VASL won't open...

Technical Support & Bugs
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Good morning, and Happy new year to everyone.

My name is Steve, and i started a game of ASL on VASL a month or so ago, and updated VASSAL to 3.1.15 just recently. Now I am getting an error message when trying to open VASL. “Unable to launch the application”. I will add the “Details” at the end of this post.

I have VASL 5.8, VASSAL 3.1.15 running on a MacBook Pro. Mac OSX.6.5, with 2 NVidea graphics cards, 9400M and a 9600M GT, for a total of 756 MB, 4GB RAM and 60+ GB of free space on the hard drive.

The program was running perfectly prior to the update. I have deleted VASL and reloaded, both with the .jnlp file and by downloading the program wholly, and still get the same error message using both methods of opening VASL.

Thanks for any help anyone can give me.

Steve

Here is the info from the “Details” tab.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> VASL 5.0 Rodney Kinney VASL VASL - The world of ASL on your desktop -extract /VaslDocsInfo -autoextensions VASL4 -auto

Here is the data from the “Exception” Tab
com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource: (vassalengine.org/ws/Vengine.jar, 3.0.18)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(DownloadEngine.java:1304)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1525)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1503)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1609)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1534)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResource(DownloadEngine.java:217)
at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload$DownloadTask.call(LaunchDownload.java:1979)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)

here is the data from the “Wrapped Exception” tab
java.io.IOException: missing version response from server
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(DownloadEngine.java:1304)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1525)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1503)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1609)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(DownloadEngine.java:1534)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResource(DownloadEngine.java:217)
at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload$DownloadTask.call(LaunchDownload.java:1979)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)

2

Try looking at this discussion on the Vasl forum on Gamesquad it might help.

forums.gamesquad.com/showthread. … L-meltdown

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Thus spake sgtsteve:

Good morning, and Happy new year to everyone.

My name is Steve, and i started a game of ASL on VASL a month or so ago,
and updated VASSAL to 3.1.15 just recently. Now I am getting an error
message when trying to open VASL. “Unable to launch the application”.
I will add the “Details” at the end of this post.

I have VASL 5.8,

This is your problem. VASL 5.8 is not compatible with VASSAL 3.1+. You
need to upgrade to the current version of VASL, which is 5.9.2.

–
J.

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Good morning J. and Robbie.

Robbie, thanks for the link, I will take a look.

J., I have gone back to the VASL.org site, and it has 5.8 as the latest version. Also, I tried to open VASL by clicking on the “Launch Current Version” link, but that gave me the same error message. Where else would I get version 5.9.2?

Steve

5

Robbie and J., now that I read the link Robbie, I see I need to go to the VASSAL site and d/l a new mod. Okay.

Perhaps someone could put that message up on the VASL.org site? It would be helpful to know if that site is no longer the current one to use.

Thanks again guys…

Steve

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Thus spake sgtsteve:

Good morning J. and Robbie.

Robbie, thanks for the link, I will take a look.

J., I have gone back to the VASL.org site, and it has 5.8 as the latest
version. Also, I tried to open VASL by clicking on the “Launch Current
Version” link, but that gave me the same error message. Where else
would I get version 5.9.2?

I’ve been trying for many months now to prevail on someone to update the
VASL site…

The current version is available here:

advancedsquadleader.net/index.php/VASL_mods

–
J.

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Thus spake sgtsteve:

Perhaps someone could put that message up on the VASL.org site? It
would be helpful to know if that site is no longer the current one to
use.

If I could get someone to update the site, then we wouldn’t have this
problem—we’d make it current again.

–
J.

8

Perhaps we should take it over since it now uses the basic engine ( in
effect). I think that would be easier

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Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 10:48 AM
To: messages@vassalengine.org
Subject: Re: [messages] [Technical Support & Bugs] Re: VASL won’t open…

Thus spake sgtsteve:

Perhaps someone could put that message up on the VASL.org site? It
would be helpful to know if that site is no longer the current one to
use.

If I could get someone to update the site, then we wouldn’t have this
problem—we’d make it current again.

–
J.

9

Thus spake “Tim McCarron”:

Perhaps we should take it over since it now uses the basic engine ( in
effect). I think that would be easier

I’ve emailed Rodney about it again.

–
J.

10

Hi all…

I have followed links and downloaded updates and unzipped files, but there is no VASL.mod file at the end of the yellow brick road. I have tried the d/l several times, and done a search of my hard drive, but there is no VASL.mod file anywhere after unzipping VASL592.zip. What am I not doing?

Thanks

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What are you getting after you unzip the download? And are you on a Mac, by any chance?

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Thus spake sgtsteve:

Hi all…

I have followed links and downloaded updates and unzipped files, but
there is no VASL.mod file at the end of the yellow brick road. I have
tried the d/l several times, and done a search of my hard drive, but
there is no VASL.mod file anywhere after unzipping VASL592.zip. What am
I not doing?

What do you get as the result when you unzip VASL592.zip?

–
J.

13

mycenae and J.,

i am on a Mac, running X.6.6.

I get a folder titled VASL with a variety of sub-folders and files (listed below), but no .mod file.

boardData
boards
buildFile
CASL
Counters.txt
Credits.txt
images
LOS.txt
Malf.txt
Migrate.txt
moduledata
Movement.txt
Night.txt
Perimeter.txt
scenarios
UsersGuide
VASL

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Thus spake sgtsteve:

mycenae and J.,

i am on a Mac, running X.6.6.

I get a folder titled VASL with a variety of sub-folders and files
(listed below), but no .mod file.

boardData
boards
buildFile
CASL
Counters.txt
Credits.txt
images
LOS.txt
Malf.txt
Migrate.txt
moduledata
Movement.txt
Night.txt
Perimeter.txt
scenarios
UsersGuide
VASL

These are the contents of the module file, which you’re seeing because
you’ve (possibly unintentionally) unzipped it.

–
J.

15

I have no knowledge at all about Macs - but I do recall reading of a similar problem somewhere abd it might be the Mac OS that is unzipping the file:

mattwoodward.com/blog/index. … F3F4417848

Have a look at this it may or may not help.

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I looked at the file and it looks like the download itself -is- the module. You shouldn’t unzip it. (A module is just a zip file.)

Try renaming it from .zip to .vmod and then opening it in VASL. (I believe if you double-click on it, Mac OS will think it’s a zip file and unzip it for you, which you don’t want.)

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On Jan 18, 2011, at 3:18 AM, sgtsteve wrote:

mycenae and J.,
i am on a Mac, running X.6.6.

I get a folder titled VASL with a variety of sub-folders and files
(listed below), but no .mod file.

As others have said, the file has been helpfully? unzipped by your Mac.

See vassalengine.org/wiki/Faq_ge … h_of_files

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Thanks guys…I modified the preferences as directed, and then unzipped the file, and it created VASL.mod, which works fine.

Thanks again!