Help: my campaign always crashes

[toms]

I can't figure out the reason. It is not the scenario's fault, because when I made the second scenario the first, it still crashes. And in the first scenario, I commented everything out(in hope to find the error then)
The paths to include the scenarios seem right. Can there be other reasons?

[scott]

By crash do you mean the game quits or the preprocessor give you errors?

[toms]

By crash do you mean the game quits or the preprocessor give you errors?

The game quits, I don't get errors by the preprocessor.


BTW, I don't like the new behavior of the game to quit when an error appears. I liked it more when I got back to the main menu. Is it to avoid freezes or harder crashes?
(even if I don't have to quit wesnoth to correct the bug now )

[scott]

The only time I know when a campaign can cause a crash like that is with text encoding and weird UTF character combinations.

For example, I wanted to get the game to display a right arrow character, which is accomplished with a ü and a square root symbol, but those characters together caused the game to crash every time because of how they were encoded. You may have a stray character or something encoded weirdly. If it's not a text issue, I don't know what it would be. I would re-write the scenario from scratch.

[toms]

I tried to rewrite the first scenario, but nothing works still. As well not the second.

[toms]

Uhm...I'm gonna rewrite it from scratch. So far I only have story, sides and some lines of code which should be alright.

[zookeeper]

Remove half of the code, check if it still crashes. If yes, then remove another half, test if it crashes, and so on, until you find the spot that makes it crash. Then just go through that spot with plenty of thought and see how it links to other parts of the code (since the error isn't usually on the line that seems to cause it), and you should the problem eventually.

[toms]

That's what I tried before. Because it also crashed when I took another scenario as the first one, I suspect that the campaign file is not alright.

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[campaign]
	id=campaign_scout
	icon=elvish-rider-attack.png
	image=elvish-scout-moving.png
	name=_"Scout"
	#first_scenario=undead_attack
	first_scenario=prologue
	difficulties=EASY,NORMAL,HARD
        difficulty_descriptions="&elvish-scout.png=Scout=(easiest);*&elvish-rider.png=Rider;&elvish-outrider.png=Outrider=(hardest)"

	define=CAMPAIGN_SCOUT
	description= _ "Eldromir,a elvish scout is sent to the green isle by the elven Kali'an because the elves want to steal the ruby of fire from the undead lords. The storyline isn't changed because he doesn't get the ruby in the end.

Play to find it out..."
[/campaign]

#ifdef CAMPAIGN_SCOUT

[units]
{@campaigns/Scout/units}
[/units]
{@campaigns/Scout/utils/main.cfg}
{@campaigns/Scout}
{@campaigns/Scout/scenarios}

#endif

It might be a bug too, should I try again with the next version? (I use 1.1.2, and decided to download 1.2)

[scott]

You want to use [+units] not [units]. There might be more, but that jumped out at me. I always use the MENU_IMG_TXT2 macro so I don't know the correct syntax for the difficulty descriptions off the top of my head, but you might double check that too.

[toms]

[+units] wasn't it. The weird thing is it worked fine all the time, but suddenly it only crashed any more, even if I cut the changed part out.

[scott]

I would say start with this and add keys until it breaks. However, it's possible something changed in another file somewhere completely unrelated (like you installed an add-on) that is causing problems. If you want to PM me the files you're using I can test them out on this end.

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[campaign]
	id=campaign_scout
	name= _ "Scout"
	first_scenario=prologue
	define=CAMPAIGN_SCOUT
[/campaign]

#ifdef CAMPAIGN_SCOUT
[binary_path]
path=data/campaigns/Scout
[/binary_path]
[+units]
{@campaigns/Scout/units}
[/units]
{@campaigns/Scout/utils}
{@campaigns/Scout/scenarios}
#endif

[toms]

With your change it doesn't show up in the menu at all.

[Ranger M]

the description needs a " on the end, I haven't spotted any others.

[scott]

With your change it doesn't show up in the menu at all.

I can get it to show up on the menu with what I suggested, but I can't get it to load without the 2 difficulty keys.

[toms]

I can get it to show up on the menu with what I suggested, but I can't get it to load without the 2 difficulty keys.

You get it working with those keys?