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Mapper plugin for Two Towers

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Posted by Jerrid   (20 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #15 on Mon 30 Aug 2010 06:34 PM (UTC)
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It should remember everything if you have the "state" saving working. Try pressing Ctrl+S, if there is no error message, then it saved. Also try closing down, and restarting. Once you type "look" (so it knows where you are) you should see the whole map as at what you had last time.


I use to cancel the saving, thinking it was going to over write the mapper and thus ruin it and I would have to wipe it clean and reinstall. But after reading the above quote I would close it and it would ask so this time I saved it on desk top, but it refused, some thing about error and state... so I got back in and I tried to do the CTRL S and this time I tried to save under the plugin folder, because that is the original screen that it asks me to save under. But I get the same error.
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Posted by Twisol   USA  (2,257 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #16 on Mon 30 Aug 2010 06:46 PM (UTC)
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Manually create the 'state' folder in the plugins folder and it should work.
'Soludra' on Achaea

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GitHub: http://github.com/Twisol
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Posted by Jerrid   (20 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #17 on Mon 30 Aug 2010 08:01 PM (UTC)
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Just simply "state" or more to it? I saved it inside the plugin folder, but it still does not save, gives me the same error message... is it because I have the automapper actually on my desk top instead of inside the MUSHclient folder?
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Posted by Twisol   USA  (2,257 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #18 on Mon 30 Aug 2010 08:06 PM (UTC)
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I don't think so... Maybe? Plugins normally go inside the MUSHclient/worlds/plugins folder, though.

Yeah, the folder is just named "state" (no quotes). It's where MUSHclient stores plugin save-state files. You might need to edit the folder permissions. It's really easy. Just right-click on the state folder and click Properties, then click the "Read-only" checkbox near the bottom so it's disabled.
'Soludra' on Achaea

Blog: http://jonathan.com/
GitHub: http://github.com/Twisol
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,046 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #19 on Mon 30 Aug 2010 09:29 PM (UTC)
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Jerrid said:

Just simply "state" or more to it? I saved it inside the plugin folder, but it still does not save, gives me the same error message... is it because I have the automapper actually on my desk top instead of inside the MUSHclient folder?


I just tested under Windows 7, and I must admit it isn't quite doing what I thought it would.

It seems to be looking for a "state" folder (that is the name alright) in the same place as MUSHclient.exe (not where I thought, which is under the worlds/plugins folder).

So for now, find where MUSHclient.exe is, and then make a folder called "state" (without the quotes of course) in the same directory as MUSHclient.exe.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Twisol   USA  (2,257 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #20 on Mon 30 Aug 2010 09:35 PM (UTC)
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...Huh. :S I use Windows 7 and it works fine. Bizzare.
'Soludra' on Achaea

Blog: http://jonathan.com/
GitHub: http://github.com/Twisol
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,046 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #21 on Mon 30 Aug 2010 09:53 PM (UTC)
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It's all to do with the recent change ... now who suggested it? ... that make the state file folder configurable, and is now stored in the preferences database.

In yours and my case, we already had the correct location there, but it seems the default for new installations does not match where the installer actually creates the folder.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,046 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #22 on Mon 30 Aug 2010 10:28 PM (UTC)
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I think I found the bug - there were a number of problems in the way the default state file directory was being assigned on a new installation.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,046 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #23 on Mon 30 Aug 2010 11:53 PM (UTC)
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Version 4.60 of MUSHclient now checks that the state file directory exists, and if not, lets you browse for it, or create it.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by WillFa   USA  (525 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #24 on Tue 31 Aug 2010 01:05 AM (UTC)
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http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=9842 has lots of pertinent information about MC on Win7

Nick Gammon said:

It's all to do with the recent change ... now who suggested it? ... that make the state file folder configurable, and is now stored in the preferences database.
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I've been yelling at you for years to stop writing to the Program Files directory. Not my fault that I have resorted to getting my way incrementally. :P
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,046 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #25 on Tue 31 Aug 2010 02:30 AM (UTC)
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I don't put things in Program Files you know. The end-user does. And they get to choose where to put the files.

They can install on to the Desktop, My Documents, C:\MUSHclient, or wherever.

And in fact under Unix you do exactly that. You put "personal" downloads into your Home folder, and run it from there. I wanted to keep all the stuff together, just like the (good) old days.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,046 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #26 on Tue 31 Aug 2010 02:42 AM (UTC)

Amended on Tue 31 Aug 2010 02:43 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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I put a link to http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=9842 in the main MUSHclient forum section. Good idea to suggest it.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Twisol   USA  (2,257 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #27 on Tue 31 Aug 2010 02:49 AM (UTC)

Amended on Tue 31 Aug 2010 02:51 AM (UTC) by Twisol

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Nick Gammon said:
I don't put things in Program Files you know. The end-user does. And they get to choose where to put the files.

It's really not much of a choice when that's the default. :S End-users are pretty much trained to just click through the installer, and most programs are 'installed' to Program Files, so they think nothing of it and move on.
'Soludra' on Achaea

Blog: http://jonathan.com/
GitHub: http://github.com/Twisol
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Posted by David Haley   USA  (3,881 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #28 on Tue 31 Aug 2010 05:00 AM (UTC)
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It's really not much of a choice when that's the default. :S

Err... what? You have total choice; most people simply choose not to exercise it (for the reason you gave). Saying that you have no choice in something because there's a default option (that you can change) is a little, uh, weird. :P
David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone

http://david.the-haleys.org
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Posted by Twisol   USA  (2,257 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #29 on Tue 31 Aug 2010 05:04 AM (UTC)
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http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/pedants.html
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GitHub: http://github.com/Twisol
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