ToEE Front-End X 4.0 Discussion Thread

Undefined behavior then because even this old post from 2010:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2723280/why-is-my-program-creating-empty-lck-files
tells me that handlers need to be closed. But I see a nicer method to close all log handlers at exit, without code duplication (ie. calling log.close() before every exit call) - addShutdownHook !

In App.java main():

Code:

       Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(new Thread() 
       {
           public void run() 
           {
               log("Shutting down log handlers...");
               
               Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("org.co8.jtfe");
               for(Handler h : logger.getHandlers())
               {
                   h.close();
               }
           }
       }
       );

This will close all log handlers before app exit

EDIT: I will need too recreate project using IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans sucks

 

Yay! The extraplanar chest thing was one thing I thought would never get fixed. Fantastic!

 

Les murs ont des oreilles

 

I am having some troubles just trying to install the front end. I feel a little silly as I would consider myself nowhere near as tech savvy as some of those posting on this forum, but I am a ToEE lover nonetheless, and would love to be able to install this modpack. I tried to follow the FAQ, and once I installed java, I tried to open the installation file but it is not associated with java and it doesn't seem to have a file type. Hopefully I am not making too dumb of a mistake here, but any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks.

 

I did try renaming it as an exe, but the file type is just listed as
"0_NEW_CONTENT_EDITION_SETUP[1] File (.0_New_Content_Edition_Setup[1])"

 

Delete the period and the text after it, and then add in .exe to the end of the filename. That should solve things.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/show-hide-file-name-extensions

 

Worked perfectly! I had a funny feeling it was a pretty obvious fix. Thanks so much for the help!

 

Glad its working for you now! Have fun :thumbsup:

 

i got the GOG version working on osx (mavericks). it took me like an hour because i had no idea what had to be done, so i'll leave it here in case other folks run into it.

after installing the game you want to dump the patch into the wineskin. if i command+down on the application i get a wineskin menu (to run the application you can double-click on it). i have no idea if this is a standard wineskin thing or it's because i already had wine installed on my system. if it doesn't work for you you can install wine i guess (really easy with homebrew). anyway from there you can use "install software" to dump the patch contents into "/Applications/Temple\ of\ the\ Elemental\ Evil.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/GOG\ Games/Temple\ of\ Elemental\ Evil" (or wherever you put it).

the .sh script was doing funny things so i didn't use it. i ran the jar file directly from the terminal:
$ cd /Applications/Temple\ of\ the\ Elemental\ Evil.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/GOG\ Games/Temple\ of\ Elemental\ Evil
$ java -jar TFE-X.jar

at some point it gave me the CEN header error, even though my java installation was up to date. apparently oracle's version doesn't overwrite the system-wide installation (check with java -version on the terminal), you can follow this if it happens to you:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...al-is-still-using-version-6/14875241#14875241

(or just use the application with the full path rather than just "java", you only have to run it once.)

seems to work

 

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but it's the closest I've found. Please point me to the right place if not. First, thanks for making TFE-X work on Linux, as it saves me the hassle of trying to get it to work under Wine (which I never could do with the old .NET version). I do have a few issues with it, though:
1) I noticed that save games are archived and restored when changing the activated mod, but the modification date is lost. The game uses and displays the date, so here's a quick & dirty patch against the 4.7 source provided above:

Code:

diff -ru src/src/main/java/org/co8/jtfe/util/ZipIO.java tfe/src/src/main/java/org/co8/jtfe/util/ZipIO.java
--- src/src/main/java/org/co8/jtfe/util/ZipIO.java	2014-08-19 06:57:14.000000000 -0500
+++ src/src/main/java/org/co8/jtfe/util/ZipIO.java	2015-07-03 20:53:23.771083384 -0500
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@
             // to the directory being zipped, so chop off the rest of the path
             String zipFilePath = file.getPath().replace('\\', '/');
             ZipEntry zipEntry = new ZipEntry(zipFilePath);
+            zipEntry.setTime(file.lastModified());
             zos.setLevel(0);
             zos.putNextEntry(zipEntry);
             
@@ -194,6 +195,9 @@
                     }
                 }
                 in.close();
+                File inf = new File(zipEntryName);
+                if (inf.exists())
+                    inf.setLastModified(zipEntry.getTime());
             }
 
             logToWindow(logger, format("Installation: %s is done.\n", zipFileName));

2) Is there a reason that 1366x768 (a very common laptop and cheap TV/monitor resolution) isn't directly supported? Seems to work fine to me.

3) Is there a reason that the entire map directory isn't recursively cleared? Is it because java doesn't have a native recursive delete function? It's easy enough to implement, I guess, if that's the case (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/779519/delete-files-recursively-in-java). I ask mainly because I want to know if it's safe to do that instead of invoking the front-end every time (I might be more inclined to do that if the front end took a command-line parameter to skip the GUI and just start the game; I suppose I could add that to my own copy if I felt like it)

 

As the new Frontend needs Java instead of .net I had to install Java again which I hadn´t used the last years.

Now my browser warns me that the "JAVA deployment toolkit 7.0..." is having security issues.

Could I deinstall that somehow separately and still have JAVA to get the Co8 Frontend to run?