No Connection Bug

[DazzleHP]

I lost my connection during the night so i booted GameEx to ease the boredom and it kept crashing. It doesn't get to the main screen even - just blanks my screen for a split second then pops the generic Windows message "GameEx has stopped working [Close]". I was baffled by this as i've used GameEx offline many times in the past, but then i remembered the GE Online portion so i disabled it. Same thing. I then realised Adultery's Tagger also needs a connection so disabled it, yet again no dice.

So i wait till my IP get their act together, my connection resumes, i boot GameEx and bang! Working again!

I had to make sure it wasn't coincidence so i deliberately pulled my wi-fi dongle, tried GameEx and it starts crashing again

I took a copy of the log both with Online enabled and disabled but they look the same to me:

log_online_enabled.txt

log_online_disabled.txt

It should be noted also that GameExOnlineLog.txt never updates when i have no connection - it only updates when i do.

[Adultery]

Hey Dazzle!

My plugins will not initialize if they require a connection to the net and one can't be found, as noted here:

09:43:42.0 15/07/2014: Loaded Plugin:"Game Tagger" Version 1.0.7 By Adultery

09:43:42.1 15/07/2014: PlugIn Did not initialize. Disabling PlugIn

Basically I try to ping DracLabs and if I can't, I just tell GameEx not to initialize the plugin. I hope that helps somewhat.

[DazzleHP]

Hey Dazzle!

My plugins will not initialize if they require a connection to the net and one can't be found, as noted here:

09:43:42.0 15/07/2014: Loaded Plugin:"Game Tagger" Version 1.0.7 By Adultery

09:43:42.1 15/07/2014: PlugIn Did not initialize. Disabling PlugIn

Basically I try to ping DracLabs and if I can't, I just tell GameEx not to initialize the plugin. I hope that helps somewhat.

Not really, as i stated i already tried disabling it and it made no difference I can force another log with the Tagger disabled but the results are the same - GE crash

EDIT - i see what you're saying now, basically it should make no difference if your plugin is enabled or not? Of course i knew this coz i already tried it

[Adultery]

Yeah, for sure.

You can try and disable the Hi-Score Snapper plugin too, I'm not sure if I added the code to dispose of that plugin when no connection is found when I added the new online scrape. LMK if it fixes the problem or not.

[DazzleHP]

You can try and disable the Hi-Score Snapper plugin too, I'm not sure if I added the code to dispose of that plugin when no connection is found when I added the new online scrape. LMK if it fixes the problem or not.

Yup! That's got it tried without HS Snapper enabled (i totally forgot that too needs a connection!) and GE ran fine, enabled it again and crash. Disabled it once more for good measure and GE ran fine again

[Adultery]

Okay, well then I better get on that bug fix.

The online check was later in development, so I just forgot to run that check. Should only take a few minutes to fix. Thanks for your help.

[DazzleHP]

Okay, well then I better get on that bug fix.

The online check was later in development, so I just forgot to run that check. Should only take a few minutes to fix. Thanks for your help.

Chop chop

Kidding

And NP, never is

[Adultery]

Before I attempt to fix this, can you try and update your plugin to the current version (1.0.5) and try it again? I see you're on 1.0.4 still.

[DazzleHP]

Yep, now it works lol How did i miss an update?! What an idiot! Sorry for the hassle

[Adultery]

No problem, I was worried for a sec because I saw the code in there for the online check, then when I saw your log I was all like woah...