1.8.2 Cant load saved game

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:46 am

Start a game.
Save it and enter foobar as file name.

Directly press Load game and enter foobar as name

Dont work - "Doesn't seam to be a bygfoot save game."

Sigh!

Post by **gyboth** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:51 am

this is because the extension '.zip' is automatically appended to the name you give (unless it already has a .zip extension). so the file saved isn't foobar, but foobar.zip, in fact.

you have to enter foobar.zip to load your savegame.

in 1.9.0 it's a bit better, you can enter foobar and the program appends .zip automatically.

gyözö

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:55 am

Nope - tried that - does not work either.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:57 am

The only thing in .bygfoot/saves are the following 3 files:

foobar_teams.xml
foobar_general.xml
foobar_fixtures.xml

Game was saved as foobar.

Post by **gyboth** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:03 am

then maybe compression is disabled (preferences->load/save).

if i disable compression, i have those 3 files, too. now if select any one of them, and click 'open', the game gets loaded no problem.

gyözö

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:10 am

Tried that got the following error:

** (bygfoot:7226): CRITICAL **: xml_teams_read: error parsing file .bygfoot/saves/foobar_teams.xml

** (bygfoot:7226): WARNING **: error message: Fel på rad 45012: Tecknet " " är inte giltigt i början på ett entitetsnamn; tecknet & inleder en entitet. Om detta &-tecken inte ska vara en entitet måste du skriva om det som &.

translation:
Character " " is not valid as the start of a entity name the character & must start an entity name. If this &-tecken not shall be the start of an entity you must write it as &

So it looks like the program is saving the files in an invalid format.

Post by **gyboth** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:18 am

which country file are you using? it sounds as if there's an ampersand (&) in a team name. you'd have to edit the country file and replace the & with 'and' and the problem should be solved.

gyözö

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:19 am

The bad line in the file contains the following:

<_28>Dagenham & Redbridge</_28>

Its the "&" sign that confuses the parser.
There was another team that also had that character in its name
that confused the parser.

After removing the offending characters from the team name - it worked to load the game.

Maybe fix the game so it make sure that any player or team with
a "&" in its name are rewritten ?

Post by **gyboth** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:34 am

;oops: i thought i fixed this a long time ago. this is also why i immediately knew what caused the error.

which package do you use? and did you download the official team names?

gyözö

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:11 am

No package - I use the official team names - England.

Post by **gyboth** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:24 am

what do you mean 'no package'? you must have downloaded the rpm, srpm, src or binary package, no? or did you use the update script to patch to 1.8.2?

anyway, i think your country defs are older than 1.8.2 (or maybe even 1.8.1), which is why the ampersands were still there. i looked into the 1.8.2 packages as well as into the official team names at the home page and neither contained ampersands.

gyözö

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:52 am

I meant no additional packages.

Just downloaded the official src for the game compiled and installed it.

However I used to have some old version of the game installed from many months ago. Maybe 1.5 or so.

Maybe some data from it got used somehow.

Post by **gyboth** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:16 am

Anonymous wrote:Maybe some data from it got used somehow.

probably. you should delete the old $HOME/.bygfoot folder then.

gyözö