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What is this
This is a Combat and Operations reporter tool for WITP, listing all reports and events occurring in each day of a WITP campaign. It is essentially the same as the Combat Reporter by bretg80: https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... 8&t=180804

Why make this if Combat Reporter exists

• In every campaign I have run with Combat Reporter I eventually encountered errors (possibly parsing errors) that stopped the tool from working.

• Some types of reports didnt have map view of where they occurred, some were missing altogether.

• Many people have trouble running it because of Java

Requirements
Windows 7 and above, .NET 6.0 (windows should auto update this, if not this application will point you to where to install it), minimum screen resolution of 1366x768

Install and Setup

• Download the latest version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ak3ucL ... 4ebhG/view

• Extract the folder anywhere

• Run WITPDay.exe

• Set your WITP Directory. This is the root directory of WITP, where the game exe resides. See the example below

Note: You need to have the "-archive" switch enabled on your WITP executable for it to store the daily combat and operations reports used by this application.



Appeal
I've only been able to test this on small campaign logs, if you have a long running campaign (2+ years game time) I would appreciate if you can send me your SAVE/archive folder so I can stress test the application.

Screenshots

I had to update the net

Malwarebytes flagged it as malware.

Nothing but errors when I tried to set the directory

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. (Specified argument was out of the range of valid values. (Parameter 'start')) (Specified argument was out of the range of valid values. (Parameter 'start'))
---> System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Specified argument was out of the range of valid values. (Parameter 'start')
at WITPDay.Form1.StringBetween(String STR, String FirstString, String LastString)
at WITPDay.Form1.<>c__DisplayClass20_0.<LoadHistory>b__5(Int32 i)
at System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.<>c__DisplayClass19_0`1.<ForWorker>b__1(RangeWorker& currentWorker, Int32 timeout, Boolean& replicationDelegateYieldedBeforeCompletion)
--- End of stack trace from previous location ---
at System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.<>c__DisplayClass19_0`1.<ForWorker>b__1(RangeWorker& currentWorker, Int32 timeout, Boolean& replicationDelegateYieldedBeforeCompletion)
at System.Threading.Tasks.TaskReplicator.Replica.Execute()
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.Threading.Tasks.TaskReplicator.Run[TState](ReplicatableUserAction`1 action, ParallelOptions options, Boolean stopOnFirstFailure)
at System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.ForWorker[TLocal](Int32 fromInclusive, Int32 toExclusive, ParallelOptions parallelOptions, Action`1 body, Action`2 bodyWithState, Func`4 bodyWithLocal, Func`1 localInit, Action`1 localFinally)
--- End of stack trace from previous location ---
at System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.ThrowSingleCancellationExceptionOrOtherException(ICollection exceptions, CancellationToken cancelToken, Exception otherException)
at System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.ForWorker[TLocal](Int32 fromInclusive, Int32 toExclusive, ParallelOptions parallelOptions, Action`1 body, Action`2 bodyWithState, Func`4 bodyWithLocal, Func`1 localInit, Action`1 localFinally)
at System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.For(Int32 fromInclusive, Int32 toExclusive, Action`1 body)
at WITPDay.Form1.LoadHistory(String path, Int32 side)
at WITPDay.Form1.button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, WM msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
---> (Inner Exception #1) System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Specified argument was out of the range of valid values. (Parameter 'start')
at WITPDay.Form1.StringBetween(String STR, String FirstString, String LastString)
at WITPDay.Form1.<>c__DisplayClass20_0.<LoadHistory>b__5(Int32 i)
at System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.<>c__DisplayClass19_0`1.<ForWorker>b__1(RangeWorker& currentWorker, Int32 timeout, Boolean& replicationDelegateYieldedBeforeCompletion)
--- End of stack trace from previous location ---
at System.Threading.Tasks.Parallel.<>c__DisplayClass19_0`1.<ForWorker>b__1(RangeWorker& currentWorker, Int32 timeout, Boolean& replicationDelegateYieldedBeforeCompletion)
at System.Threading.Tasks.TaskReplicator.Replica.Execute()<---



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************** JIT Debugging **************

Yeah quite expected would get flagged, probably because it uses IO

Can you send your archive folder? Probably some obscure report failing to parse

Nomad wrote: Wed Aug 03, 2022 2:38 pm I had to update the net

Malwarebytes flagged it as malware.

Nothing but errors when I tried to set the directory

Here it is
I also tried it on a second game with the same result

Nomad wrote: Wed Aug 03, 2022 4:11 pm Here it is

archive_2.zip

I also tried it on a second game with the same result

Thank you Nomad, updated download link with fix
Was missing parser for report of encountering minefield at a hex, not a base

Still errors, I put the errors into a text doc.

