1.24 Released!

[Element of Water]

You must use the return bug somewhere, or one of your JASS systems might do something illegal. What JASS systems do you use in your map?

 

[Miss_Foxy]

What do they mean by the 'Return Bug'?

 

[PurplePoot]

See the "Patch 1.23b, JASS, GUI, and Gaming" news post.

Anyhow, updated the first post again with more help for you guys having problems.

 

[saphiree]

Haha. I dont know much about it either, cus im no jasser. I can just tell you, its something old, and blizzard never seemed to fix it. (thats what i know, it might also be new, im not that much into it XD)

My only bug so far has been that my JassHelper fucked it up when i saved my map. So i turned it off. But that bug was there in v1.23 too if i dont remember right. But i cant really remember. Anyway, i dont use JASS, so it sok

 

[PurplePoot]

It's been there since the start, and Blizzard didn't fix it because they knew its value to the mapmaking community.

Also, GUI has been tweaked too, if you read the first post.

 

[saphiree]

Ooh, so the bug is a good thing? XD lulz, im so confused

 

[Slaydon]

B.Net wont work properly D:

 

[Miss_Foxy]

Wow, the problem is getting to a point where even IceFrog has to be involved, this would probably be the biggest Warcraft III crisis ever...

 

[saphiree]

Im on b.net. But an annoying aspect is, that delay reducer doesent work anymore :/

 

[Miss_Foxy]

Is there anything I can do to save the games?

 

[Sworddragon]

None of them are working anymore. They should deupdate the game for the time being instead of putting everyone in "Shit" mode.

 

[Miss_Foxy]

There has to be something we can do, we're the Hive, we always have a solution to stuff like this... Are we just gonna give up? Wait, wait, aren't we the people who shown those others that Battle.net room capacity isn't limited(WarSoc), WoW can be nice in Warcraft III(Warcraft III: World Of Warcraft), we have our own rules(NewGen World Editor) and that we can be better than DotA anytime(51k members, all talking about different topics instead of just one DotA)? If we can do those stuff, we can fix this...

 

[Anachron]

Some things are just bigger as this site, while its mainly the main code of warcraft, which blows us away.

 

[Miss_Foxy]

"We are the Hive"
"We can do (Almost) anything"
"We are the champions"
"So who's with me?"

PS: I might be a bit insane, don't mind me, I'm jumpy...

 

[Sworddragon]

Nothing is bigger then the community of the game.

 

[Miss_Foxy]

Well, should we be working on some backup plan to solve this?

 

[Sworddragon]

Of course, you can always reinstall, update to the version BEFORE this new failpatch, then use Hamachi. But that takes too long and every WC3 player doesn't want to go through that (Except DotA fans).

And as for backup plans, lets have the monkeys over at Blizzard's offices smack the keyboards for a few days.

 

[Miss_Foxy]

No, I mean try to make some Tool to make it work again...

 

[Sworddragon]

If someone wants to make an add-on for NewGen that completely removes the effect of the update in the WE, then someone upload a good patch and add a Server to the list, not really. It'd be useless and by the time someone finishes the monkeys would be done. Unless, of course, they broke the keyboards.

 

[Slaydon]

for the lulz

Besides the tables and return bug ofc

 

[Miss_Foxy]

When will Blizzard release the Savior Patch?

 

[Sworddragon]

The Hashtable that I heard works oddly (I heard)
And the return bug that still works and can put viruses on your computer?

 

[Slaydon]

Viruses :O, tell me more

 

[Miss_Foxy]

How about IceFrog's idea?

 

[Sworddragon]

By can, I mean if someone wants to and does it right.
Remind me of IceFrog's idea, I couldn't read it over the annoyance of the site name.

 

[Element of Water]

Viruses don't work through wc3 anymore, and hashtables are fine. So nothing to worry about! Apart from the fact thousands of maps are now bugged...

 

[Sworddragon]

Someone should clarify how many thousands and send that number to Blizzard. Maybe the monkeys would hit the keyboards faster.

 

[Ranger21]

New patch sux, critical errors on stable maps ;p

 

[Kam]

Is Blizzard aware of these problems?

 

[Sworddragon]

About every forum everywhere about WC3 is bitching about it, including Icefrog.

I'm pretty sure they're aware of it.

 

[DoOs_101]

I don't see any problem anymore apart from thousands of maps that will be removed. However, that is awesome, since I already fixed my map to work on 1.24. Lol!!! FASCISM!!!

 

[Element of Water]

Yes, ok. We get it. No need to keep going on about it. I bet lots of people fixed their maps yesterday, when the patch came out.

 

[Pyritie]

If any of you are unable to even open your map to fix the problems, first try reinstalling WC3. If that still doesn't solve the problem, open up your map in an MPQ editor and export your script files. From there you can try to repair them and then import them back into your map with the MPQ editor.

 

[Sworddragon]

What's with the Westfall server anyways?

