it again to re-add it.

The Game Piece Image redisplay is definitely broken in that version though.

If you want to make progress soon, I would sugggest you drop back and use v3.0.17 of Vassal. Just ignore the warning message the first time you open the module.

Cheers,
Brent.

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yangtze · June 12, 2008, 6:01pm

Thanks for this info Brent - now working fine (other than Game Piece Image redisplay of course) in v3.0.15.