I am working on a new module for a publisher (windows 7). They sent me a bunch of jpg image files, and I batch-loaded them as pieces into the module. Well, there is something odd about those jpgs, and vassal tells me they are “bad data.” So I figured I needed to examine them, but first I removed all references to them in the module, and I removed them from the module using a zip utility. The fact that they are odd is not my question though.
When I try to run or vassal-edit the module (now that I removed the bad images), it keeps trying to tile them, but the module does not reference them or include them. The tiling dialog box says it’s tiling them, and then it hangs about 50% of the way through on a working jpg (the same one every time). Vassal then opens the editor normally (though it’s slow to save the module), but the tiling dialog box hangs around forever, half-completed.
I have tried clearing the tiling cache, I’ve searched the module’s build file, and I’ve searched all my vassal directories looking for where it references those files with no luck. I wish I had saved a copy of the module before I started this. Anyone know how to fix this?
Thus spake shilinski:
I am working on a new module for a publisher (windows 7). They sent me a
bunch of jpg image files, and I batch-loaded them as pieces into the
module. Well, there is something odd about those jpgs, and vassal tells
me they are “bad data.” So I figured I needed to examine them, but first
I removed all references to them in the module, and I removed them from
the module using a zip utility. The fact that they are odd is not my
question though.
When I try to run or vassal-edit the module (now that I removed the bad
images), it keeps trying to tile them, but the module does not reference
them or include them. The tiling dialog box says it’s tiling them, and
then it hangs about 50% of the way through on a working jpg (the same
one every time). Vassal then opens the editor normally (though it’s slow
to save the module), but the tiling dialog box hangs around forever,
half-completed.
I have tried clearing the tiling cache, I’ve searched the module’s build
file, and I’ve searched all my vassal directories looking for where it
references those files with no luck. I wish I had saved a copy of the
module before I started this. Anyone know how to fix this?
Check the images directory inside the module. You’ll almost certainly
find the images there.
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J.
Oh, for heaven’s sake! I thought I had removed them, but I had only removed half. This is quite embarrassing!