GreenAsJade Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 http://bit.ly/cm-helper This version no longer displays "ghost" entries of installations that you don't have. Hopefully, the bug where it would sometimes display a sad face instead of the game icon when you have installed the game in a non-standard place is also fixed. GaJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted April 20, 2014 Author Share Posted April 20, 2014 Windows version finally uploaded. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfhand Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 Hmmm... when checking the CM installs tab the game still doesn't recognize the Gustav Line module as present. It reports "(latest is 1.10, not installed)" which is partly untrue and partly true; v1.10 is not installed, however the latest is v1.12 which is installed Also, under Red Thunder is reports (version not known). Both of these titles were installed in the My Documents folder of a Win 7 x64 system (I have found it is simpler in the long run to not install CM titles in the Program Files folder). Both are working with CM Helper so this is just an FYI post. Thanks for making this support application, it has really made pbem (in name only) a breeze! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted April 21, 2014 Author Share Posted April 21, 2014 sfhand - can you send me the log file from starting up CMH. If you can also send me the listing (screenshot or some other means) of the Data folder of your CMFI and CMRT installations, that'd help a lot. It's _supposed_ to know how to figure out the versions of these, so I need to know in cases where it can't why is that so! It's also just conceivable your install of one of those two games is corrupt (!) ... which is one of the things CMH is eventually supposed to help protect against. It will be great when we get to the stage where when CMH says something is wrong, we believe it instead of it likely being a bug GaJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted April 21, 2014 Author Share Posted April 21, 2014 Dang - LukeFF - can you send me the log, and the screenshot of the contents of your CMSF Data folder. Thanks! (tee hee, I can answer your questions before you ask them!) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeFF Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 Martin, I noticed that, after adding my Shock Force installation to 1.2.2, CMH has reverted to showing it ghosted out and not installed. This happened after I exited CMH and then restarted it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bram1979 Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 So how does this mod work? Is it the same as H2HH? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simmox Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 exactly the same with some refinements in the area of multiple versions and modules etc 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bram1979 Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 So if I open CMH it will automaticly upload and download any new turns? And where do I put my files? Do I still need to use DB? And will it delete any old files? Do I get a message if any new turn is added? yeah yeah... N00B questions 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilM Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 So if I open CMH it will automaticly upload and download any new turns? Yes And where do I put my files? You don't need to do anything with your files; CMH takes the file(s) from Cmx2 outgoing email game folder and puts them in the associated dropbox folder; when the next turn back from your oppo reaches the dropbox folder, CHM sees it is there and puts it in the game incoming email folder, and alerts you that it's your turn. All you need to do is fire up the game and go to saved games, and the file is there for you to play. Easy! Do I still need to use DB? Yes And will it delete any old files? Yes, if you set it to do so Do I get a message if any new turn is added? Yes yeah yeah... N00B questions 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squeaker Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 I seem to have an error when I run v1.2.1 on running, I get the message Traceback (most recent call last): File "wx/_core.py", line 16767, in <lambda> File "wx/lib/pubsub/core/kwargs/publisher.py", line 30, in sendMessage File "wx/lib/pubsub/core/kwargs/publishermixin.py", line 24, in publish File "wx/lib/pubsub/core/topicobj.py", line 340, in _publish File "wx/lib/pubsub/core/topicobj.py", line 359, in __sendMessage File "wx/lib/pubsub/core/kwargs/publishermixin.py", line 64, in _mix_callListener File "wx/lib/pubsub/core/kwargs/listenerimpl.py", line 27, in __call__ File "controller.py", line 319, in OnAppEvent File "controller.py", line 176, in _Go KeyError: u'type' And then when I try and add a game sintallation, I get Traceback (most recent call last): File "view.py", line 483, in OnInstallNew File "wx/lib/pubsub/core/kwargs/publisher.py", line 30, in sendMessage File "wx/lib/pubsub/core/kwargs/publishermixin.py", line 24, in publish File "wx/lib/pubsub/core/topicobj.py", line 340, in _publish File "wx/lib/pubsub/core/topicobj.py", line 359, in __sendMessage File "wx/lib/pubsub/core/kwargs/publishermixin.py", line 64, in _mix_callListener File "wx/lib/pubsub/core/kwargs/listenerimpl.py", line 27, in __call__ File "controller.py", line 328, in OnAppEvent File "controller.py", line 397, in _ProcessUserEvent File "controller.py", line 582, in AddInstallFromUser AttributeError: Controller instance has no attribute '_installs' Have I done something wrong? Windows 7, 64bit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted April 22, 2014 Author Share Posted April 22, 2014 Hah - that was an interesting little bug. Please try 1.2.3. If it still is a problem please try deleting the file called AppState.txt, which is in the same folder as the log file: CMH tells you where this at the top of the log window. Then restart. If it's _still_ a problem after that, please email me the whole log file. Thanks! GaJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 I'm getting the same errors as Squeaker with 1.2.3 edit: but deleting AppState.txt seems to have resolved it. edit2: but it isn't seeing that I have GL installed (the GL line entry is there, but greyed out. So is CMSF) Edit3: what's the 'Opponents' tab supposed to do? There's a CMRT-ish looking icon, but I don't seem to be able to add or edit anything there. Edit4: the CMH Help.html file is missing. Selecting 'Help' from the menu bar generates a 'file not found' error. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 Do I still need to use DB? AIUI you don't need to use DB specifically (I've got CMH 1.1.2 up and running with www.copy.com), but you do need to use some type of cloud storage to buffer and transfer files between users. