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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000518 | FSSCP | FRED | public | 2005-08-22 04:17 | 2005-08-25 00:59 |
| Reporter | ngtm1r | Assigned To | Goober5000 | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | crash | Reproducibility | sometimes |
| Status | closed | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 0000518: FRED/Notepad behaviour | ||||
| Description | When opening FREDded missions with Notepad (I am unsure what build it started in, but it is present in the first "fixed" 3.6.5 FRED and the most recently released FRED build) as of late I have uniformily managed to render them unparseable to FRED and FS2_Open, causing both to crash when they tried to load the mission. After tracking down the offending misplaced tags, I was quite surprised to discover what had happened. It seems older versions of briefing text I had deleted remained, commented-out, and had also managed to comment-out a tag for a briefing phase in the process. Not necessarily, however, the briefing phase they were originally associated with, nor always the same tag. Curiously, until opened in Notepad, all of these missions were completely playable. Somehow the act of opening them with Notepad caused this. While technically Notepad's fault, then, it seems odd that the old briefing text, after having been deleted, remained a part of the file. | ||||
| Additional Information | Does not always occur; there must have changes to briefing text, fairly significant changes apparently. Single words and letters do not seem enough to cause this behaviour. Whole lines do. My best guess is that highlighting a chunk of briefing text and deleting it all at once would be the cause of the commented-out text. It is of course entirely possible I'm wrong. I changed the briefings that I have seen it happen in some time ago (ranging from several days to two or three weeks) and how I deleted the text in question is not something that stuck in my memory. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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if you edit and save the missions, be sure not to save in unicode text formats. that may cause some problems. Thats the only thing i can think of. Text format should be ANSI in the drop-down from the Save As Dialog edited on: 08-22-05 03:14 |
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Let me guess: You used a semicolon, then you opened it in Notepad and deleted the semicolon. Next time you opened FRED, it crashed. The solution is simple. Don't use semicolons. If you need one, use the SCP $semicolon instead. It's quite easy for someone who knows what they're doing to fix your mission. Ask karajorma, because I'm busy for a while. Phreak: your Unicode point is a good one. I'll add something to missionload to check for this. I'll close this in a day or two if no other issues crop up. edited on: 08-22-05 17:31 |
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Closed. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-08-22 04:17 | ngtm1r | New Issue | |
| 2005-08-22 07:13 | phreak | Note Added: 0003083 | |
| 2005-08-22 07:14 | phreak | Note Edited: 0003083 | |
| 2005-08-22 20:08 | Goober5000 | Note Added: 0003091 | |
| 2005-08-22 20:08 | Goober5000 | Assigned To | => Goober5000 |
| 2005-08-22 20:08 | Goober5000 | Status | new => assigned |
| 2005-08-22 21:31 | Goober5000 | Note Edited: 0003091 | |
| 2005-08-25 00:59 | Goober5000 | Status | assigned => closed |
| 2005-08-25 00:59 | Goober5000 | Note Added: 0003160 |
