Zugg Software :: View topic - [2.32] CMUDPro - Packages Not Downloading properly from the settings editor

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:08 am

Try downloading either of the Company Issue packages for Core MUD. If you add it to your session you get an access violation and then open the session offline

Here's the original for the Mining Package

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:57 pm

Did anyone look into this?

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:08 pm

Sorry I didn't catch this for some reason.

But I'm confused by your post. In the XML that you posted, you have a MODULE called CoreMining that contains a bunch of settings. But then you have a duplicate of all of the settings after the closing of the module without being contained within any other module or window.

So I'm not sure how you created that XML in the first place.

When I downloaded the Mining Package, the package in the library also seems to be corrupted. There are several settings that seem to exist outside of any module or window. So maybe it was corrupted when you uploaded it? Certainly uploading the XML that you posted would cause problems because of all of the settings outside of a module.

If you have a clean *.PKG file that you want me to test uploading and downloading to the library, please email it to sales@zuggsoft.com for me to test. I didn't get any problems with my own package upload/download testing.

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:07 pm

I agree if the uploaded package was corrupted then that would explain it. Not sure how it wasn't picked. And it probably happened to both too. I'll try and clean up the packages and try uploading them again. I'm not even sure how they got corrupted.

I recall messing around with them when trying update a particular package. If I run into it again, or can provide more details then I'll let you know. Thanks for info, and I hope this wasn't too distracting. Smile

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:46 pm

[Update] Ok so I was playing around and I figured out how got XML like that. If you just a module selected and click copy, you will get the XML for all settings under that module. But if you have the module expanded and you select the module and the settings, you'll get both sets of XML copied and ended up with XML like I posted above.

This can be pretty nasty depending on how folks are using the XML to back up their scripts.

Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 12:35 am

Yeah, when you select and copy an individual setting, CMUD creates XML for it that isn't rooted in any particular class. This allows you to copy/paste a setting into a different folder, package, etc. When you select and copy a class folder, or module, or window, XML for the entire class/module/window is created. So yes, if you also select the settings within the folder, then you get duplicates in the XML as you mentioned. CMUD wasn't designed to require you to select everything within a folder...just select the folder itself.

But I can see that problem this might cause with some people, so I'll see if I can find a way to detect this and not export the individual settings that are within the class when they are also selected.

Of course, the way you are *supposed* to backup your scripts is with the File/Export command, which exports the entire package to an XML file without duplicating anything. It's only the "Export Selected" command that has the problem with duplicates when the items in the folder are also selected.

Anyway, glad you figured it out!