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by jfcwilson :: Rate this Message:

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Hi all,

I'm having trouble accessing the "Pipmak Resources.zip" file. When I double click on it, it doesn't recingnize it as a ZIP file for some reason, and so I specify a ZIP utility to open it(I've tried Win-ZIP, 7-ZIP, and UltimateZip). When I do, the computer spontanusly reboots.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

James

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Re: Having trouble accessing "Pipmak Resources"

by Christian Walther :: Rate this Message:

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James Wilson wrote:
> I'm having trouble accessing the "Pipmak Resources.zip" file. When I
> double click on it, it doesn't recingnize it as a ZIP file for some
> reason

Have you added the ".zip" filename extension? Windows only recognizes
file types by extension, and since the "Pipmak Resources" file, as
shipped, doesn't have an extension (deliberately), Windows doesn't know
what to do with it.

> and so I specify a ZIP utility to open it(I've tried Win-ZIP,
> 7-ZIP, and UltimateZip). When I do, the computer spontanusly reboots.

That sounds like a bug in your ZIP utilities (they shouldn't crash even
when you throw invalid files at them), or possibly the way Windows
launches them, or some general Windows confusion (file system corruption
maybe?). Have you tried opening the file from within the program,
instead of double-clicking in Windows Explorer? I have no trouble
opening the Pipmak Resources file shipped in pipmak-0.2.7-windows.zip
using Archive Utility, The Unarchiver, and Info-ZIP unzip here, so the
file seems to be OK. If Pipmak can still use it, it can't be too
severely damaged anyway, but have you tried re-downloading it? Have any
other Windows users tried the utilities James lists?

-Christian

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Re: Having trouble accessing "Pipmak Resources"

by jfcwilson :: Rate this Message:

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Hi all,

I'm now able to extract the contents to a folder, but when I go into the folder and scroll down, it reboots as soon as it get a few hundred pixels down...It must be a problem on my end, the PC has been acting odd recently. I've been planning to re-install XP because of this. Once I've done so, and restored my backed-up data, I'll let you guys know how it is then.

Thanks,

James

--- On Mon, 10/5/09, Christian Walther <cwalther@...> wrote:

From: Christian Walther <cwalther@...>
Subject: Re: Having trouble accessing "Pipmak Resources"
To: pipmak-users@...
Date: Monday, October 5, 2009, 4:27 AM

James Wilson wrote:
> I'm having trouble accessing the "Pipmak Resources.zip" file. When I
> double click on it, it doesn't recingnize it as a ZIP file for some
> reason

Have you added the ".zip" filename extension? Windows only recognizes
file types by extension, and since the "Pipmak Resources" file, as
shipped, doesn't have an extension (deliberately), Windows doesn't know
what to do with it.

> and so I specify a ZIP utility to open it(I've tried Win-ZIP,
> 7-ZIP, and UltimateZip). When I do, the computer spontanusly reboots.

That sounds like a bug in your ZIP utilities (they shouldn't crash even
when you throw invalid files at them), or possibly the way Windows
launches them, or some general Windows confusion (file system corruption
maybe?). Have you tried opening the file from within the program,
instead of double-clicking in Windows Explorer? I have no trouble
opening the Pipmak Resources file shipped in pipmak-0.2.7-windows.zip
using Archive Utility, The Unarchiver, and Info-ZIP unzip here, so the
file seems to be OK. If Pipmak can still use it, it can't be too
severely damaged anyway, but have you tried re-downloading it? Have any
other Windows users tried the utilities James lists?

-Christian

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Re: Having trouble accessing "Pipmak Resources"

by Gwythion :: Rate this Message:

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< Have any
other Windows users tried the utilities James lists?

-Christian>

Not those, but I've tried in Enzip (after adding a .zip extension);

It works fine with that.

Re: Having trouble accessing "Pipmak Resources"

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WinRar and 7zip work fine for me, winrar you don't even need to add the zip extension, just right click and extract to..

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Re: Having trouble accessing "Pipmak Resources"

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Hi all,

Thanks, everyone. I can now acsess Pipmak Resources.zip. However, I appear to have another problem. I wanted to access pipmak resources.zip so that I could edit defaults.lua(to be exact, I wanted to remove or comment the onkeydown function concerned with the esc key, so that I could define it in my own game files as going to my own main menu.) I did this secessfully, and saved the lua file. Then I took the previously extracted files(with the edited defaults.lua) and put them into a Zip file, and replaced the previous pipmak resources.zip with it. When I started my project up, I got an error message that said: "Coulden't find "Pipmak Resources.zip". I'm assuming this is because the file has the Zip extension, so I went to remove it, but I couldn't, because the extension wasn't there.

I also couldn't remove the extension on the original pipmak resources.zip.

Anyone know how to save a Zip file without the extension? I'm running XP, which doesn't actually display the extension, as far as I can tell.....Does anyone understand everything I just typed? I hope so. :) It's rather confusing, even to me, and I wrote it!

Thanks,

James

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From: NigeC <nigec999@...>
Subject: Re: Having trouble accessing "Pipmak Resources"
To: pipmak-users@...
Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 6:07 PM

WinRar and 7zip work fine for me, winrar you don't even need to add the zip
extension, just right click and extract to..

