quozl
Joined: Sep 27, 2008
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Jul 14, 2009 - 13:25 |
 
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Hi,
I hope this is the correct forum for the BOTOCS lrb5/6 client. I'm slightly confused by two, well progressed, lrb5 clients, and amn't sure which one is being discussed here...
Botocs .6 hangs at startup on a Debian Lenny Linux box. Problem is, I believe, because the java app cannot access the sound device - there were no /dev/dsp compatibility devices.
IMO the app should try to use sound, and if it fails, should timeout and continue without sound.
I believe this is the cause as:
Once I installed a compatibility layer, which provides /dev/dsp, BOTOCS worked.
If I lock the sound devices by using another audio app suchs as rhythmbox, the BOTOCS launching lockup returns.
If I launch BOTOCS, disable sound, and then exit, it will no longer lockup if I'm using another audio app.
Another, very minor issue is: BOTOCS expects true/false in the xml to be lowercase. Python represents booleans in string-form as True/False, so I can't simply print a boolean in python to get a suitable match for the XML.
It's very minor, but it would be nice if the BOTOCS xml parser did a case-insensitive comparision on these boolean values.
BTW, I've updated the real-world bloodbowl website http://bloodbowl-ireland.org that I run (fairly modified Nuffle software) to allow exporting teams in the correct XML format for BOTOCS. Thanks a lot for this fantastic client! |
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Ludovicious
Joined: May 08, 2005
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Jul 14, 2009 - 13:43 |
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its not the proper place, but im sure an admin will fix this soon =)
Why do you want to print a boolean string? if its a problem im sure there must be a number of compilers that can fix this problem, right? however, I'm new to linux so I might be wrong.
You may solve the sound issue by putting "aoss" in the launch script:
#!/bin/bash
cd /home/klaus/Spil/Blood_Bowl/botocs/Botocs_0.6
aoss java -jar BBowl.jar
exit
/ludo
edit: you need to have the alsa-oss package installed. |
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quozl
Joined: Sep 27, 2008
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Jul 14, 2009 - 14:49 |
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I have it working - I installed the compatibility layer for pulse-audio. Reporting the bug so that it can be fixed.
As to the second thing, I needed to print a boolean value so that a python bloodbowl website I run can more easily export teams in xml format for the client. The default representation of a python boolean as a string is True or False. The BOTOCs client wants true or false.
I've worked around it with a simple if/else, it's not a big deal, I'm just suggesting it would be preferable if it was case-insensitive in this instance. |
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Ludovicious
Joined: May 08, 2005
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Jul 14, 2009 - 15:27 |
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Good to hear mate, I was under the impression it would still lock up after installing the comp layer.
here is the bug rapport mail: botocs@free.fr to deaf
/ludo |
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