TonyE

Tested: A1Ship

Added new highest priority due to PE broken by MS Office updates: Modify Platform Editor to work with latest MS Office patches (July 2022). implemented 2022.009 Replace file Export Specification usage with file write operations and DAO.Recordset implemented 2022.009 Replace file Import Specification usage with file read operations and DAO.Recordset

Magazine Import is working. The first one is the most difficult, right...

The next PE build replaces the export specifications, allowing exports to work. I'm slowly cranking away on the first import one. Imports will take a lot longer to re-code than the exports did.

Testing uninstall of Windows KB5015807. No difference, problem remains. High confidence that the July 12th Office updates are at the root of this issue. Version 2206 (Build 15330.20246)

Experience of others https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/access/windows-or-office-365-updates-on-7-12-22-introduced-error-with/m-p/3572587

Regrettably a Microsoft update has broken scripting functionality that the PE uses to import and export databases. DoCmd.TransferText acImportDelim/acExportDelim Is the command in question when using named Import and Export specifiers. This is not unique to the PE but it is a rarely used feature of Microsoft Access. It is unclear if or when Microsoft will remedy the issue via an update. There are alternatives but I won't be able to crank one out all that quickly as this functionality was an efficient way to remap field names for the .csv files you find in the commondb\res\ folder. To work around the problem, that mapping all has to be recreated in some other fashion which means mapping fields for roughly 40 files (20 imports, 20 exports), some of which have many fields. More to come when I'm next able to work the problem. Thanks to eeustice for reporting the issue.

Can you post the ge.log from the HarpoonCE folder please? It is very strange to me that you can select the BattleSet but can't open it. What I do see happen on occasion is someone with a bad BattleSetPath registry entry but in that case they don't see the affected BattleSets at all. That makes me curious, can you post the date/time modified on hdsh.res?

There are a couple of H3 players out there, I'm not one of them. I think two have popped up in the last couple of months, one looking for DB2k and scenarios.

I fear I won't get the chance to see the movie in theatres! If it holds on another two weeks, just maybe I can make it.

Welcome back. Officially the latest betas are only for Ultimate but unofficially people have been successful installing them over HCE. Do you by chance have two parts of the game installed to two different locations, i.e. 2009.050 installed to C:\Matrix Games\HCE\ and the betas installed to E:\HarpoonCE\ for instance? That could cause the disconnect. At least the holiday sale at Matrix gets closer every day, only 4ish months left!

version 002 uploaded, all I did was remove the web browser tab, no functional improvments.

I've been mulling solving this with an ExportDLL rather than the core game code. In any event, haven't addressed it yet!

Thanks Ralf, I can strip that part out, I started testing three map approaches, one of them web-browser based. But that isn't the one I'm using for this interim tinkering though it may well be the ultimate destination.

MapWindow HC ExportDLL to provide a globe map interface 2022-07-07 Purpose: To provide a globe view of the world to allow global reach during scenarios and BattleSets. Original Author: Anthony Eischens Contributors: Compiled with: Lazarus 4.6 Third party controls: Stratsims OSS shared pascal code https://tarzan.tgp.net/svn/StratsimsOSS/HC/shared/pascal/trunk Stratsims modified TGlobe 4 License: MIT (see License.txt) File Information Submitter TonyE Submitted 07/07/2022 Category Tools/Mods/Docs View File

I fall into the camp of "Not an isssue" on this one. The zzz entries indicate that the DB author is holding those entries for future use but back then one couldn't have a gap in AnnexIDs so the zzz approach was used. The expectation is the base is the bare minimums and any defenses would be added as separate units in the base group's formation. Am I missing something? At most I'm seeing a feature request here to remove the side column but that would require DB author's to agree that they wouldn't configure defenses per side so it is something I would be unlikely to prioritize for development.

Troubleshooting: BSB 2015.027 doesn't have the error

Confirmed in BSB 2020.010 You can close it from the taskbar but that's not pertinent to the error.

Attempting to come up with a storyline for a WestPac BattleSet that escalates more slowly than say a Chinese attempt to take Taiwan. https://bpr.berkeley.edu/2019/08/26/the-malacca-dilemma-a-hindrance-to-chinese-ambitions-in-the-21st-century/ 2006 Maritime Security and the Straight of Malacca https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA479400.pdf Dire Straits: Naval Security Competition between China and the United States in the Strait of Malacca https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/712787/GJAA 1.1 Sliwinski.pdf;sequence=1 Australia https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/time-for-a-standing-force-to-keep-the-malacca-strait-clear-of-mines/ India https://www.c3sindia.org/defence-security/indias-strategic-dimensions-in-malacca-strait-by-vithiyapathy-p/

HCE - 2022.007 - 2022-04-30 =========================== - Chg:00000 GE Minor change to give ExportDLLs the opportunity to process Harpoon Events as part of the scenario loading process. dllexEffect18(); HCE - 2022.008 - 2022-05-21 =========================== - Chg:32297 GE Fixed heap corruption in BOL. The game was trying to come up with a class name for the activation point 'group' which isn't possible. When class name is requested for an invalid annex_id the game now sets it to a null string. (thanks TonyD) https://harpgamer.com/harpforum/topic/32297-bearing-only-launches-crash/

Attempted fix in 2022.008 HCE - 2022.008 - 2022-05-21 =========================== - Chg:32297 GE Fixed heap corruption in BOL. The game was trying to come up with a class name for the activation point 'group' which isn't possible. When class name is requested for an invalid annex_id the game now sets it to a null string. (thanks TonyD) https://harpgamer.com/harpforum/topic/32297-bearing-only-launches-crash/

Then again I also did a regular attack, not BOL, will try again tomorrow.

Tony, I played it a couple of times and did not see the issue surface. Can you zip and post your GE.log from after the heap corruption error when the game closes? Perhaps I'm not replicating your configuration of the game well enough. Heap corruption can also be very tricky to debug so if anyone else can replicate TonyD's problem, please chime in.

Propose a date and time, I'll try to make it and I bet others would too.