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Re: Having trouble accessing "Pipmak Resources"

by NigeC :: Rate this Message:

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To see the extension...
on the top bar of the window click tools/ folder options.. under "view" theres a box to hide file extensions, un check that
I haven't managed to re archive the resource folder yet, 7zip won't do it :/

jfcwilson wrote:

Hi all,

Thanks, everyone. I can now acsess Pipmak Resources.zip. However, I appear to have another problem. I wanted to access pipmak resources.zip so that I could edit defaults.lua(to be exact, I wanted to remove or comment the onkeydown function concerned with the esc key, so that I could define it in my own game files as going to my own main menu.) I did this secessfully, and saved the lua file. Then I took the previously extracted files(with the edited defaults.lua) and put them into a Zip file, and replaced the previous pipmak resources.zip with it. When I started my project up, I got an error message that said: "Coulden't find "Pipmak Resources.zip". I'm assuming this is because the file has the Zip extension, so I went to remove it, but I couldn't, because the extension wasn't there.
I also couldn't remove the extension on the original pipmak resources.zip.
Anyone know how to save a Zip file without the extension? I'm running XP, which doesn't actually display the extension, as far as I can tell.....Does anyone understand everything I just typed? I hope so. :) It's rather confusing, even to me, and I wrote it!

Thanks,
James
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From: NigeC <nigec999@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Having trouble accessing "Pipmak Resources"
To: pipmak-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 6:07 PM

WinRar and 7zip work fine for me, winrar you don't even need to add the zip
extension, just right click and extract to..

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Re: Having trouble accessing "Pipmak Resources"

by valerian.g :: Rate this Message:

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jfcwilson wrote:

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Anyone know how to save a Zip file without the extension? I'm running XP, which doesn't actually display the extension, as far as I can tell.....Does anyone understand everything I just typed? I hope so. :) It's rather confusing, even to me, and I wrote it!

Thanks,
James

James, you got in the pipmak wiki on the page :
http://pipmak.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/MSVC8_Build#Deployment:_Prepare_package_for_pipmak

Pipmak Resources zip the contents of D:\Projects\pipmak-SVN\resources
(go inside the folder, select all and select add to resources.zip)
rename resources.zip into "Pipmak Resources"

Val

Re: Having trouble accessing "Pipmak Resources"

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Thanks so much! That worked.

Thanks again,

James

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From: valerian.g <valerian.g@...>
Subject: Re: Having trouble accessing "Pipmak Resources"
To: pipmak-users@...
Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 5:31 AM

jfcwilson wrote:

>
> ...
> Anyone know how to save a Zip file without the extension? I'm running XP,
> which doesn't actually display the extension, as far as I can
> tell.....Does anyone understand everything I just typed? I hope so. :)
> It's rather confusing, even to me, and I wrote it!
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
James, you got in the pipmak wiki on the page :
http://pipmak.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/MSVC8_Build#Deployment:_Prepare_package_for_pipmak

Pipmak Resources zip the contents of D:\Projects\pipmak-SVN\resources
(go inside the folder, select all and select add
to resources.zip)
rename resources.zip into "Pipmak Resources"

Val

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Re: Having trouble accessing "Pipmak Resources"

by Christian Walther :: Rate this Message:

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James Wilson wrote:
> I wanted to access pipmak resources..zip
> so that I could edit defaults.lua(to be exact, I wanted to remove or
> comment the onkeydown function concerned with the esc key, so that I
> could define it in my own game files as going to my own main menu.)

You don't need to edit Pipmak Resources for that. If your project
defines its own global onkeydown handler (in main.lua), it will override
the default one. If all you want to do is disabling the default keys, an
empty one will do: onkeydown(function() end).

In general, Pipmak is designed to give you all functionality without
requiring you to modify Pipmak itself (if only because modifying Pipmak
places the burden of supplying the source code to your modified version
on you). If that should turn out not to be the case in some respect,
that is a design bug that needs to be reported and fixed.

-Christian

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Re: Having trouble accessing "Pipmak Resources"

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Hi,

Ah, thanks. I wasn't sure about that.

Thanks,

James

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From: Christian Walther <cwalther@...>
Subject: Re: Having trouble accessing "Pipmak Resources"
To: pipmak-users@...
Date: Friday, October 9, 2009, 4:48 AM

James Wilson wrote:
> I wanted to access pipmak resources..zip
> so that I could edit defaults.lua(to be exact, I wanted to remove or
> comment the onkeydown function concerned with the esc key, so that I
> could define it in my own game files as going to my own main menu.)

You don't need to edit Pipmak Resources for that. If your project
defines its own global onkeydown handler (in main.lua), it will override
the default one. If all you want to do is disabling the default keys, an
empty one will do: onkeydown(function() end).

In general, Pipmak is designed to give you all functionality without
requiring you to modify Pipmak itself (if only because modifying Pipmak
places the burden of supplying the source code to your modified version
on you). If that should turn out not to be the case in some respect,
that is a design bug that needs to be reported and fixed.

-Christian

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