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ORIGINAL: floydg

Just be careful: the program does not work with JRE 7 (1.7.0_x).

ORIGINAL: koniu

As after 1.7.0.4 JRE 1.7 is now officially available to end users. (1.7.0.- to 1.7.0.3 where versions for programmers and for error fixing?), are there any plans to make tracker compatible with JRE 1.7, or JRE 1.7 is still to buggy to do that?

JRE 1.6 is no longer available to download from Java home side.

ORIGINAL: Icedawg

Okay, so now I have to install JRE 6, but I'm not sure which one I need from a website I found that has free Java downloads (Oracle). I can narrow it down to the 32 bit Windows versions, but I'm not sure which one I need - kernel, online or offline. What's the difference between these, and which should I use?

ORIGINAL: witpqs

There's one that I think was intended but didn't make it in: On the devices tab, calling up the pop up that shows the pool history and the LCUs that have that particular device, there is a column that shows if Replacements are allowed for each unit. Can you add a column that shows if Upgrades are allowed for each unit? This is relevant because the latest patches have Replacements and Upgrades separated.

ORIGINAL: Icedawg

Okay, I've downloaded Java 1.6 to replace my old version of 1.7, copied the Java.exe and .dll files into the Tracker folder and I am now getting this error message. Does anyone know what it means? What do I need to do now?

ORIGINAL: n01487477

ORIGINAL: Icedawg

Okay, I've downloaded Java 1.6 to replace my old version of 1.7, copied the Java.exe and .dll files into the Tracker folder and I am now getting this error message. Does anyone know what it means? What do I need to do now?

Icedawg -
I hope you uninstalled Java 1.7 properly before installing 1.6. Looks like your registry has not cleared itself properly. Doesn't look like a proper JRE install.

You may have to uninstall java again, and then re-apply. Even manually delete the java folder after uninstalling.
Also, You shouldn't need to copy java.exe and java.dll into Tracker, instead point to it in the Tracker batch file
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\java.exe" (this is for win7/vista - you may need to check the path correctly for your OS.)

Lastly, if all else fails, you'll need to adjust your registry for the value, after doing a back up of it - of course.

ORIGINAL: John S

I am an old veteran just getting back into WITP. Can someone tell me basically what the WITPTracker does? Is it the type of thing where I would be better off not using the Tracker at this point and concentrating again on the basics and relearning them or is it so useful that I should get into the Tracker right away? Is the installation and operation relatively simple or are there potential problems there? Any useful tips will be respectfully appreciated,

ORIGINAL: BigDuke66
BTW I see that we now have an alert for packed and unpacked LCUs but do we now also have an alert for LCUs(AG would be great too) unloaded from TFs?

ORIGINAL: floydg
That's a bit harder, since I'd have to check every ship that has the LCU loaded on it to see if it unloaded. Or I can just alert fragment-by-fragment. Either way, it's not clean. Unless you have a suggestion...

ORIGINAL: BigDuke66
Not sure how it now works but aren't the locations of all LCUs compared with the previous turn to see if a unit moved?
Maybe here could be done something similar, in the game the LCUs on ships are listed with location "TF X" so maybe those could be checked and an alert could be given if that changes to none TF location(or if it disappears it could indicate a LCU destroyed on sea), alert like "Y unloading started at Z".
I don't mind if the alert triggers with the first piece just unloaded, that would give the player a chance to set a mod if the unit should stay at that location, if it should move especially by strategic movement an alert if a unit has finished unloading(again by comparing and recognizing that the LCU or a split part of it isn't on any TF anymore but on land) would also by useful as the players usually want to move the complete unit and not a part of it.

ORIGINAL: BigDuke66

ORIGINAL: BigDuke66
BTW I see that we now have an alert for packed and unpacked LCUs but do we now also have an alert for LCUs(AG would be great too) unloaded from TFs?

ORIGINAL: floydg
That's a bit harder, since I'd have to check every ship that has the LCU loaded on it to see if it unloaded. Or I can just alert fragment-by-fragment. Either way, it's not clean. Unless you have a suggestion...

ORIGINAL: BigDuke66
Not sure how it now works but aren't the locations of all LCUs compared with the previous turn to see if a unit moved?
Maybe here could be done something similar, in the game the LCUs on ships are listed with location "TF X" so maybe those could be checked and an alert could be given if that changes to none TF location(or if it disappears it could indicate a LCU destroyed on sea), alert like "Y unloading started at Z".
I don't mind if the alert triggers with the first piece just unloaded, that would give the player a chance to set a mod if the unit should stay at that location, if it should move especially by strategic movement an alert if a unit has finished unloading(again by comparing and recognizing that the LCU or a split part of it isn't on any TF anymore but on land) would also by useful as the players usually want to move the complete unit and not a part of it.

floydg have you checked if my idea(alert for transport/airtransport TFs hitting destination hex) could work?

ORIGINAL: John S

Thanks for the reply.

Can you tell me generally what WITPTracker tracks? Generally what does it do?

I had quite a bit of experience with the original WITP and played for about three months in 2010 so getting back into it will not be that terribly hard.

Does WITPTracker help if you are doing the scenarios or is it pretty much limited to the campaign games?

ORIGINAL: Justus2

I am getting an error running Tracker1.9.1, it seems to be a Java error, but I am able to run 1.9.0 without a problem (installed in different folder). Here's a screenshot of the Java error. I went to the Java website and reinstalled Java, same issue. Running Windows 7, 32 bit. Any ideas?