[Test DL 0.9.5581.29028] Convoy Trucking Launcher

[Joshy]

Not bad!

How are you doing the transitions when opening playerlist? Also are you going to publish source at all?

[nyolc8]

Well, after I saw my carmods modified on other servers forums... I don't now if I want to release source ><

[Matias]

Well, after I saw my carmods modified on other servers forums... I don't now if I want to release source ><

You need to show the source, otherway how can people trust at it.

[Joshy]

Well, after I saw my carmods modified on other servers forums... I don't now if I want to release source ><

very true, I personally want to see it since I want to see how you did the transitions (srsly it's nice) but for historical reasons all player-made executable downloads on here require source to be published.

If you want, you can PM it to me or maybe even set up a private Bitbucket repository and learn / use Git (version control). VS has some Git integration built-in.

[nyolc8]

You need to show the source, otherway how can people trust at it.

I know, but then other servers could make this to theirs by just modifying some texts and urls... And I don't want that.

very true, I personally want to see it since I want to see how you did the transitions (srsly it's nice) but for historical reasons all player-made executable downloads on here require source to be published.

If you want, you can PM it to me or maybe even set up a private Bitbucket repository and learn / use Git (version control). VS has some Git integration built-in.

I made the window animation with this: http://www.vcskicks.com/size-transform2.php (source can be downloaded at bottom) and modified some values of it (fps, steps), and added some bits (like keeping window sized from center, and checking top of screen collision), here's the class file for it:
http://pastebin.com/h9PcgUvp

the centering can be disabled with a bool, and I added also these two lines when resizing finished:

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frm.Width = size.Width;
frm.Height = size.Height;

because the code does not finish the resize properly, so I just fixed it by this

[SpazzBucket.]

Well I'll give the first bug report 

When attempting to start the game and it doesn't work it says "game cant started" when it should be "game cannot start" or "game unable to start"



On another note I have no idea why it won't start, lol

[Joshy]

Well I'll give the first bug report 

When attempting to start the game and it doesn't work it says "game cant started" when it should be "game cannot start" or "game unable to start"



On another note I have no idea why it won't start, lol

Do you happen to have gta_sa.exe set to run as admin by any chance?

[SpazzBucket.]

No I do not, it has actually completely fucked up my gta sa now, I sometimes get to the connecting screen, but when it says joining game (if it gets there) it just locks up and I have to log out of my desktop user to have access to my desktop again. This is when launching with samp client, worked fine yesterday when I didn't have the client downloaded.

[Joshy]

No I do not, it has actually completely fucked up my gta sa now, I sometimes get to the connecting screen, but when it says joining game (if it gets there) [highlight=yellow]it just locks up and I have to log out of my desktop user[/highlight] to have access to my desktop again. This is when launching with samp client, worked fine yesterday when I didn't have the client downloaded.

That's a bug I run into a lot when Alt+tabbing and reconnecting without rebooting, I don't think it can attributed to the launcher unless it somehow breaks some Windows things. To fix it, enter command 'taskkill /F /IM gta_sa.exe' somehow (W8 search using Win+S, or run dialog using Win+R?)

[SpazzBucket.]

I never did anything related to alt+tabbing, just sat and waited for stuff to happen and nothing did

[nyolc8]

Well I'll give the first bug report 

When attempting to start the game and it doesn't work it says "game cant started" when it should be "game cannot start" or "game unable to start"



On another note I have no idea why it won't start, lol

Hold "shift" down while starting the launcher. This makes the launcher to use the default IP and port (or the ones from registry) instead of what it got from CT api. Tell me if the game starts then.

That error message appears in three cases:
1.: server ip/address somehow doesn't exists
2.: server port somehow doesn't exists
3.: samp.exe is not where the samp command registry key(this created by samp itself) says
(or all 3)

This doesn't do anything with samp or windows itself, it starts samp with two parameters (ip and port), then it closes itself. It doesn't do anything else. So it won't f*ck up gta sa at all, if it's locking up after game started, then it's something else. The only case which can happen by this is that the game chat says something that wrong ip or port, but it can't lock up because of this app.

I'll fix the message. Btw I noticed another bug there, the "Ping" column is glitched out from view.

[TheSandman]

Any chance for a custom samp location?

[nyolc8]

How do you mean? It's working no matter where SAMP is installed, because it reads a registry key which tells where SAMP is installed. And it works based on that path.

[Joshy]

Source is good. Now stop asking.

[nyolc8]

some new things:

- ability to change how playerlist looks:
    -name & score
    -name & score & ping
    -player id & name & score
    -player id & name & score & ping

- alternating background for empty list area too
- changed refreshing time from 10 sec to 20 sec, also changed the error handling of the samp query a bit, hoping this will fix the random offline status reporting by mistake
- fixed the error message (thx for SpazzBucket.)
- changed how the list last column getting sized into listview, hoping this will fix the "Ping" column glitch



Btw I still don't have any idea why SpazzBucket having that message. My only tip is that you renamed/moved your GTA SA folder after you installed SAMP into it, or something like this.