I like what you’re doing here. I appreciate you’re making tools for this game in 2022. I want to support you project. Once you have this program working reliably, please let me know, and I’ll put together a YouTube video in my WitP Tutorial playlist talking about what this is, how it works, and how to get it running. We can work together on it if you want. Let me know.

Nomad wrote: Wed Aug 03, 2022 4:46 pm Still errors, I put the errors into a text doc.

Second error message.txt

Is that with the archive you sent me? After the fix I can fully load your archive fine.

BananaConvention wrote: Wed Aug 03, 2022 4:52 pm I like what you’re doing here. I appreciate you’re making tools for this game in 2022. I want to support you project. Once you have this program working reliably, please let me know, and I’ll put together a YouTube video in my WitP Tutorial playlist talking about what this is, how it works, and how to get it running. We can work together on it if you want. Let me know.

Thank you, sure I would appreciate it being featured on your tutorial videos

Yes, it is the same archive. No new files added yet

I redownloaded the program files and I still get the errors. I have no idea what is wrong.

Something new that is interesting, I move all the archive file to a temp folder and then moved the last 4 back into the archive folder and they loaded fine.

Nomad wrote: Wed Aug 03, 2022 5:57 pm Yes, it is the same archive. No new files added yet

I redownloaded the program files and I still get the errors. I have no idea what is wrong.

Something new that is interesting, I move all the archive file to a temp folder and then moved the last 4 back into the archive folder and they loaded fine.

Do you have any non .txt files in the archive folder? I believe that's the issue. Anyway I updated the application to ignore non .txt files.

So now it seems to work for me with a small number of days loaded.

The biggest gripe I have now is that it does not remember my settings. I have to tell it I am Allies every time and I have to select the directory each time I open it. You need a configuration file for this.

12doze12 wrote: Wed Aug 03, 2022 7:09 pm

Nomad wrote: Wed Aug 03, 2022 5:57 pm Yes, it is the same archive. No new files added yet

I redownloaded the program files and I still get the errors. I have no idea what is wrong.

Something new that is interesting, I move all the archive file to a temp folder and then moved the last 4 back into the archive folder and they loaded fine.

Do you have any non .txt files in the archive folder? I believe that's the issue. Anyway I updated the application to ignore non .txt files.

The only thing that was not a txt file was a folder for holding all the reports. I tried moving it, but it made no difference.
It works with the last 4 days loaded, so I will continue to use it and see what happens as I add more days

Nomad wrote: Wed Aug 03, 2022 7:18 pm The only thing that was not a txt file was a folder for holding all the reports. I tried moving it, but it made no difference.
It works with the last 4 days loaded, so I will continue to use it and see what happens as I add more days

Okay, I wonder because in the zip you sent there is a archive.zip inside too



But could be something else

Nomad wrote: Wed Aug 03, 2022 7:11 pm The biggest gripe I have now is that it does not remember my settings. I have to tell it I am Allies every time and I have to select the directory each time I open it. You need a configuration file for this.

Yeah that's a great suggestion, shouldn't take long to add

I took it out also, I just tried again with the entire archive set, but I got errors again. Not sure why.

One more time, I deleted the existing program files, I downloaded the program files and unzipped them. I moved all the archive files back and I still get errors. Sorry, I have no idea why, but I really do not need the old files, so I will just go from using the last 4 days and see what happens. We must have some difference in our setups that are causing a problem. It is not that important.

I would be interested to see if others have the same problem or not.

Added settings file so only have to set path and side once, subsequent loadings will automatically load.

Nomad wrote: Wed Aug 03, 2022 7:29 pm I took it out also, I just tried again with the entire archive set, but I got errors again. Not sure why.

One more time, I deleted the existing program files, I downloaded the program files and unzipped them. I moved all the archive files back and I still get errors. Sorry, I have no idea why, but I really do not need the old files, so I will just go from using the last 4 days and see what happens. We must have some difference in our setups that are causing a problem. It is not that important.

I would be interested to see if others have the same problem or not.

Really quite odd I cant reproduce the error on my end. Let's see if someone else has issues.

Congrats on this, it's a very useful program. Had to update the net as well and add -archive to a game I just started but install was easy. Had problems with Combat Reporter in the past with the map view feature but yours works well.

I’ll be trying it out tomorrow and can hopefully get a tutorial video on YT up this weekend!

Update

• Fix Ground Combat reports not being generated

frontsoldaten wrote: Thu Aug 04, 2022 11:56 pm Congrats on this, it's a very useful program. Had to update the net as well and add -archive to a game I just started but install was easy. Had problems with Combat Reporter in the past with the map view feature but yours works well.

Thank you, glad you are finding it useful

Update

• Fix some "near" reports pointing map to nearby base instead of hex

Need to report, I now have the last 31 days of my PBEM available and it seems to be working properly.

Some way to limit the number of days presented will be useful in the near future.