PS:T problem

[Guest Baum]

I can start a new PS:T game, but all I get is the game screen without any controls. Dialogs don't work either.

 

I've found this in the message output:

 

[GUIScript]: Loading Script MessageWindow...Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "./GUIScripts/pst\MessageWindow.py", line 36, in ?

    from GUIINV import *

  File "./GUIScripts/pst\GUIINV.py", line 26, in ?

    import string

ImportError: No module named string

 

Maybe the directory separators of Linux and Windows got mixed up?

[Avenger]

This is a symptom of an incorrectly installed python environment.

string is a standard python module which isn't found.

 

Hmm, maybe the windows binary i released isn't enough?

Sucks You probably can fix it if you download and install the python development environment.

 

http://www.python.org/download/

 

Go for the windows installer.

 

I'll try to make a better release next time which doesn't require any additional package.

[Guest Guest]

Installing Python (2.4.3) didn't solve the problem.

[Avenger]

Now that really sucks

Well, i guess quite few people will be able to run it.

(It runs for me, of course, but i have the development environment).

Now i have to find a clean machine and see what's wrong.

Unless someone can tell me.

[Guest Baum]

I've just installed IWD2 and tried that, but that didn't work better:

When I try to start a new game, GemRB crashes and when I try to load a savegame it hangs after loading.

[Avenger]

All games will hang sooner or later without the string library.

This is because string.py isn't on the search path.

You could try to copy the python lib contents (a bunch of .py files in C:/Python24/Lib for me.) to the gemrb guiscript root. (gemrb/guiscripts)

[Guest Guest]

Now a module called "_sre" is missing. It doesn't seem to be included in my Python installation.

[Avenger]

wow, thats interesting, and definitely something internal

I have a sre.py in the original python lib.

 

Ok, i think i know what's the problem. In my distribution, there is a python23.dll in the gemrb dir.

Maybe replace it with yours (which should be a python24.dll).

 

Yeah, i know this gets tedious

 

[edit]

Aaand... that copy must be named python23.dll too...

ok, this was the last try, hehe.

[Guest Baum]

YEAH!

 

It seems to work now. Going to play a bit more this weekend...

 

Thanks for your help!

[Avenger]

Ok, then the problem was twofold:

 

 

1. we have to publish the python standard libraries (a bunch of py files)

2. the binary works only with python 2.3 (2.2 and 2.4 requires some handiwork).

 

If you installed 2.3 in the first place we could have skipped 2 extra steps But well, who knew that.