Save bug in German version

[impi07]

If I want to save with German language enabled, I'm getting a strange file name like "Tutorial 1.SAL.*.SAL". If I change the file name, I'm getting an error message "invalid file name". Overwriting a existing file is possible though. Switching to English and all is OK.
Is it the German Version or my Vista 64?

[Telumar]

ORIGINAL: impi07

If I want to save with German language enabled, I'm getting a strange file name like "Tutorial 1.SAL.*.SAL". If I change the file name, I'm getting an error message "invalid file name". Overwriting a existing file is possible though. Switching to English and all is OK.
Is it the German Version or my Vista 64?

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You'll need the 3.1.0.9 foreign language patch. Get it here: tm.asp?m=1168020&mpage=1&key=#

The problem might be that you started the game in english. I get an error message when i select german as a language, open a save file of a game that had been originally started in english and want to save. And i get no save file then.
However, it may be just the german language .dll. Loading a file originally saved under english with the french version and then saving gives no error message...
Starting in german and saving in german works.

Ralph?

[ralphtricky]

Try putting this in your Operational Art of war III directory, or wherever you installed the Opart 3 program. Ignore the extra menu options, they don't do anything yet.[:'(]

The save game string has a special format that it needs to be in. I'm just not too sure how Telumar got it to work[&:]

[Telumar]

ORIGINAL: ralphtrick

Try putting this in your Operational Art of war III directory, or wherever you installed the Opart 3 program. Ignore the extra menu options, they don't do anything yet.[:'(]

The save game string has a special format that it needs to be in. I'm just not too sure how Telumar got it to work[&:]

Now i am totally perplex... just started a game in german and encountered the same error...
yesterday it worked.. ?????

Ralph, your file won't help, too.

[ralphtricky]

ORIGINAL: Telumar

ORIGINAL: ralphtrick

Try putting this in your Operational Art of war III directory, or wherever you installed the Opart 3 program. Ignore the extra menu options, they don't do anything yet.[:'(]

The save game string has a special format that it needs to be in. I'm just not too sure how Telumar got it to work[&:]

Now i am totally perplex... just started a game in german and encountered the same error...
yesterday it worked.. ?????

Ralph, your file won't help, too.

Are you sure you put it into the right folder? Try loading a saving a simple game like Arracourt. Also, see if you have other language.dll files.

I just switched to German and opened and saved an Arracourt game successfuly.

Thanks,
Ralph

[Telumar]

Still nothing. I have put it into the right folder, i use the foreign language patch, switched back to english and then again to german. But still an error message..

Yesterday i did it on a Win98 system, today on a XP SP2 Pro.

EDIT: The scenario editor under german doesn't recognize any sce files in the scenario folders. I then made a test scenario and tried to save it and guess what... "couldn't write file".

[ralphtricky]

ORIGINAL: Telumar

Still nothing. I have put it into the right folder, i use the foreign language patch, switched back to english and then again to german. But still an error message..

Yesterday i did it on a Win98 system, today on a XP SP2 Pro.

EDIT: The scenario editor under german doesn't recognize any sce files in the scenario folders. I then made a test scenario and tried to save it and guess what... "couldn't write file".

If you right-clink on the language.dll file, and look at the properties, is the size 540,672 bytes?

[Telumar]

I wished it wasn't (as we probably would have found the problem)... but it is..current language is german.

[ralphtricky]

Telumar,
Can you search your disk and see if you have any other language.dll files, maybe in graphics or altgraphics?

[Telumar]

Only these:

[Telumar]

Ralph, did Marc sent you a .dll or the translated files from the language kit before the 3.1.0.9 patch? I compiled the francais.dll for 3.1.0.9 for him, but so far there have been no problems with french.
Could it be related with the help/F1 bug in the german version?

[ralphtricky]

I see why it broke. I hate Microsoft.

Normaly a 0 marks the end of a string. I just found out that there are a couple of exceptions. like the file open dialog. Unfortunately, XNResource mangled the file on me once, so I switched to the built-in Visual Studio editor, which stripped off the masks.

I'm off to try to find another editor, I guess.

Ralph

[Telumar]

ORIGINAL: ralphtrick

I see why it broke. I hate Microsoft.

[:D][:D]

ORIGINAL: ralphtrick
Normaly a 0 marks the end of a string. I just found out that there are a couple of exceptions. like the file open dialog. Unfortunately, XNResource mangled the file on me once, so I switched to the built-in Visual Studio editor, which stripped off the masks.

I'm off to try to find another editor, I guess.

Ralph

Does this mean i shouldn't compile a dll with the MS VC++ Express Edition anymore? Can you fix the deutsch.dll?

[ralphtricky]

I've got it fixed for the next release.

I'll see if I can fix the german file for this one.

[Telumar]

ORIGINAL: ralphtrick

I've got it fixed for the next release.

I'll see if I can fix the german file for this one.

[:)] Thanks Ralph. Alright then, but could you pleease answer my question...? :

"Does this mean i shouldn't compile a dll with the MS VC++ Express Edition anymore? "

[ralphtricky]

ORIGINAL: Telumar

ORIGINAL: ralphtrick

I've got it fixed for the next release.

I'll see if I can fix the german file for this one.

[:)] Thanks Ralph. Alright then, but could you pleease answer my question...? :

"Does this mean i shouldn't compile a dll with the MS VC++ Express Edition anymore? "

The tools I've tried all have the same issue. I'm fixing it in the next patch. VC++ Express is fine.

I'll see if I can do something before then, too.

Ralph

[ralphtricky]

Telumar,
Please try this. I did some quick tests, and it seems to work. I've fixed it better in the next release. I named it German to distinguish it from the existing file.

Ralph

[Telumar]

Well, with the german.dll it works...but it's not very german..[;)][:D]..rather english...

Stefan

[ralphtricky]

ORIGINAL: Telumar

Well, with the german.dll it works...but it's not very german..[;)][:D]..rather english...

Stefan

That's why I explained why I named it that way. I wouldn't care to face you on the battlefield when you're angry[&o]