Testing building script with the new engine build

in order to prevent conflicts I've removed the original release folder (easy to recreate thanks to my builder)

AT LAST!

MapScript doesn't produce results though, and I know there's metadata here!

Poor Lua code generator in Kthura data outline

I know why the private was not accepted.... Due to a complicated metatable construction NIL was not able to understand that privates should be accessible, and there is by the way no way to fix that... at least not with the way NIL's been set up now....

ID in Kthura no longer private, but I did set it to readonly

It works?

But now I got the error that I tried to call a 'nil' value, and I wonder what's wrong here....

Well I found out what's wrong

Let's run it again, shall we?

true for a microschoft product VisualStudio crashed

Let's try a different road here

I don't see where it could possibly go wrong, though, so this is gonna be a though ride, since the system doesn't tell me anything...

Exception thrown

taking forever, I see

seems not very good

I'm waiting?

Final step, the key table former

THAT WORKED TOO!!!!

And now with Data read-out link

Very well, when I uncomment the Data definition link the game just starts up... good!

Let's do this now STEP BY STEP, and see what'll happen....

The menu runs again.... FINALLY!

Of all the issues in the world.... I HAVE TO DEAL WITH WINDOW'S BEING OVER PROTECTIVE OVER FILES IN A "DIFFERENT (non-existent) PROCESS"!!!

And now a general error, without any form of information at all... I am really beyond furious now!

Okay, that's because of a code typo in the Kthura link script, but due to not everything being loaded at the time that results to an error that doesn't make it through... Somehow...

And now nothing happens when I run the engine...

Well I fixed that

Well, I got the Blue Screen of Death (which I took very very literally), but that at least indicates the engine runs at all... In OpenGL I didn't get that far.

Well I hope I got NALA working in DX now....

It simply DOESN'T want to work, eh?

Doesn't seem to work the way it should... :-/

Created a new template and let's see if I can copy all the linked C# code into it

I'll first rar what I have to make sure this operation cannot cause me to lose everything!

Added tag RAR

And this, folks, is I mostly use my own engines, and don't want to be reliant on others, but unfortunately, I cannot do EVERYTHING myself :(

Aziëlla's Babbling Bubbles also uses OpenGL and refuses to work... The Kthura Map Editor is on DirectX, and was supposed to be swapped to OpenGL (which I never did due to fear of the same trouble I'll be about to face now), but at least that program works now....

The project file is actually what worries me most!

The most obvious solution... At least for the short term would be to adapt NALA to work with OpenGL, but that may be easier said than done... But it's the only thing I can do to save this project... Luckily this won't require me to change any C# or NIL code, but it will be one hell of an operation to make sure that everything will be done accordingly in the solution and project files....

Well I've created a quick OpenGL blank project where the same issue arises, and a quick DirectX project, and that one works.... It's clear the communication with OpenGL has become the eyesore here....

researching this it appears they are having trouble with OpenGL only... Should switching to DirectX really fix all this? (I hope that is not what's wrong here).

It keeps insisting my graphics drivers are no good... That's bogus... It has always worked and the Kthura editor still works.... Did some behind my back updates take place I'm not aware of?

Again no good?

All systems rebooted

I guess all that's left to do is reboot, and see what will happen then....

Added tag SYSTEM

It's my guess the last crashes did (despite .NET being protected against it) lead to a serious memory leak

Now it even claims it can't create a graphics device record

Still nothing, eh?

I guess I need to be more prune on what to allow in the init.nil and what not, as I guess it's über-fragile.... :-/

Should never be the reason something like... well THIS is caused, but okay.... :-/

Code Typo

WTF is going on here?

Well At least I fixed that... :-/

Can a forgotten ) really cause an infinite loop crashing many programs?

Added tag FUCKYOU

WTF is going on here?

And again!

On da case!

I must (of course) not forget to recompile NALA first

Temporarily deactivated the SASKIA script

I've also made an in-field command for that.

My prime target is now #14... The previous entries were to allow me to debug this more easily and check the data before I actually get into doing #14 itself

Wrote the NIL link code

Kthura Meta Data manipulation routines written

Give my brain some rest before I begin on the BoxText routine

#12

All debug lines from SASKIA as they can spook up when being used in other people's projects

According to the data I now see in the debug log, all SASKIA bugs should be accounted for...

And let's see what we get next!

And the debug line is now formed accordingly... I hope!

In order to get well into this debugging, I did a bit of study!

Well, let's try this in stead then.... :-/

WTF is happening...

Something makes NALA take too much memory, but whatever it is that causes it.... Who knows....

Well let's test this again, to see if stuff works now....

Now I did get a crash message from GIMP, but I wonder if that was the source of all "evil"

Something's wrong here... Everything froze

let's gather some info here... :-/

The counter value the debugger returns confirms this!

My hunch appears confirmed... Two sessions get into the memory in stead of one!

Let's do this to find out or rule out

Ah yeah, the start at position 2 is explained due to the OnLoad chunk containing one "end" instruction so that was at least NOT a bug!

Indeed, I had to form the call in the boxtext routine differently, so that issue has been resolved....
Doesn't answer why it takes two instructions at once though.....

Or maybe.....

