missing spell book buttons

[LigH]

Welcome back!

And the updater ... yes ... there are changes going on. PSLaunch does not detect that there is a new selection of updater servers unless it is forced to. I believe you may do that by removing some update*.xml files, but keep a backup in case I was wrong here.

[Gillis Norone]

Has anyone something less vague? If not, I'd rather not fiddle around.

[LigH]

Unofficial temporary solution: Use the following entry

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<mirror id="1" name="sajut" url="http://updater.sajut.de/" />instead of the present three lines in updaterinfo.xml and updateservers.xml – in the meantime, I will try to get official support here.
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updateservers.xml

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<mirrors>
        <mirror id="1" name="ss9" url="http://ss9.us/update/" repair="false" />
</mirrors>


[weltall]

if you run pslaunch as admin 2 times it will work well without any mess

[LigH]

Did not for me. I ran it about 30 times until I got this information.

Probably after removing some file from %APPDATA%\PlaneShift, but I am not sure (at least updateservers.xml.download at 0 bytes). Or because Talad updated something on the server in the meantime, who knows... we talked in IRC during this action.

[Gillis Norone]

Unofficial temporary solution: Use the following entry

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<mirror id="1" name="sajut" url="http://updater.sajut.de/" />instead of the present three lines in updaterinfo.xml and updateservers.xml – in the meantime, I will try to get official support here.
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updateservers.xml

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<mirrors>
        <mirror id="1" name="ss9" url="http://ss9.us/update/" repair="false" />
</mirrors>


Well, I can't. If I try to open those files, it opens another game instead. (Big Bang Board Games 4-in-a-Row)

And while we're at it, I have other files that open "Battle for Wesnoth". (all .cfg files)

I have an updater log, but it's empty....

[Lusserall]

Open the file with TextEdit or some other text editor.

Strange settings you have mostly a xml file gets opened by your browser.

[weltall]

Did not for me. I ran it about 30 times until I got this information.

Probably after removing some file from %APPDATA%\PlaneShift, but I am not sure (at least updateservers.xml.download at 0 bytes). Or because Talad updated something on the server in the meantime, who knows... we talked in IRC during this action.

ok it seems the update server crashed a bit difficult to find an update in a 404 page >_> well it's not engine fault but someone's else

[LigH]

A (double-) click in the Windows Explorer is not the only way to open a file. And it only opens the default application currently assigned to that filename extension, which does not need to be the best choice for editing its content. In your case, a game is assigned as default application to load XML files, probably as savegame? The programmer who programmed this default assignment should be shot in the foot...

With a right-click, you may already get a sub-menu in the context menu, under an entry like "Open with...". If this list doesn't contain any useful editor, add a new application to this list. The simple "Editor" (notepad.exe) may already be suitable. But there are more convenient text editors out there: ConTEXT, PSPad, Notepad2, Notepad++ ... even Microsoft's "XML Notepad 2007" specifically to edit XMLs with its tree structure.

[Gillis Norone]

Well the default assignment for the .cfg files seems to be "Battle for Wesnoth Campaigns".   It's good to know I can shoot someone else. I first thought I have to shoot myself...

I'll give it a try opening it differently. But please I'm on Mac OSX. Your Windows options aren't very helpful...

--> Textedit did the job. What program should I use for the .cfg files?

--> The updater is running.  Thanks to all!

[Lusserall]

TextEdit will do for .cfg files to

A (double-) click in the Windows Explorer is not the only way to open a file. And it only opens the default application currently assigned to that filename extension, which does not need to be the best choice for editing its content. In your case, a game is assigned as default application to load XML files, probably as savegame? The programmer who programmed this default assignment should be shot in the foot...

With a right-click, you may already get a sub-menu in the context menu, under an entry like "Open with...". If this list doesn't contain any useful editor, add a new application to this list. The simple "Editor" (notepad.exe) may already be suitable. But there are more convenient text editors out there: ConTEXT, PSPad, Notepad2, Notepad++ ... even Microsoft's "XML Notepad 2007" specifically to edit XMLs with its tree structure.

Not very usefull on a Mac LigH

I'll give it a try opening it differently. But please I'm on Mac OSX. Your Windows options aren't very helpful...

Indeed 

[LigH]

Oops, sorry.   I read "Windows XP" somewhere above in the first posts. But that was another user.

But the opinion about the programmer assigning games to generic but standardized file types remains valid.

[LigH]

I have found a workaround to get the updater working, at least for Windows 32 bit.