21.02.2009, 12:14
okay... i figured out finally that i had a couple of things going wrong (per my last problem.) 1. i had a small t instead of a LARGE T in one of my ship (sdr) routes. also, i had a couple of land routes (rds) too close together. i found the rds points finally after i discovered i could check them using the dcg gui but the srd mistake (small t instead of large one) took AWHILE due to the fact that it was camoflaged inside of the file so well. lol! i must have looked at that file dozens of times before i spotted that "tiny" mistake. WARNING! dcg IS case sensitive! 
i wish the program could better tell you what's wrong with it when it won't run...but alas it usually won't, and those teeny-tiny mistakes will really cost you a lot of lost time (and headaches!) when you make them (and you will) unawares. what really threw me with that error msg (as mentioned in my above post) is that there are apparently MANY things that can cause that same msg and shutdown. so even though i did tons of research on the problem to find the cause, most of it was in the 'wrong' direction. also, a lot of times when older hands (longer time dcg users) try to help, they don't give you 'enough' of an answer to fix the problem as they 'assume' you know more about the program than you really do. example: hey, how do i make a new tank column appear at a certain time in the game? answer from a seasoned dcg user: add it in your time table file.
d'oh!
hock: what's a time table file and where is it and what's the proper coding to do that?
lol!
(btw...the timetable file is named timetable.dcg and is located inside your main dcg folder inside the Dat folder. you can add certain items (see examples inside the file) using the coding examples there.)
anyway... the original poster of this thread is quite a bit more helpful than that example and therefore this thread is a lifesaver for anyone interested in using this program to make their own campaigns.
many thanks for it.
i wish the program could better tell you what's wrong with it when it won't run...but alas it usually won't, and those teeny-tiny mistakes will really cost you a lot of lost time (and headaches!) when you make them (and you will) unawares. what really threw me with that error msg (as mentioned in my above post) is that there are apparently MANY things that can cause that same msg and shutdown. so even though i did tons of research on the problem to find the cause, most of it was in the 'wrong' direction. also, a lot of times when older hands (longer time dcg users) try to help, they don't give you 'enough' of an answer to fix the problem as they 'assume' you know more about the program than you really do. example: hey, how do i make a new tank column appear at a certain time in the game? answer from a seasoned dcg user: add it in your time table file.
d'oh!
hock: what's a time table file and where is it and what's the proper coding to do that?lol!
(btw...the timetable file is named timetable.dcg and is located inside your main dcg folder inside the Dat folder. you can add certain items (see examples inside the file) using the coding examples there.)
anyway... the original poster of this thread is quite a bit more helpful than that example and therefore this thread is a lifesaver for anyone interested in using this program to make their own campaigns.
many thanks for it.