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Thanks, BillBrown! That did the trick. Combat Reporter up and running.

Hi, I installed latest version Combat Reporter but now I have problem running it.
My Java version is jdk 8u172. My Combat Reporter ran very well in the past (maybe months ago, I don't remember), but now it runs with errors.
The screenshot of error:




It is possible that Java is an old minor version of Java 8(I'm sure it's Java 8) when Combat Reporter ran normally at past.

ORIGINAL: gRaider2001

Has anybody been able to get this to work in Linux?

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I just got it working in Linux today. However, not with Java 8 and 64 bit, only 32 bit, but it seems to work OK. I use this Java version: jre-6u45-windows-i586 (d/led from Oracle), and I found the old 32 bit Combat Report here: https://sites.google.com/site/n01487477/

But I have a stupid question. How do I update the base.csv that comes with Combat Reporter to use the bases from DBB-028, extended map? I must be having a senior moment. [&:]

I downloaded the latest version of CombatReporter just now and adjusted the properties to fit my situation:

watchDir='C:\\Matrix Games\\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\\SAVE\\archive'
side='j'
startIntervalDate='09/21/2017 07:00 AM'
watchIntervalSecs=120
witpDir='C:\\Matrix Games\\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition'

and then fired up CombatReporter.bat and got this error message and I'm
fresh out of good ideas to fix it. I need a fresh pair of eyes I guess.

Read what the error says. It does not like the double \\ in the file name strings.

The first \\ is OK because that tells it to start in the root directory, the
other ones are confusing it.

Here's the contents of the properties file. I haven't changed a thing:

watchDir='C:\\Matrix Games\\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\\SAVE\\archive'
side='j'
startIntervalDate='09/21/2017 07:00 AM'
watchIntervalSecs=120
witpDir='C:\\Matrix Games\\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition'


Are you suggesting that I change it? Really?

Here's what happens if I change it:

Of course it still doesn't work.  You have not followed BillBrown's instructions of post #265.
 
These command lines follow DOS syntax.
 
Alfred 

To be honest Larry, I am not entirely sure what your problem is, I am only going by the error message present in your screen shots.
This is my properties file and the only real difference I see is that I used " and you used ' around your file names.

watchDir="D:\\War in the Pacfic Admirals Edition\\PBEM Rick BtSL\\SAVE\\archive"
startIntervalDate="02/21/2019 10:54 AM"
watchIntervalSecs=60
side="a"
witpDir="D:\\War in the Pacfic Admirals Edition\\PBEM Rick BtSL"

This is my properties file and the only real difference I see is that I used " and you used ' around your file names.

I'll try that thanks.

EDIT: That's what it wanted. Thank you very much.

That is interesting, I always thought they were interchangeable.

I've tried everything and can't stop throwing this error. What am I missing

C:\Users\C\Downloads\combatReporter_1.1\combatReporter>"C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_211\bin\java.exe" -splash:UV1024.jpg -Xmx2048m -jar combatreporter.jar
Exception in thread "Thread-3" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1

Trying to setup CR, I've used in the past and it's great. My calendar option is not coming up when trying to install for the first time. I tried putting it in manually but that does not work. Is there a work around or did I miss something in the setup?

Ok I some how figured out how to get it to work. If someone is having "recent issues" try PM me. Mine was a calendar issue so I had to manually edit the settings. easy fix

quick question, i have CR working with the stock map, but it will not load the map if I use chemkids modded map, is there anyway to get this to work I've putting the stock map in another folder but CR can't find it. thanks in advance

ORIGINAL: Steven545

quick question, i have CR working with the stock map, but it will not load the map if I use chemkids modded map, is there anyway to get this to work I've putting the stock map in another folder but CR can't find it. thanks in advance

Well, you need the map where CR can find it.

My recommendation is that you back up your entire art folder if you have the disk space.
Then put the mod map in it. Then you will have an art folder with a standard map and an
art folder with the mod map.You can just swap out art folders.

Getting CR to work is tricky.

I just did a new install and it looks like the calendar does not work.
I had to set it up manually.

Note that Windows 10 did not like my spelling of "Admiral's"
It wanted a slash in it like below:

Thanks for the reply.
I noticed the CR map is hexless so I left the hexless stock map in the art folder, and swapped the hex map art with chem kids hex map and voila it worked.chemkid map in game stock map in CR

Am new to the game, but this sounds really good, thanks.

Quick question.

Does this utility only work for saved games overwritten each turn in the same saved game slot as is the case for Tracker?

Tracker is completely useless to me as I save my games consecutively in each and every available saved game slot only overwriting a previous save after I have used up every one of the 189 available saved game slots.

This makes use of the text files that are generated when you run the next turn. You do need to add the -archive switch into your command line.

Is there any tricks to installing this? Can't seem to get it going