The clue is, everything works the way it should except for the fact that no results are produced... Can you still follow?

More debugging lines as things do get stranger and stranger....

A little break, and boy I needed that!

Clearly... NOT!

I've added a debug line to the boxtext linker... This line will indicateif the boxtext initiator was called at all!

MOAR debug stuff to get to the bottom of this.... Are all commands skipped, or simply never executed?

Arrays in Lua are based on 1 ... not 0

Fixed the SASKIA script... I think....

Let's test!

I think I fixed this now....

STRONT!

Some more lines added to get some answers....

the data generate rule out the possibility of this error... Further investigation is required, I guess...

And I removed an older no longer needed debug line.

Let's see what this extra debug line will do

And now it seems its sees the parameter, but deems it.... empty????

Asserted added due to another crash

Session parameter missing

Whitelines will now be ignored... completely!

and once again WHITELINES are at evil

An extra debug line's been added in order to investigate that one!

Instruction is ""?

But in my defense I must note that I couldn't test SASKIA until the moment it would see action

BOZO! 'ins' is a class, not a string variable... Add the field .command to it...

Getting somewhere, but it's not yet enough

is "true" as bugged as "nil"?

I think I found the reason why this is happening!

Yes, the cycle does NOT allow the script to be executed, as I suspected.... The question now is.... WHY!

#14

A temp debug line to investigate #12

Grim Reaper

issued as #12

I cannot yet be sure, but it seems like the SASKIA scripts are being ignored... Also given by the fact the script wanted to unlink to soon.... I need to fully investigate this!

Function so ()

Added FLOW command, as I don't trust things at the moment....

Case Error?

Fixed the label issue

Ah... stupid... I didn't include the start label yet, as I was supposed to add it later, and I forgot its earlier omission

MOAR debugging crap!

I've added an extra line that should answer a few questions

I've set another thing for a new stack, and I hope that fixes something :-/

I think I fixed it

But the label parser is completely bogus...

On-Load label not found

"Annoy" can NEVER be 'nil' without NIL not crashing on it in translation, however the fact that the eror was thrown means something right, as the infinitely loop is now broken...

I added one, and that should fix things!

No incrementor?

For some reason the traceback doesn't show!

Wrong class call

I know BAD PUN!

More missing "self awareness" issues

A missing "self" issue in the datetime library

Now that SASKIA requires the datetime library and the game itself does not, I could check if libraries requiring other libraries worked properly, and that it does... so at least this cockroach was good for something!

I've put on a few time-out error enforcers to find out where the infinite loop could be

I've set up a quick datetime routine and a timeout checker... Hopefully this will shine a light on things!

Another infinite loop pops up... wtf is this?

I think I fixed a nil concatenation

Issue fixed!

Indeed that's it!

I think I found the issue

I've set a Time-Out feature, which may hopefully provide me some answers..... :-/

NOPE! Nothing happened!

And now to test this "fix"

Some last minute shopping

My investigation does show the parser is responsible for the infinite loops, though.... And I even think I fixed this....

I'd only wish the wasn't an auto-report system to Microsoft.... MicroSoft has nothing to do with this matter, so they'd better butt out!

I'm investigating the cause of the loop

Infinite loops are always a pretty nasty thing to deal with, as there is no telling what the responsible factor is... So further investigation will need to be done.

That issue's been fixed however somehow an infinite loop now appears....

So I added a temporary line to SASKIA to sort this out, as the claim given by the error is NOT possible!

I really need to get to the bottom of this

Code typo

has been expanded with 'full assert' to force traceback, as this is getting on my nerves!

Nil for Trim parameters

#10 should be fixed, but more trouble is on the way now!

And that should fix #10 (I hope).

This link has now been established

Fortunately I already designed SASKIA to be able to read from both JCR and real file system or whatever file system you can think of as long as you write a proper kind of driver for that.

That solves the mystery

I realize now that I did no tyet properly attach SASKIA to JCR6, so it's now trying to find SASKIA scripts in the real file system....

Time to investigate #10

See ya later!

running

No time for that now

#10

FOUND IT (I think!)

I read the error message wrong... Still this is not how it should be!

Class Kthura still 'nil'... for some reason...

I think I solved it... That boolean expression did look faulty...

This is the second time a class is declared "nil" without any form of reason...

Forgotten )

Fired her up, and I expect TONS of bugs!

Great! I've killed what was beautiful code, and dirty code straight from hell (ruining all rules of programming even my own) seems to work... TERRIBLE!

It's getting stranger....

Let's try a few things.... Whatever is happening here... It should not be possible....

Now let's see if I get this straight... Class CL_SASKIA is nil, while doing a request from CL_SASKIA is actually running.... WTF is going on here?

I've linked the SASKIA cycler to the Update callback in the field... Now things can get to work... (I hope).

Coolvetica 20 has been linked to the BoxText routine as standard font

A little reorderning of code... Would be very important to do before the BoxText routine kicks in!

All crashes accounted for!

Flow error

I think I fixed the damn scope error

#8

#8

jpbubble/NIL-isn-t-Lua#42

local local?

And that should take care of all parse error crap

Parse error :(

I think I fixed this.... (I hope)....