bdat is locked. . . maybe froze. . . cant change

pthm · Post by **pthm** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:06 am

Software:Unregistered Server
Version Number:current version
________________________________________________________________________
Location
bdat creation
________________________________________________________________________
Description:
this bug is definately and oddity. i "finished" my bdat and had to go back to add a building i had forgotten and i made the building saved it and so forth and the builing did not show up in the list of buildings under tools. so i tried many things mlike making a different type of building, letting a friend do it with their editor, and then i removed the bdat completely. after removing it completely it still acts as though is is the bdat is there.
________________________________________________________________________
Steps to Replicate:
i honestly dont know

VDZ · Post by **VDZ** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:34 am

Click the Reload Buildings.dat button.
The reason it doesn't immediately react is because it loads the buildings.dat, then doesn't need it anymore until next reload - usually the next reboot of the server.

pthm · Post by **pthm** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:53 pm

hate to burst the genious bubbke but ive tried that many times lol . . . good thought though
\

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:06 pm

sure you edited the right bdat? as in, the serverside one (in the servers data folder) and not the one your client downloaded?

try closing and opening the server?

pthm · Post by **pthm** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 11:03 am

yes yes ive tried it its bloody annoying

Post by **Mit** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:36 pm

this certainly doesnt happen in normal use - ive never witnessed it and havent heard anyone else havin this problem - and i cant think of any code-related reason why it would. Can you check to see if the server's Data\buildings.dat file is read-only?
Other than that, only possible cause i can think of is perhaps that the server is running from a different working directory than the one u think it is.. (a shortcut thing perhaps?).
Might be worth just renaming the server's building.dat file temporarily, then rerunning the editor and server - just to make sure the file you think you're writing to/reading from is the one you think it is.