"The Overviewer is a console program"

[Cylindric]

Why does this message come up even if I supply all the correct parameters to the programme?

I run from shortcuts, called from other programmes, and from the "Run..." box, so the message makes that all more complicated than it needs to be.

Can this be changed to only come up when no parameters are used? Any numpties running this without know how it works will get the warning, anyone that knows what they're doing can carry on as usual.

Thanks.

[brownan]

It looks like the code @eminence found / came up with doesn't work for all situations. I like your idea of just checking if any arguments were supplied.

@eminence: I suggest taking out that code and putting an "if platform.system() == 'windows': raw_input() inside the existing "if len(sys.args) < 1" block. What do you think?

[Cylindric]

Thanks :) It's not a huge problem for most people, I think if you run it from a batch file or something it should be fine, but I call the executable from an app, so I'll have to do some trickery to get it working. (I tried using a simple cmd /k, but that seemed to cause some other Python problems)

https://github.com/Cylindric/Enigma-MM/blob/master/source/Solution/Server/Engine/Commands/Mappers/Overviewer.cs

[tswsl1989]

The Windows detection code also prevents our python 3 warning code from running See 2dcf2229

[brownan]

@tswsl1989: that's a separate issue though isn't it? Besides, isn't a python 3 check mostly useless because running it in python 3 will just get a syntax error before any code is even run?

Or was your thought to have the syntax error you get to be the print statement saying that it's not python 3 compatible? In which case, that's really clever!

[tswsl1989]

Seperate but related - I was under the impression that the python 3 check worked, but I've not checked it.

[eminence]

ok, so it sounds like I didn't consider the use case when someone actually wants to run overviewer without a parent console. I like the idea of bypassing this message (perhaps changing it to a simple warning) if all of the necessary options have been specified. I'll start working on this.

[Cylindric]

Thank you :)

Python still scares me too much to fiddle with it, and getting the whole Python+Numpy+PIL stack going on my x64 Windows machine is proving less than fun.

[eminence]

Cylindric, can I have you try out the code that's in the new console_detection branch? I want to make sure the behavior that I came up with seems reasonable to you. If you would like, I can easily create a binary .exe for the platform of your choice (32-bit or 64-bit), just let me know.

Thanks.

[Cylindric]

Sorry, got distracted with a friend's birthday drinks :) I'll be more than happy to test in the morning, but yes a binary would be awesome as I don't have a python env at home

Maybe its time I did :) On Nov 25, 2011 9:31 PM, "Andrew Chin" < reply@reply.github.com> wrote:

Cylindric, can I have you try out the code that's in the new console_detection branch? I want to make sure the behavior that I came up with seems reasonable to you. If you would like, I can easily create a binary .exe for the platform of your choice (32-bit or 64-bit), just let me know.

Thanks.

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[eminence]

Ok, here is a 32-bit binary: http://goo.gl/eiJ7X

Here is a 64-bit binary: http://goo.gl/cjxcs

[Cylindric]

That worked great. Thank you for the lightning response :)

Big fan by the way, best mapper I've used. On Nov 26, 2011 6:50 AM, "Andrew Chin" < reply@reply.github.com> wrote:

Ok, here is a 32-bit binary: http://goo.gl/eiJ7X

Here is a 64-bit binary: http://goo.gl/cjxcs

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[brownan]

Thank you @Cylindric!

When I first saw the bug title, I thought it would be an angry post about how we don't have a GUI for Overviewer. =)

[eminence]

ok great. I've pushed the code for this into master.