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilM Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 AIUI you don't need to use DB specifically (I've got CMH 1.1.2 up and running with www.copy.com), but you do need to use some type of cloud storage to buffer the files between users. Yep, apologies: when I answered that question with a flat "yes", I should have been more circumspect, and said just as you now have. I think I took the basic tone of the admitted "newbie" type questions to mean "do I still need to use some sort of cloud storage arrangement", and it was a "yes" to my interpretation of the question that I gave. It doesn't have to be dropbox specifically. Sorry for any confusion I caused. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted April 22, 2014 Author Share Posted April 22, 2014 JonS: thanks for the feedback. Sounds like 1.2.3 does resolve the squeaker issue - sorry that you have to delete AppState to clean things up. Can you send me a CMH log file from striaght after starting up and a listing (screenie or otherwise) of your CMFI & CMSF "Data" folders. IF they are installed in the default place, then CMH should recognise that you have them, and tell you what versions of what modules you have. If they aren't installed in the default place, you would need to use Install->Edit or Install->Add to tell CMH where they are ... Opponents tab doesn't quite do anything yet - I decided to pop CMH out when CMRT came out to enable CMRT support, but haven't quite got the "opponents" features sorted. Yeah - I desperately need to write some documentation! GaJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfhand Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 GaJ, the Install->Edit solution solved the problem for me. Thanks! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squeaker Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 Hah - that was an interesting little bug. Please try 1.2.3. That sorted it! Cheers Gaj! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimoS. Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Have Problems with CM Helper 1.2.5 finding my CMFI Gustav linie Addon. Also im having Problems setting up Games. I choose the Dropbox Folder i setup File #1 in there and it copy it to my Incoming Folder thinking that its my Turn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted April 29, 2014 Author Share Posted April 29, 2014 Check out this cool new documentation I wrote ... it even has a section on Reporting Bugs and Issues. Hope I'll hear from you with more details soon. GaJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimoS. Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Thx. I found out how to solve my Problems by Manually giving the Install Pathes of the Games i own. But now i have the Problem that everytime i Restart every Game in my List is doubled and he autosearches for new Installs that he finds: Version Unknown. You get what i mean? Great Program btw! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yskonyn Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Hi GaJ! Thanks for your wonderful utility! It makes managing PBEM games so much easier. A little feedback: With the folder structure change introduced by CMRT I think some confusion is caused while pointing CMH towards our install folders. In the old situation (CMSF, FI and BN) you would point CMH towards the root install folder of the game, as it is here that the Game Files folder with the savedgames resides. In the new situation however, the savedgames reside somwgere in the My Documents folder, whereas the label of the location you need to point CMH to inside your program is still called: Root Installation Folder. Instead of having to point CMH towards the base install folder of CMRT (e.g. C:\Games\CMRT\), we actually need to point it towards the location in My Documents where it can read the savegames folder of CMRT (e.g. C:\Users\Name\My Documents\Battlefront\Combat Mission\etc). I suspect this is why some people are having problems. Perhaps you should rename the location 'box' inside CMH? Lastly a little request; I don't know if this is possible at all, but would you be able to make CMH remember which filenumber / turn a given game is at while not looking at the number in the filename? I play CM on two different computers, but I currently cannot run CMH on both, because for example if I have played 4 turns on Computer A since Computer B had its last turn, CMH gets confused once I run it on computer B again to check for turns after these 4 turns have passed on the other computer. Probably because it reads the last filenumber an expects the next logical one in return? Would there be a way to circumvent this and just overwrite a given game with the latest turn found? For example making CMH remember wether you are sending odd or even numbered files and then it just checks for the highest number in the dropbox it can find with that filename? I hope I have explained it clearly enough! Cheers! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted April 29, 2014 Author Share Posted April 29, 2014 I should write in the documentation actually: it is known that CM Helper does not support the playing of a game on two different computers. The reason I have not tried to rely on one person having even and the other person having odd numbers is because nothing enforces that. Sometimes people actually manually change the number, for some reason or other (often after they have saved the game, so they have to manually type the new file name). The other problem is knowing who's chat is which. Each instance of CM Helper (on each machine) will create a chat file, so there will be three chat files for two people... I recently had a different brainwave about how to make this work, and it it is "on the list", but pretty low down because AFAIK not many people try to do this, and there are other more important things to do first. Maybe if you made a petition showing that lots of people would like this, then it would move up the list GaJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted April 29, 2014 Author Share Posted April 29, 2014 Timo - I'm glad you made some progress. I'd really like to help fix the remaining problem: please follow the instructions for reporting an issue. GaJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PIATpunk Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Maybe if you made a petition showing that lots of people would like this, then it would move up the list I'd like to see this implemented, and all my other personalities would like it as well. So that may count as 'lots'. Recently installed RT onto the lappy for this purpose but had not got to the point of trying a multi machine pbem - might stick to the desktop for the moment (I hear araldite is good for that). cheers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.