ToEE Front-End X for Linux/Mono BETA

Thanks for setting this up !

Was able to install mono 2.6 from badgerports but I'm using the GoG version of ToEE which to my understanding is already patched.

However, running the TFE-X-linux complains its not in the root directory and/or I still must install the patch.

Obviously, I'm in the root dir but thats something like

~.wine/drive_c/Program Files/GoG.com/Temple of Elemental Evil

which might not be what its expecting.

What's the prior steps to trying this? Unrar the Co8 archive into the Toee root, then untar this file there, then run TFE-X-linux ?

 

Hi installed all the stuff and works so far, but when starting the game it opens firefox with the url http://toee.exe.
When i do 'xdg-open toee.exe' in a terminal its starting correctly with wine.
Oh, and you have two toee.exe (lower- and uppercase) after the modpack is installed, so i deleted the old one and changed to lowercase. With the gog version at least.

But thanks for the linux version anyway!

Edit:
Seems the problem is with the case of toee.exe, doing xdg-open with the wrong spelling it opens it in firefox.
So what spelling is TFE-X expecting?

 

Great, it works now, only one thing: when setting the option 'use level cap' it doesn't start with the error: xdg-open: unexpected option '-maxlevel:20'
And it would be great if there were a way to show the command line TFE-X is using to start toee, so i don't have to go through it every time.

 

I'd like to report a few bugs, not from this download of the linux exe but from the one on the 6.0.0 NC modpack (the same right?)

You are not checking for the duplicate files due to the case. This is problematic since the normal TFX doesn't work on wine, and the linux one duplicates files like toee.exe (instead of ToEE.exe), TEMPLE.DLL (instead of temple.dll) and toee.cfg (instead of ToEE.cfg - i think).

You need to make this more robust for case sensitive file systems where you can't take advantage of the wine translation layer, otherwise duplicate files appear, and the behavior becomes pretty unpredictable. I think it would be better if instead of just dumping things in the dir, comparing against the lowercased filenames in the dir and if there is one that matches, write the file with the original filename so it is correctly overwritten.

My clumsy solution was to run the windows TFX exe to set up, then run the linux TFX to actually activate the module.

 

Actually, it does. I've been using it for two or three weeks now. Wine versions 1.2.x and 1.3.x.

However, you have to install .Net 2.0. The easiest way to do this is the winetricks script. Set up wine how you like, and then run 'winetricks dotnet20', and it'll install the necessary stuff. The only defect (that I've found) that TFE-X has under such a setup is that the menu bar doesn't get painted, because some gradient effect isn't implemented. It still works, though; you just have to guess where the buttons are.

There's also a 'dotnet20sp2' and 'dotnet30' for winetricks, but I don't think I'd recommend them. The latter crashed during the install, and put itself in an un-fixable state, so I couldn't even uninstall it, I just had to blow away the wine partition and start from scratch. The former may be fine, I can't recall, but I don't think it fixes the menu bar problem.

Since Co8 now ships the no-cd exe, it's fully possible to play their mod using standard wine, just about as well as playing on windows.

 

It doesn't matter.
I gave you a algorithm that solves it:
"I think it would be better if instead of just dumping things in the dir, comparing against the lowercased filenames in the dir and if there is one that matches (the files you are to copy), write that file with the original filename so it is correctly overwritten."

for(File filetoReplace : listOfExtractedFiles){
//write the file to the temp dir
}

for(File indirectoryFile : dirList){
String name = indirectoryFile.getName()
for(File filetoReplace: listOfExtractedFiles){
String extractedFileName = filetoReplace.getName()
if(!extractedFileName.equals(name) && extractedFileName.tolowercase().equals(name.toLowercase())){
filetoReplace.rename(name)
}
}
}
for(File filetoReplace : listOfExtractedFiles){
//move the file
}
Or similar.