Minor bug in 2.68 - Colon in the description breaks media for a table [RESOLVED]

[GAH1068]

I was pulling out my hair wondering why my Pinball FX3 - Alien Isolation table was not displaying the backglass video, table video or wheel after upgrading to PinballX  V2.68.   I  uninstalled/reinstalled and then restored a backup of my media and my database files and it still wouldn't display.   I knew the media files themselves were not the issue.    

 I finally tracked it down to the following:

There was a colon ":" in the description of the game in the Pinball FX3.xml.     When I removed the ":" all the media started working again.   The colon has always been a part of the description in my setup so this appears to be due to the latest update.  

 

[Carny_Priest]

Colon is an invalid character for Windows file names.

Assuming you are naming your media the same as the value in the description tag, then you would never use colon in the description tag.

That said colon is not any sort of special character for XML.

I'm a bit of stickler for how I want a table to show in the front end. If the name has a colon like "Star Trek: The Next Generation" then I want the colon to display in attract mode.  In these situations only, I name my media the same as the value in the game name tag in order for the correct media to be used in attract mode.

Same situation with backslash. It is an invalid character for Windows file names. What are you going to do? Settle for the table showing up as "ACDC" in attract mode? Don't be silly. Start learning some of the tricks of the trade to get PinballX to work how you need it. Game Manager can only take you so far.

[GAH1068]

Thank Carny,   This was the default description that came up in the FX3 database name in game manager.  I didn't put the ":" in the description myself.      It wasn't a big deal to me to remove the colon but the backglass, video and wheel did work fine prior to V2.68 with that character in it.   Just didn't want anyone else to beat the head wondering why it stopped working.