Could not find the default skin Static Violet of theme Fantasy

[jschwartzenberg]

With recent revisions, I get this when trying to launch WorldParty:

Could not find the default skin Static Violet of theme Fantasy
An unhandled exception occurred at $00041DAC:
EInOutError: Invalid file handle
  $00041DAC

An unhandled exception occurred at $000360B4:
EAccessViolation: 
  $000360B4

Any idea how to solve this?

[TeLiXj]

what version are you using (windows, compiled in linux, snap, deb)?

[jschwartzenberg]

I compiled on Ubuntu 20.04 (Armbian). In the past I could run WorldParty without issues.

Are there debs available (for ARM)?

[TeLiXj]

No, only debs for amd64. Are you using the last version of the repository code? I've compiled just now and executed without that error.

Anyway, you can try to use our new snap version https://snapcraft.io/ultrastar-worldparty I didn't try to execute it in ARM, but it's compiled to it...

[jschwartzenberg]

It seems the version in snap doesn't work:

julius@tinkerboard:~$ /snap/ultrastar-worldparty/current/game/WorldParty
double free or corruption (out)
Aborted

[TeLiXj]

you must use the shortcut generated in your desktop menu to execute it

[jschwartzenberg]

I couldn't find anything in my menus, but this command does the trick: snap run ultrastar-worldparty

Now I need to figure out how to provide access to my songs...

[TeLiXj]

The shortcut must be in the games folder. That command don't work at all because the default charset isn't set (at least no in my Kubuntu 20.10), and every string with non ASCII characters fails in the game. I can't try know, but you could try to run env LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 snap run ultrastar-worldparty The config are in ~/snap/ultrastar-worldparty/current/.ultrastar-worldparty

[jschwartzenberg]

I don't have a games folder in the menu. Yeah I couldn't see non-ASCII characters yet.

I found the config, but it seems the application cannot just access my NFS shares as usual. I'm not sure yet how to provide those. Does the application look in a default location for songs?

[TeLiXj]

What desktop are you using? Maybe if you search worldparty in your apps you could found it. The default location is in the same directory, you can create a new one called songs. And the snap is opened to use all mounted paths, for example to access to other internal or external hard disk but idk how works with a NFS folder.

[jschwartzenberg]

Ah there's no system-wide directory for songs? I'm using XFCE. It's the standard Armbian image (for ASUS Tinkerboard) which uses XFCE by default. In general UltraStar DX/WorldParty works well on this hardware. The only missing bit is VPU acceleration.

[TeLiXj]

Yes, I told you in my last message: ~/snap/ultrastar-worldparty/current/.ultrastar-worldparty/songs. And you can choose as you want in config using options SongDir1, SongDir2, etc. I will try to install XFCE to see how add the shortcut. I close this issue because I can't find the error and the install script will be removed in future versions.

[jschwartzenberg]

So for completion, to have a system-wide songs directory, one can do this:

root@tinkerboard:~# mkdir /var/snap/ultrastar-worldparty/common/songs
root@tinkerboard:~# mount -o bind /nas/karaoke /var/snap/ultrastar-worldparty/common/songs

Then edit ~/snap/ultrastar-worldparty/current/.ultrastar-worldparty/config.ini and set SongDir1 to /var/snap/ultrastar-worldparty/common/songs.

You'll have to edit the configuration per user, but the mount point can be configured system-wide with automount or fstab.

Thanks a lot for all the help and for providing these Snaps!