Hi,

 

Here is a bug I found with SimPlot2 on Mac OSX.

 

I created a custom map for a Falklands scenario which covers Falkland Islands and the Argentinian coast. This map works well on a PC, but when I sent the .txt and the .png files to a friend using His Mac, he complained about SimPlot2 crashing.

 

I tried to debug the map and found out that the problem was occurring when I had coordinates for more than one country, therefore, this works well on a Mac:

 

MAP=Falklands1.png

SCALE=2.4

COUNTRY=FALKLAND ISLANDS|128.25|-64.25

CITY=New Island|60.12|-60.50|T

CITY=Port Stanley|191.12|-58.87|T

CITY=Rio Gallegos|-239.88|-54.38|T

CITY=Port San Carlos|147.75|-47.25|T

CITY=Port Stephens|78.25|-83.50|T

CITY=Hill Cove|104.00|-47.12|T

CITY=Puerto San Julian|-183.84|83.59|T

CITY=Primavera|-239.91|-120.47|T

But this, causes SimPlot2 to crash:

MAP=Falklands1.png

SCALE=2.4

COUNTRY=FALKLAND ISLANDS|128.25|-64.25

COUNTRY=ARGENTINA|-231-50|82.00

COUNTRY=CHILE|-242-50|-104.50

CITY=New Island|60.12|-60.50|T

CITY=Port Stanley|191.12|-58.87|T

CITY=Rio Gallegos|-239.88|-54.38|T

CITY=Port San Carlos|147.75|-47.25|T

CITY=Port Stephens|78.25|-83.50|T

CITY=Hill Cove|104.00|-47.12|T

CITY=Puerto San Julian|-183.84|83.59|T

CITY=Primavera|-239.91|-120.47|T

You will find attached the original .txt and .png files. You may try them as is on a Mac, and it should crash SimPlot2, then, you may remove coordinates for Argentina and Chile, and it should work

Hope it helps.

Cheers,

David

 

Falklands1.txt

David,

 

Thank you for the report. I see a potential problem with the txt file. The country names that need to be deleted have an error in them. There appears to be an extra "-" in place of a decimal point.

 

Try to substitute the following:

 

COUNTRY=ARGENTINA|-231.50|82.00

COUNTRY=CHILE|-242.50|-104.50

The X coordinate of each of these country names is fixed with the decimal. This works on my Mac.

Stupid me...

Now that I use the right decimal character it works on both platforms Apparently, OSX is stricter than Windows on this one

Thank you for the tip

 

Cheers

You're welcome, David.

 

I have a "customer survey question" for you. How did you find out about SimPlot? I wrote several articles for the Naval SITREP magazine, and Larry Bond will occasionally ask me if anyone responded based on the articles.

 

Kevin

Ciao Kevin,

I read about SimPlot2 in the Naval SITREP . Before that, I was using a tool called MoBo, but it wasn't really adapted to Harpoon and it required a lot of extra effort to manage games.

SimPlot2 is really great . Can't wait to see the next versions coming.

Cheers,

David