Oolite Bulletins

ok.. here 'tis..

1.
I'm starting Oolite from a Launcher on the Panel. The launcher command is: /home/diziet/GNUstep/Applications/Oolite/oolite

2. This returns nothing.

3. 4. Contents of the ~/GNUstep/Applications/Oolite/release.txt file:

That's great! This is exactly how it should be!...

<chuckles> yeah.. frustrating, eh?

Ok.. mystery solved.. and boy do I feel like an idiot.. (you'd think I'd be used to that, by now!)


As I describe here, my OXP setup is a little different than normal.. basically, I have two addons folders, named Main and Testing, and use symlinks (shortcuts, for you Windows folks out there) to switch between which set of OXPs load when the game starts. One of those symlinks is, naturally, named 'AddOns', so that the game will load the chosen set of OXPs.

When I ran the oolite-update script, the script noticed that not only should the executable be updated, but that the AddOns symlink was not a proper folder.. so it overwrote the symlink by creating an empty folder with the same name.

Thus, when the game started, all it found was an empty AddOns folder.

It was only when looking over things again while discussing the problem with Getafix via PM, that I realised what had happened.. Deleting the empty folder and recreating the symlink was all that was required to solve the "problem".

<sigh> My apologies to you, Getafix, for all the unnecessary confusion and hassle I've caused you..

<tries very hard not to snigger - fails miserably> We've all done such stuff in one way or another, Diz. I used the t-shirt as an oily rag.

OK Diziet, that is very very good news.

However, before lighting up the fireworks, there are still a few points in this thread that confuse me.

Musmula wrote:

...
The name was NumericHUDv1.3.3.oxp, but I have changed it toNumericHUD and it kind of solved the problem
but it still isnt ideal, I have some garbled text on it... quite a lot garbled text, I would send you a screenshot
but PrntScr isnt working
...
I am a bit confused, I have deleted the oxps and reinstalled them into home/GNU.../Oolite/AddOns and thy didnt
work but I have then put them into home/.Oolite/AddOns (which i made) and then it all worked but that bug with
the garbled text
...

and

Diziet Sma wrote:

Since we've managed to end up with two separate issues in the one thread
here, I'll describe mine in more detail for you, Getafix..

Musmula had links too?!? What about the garbled text, right Musmula?
Is there a NumericHUDv1.3.3.oxp or was this just a typo?
Renaming to NumericHUD solved the oxp-not-loading!?!... (Smivs commented about the mandatory .oxp
extension there, but even with this correction, the case is still not consistent.)
I need more iiiiiiiinput! (Johnny Five)



Reading the thread again, I also had an

spara wrote:

...My memory might fail me, but I think I needed to create AddOns folder to ~/.Oolite myself.

and

Diziet Sma wrote:

When I ran the oolite-update script, the script noticed that not only should the executable
be updated, but that the AddOns symlink was not a proper folder.. so it overwrote the
symlink by creating an empty folder with the same name.

Spara is right; the oolite installation (at least the one from oolite.org) does not create a .Oolite/AddOns folder.
oolite-update is not aware of this folder, so it does not synchronize it. Perhaps, Diziet, you could
avoid having the same case at the next oolite-update execution by setting up the symlinks in there.

Getafix wrote:

the oolite installation (at least the one from oolite.org) does not create a .Oolite/AddOns folder.
oolite-update is not aware of this folder, so it does not synchronize it. Perhaps, Diziet, you could
avoid having the same case at the next oolite-update execution by setting up the symlinks in there.

Excellent suggestion.. I'll see about doing that..

And yes, there is still the mystery of Musmula's NumericHUD problem.. certainly I can't replicate it on my own machine.. a screenshot of what the distortion looked like might have been helpful.

Having gone through this discussion again,
it seems to me that musmula's last comment
indicates his garbled text case as solved too (in a strange way though ).

I'll mark this thread as solved.