ToEE Front-End X Official Discussion Thread

I installed 6.0 NC and with it i got the latest ToEE Front-End X v3.0e
- i have 33kb crack

Option
*Show NPC hp option doesn't work for me
(i hope this is for enemys total hp )


Any1 know how to fix it? :]

 

Can one try the linux TFE-X alternatively to the wine TFE-X, or will this corrupt savegames or something?

 

I need simple info for this options in TFE-X
(i didn't found them (i need some buff ))
1. Max HP for NPCs (From levels)

2. Max HP for NPCs (From HD)

3. Max HP per Level

 

Maybe it's not actually irrelevant. All this talking about optional settings had me take a closer look at the TFE-X interface. I have only a large red cross where one would expect a menu bar. Is this normal, or should there be, in fact, a menu bar? But in any case, it lets me run the game.

 

Sorry, I think I accidentally edited my message when I meant to quote it.

Anyway, I was saying that I'm playing under Linux exclusively, and that I'm using "wine TFE-X.exe" to do it. I can't figure out how to use the Linux binary: when I type "mono TFE-X-linux" in the same TOEE root dir, I see to get the "must be in TOEE root folder" error that is mentioned on page 1 of this thread. I see that you reacted to it and fixed something, but I don't see how to make this work.

And yes, my question was, if I manage to switch front-ends, will this interact with (and possibly corrupt) my save-games?

 

I had, in fact, an uppercase TEMPLE.DLL (which strangely has a timestamp from yesterday, the last time I played the game. Is playing altering the dll? Weird.) After symlinking it (Edit: also after renaming it) to temple.dll, the front-end starts, kind of:

Code:

$ cd toee
$ ls temple.dll toee.exe toee.cfg
temple.dll  toee.cfg  toee.exe
$ mono -V
Mono JIT compiler version 2.6.7 (tarball Sun Jan  2 20:31:39 CET 2011)
Copyright (C) 2002-2010 Novell, Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
	TLS:           __thread
	GC:            Included Boehm (with typed GC and Parallel Mark)
	SIGSEGV:       altstack
	Notifications: epoll
	Architecture:  x86
	Disabled:      none
$ mono TFE-X-linux 
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Argument is out of range.
Parameter name: index
  at System.Collections.Generic.List`1[System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewColumn].get_Item (Int32 index) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at System.Windows.Forms.DataGridView.ColumnDisplayIndexToIndex (Int32 index) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at System.Windows.Forms.DataGridView.MoveCurrentCell (Int32 x, Int32 y, Boolean select, Boolean isControl, Boolean isShift, Boolean scroll) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at System.Windows.Forms.DataGridView.OnRowsAddedInternal (System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewRowsAddedEventArgs e) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.Windows.Forms.DataGridView:OnRowsAddedInternal (System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewRowsAddedEventArgs)
  at System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewRowCollection.AddCore (System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewRow dataGridViewRow, Boolean sharable) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewRowCollection.Add (System.Object[] values) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at TFE_X.TFEMain.TFEMainLoad (System.Object sender, System.EventArgs e) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad (System.EventArgs e) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 
  at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoadInternal (System.EventArgs e) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 

... and I get a pop-up asking whether I'm sure I want to quit the ToEE Front-End. If I click "No", I get a window with strange geometry (very tall and thin), with a menu bar (as opposed to my wine TFE-X!), and which otherwise looks like it could be the front-end. But the menu fonts are somehow garbled (Edit: not really garbled, the text is somehow misplaced and only half lines are shown, that sort of thing; the visible parts of the glyphs are ok) and I can't resize the thing to actually properly see its contents.

This is on a Gentoo system where I do rolling updates for some years now. I can post more specific sysinfos if you tell me what you need. As I said, I don't know anything about Mono, and I don't have any idea what kind of problem this could be. (And I have wine 1.2, in case you care.)

Edit: This is how the filenames in the ToEE root look:

Code:

$ ls
binkw32.dll                                pyToEE22.dll
ChangeLog.txt                              temple.dll
Circle of Eight Modpack 5.9.2 BETA.jpg     Temple of Elemental Evil.tfm
Circle of Eight Modpack 5.9.2 BETA.tfm     Temple of Elemental Evil.tfs
Circle of Eight Modpack 5.9.2 BETA.tfs     Temple of Elemental Evil.txt
Circle of Eight Modpack 5.9.2 BETA.txt     TFE-X.exe
Circle of Eight Modpack 5.9.3 NC BETA.jpg  TFE-X.ini
Circle of Eight Modpack 5.9.3 NC BETA.tfm  TFE-X.jpg
Circle of Eight Modpack 5.9.3 NC BETA.tfs  TFE-X-linux
Circle of Eight Modpack 5.9.3 NC BETA.txt  TFE-X.log
Circle of Eight Modpack 6.0.0 NC.jpg       TFE-X-repair.exe
Circle of Eight Modpack 6.0.0 NC.tfm       TFE-X-repair.txt
Circle of Eight Modpack 6.0.0 NC.txt       TFE-X.tfd
data                                       tig.dat
docs_Co8 5.9.2                             tio.dll
docs_Co8 5.9.3 NC                          ToEE1.dat
docs_Co8 6.0.0 NC                          ToEE2.dat
ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll                ToEE3.dat
Interop.IWshRuntimeLibrary.dll             TOEE4.DAT
miles                                      toee.cfg
modules                                    toee.exe
movies.tfp                                 TOEE.EXE.orig
Mss32.dll                                  unins000.dat
msvcr70.dll                                unins000.exe
mt19937ar.txt                              zlib-1.2.1.dll

 

I also want to point out that my TFE-X-linux was not executable after installation, and when I make it executable, it does not execute:

Code:

$ chmod u+x TFE-X-linux 
$ ./TFE-X-linux 
bash: ./TFE-X-linux: cannot execute binary file

 

Disregard this subproblem, I figured it out and it's an unrelated problem. One needs CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC in the kernel, and then there is a doc in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/mono.txt that explains how to set this up so that one can call mono binaries directly. Apparently my mono package didn't set this up correctly.

 

Updated a bunch of libraries today, and can now reproduce your wine crash. Mono still doesn't work, but I hope it means I'm slowly approaching the state of your system.

 

Have you considered doing this with a simpler gui toolkit that can be linked statically (like fltk)? Might remove a lot of potential problems. For this relatively simple window that you need, mono seems really overkill anyway.