Combine PBEM/Incompatible

[ericbabe]

I have the files.  I have not had the opportunity to look at them, but I hope to get to them shortly.

[MorningDew]

ORIGINAL: ericbabe

I have the files.  I have not had the opportunity to look at them, but I hope to get to them shortly.

Cool. Thanks for the reply. I do understand being busy.

[ericbabe]

I just tried them.  They actually combined properly for me, and I was able to enter the game (choosing Spain).

Would you mind trying to send the files to someone else in your PBEM group and having him test whether or not the files combine properly for him?

[MorningDew]

ORIGINAL: ericbabe

I just tried them.  They actually combined properly for me, and I was able to enter the game (choosing Spain).

Would you mind trying to send the files to someone else in your PBEM group and having him test whether or not the files combine properly for him?

Will do. Let me ask one question. When you select Combine PBEM, do you select all files or just one? I've been selecting all.

[Gil R.]

(Moving to the Support subforum.)

Should be all.

[MorningDew]

ORIGINAL: Gil R.

(Moving to the Support subforum.)

Should be all.

Before I close it I'd really like to figure out why it doesn't work on my machine.

Any thoughts? I'm going to try things like stopping AV etc. Will report back.

Also, as noted before, I have one machine that displays the dialog and one that crashes. So if I can help troubleshoot what might be different between machines, let me know. First thing that might help is knowing what comon dialog you are calling.

[ericbabe]

Should be all.  I selected them all with shift+left-click.

I'm just using GetOpenFileName(LPOPENFILENAME).  I've read a couple articles on this, and there are a few changes to the code we can test.  If none of these work, I'll have to look for a new multi-file picker.

[MorningDew]

Quick update. Turning off my AV did not resolve the issue.
 
Also, on a totally different note, I found that if I hit Combine, then somehow ended back up on the main menu (i.e. the File Dialog was behind the game window) and I hit Combine again, I CTD. This happened to me when I hit combine, saw a zero byte file from the last combine in the directory and deleted it, then thought the dialog had closed, so I hit Combine again.
 
 

[MorningDew]

Eric...if there are beta patches or even test EXE's you want me to run to check whether the issue(s) are fixed on my problem machines, let me know. I'd be glad to help.

[MorningDew]

Eric,

I figured out the issue. If you place the files in a subdirectory under PBEM (and not irectly in PBEM) and try to combine them, you get the error. I had placed them in a directory called 1796.

Andrew

[ericbabe]

Thank you for volunteering to test any beta files.  I will definitely keep that in mind.  I don't have anything to test for this just yet.  I do have access to a computer that has this problem (viz., Gil's laptop), so I should be able to make first tests on there.

I've been reading up on GetOpenFileName() on the Microsoft Developer Network, and somebody posted that if you change directories from within the dialog, then it changes your "current working directory" to whatever directory the user chooses.  This is an undocumented, uhm, "feature" of the OpenFileDialog and might possibly be what is causing some of the issues.