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I am so sorry, Ralph..another small bug
Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:05 pm
by Telumar
I discovered a display bug with the various language.dlls in the scenario editor. When i go into the scenario editor using another language than english and open the force editor and go through the weapon systems some of the flags that should appear right of the according country's equipment are not displayed.
One strange thing is that the missing flags are always the same, Yugoslavia and Greatbritain for the deutsch.dll, Belgium and Finland for the francais.dll etc. There could be more than two flags missing per .dll, maybe i have "overseen" some. ([:D])
The strangest thing happened when i changed back from polish to german, four flags were missing.
In contrast to that there are no missing flags in the english version.
Nemo can 'reproduce' it - it is even worse with his latest version..[;)]
RE: I am so sorry, Ralph..another small bug
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:33 am
by rhinobones
ORIGINAL: Telumar
One strange thing is that the missing flags are always the same, Yugoslavia and Greatbritain for the deutsch.dll, Belgium and Finland for the francais.dll etc . . .
The strangest thing happened when i changed back from polish to german, four flags were missing.
When you are in the map editor and turn on "Hex Ownership" what do you see? Are the same (or maybe different) ownership flags missing from the map as well as the equipment files?
Regards, RhinoBones
RE: I am so sorry, Ralph..another small bug
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:29 am
by Telumar
ORIGINAL: rhinobones
ORIGINAL: Telumar
One strange thing is that the missing flags are always the same, Yugoslavia and Greatbritain for the deutsch.dll, Belgium and Finland for the francais.dll etc . . .
The strangest thing happened when i changed back from polish to german, four flags were missing.
When you are in the map editor and turn on "Hex Ownership" what do you see? Are the same (or maybe different) ownership flags missing from the map as well as the equipment files?
Regards, RhinoBones
No, all flags are displayed everywhere except in the weapon systems' list.
RE: I am so sorry, Ralph..another small bug
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:52 am
by Telumar
Could it be related with the fact that the flags.bmp contains the "terrorist" flag, but that that flag can't be displayed in the editor due to interface slot limits?
The terrorist flag is also referred to in the resource files from the language kit.
Another observation: We have two UN flags - is one of them the flag of the pre ww2 'League of Nations'? Also the name of one of the UN flags is interchanged with the name of the EU flag if you hover the mouse over it, but that's a problem with the resource files that can easily be fixed (have done that already in the latest version of the deutsch.dll sent to Jamiam and Ralph some weeks ago)
RE: I am so sorry, Ralph..another small bug
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:43 am
by Telumar
And bump it! As it is close to the next patch and neither Ralph nor James have shown up here..
RE: I am so sorry, Ralph..another small bug
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:43 am
by SMK-at-work
The league of nations had no flag or symbol - there was an unofficial one in use from 1939-41, and various parts of it had their own, but nothing overall.
Possibly the 2 UN flags are different variant? the original UN Flag had the map of the world 90 deg from the current one, with Sth America pointing to the left instead of straight down. But this was only used from April 45-Dec 46 according to Wiki.
RE: I am so sorry, Ralph..another small bug
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 3:38 am
by ralphtricky
ORIGINAL: Telumar
I discovered a display bug with the various language.dlls in the scenario editor. When i go into the scenario editor using another language than english and open the force editor and go through the weapon systems some of the flags that should appear right of the according country's equipment are not displayed.
One strange thing is that the missing flags are always the same, Yugoslavia and Greatbritain for the deutsch.dll, Belgium and Finland for the francais.dll etc. There could be more than two flags missing per .dll, maybe i have "overseen" some. ([:D])
The strangest thing happened when i changed back from polish to german, four flags were missing.
In contrast to that there are no missing flags in the english version.
Nemo can 'reproduce' it - it is even worse with his latest version..[;)]
Can I get the steps to reproduce it, preferably for French, since I speak a little of it.
Thanks,
Ralph
RE: I am so sorry, Ralph..another small bug
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:11 am
by Telumar
It's no big thing, start toaw3, choose language (francais), open the scenario editor, select edition -> forces, go to chars, then you will see the first missing flag at the T13 and T15, there should be the belgian flag but there is none. There is no belgian flag displayed at all in the weapons list. The finish flag is missing too, when you scroll down to the BT-42 you'll see, respectively see it not.
Interesting is that there are different flags missing for each language file except english.
In the map editor itself, the major river and river draw mode icons are not displayed (at the buttons at top of the terrain palette). But that is with all language versions.
RE: I am so sorry, Ralph..another small bug
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:05 pm
by Curtis Lemay
ORIGINAL: ralphtrick
Can I get the steps to reproduce it, preferably for French, since I speak a little of it.
Thanks,
Ralph
One thing I discovered using the new equipment editor is that TOAW is very particular about the what one uses for the name of the country to get its flag to display next to an equipment item. For example, it expects "United States" to get the USA flag. If you enter US, USA, American, etc., then no flag. Probably a similar thing is happening here.
Also, I noticed that there were some countries (example: New Zealand) that didn't have any country-specific equipment in the standard equipment file. And, therefore, there didn't seem to be any way to get their flag to display if you created some for them.
RE: I am so sorry, Ralph..another small bug
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:44 pm
by Telumar
ORIGINAL: Curtis Lemay
ORIGINAL: ralphtrick
Can I get the steps to reproduce it, preferably for French, since I speak a little of it.
Thanks,
Ralph
One thing I discovered using the new equipment editor is that TOAW is very particular about the what one uses for the name of the country to get its flag to display next to an equipment item. For example, it expects "United States" to get the USA flag. If you enter US, USA, American, etc., then no flag. Probably a similar thing is happening here.
Hm, i am not sure, almost every country's name is different from the english version. But a good observation and an issue that should be adressed by Ralph.
RE: I am so sorry, Ralph..another small bug
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:14 am
by ralphtricky
ORIGINAL: Curtis Lemay
Also, I noticed that there were some countries (example: New Zealand) that didn't have any country-specific equipment in the standard equipment file. And, therefore, there didn't seem to be any way to get their flag to display if you created some for them.
You could probably go into the proper place in the language DLL and replace say 'France' with 'New Zealand', and replace the 'French' flag with the 'New Zealand' flag.
If anyone actually wants to do this, I'll help.