Generic Actions extension for Fantasy Grounds Unity 5E ruleset

[SilentRuin]

thats certainly possible. I know I ran into the issue of comments between <xml and <root before, which is where my suggestion came from. And stripping those comments has worked for both extensions I tested. perhaps the copyright character or something else is causing FG to treat the xml file as invalid.

Crap I'm going to have to literally load your version and try it because deleting them I still get that (notepad++ editor?)

[SilentRuin]

thats certainly possible. I know I ran into the issue of comments between <xml and <root before, which is where my suggestion came from. And stripping those comments has worked for both extensions I tested. perhaps the copyright character or something else is causing FG to treat the xml file as invalid.

Double crap. Your's works. Time for a bit of winmerge and see what the heck is really different here.

[SilentRuin]

thats certainly possible. I know I ran into the issue of comments between <xml and <root before, which is where my suggestion came from. And stripping those comments has worked for both extensions I tested. perhaps the copyright character or something else is causing FG to treat the xml file as invalid.

Something is different in every single xml file. Here is one of them.

[mattekure]

yeah, thats weird

[SilentRuin]

yeah, thats weird

Weirder I can't even get anything I edit to work. Do you use notepad++? If you do can you check what you have on encoding or language? I have UTF-8 and Normal.

[mattekure]

Yes, I use notepad++. For all the files I normally work with, I use UTF-8. When I open your files though, they are listed as Western European->ISO-8859-1

[SilentRuin]

Weirder I can't even get anything I edit to work. Do you use notepad++? If you do can you check what you have on encoding or language? I have UTF-8 and Normal.

Actually when I'm up in one of these files its iso-8859-1 also.

[SilentRuin]

Yes, I use notepad++. For all the files I normally work with, I use UTF-8. When I open your files though, they are listed as Western European->ISO-8859-1

It's because the XML states that is what they are.

[Trenloe]

So, there's two places that encoding is used - in the XML and in the file encoding data.

In XML it is just telling XML what encoding the file *should* be in - and as long as the XML engine reading the file reads that, then the file should also be in that encoding. To set the file encoding, in Notepad++ use the "Encoding" menu option. I don't know if this is the issue though, but it's good practice to make sure you're saving the files using the expected encoding.

[SilentRuin]

Yes, I use notepad++. For all the files I normally work with, I use UTF-8. When I open your files though, they are listed as Western European->ISO-8859-1

This is insane. It has nothing to do with the comments at all. I'm willing to bet if you zip up the original code yourself and deliver it - it will work fine.

I use this script to deliver all my files.

powershell "Compress-Archive '.\DeathIndicatorEx\*' '.\DeathIndicatorEx.zip'"
ren DeathIndicatorEx.zip DeathIndicatorEx.ext
move /y DeathIndicatorEx.ext "-----my dir ----\AppData\Roaming\SmiteWorks\Fantasy Grounds\extensions\"
Pause

It has always worked. I deliver these files in fact.

Well I could NEVER get your files to work - not even the exact ones. I finally did the right mouse compress file by hand - renamed it to DeathIndicatorEx.ext - then manually copied it over to the extensions directory - and it worked. Every time. Every time I used my script - it did not.

Nothing has changed on my end at all. I left the comments in and it worked - IF I compressed the directory manually.

WHY is the current delivery choking on power shell generated files? What is different? What changed in how they read a zip that now makes this bad?