20 people for testing the next updater
 

I need to test the updater before releasing it to make sure any bugs it may have are gone, so the first 20 people who wish to test it that post a reply will be sent a link sometime tonight in thier private messages for the next version of the updater. all you have to do is just use it and let me know if there are any problems with it in this post once you have it.

I'll check it out.

Test
 

:D I'll be happy to help you test THE BEST MOD EVER :eek:

oh oh, Pick Me! (jumps up and down). Pick Me, Pick Me! :)

-dn

Please include me.

Thanks.

I'll test it out also:D

I'd be happy to.

:eek: It'd be an honor :D

ide be honored to test it for you. Im a heavy user also.

Hi taco

I would be glad to be of assistance

If a you still need more I'll happily play guinea pig for you :)

I am willing as well.

You can count me in if you would like to also :nana:

I am open for testing too... :-)

I'm good at breaking things :D

I'll see if I can break it! ;)

testing
 

count me in !!!!!!

I'll be happy to take a look at it, too. :)

Love to help...

I'd love to help out.

Shaden

i can help also

If you're in need of another, I'll help out.

Will beta test for food

I will help test it. :)

I'll help, just let me get some ducttape and bailing wire ready. ;)

Count me in, if you need another.

alright, 25 people should be enough, ill send the link to everyone who responded before this post in a private message once i get home tonight.

Bah, why'd you have to post this so early? I only got up half an hour ago, so I missed my chance ;-)

heh

Please allow me to test
 

I would definitely be willing to run your program through

all the private messages were sent out, let me know if you didnt get one, here is a few pictures so you know what it should look like.

EDIT: pictures removed to save space, see newer ones further below.

Hopefully, I'm just missing something obvious, but the updater won't launch EQ2. The "autolaunch" option won't stay checked, and even when I try to launch the game manually from the updater (after making sure, of course, that it knows where to find the EQ2.exe file), I get an error message....

-- Darryl

Follow-up: I've tried everything I can think of. I've tried both autolaunch and autolaunch 2, set to default, set to eq2.exe, and (just for the hell of it) set to everquest2.exe. The updater downloads updated map files just fine, but absolutely refuses to launch EQ2, either automatically or manually.

I'm likeing it so far, but as with the .97 version it takes a long time to refresh, other than that, everything seems to work.

my only suggestion would be to add a split cell on the news window to add EQ2 patch notes.

or maybe even a option to "patch EQ2 from MapPatcher" but I doubt SOE would go for that.

i am going to track that down right now :eek:

Got this upon running first time after install
 

Got this upon running first time after install


'1426959' is not a valid value for 'value'. 'value' should be between 'minimum' and 'maximum'.
File: icons_qey_catacomb02.xml
at System.Windows.Forms.ProgressBar.set_Value(Int32 value)
at WindowsApplication7.Form1.dlw_ProgressChanged(DownloadWorker& sender)
at WindowsApplication7.DownloadWorker.DownloadFile()

I deleted my eq2.ini before I ran the launcher to see if it would do proper setup. I did not uninstall the previous version of the updater, just overwrote it. Updater seems to be updating the files and setting up the proper .ini in the EQ2 folder just fine.

While the map files were being pulled off the server, I went in and double checked that the options were pointing toward the everquest2 folder. And the autolaunch was pointing at the eq2.exe.

First thing I noticed was the autolaunch 2 setting was not retaining it's checkoff if you closed the program, and re-started it.

Second bug was the same thing that DBurgdorf had. It just won't launch the eq2 executable no matter what I point it at.

I'm running this on Windows XP Home off my laptop. I'll try again in a bit on the XP Pro PC.

Oh, and btw, my Everquest folder is set up in a non-default location. (D:\EverQuest II) in case that might help.

No-go on the main PC either. Deleted all references of the old EQ2map updater on my system prior to installing. Let the updater find my eq2.ini and it pointed to the proper modded UI folder to install in.

The log file contains nothing of any help. It was empty after receiving the error messages about not being able to launch the eq2 client. Looking at the options file, don't really see anything wrong. I'd like to see a greyed out box on the option menu actually listing the full path to the autolaunch1 and 2 files.

thankyou all for the replies.
i have fixed all bugs as well as added the thing to show the full autolaunch path. i also added the checkboxed for autolanch to the main screen so you can easily stop it if you dont want it to autolaunch.

just redownload it from the same link that was in the private message and then let me know it it fixed all the bugs.

Thanks again for helping me test this, and these bugs and suggestions are the reason why it helps so much. ;)

I should add that the way file2 is supposed to work is if the box is checked it will open that when you either click open eq2 or when autolaunch happens.

The new version seems to have fixed everything, so far as I can tell. :)

-- Darryl

Most of the launching probs seem fixed.

Main window needs to be non-resizalbe.

When using the "Open EQ" button on the main page, EQMap doesn't close itself like it does when it autoruns.

Thinking that the fields for prog1 and prog2 maybe should be editable? I initially went right for em to change thier contents then noticed the button at the bottom... Maybe remove the buttons at the bottom and replace them with [...] or [Browse] buttons next to the fields.

If you try to run more than 1 instance of EQMap it tells you only one instance can run at a time, then continues to load the second, third, etc instance anyway.

I have not tested launching a second prog yet... will do that tomorrow since it's 2am :)

Hope this was helpful! :)

Nihyn Lihves
Guk

Get this after clicking and closing the options twice.

Unknown Error:
Cannot access a disposed object named "Options".
Object name: "Options".
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateHandle()
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.CreateHandle()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.get_Handle()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.SetVisibleCore(Boolean value)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.SetVisibleCore(Boolean value)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.set_Visible(Boolean value)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.Show()
at WindowsApplication7.Form1.pxOptions_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

new version to fix autolanch and add browse buttons and the path to teh eq2 directory. i will do the instance thing tomorrow morning