big bug

ID:142876
 
Feb 12 2008, 12:17 pm
Problem description:

whenever i reopen my games enviornment or add an icon to an attack like
usr.overlays += 'icon.dmi'

it reads them all as an error and says
C:\Documents and Settings\Guest\My Documents\ey.dm:208:error:'Kariiebuuto.dmi':cannot find file
C:\Documents and Settings\Guest\My Documents\a.dm:119:error:'demon mode.dmi':cannot find file
C:\Documents and Settings\Guest\My Documents\a.dm:122:error:'demon mode.dmi':cannot find file
C:\Documents and Settings\Guest\My Documents\a.dm:150:damage:warning: use of damage precedes its definition
C:\Documents and Settings\Guest\My Documents\a.dm:154:damage :warning: definition is here
C:\Documents and Settings\Guest\My Documents\a.dm:153:damage:warning: use of damage precedes its definition
C:\Documents and Settings\Guest\My Documents\ey.dm:85:error:'Kariiebuuto.dmi':cannot find file
C:\Documents and Settings\Guest\My Documents\ey.dm:173:error:'librarian.dmi':cannot find file
C:\Documents and Settings\Guest\My Documents\ey.dm:242:error:'Kariiebuuto.dmi':cannot find file
C:\Documents and Settings\Guest\My Documents\asas.dm:12:error:'spirits.dmi':cannot find file
C:\Documents and Settings\Guest\My Documents\asas.dm:19:error:'spirits.dmi':cannot find file
C:\Documents and Settings\Guest\My Documents\ey.dm:193:error:'chest.dmi':cannot find file
C:\Documents and Settings\Guest\My Documents\ey.dm:197:error:'chest open.dmi':cannot find file
Feb 12 2008, 12:54 pm
Have you recently moved where the icon files are located on the file system, because it seems to be acting that the dm environment can no longer find the files that you have specified. Make sure that the icon files are in the dm environment file-system and are checked so that they are used in the compiling of the game.
Feb 12 2008, 1:02 pm
In response to Hassifa
i can try that ... :D
Feb 12 2008, 1:16 pm
In response to Choka
when i saved my turf files under the name of the Enviornment it said cannot find file....
Feb 12 2008, 3:43 pm
In response to Choka
Did you stick them in a folder within the resources? If so you have to include the folder when setting the icon.

Ex.
icon
   icon = 'Icons/icon.dmi'


If you have things separated into folders, the name of the folder must be in the icon when you set it.
Feb 12 2008, 5:18 pm
In response to Pyro_dragons
Also, if they are separated into folders, then you can also go to Build->Preferences for... at the top of the window and then select the second check box that says "Automatically set FILE_DIR for sub-directories."
Then it will include the files in all sub-directories so you don't have to worry about it.
Feb 12 2008, 5:31 pm
Ok. Your problem is that DM isn't finding those icons.
The reason for this is almost positively one of these two things:
The icons are not located in a sub-directory of your environment file (or in the same directory for that matter)
The icons are located in a sub directory of your environment file and you do not have the automatically do sub directories thing enabled.

Your solution for the first problem is to put the icons in the same folder as the environment (the 'main' starting point of your project)
Your solution for the second problem is as Naokohiro said:

Naokohiro wrote:
...go to Build->Preferences for... at the top of the window and then select the second check box that says "Automatically set FILE_DIR for sub-directories."
Then it will include the files in all sub-directories so you don't have to worry about it.
Feb 14 2008, 10:23 am
In response to Naokohiro
it seems my DM is skipping over files.... i added the direct branch like you said
icon = 'blahblahblah folder/blahblahblah.dmi'

but its still skipping over all of my icons