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ORIGINAL: Roger Neilson 3

As you have hinted in another post a new version is on the way have we any idea when it might appear?

Roger

Damian sent me his contribution; now I need to find the time and motivation to merge it with the master code and finish up the few things I was working on. I can't really give you a firm ETA...

No worries....

Roger

I should note that wpae012 is the end of Dec. 7 save my opponent sent me (I'm Japanese)

I am coming back to WitP:AE after having been gone for a while but it seem I am having issues with Tracker. The app starts but the crashes. The error is JAVA (TM) Platform SE binary has stopped working. A problem caused the program to strop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.


I am running Windows 7 64 bit so I edited the WitPTracker.bat file to:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin\java.exe" -Xms384m -Xmx512m -jar "WitPTracker.jar"
pause

This creates the following files before it crashes - trackerbd.backup; trackerdb.data; trackerdb.log; trackerdb.properties; trackerdb.script.

My witptracker.properties files is -

# WitPTracker AE properties file
# Directory of the game
Dir=[C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition]
# Type of game. 0=AI, 1=PBEM
GameType=[0]
# Side you are playing. 0=Japan, 1=Allies
Side=[1]
# Password. Only needed for PBEM
Password=[abc123]
# Name of the base save file
SaveFile=[wpae005.pws]
# Mode the program will look for save files.
# 0 = just in the local folder
# 1 = just in the game folder: [Dir]/SAVE
# 2 = local and then if not found there, the game folder
SaveMode=[2]
# Text to put in the header of the main window
Header=[wpae005]
# Turn cycle (days per turn). 1 or 2 are supported
TurnCycle=[1]

I have tried to delete and reinstall a bunch of times and seem to be getting now where. Any toughts? I tried to run the exe file but the following error occurs - "This executable was created with an evaluation versin of exe4j".

Rook

I've heard it won't work on Java 7. You also need to have Java 6 available and target that. I'd also heard that it won't work on 64-bit but I'm not sure.

Geoff -

There should be something in the DOS command window. Does your batch file have a PAUSE in there so you can see the messages?

Floyd

The Gorn is right -- no Java 7.

I've made so many attempts and most of the time it disappears before you can read anything, but I think some of them end with "press any key". I'll try to recreate that and get back to you.

Here's what I get when I click on the batch file

Here's what I get if I make a shortcut from the batch file instead of the jar file.

Previously, when I had trouble some time back, I got this screen, and now when the DOS window flashes in and out, it resembles this.

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Can you delete the trackerdb files (should be four or five) and try running again from the batch file? If there are errors, I think I will only need to see the first few lines.

Floyd

Here it is, all db files deleted

Okay. Delete the trackerdb files again. Move a copy of the pwsdll.dll from the Beta2 folder over to the tracker folder. Then try again.

ORIGINAL: floydg

The Gorn is right -- no Java 7.

That fixed it thanks all!

-Rook

Here's the result

That's odd. You do have Java 6, right?

Yes I do.  I think the problem here is I've done something really stupid that only a gorn could do.  Meditate and put yourself into a gorn mentality and imagine what you would have done wrong.

I had the same error today loading Tracker. I had to re-downland JAVA 6 32-bit. Then remove, reinstall and point to the JAVA 32 bit the .bat file.

Worked fine after I did all of this.

Rook