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[Rails-devel] Can't start new game on 1.4

[John D. G. <jd...@di...>]

I've downloaded and installed Rails 1.4; created a config file; and tried
to start a game, twice (one 1835 and one 1856).  In both cases, as soon as
I hit "New Game", a popup appears on the screen, with a red stop sign at the
left, saying

       Game setup from file Game.xml failed:
        Illegal pattern character 'r'
                   [ OK ]

Obviously the game is completely unusable until this is fixed.

Re: [Rails-devel] Can't start new game on 1.4

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

Thanks for the raising the issue:
I was able to recreate the problem.

Most likely a change of the filename pattern is the reason for that error.

There are two entries that use those filename patterns:

Save => Filename date pattern
(setting in default profile: yyyyMMdd_HHmm)
Log => Report filename date pattern
(setting in default profile: currently empty)

Those settings are parsed by SimpleDateFormat, which allows only a specifc 
syntax. See for a reference the table included here:
http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

Possible solutions to fix the user profile:
A) Manual change to the setting intended using the allowed syntax.
B) Manual change to the default setting above
C) Create a new profile (e.g. user_new) and store that to the same file 
location as user
D) Create a new profile (e.g. user_new) and save it to another 
location and import that to user

(This reminds me that something like restore to a default template would be 
nice).

Given those workarounds I would hardly call it completely unusable ;-)
but I admit that Rails could fail more graciously.
If none of those works, please forward your configuration profile to me by pm.

Stefan


On Monday, September 06, 2010 02:46:14 am John David Galt wrote:
> I've downloaded and installed Rails 1.4; created a config file; and tried
> to start a game, twice (one 1835 and one 1856).  In both cases, as soon as
> I hit "New Game", a popup appears on the screen, with a red stop sign at
> the left, saying
> 
>        Game setup from file Game.xml failed:
>         Illegal pattern character 'r'
>                    [ OK ]
> 
> Obviously the game is completely unusable until this is fixed.
> 
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Re: [Rails-devel] Can't start new game on 1.4

[John D. G. <jd...@di...>]

Stefan Frey wrote:
> Thanks for the raising the issue:
> I was able to recreate the problem.
> 
> Most likely a change of the filename pattern is the reason for that error.
> 
> There are two entries that use those filename patterns:
> 
> Save => Filename date pattern
> (setting in default profile: yyyyMMdd_HHmm)
> Log => Report filename date pattern
> (setting in default profile: currently empty)

I would be surprised if this were so.  I installed Rails 1.4 in its own
directory, not over another version, and have not yet done anything with it
except to save a [Configuration] file (which I placed in the top level
directory -- alongside the subdirectory "rails-1.4" -- and named
"user.rails_config").  Could that filename have caused the problem?

> Possible solutions to fix the user profile:
> A) Manual change to the setting intended using the allowed syntax.
> B) Manual change to the default setting above
> C) Create a new profile (e.g. user_new) and store that to the same file 
> location as user
> D) Create a new profile (e.g. user_new) and save it to another 
> location and import that to user

OK.  What file do I need to rename?