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AMLA tree troubles for Mountain_King

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So, I was messing around and making some edits to a custom AMLA file in BfW 1.11. This caused the scenarios I was working on to stop working. So I I thought, "no big deal, I'll just undo the changes I made and everything will be fine." Not so. Once the scenario had been reloaded again, the original custom AMLA no longer worked, and the unit that was attached to it just got default AMLAs. Checking the stderr, this message was found at the end:

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Battle for Wesnoth v1.11.0
20120918 13:20:36 warning gui/event: distributor mouse button left [wml_message_left]: SDL left button up. The mouse button is already up, we missed an event.
20120918 13:20:36 warning gui/event: distributor mouse button left [wml_message_left]: SDL left button up. The mouse button is already up, we missed an event.
20120918 13:20:36 warning gui/event: distributor mouse button left [wml_message_left]: SDL left button up. The mouse button is already up, we missed an event.
Said error did not show up previously, nor did it show up when trying the same code in 1.10.
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Any suggestions here? Thanks in advance.
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Re: SDL error and experimenting with AMLA trees

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You can ignore that error message.
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Re: SDL error and experimenting with AMLA trees

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Wonderful. That means I have exactly no leads on where to isolate the problem. :augh:
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Re: SDL error and experimenting with AMLA trees

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If you have the exact same code that you had before, and its suddenly not working now, I'm not really sure what to tell you. You could try deleting the cache manually, removing the add-on, reloading Wesnoth, then re-add your add-on. Its how I fix Wesnoth when one of my things errors and suddenly wesnoth stops "seeing" the add-on, so maybe this is something similar.

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Re: SDL error and experimenting with AMLA trees

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have you looked at the resulting wml for this unit in a save game?
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Re: AMLA tree troubles for Mountain_King

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Spoiler:
I have looked over the code (now) and here are the couple things that stand out to me:
I used "hitpoints" in a lot of places where I should have used "max hitpoints" :doh: and there are one or two spots where a textdomain shows up where it doesn't quite make sense to me.

Well, I tried deleting the cache and removing the add-on, etc. but it still (non) works the same as before. That's the most curious thing to me. It works in 1.10, and it did work in 1.11. But upon messing with the code, it no longer works in 1.11 even upon reverting back to the original code which did work before. :hmm:
Maybe I should rewrite the code from scratch. Any WML veterans want to give some advice on how exactly all this works?

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Re: AMLA tree troubles for Mountain_King

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Mountain_King wrote:This caused the scenarios I was working on to stop working.
Stop working how? Was there an error message when you tried to start your campaign/scenarios? (If so, what is the message?) Did the scenarios load, but no units appeared? Was it none of your events firing? There are a lot of things that could be called "stop working"; which "stop working" are you experiencing?
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Re: AMLA tree troubles for Mountain_King

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It was that standard "Unknown scenario" error. IIRC the stderr claimed it was because a nonexistent macro is called upon in the last few lines {JAPHEL_FIGHTER}. Correcting the error by removing that macro as I recall just resulted in the same do-nothing code with the only new error message being that sdl error I mentioned earlier.
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Re: AMLA tree troubles for Mountain_King

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Hmmm... when I copied the file you attached earlier into a test scenario, I did get the error for {JAPHEL_FIGHTER}, but commenting that line out allowed the scenario to load. You're getting no message other than "Unknown scenario"? That should only happen if the scenario you specified (in the _main.cfg, I suppose) does not match what you called it when you defined the scenario (in the [scenario] tag). Double check that?

If not, maybe attach a portion of the add-on that includes a scenario to (try to) load? There could very well be a typo of some sort "surrounding" this file, so to speak.
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Re: AMLA tree troubles for Mountain_King

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Ah, no. Unknown scenario showed up once before removing the line. Then the scenario worked but the AMLA still didn't.
This folder contains one scenario, one map, a main .cfg, and the unit file in question. Expect some missing images.
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Re: AMLA tree troubles for Mountain_King

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Mountain_King wrote:Then the scenario worked but the AMLA still didn't.
OK, so different type of problem. Not looking for syntactical errors, but semantical ones. Let's see...

Your AMLA trees basically look something like (by id):

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staff   -> staff2   -> staff1   -> leadership, stun
missile -> missile2 -> missile1 -> missile3 -> hardiness, camouflage
with an additional "merge" branch:

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staff1,missile1 -> swordbeam, swordbeam2
So everything would work if the unit had the "staff" and "missile" (and "missile2") advancements. So try adding those advancements to your unit type -- macros JAPHEL_SWORD, JAPHEL_BOW, and JAPHEL_BOW2. Without those first advancements, the later ones cannot occur.

(Also missing from the unit definition: JAPHEL_BOW3, JAPHEL_ARMOR, JAPHEL_STUN, JAPHEL_CAMOUFLAGE, JAPHEL_BEAM2. Maybe those are not supposed to be there, though?)
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Re: AMLA tree troubles for Mountain_King

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:doh: It seems so obvious in retrospect. That did the trick; Now it works exactly as expected. Thanks!

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