 

[Element of Water]

They don't need it for the beta patch anymore, so they temporarily shut it down, until they get it working as normal again.

 

[Sworddragon]

So once again, Blizzard has failed the updation of its own game, causing many of the users to be pissed, others annoyed.

 

[bigapple90]

thats weird. my map used Rising_Dusk's IDDS system which had the return bug. Changed h2i to GetHandleId() and my map works fine. I can compile, test, and host it.
Only error i received from the patch was it couldnt find a file during update. Reinstalling fixed

 

[Kwah]

thats weird. my map used Rising_Dusk's IDDS system which had the return bug. Changed h2i to GetHandleId() and my map works fine. I can compile, test, and host it.

And why is that "weird"?

 

[Element of Water]

About TESH not recognising the natives - you can make a kind of makeshift solution by putting NewNatives.j in your <Jass NewGen Pack>/tesh/includes directory. This makes it think all the new natives are just random custom functions that do nothing, but they still compile right, of course, and at least you can see them in the function list.

 

[Darkness-4ever]

So its simply using hashtables instead of handles now with the new patch, or is it a little more complicated than that, I just need to know if handles, integers, and reals can still be converted into other warcraft objects (units, items, destructibles, effects, etc).

 

[Element of Water]

No, handles, integers and reals cannot still be converted into other handle types (at least not through direct typecasting).

 

[Eccho]

EDIT4:

For those of you who are complaining that your map does not run after a successful compile, this is because it did not actually succeed in compiling; rather, pJass (in JassNewgen) is still compatible with the return bug and thus will not report it as an error.

To fix this, try getting the raw JASS behind your vJASS code (if applicable) and then compiling it in a test map in the vanilla World Editor.

I guess this is due to not updating the jasshelper.conf
In order to do so, (since I can't find the post where Vexorian said it, but thank him for it...) open the jassheper.conf in notepad or whatever, and replace everything with the following:

// tweaked jasshelper.conf for newgen pack, notice that in this setup grimoire's main folder is jasshelper's work folder (.)

[lookupfolders]
// Just type the folders where //! import would look for if relative paths where used, include the final \
// embed them in quotes
// example: "c:\"
// The order causes priority:
".\jass\"

[externaltools]
// this is for //! external NAME args the syntax is "NAME","executable path"
// example:
//"OBJMERGE","c:\kool.exe"

//* 
//* grimextension pack by pitzermike:
//*
"FileImporter","grimext\FileImporter.exe"
"ObjectMerger","grimext\ObjectMerger.exe"
"PathMapper","grimext\PathMapper.exe"
"TileSetter","gimext\TileSetter.exe"
"ConstantMerger","grimext\ConstantMerger.exe"
"TriggerMerger","grimext\TriggerMerger.exe"
"FileExporter","grimext\\FileExporter.exe"
"PatchGenerator","grimext\\PatchGenerator.exe"

[jasscompiler]
"pjass.exe"
"$COMMONJ +rb $BLIZZARDJ -rb $WAR3MAPJ"

I guess it is the last part of it which is the key to the solutions, but in case it wouln't be, replace everything. Also make sure that it is in the JNGP folder, not in the Jasshelper one.

 

[Element of Water]

@ Eccho

That doesn't fix JassHelper not recognising the return bug, however, does it?

 

[Vosty]

When does a new version of Jasscraft come out?
I got it to use the new natives in the list, but I can still use return bug, AND it doesn't treat them as they should (Syntax errors, and no color highlights)
Jasshelper don't wok on my comp.
How do you run 7.z files? Then I can use it.

 

[Eccho]

@ Eccho

That doesn't fix JassHelper not recognising the return bug, however, does it?

looks like it does

To not take alot of space

It hit me, you might need the newest pJass, which is not included in jngp5d if I recall it right. Since I forgot the thread where that was found as well, get it here.
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/pastebin.php?id=z3ltnu

When does a new version of Jasscraft come out?
I got it to use the new natives in the list, but I can still use return bug, AND it doesn't treat them as they should (Syntax errors, and no color highlights)
Jasshelper don't wok on my comp.
How do you run 7.z files? Then I can use it.

Jasscraft has been long gone for a time now. I don't think there ever will be an update.
Perhaps what you need is the latest pJass as well, see above.
7.z files can be extracted by winrar

 

[Element of Water]

Yeah, that worked. It wasn't the config file that made it work, though, was it? It was the new pJass.

 

[Eccho]

Right, did you try both?

 

[Element of Water]

No, but think about it. How could that tiny change to the config file make JassHelper start recognising the return bug?

 

[Whaleboobs]

Right, did you try both?

I can confirm that it was the new pJass and not the config file.

Err anyone know what to do with all the hundereds compile errors:
"Cannot convert returned value from handle to integer"
So.. fucking.. annoying.. >.<

Is this the so called return bug couse on every error line there is "return null" or "return 0"?

 

[Element of Water]

Off Topic

lol at your name, whale boobs

Yeah, that's the return bug. Basically, you need to fix your map.