JNGP cant compile

[mckill2009]

OK, here's the situation, I have a filename like The War v1.0.w3x, it's perfectly fine, saving editing, etc...

Then, I made a new folder and copy the map to that new location, then boom the map cant be compiled no matter what, I changed back the original location then worked just fine again, is this a bug?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Is the folder path of the "new folder" longer than the folder path of the previous location? If so it could be a file path buffer overflow, the result of poorly written I/O code that does not dynamically allocate memory for folder paths of any length. It could also be code intended for specialist or deprecated I/O (eg for partition formats which had a low maximum path length).

It could also be security related with the JNGP process (or vJASS) having insufficient privileges to write to the "new folder". This can be the case if the folder is nested on the C drive somewhere. In this case use an administrator or folder owner to change the folder privileges (recommended) or run JNGP as an administrator (less recommended, more likely to work).

 

[mckill2009]

the original folder has a longer name and I'm already and administrator use for my computer so it cant be that matter, but maybe it's a vjass error that's need to be fixed...but nobody will since the makers of vjass has long gone...

 

[edo494]

what is the error you received?

 

[mckill2009]

what is the error you received?

no error, it saved but not compiling, therefore cannot play the map...

 

[Dr Super Good]

I'm already and administrator use for my computer so it cant be that matter

Good, now just make sure to run the editor as an administrator instead of in user mode. Just because you are logged in with an administrator account does not mean it will give all processes administrator privileges as that would be totally stupid from a security point of view. Right click and choose "run as administrator".

no error, it saved but not compiling, therefore cannot play the map...

vJASS should still throw you some form of error I would imagine. It cannot be a buffer overflow if the path is shorter so it should raise some exception instead.

 

[edo494]

it cant be internal jasshelper problem tho, because each compilation is its own program pass, and afaik JassHelper has no state persistancy(remembering last compiled map) so he has to make the path big enough all the time. It also gets passed the map as argc, which can be pretty much of any size, because it is allocated externally afaik

 

[Gismo359]

I had similar problems before. Jasshelper doesnt give any error - it doesnt show at all.
Try moving it to a different path and/or make sure that the name contains english-only characters(couldnt think of a better way to say it).
I once copy-pasted a working map and it ended up with " - Копие" at the end of its name, which jasshelper didnt like. When I removed it, jasshelper started running normaly on it.

 

[Dr Super Good]

I had similar problems before. Jasshelper doesnt give any error - it doesnt show at all.
Try moving it to a different path and/or make sure that the name contains english-only characters(couldnt think of a better way to say it).
I once copy-pasted a working map and it ended up with " - Копие" at the end of its name, which jasshelper didnt like. When I removed it, jasshelper started running normaly on it.

This sounds quite plausible as it would be the result of a lack of Unicode support.