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The gist is the exact same as the old VB6 updater, it has a file with a local version and a file with a remote version on a webserver, then retrieves packages (in this case *.zip files) from the same directory named after the version (e.g. 1.zip, 2.zip, 3.zip) to update local data. I could have gone more complex, but this requires the least steps to set up for new users and still allows them to get their games updated in a relatively simple fashion. I have a complete setup based off of git myself, but that's a little too complex for most people.

Not necessarily better, it's not been tested as well, and may still have the odd bug or two here and there. It is however easier to get it to look pretty with all the modern fluff you can add to .NET WinForms.

> If you really want to, I think you can get paypal prepaid cards somewhere? They don't sell these outside of the US and UK, aside from a couple of specific countries I'm afraid.

Meep, it uses PayPal which for some reason don't accept my debitcard. :(

I'm not really too bothered writing a tutorial about this right now, and it could use some testing before I put it up as a fully functional/featured product anyhow.  It's a very simple program, not written in the most elegant of ways but it does the trick if you want a simple updater to work with. If you've got any suggestions or problems with it, just post them down here and I'll see what I can do. I might rewrite it in a more elegant manner at some point, but for now you could always do that yourself if you so desire, or just use it to make a fancy looking launcher for your game. [**[DOWNLOAD]**](http://eclipseorigins.com/community/filehost/a7614024be1f6e9ebd31c900c66cd3fe.zip)

I wish to be a professional chair tester so I can play my games all day.

VB6 is old, like 1998 old and doesn't have all the features that modern languages (.NET derivatives) have. As result of this you're fairly limited in your options, if you wish to have transparent controls you'll need to write your own GUI library that renders in DirectX8, there won't be any easy WYSIWYG editing anymore from that point onwards though, just code.

Could you uninstall everything and try it like this? * Uninstall Internet Explorer 11 from your control panel > windows update > installed updates * Install VB6 as Administrator * Install the EO Runtimes as Administrator * Download a fresh copy of Eclipse's source code * Open the freshly downloaded source There's a high possibility that in mucking around with things you've managed to corrupt one of these, so it might help to just start over.

I've doodled with it a bit the other night, but the forums went down shortly after.. It looks good, seems to work pretty well for what it is. But why is it struggling to hold its 30fps?

So you're building them as node apps, neat. Has me curious on how you handle movement and the like. :) I'll probably doodle around with it a bit when I get home tonight.

I'm curious if you have a running demo going on somewhere, but it seems like a pretty cool idea. :) What does it use for a server? Or are you just writing and reading to a database every split second?

> Quote > As a side note, I did not code this, please do not say my coding is horrible or that I am being lazy for quitting. > > Heehee.. > > In all honesty though, it's good to see focus is being put into a single engine. I do hope you'll take along some of the improvements made to the Event System in 4.x though. Some changes/additions were pretty neat.

You'll run into problems at some point regardless of whether you add them to the font files or not. VB6 was never designed to handle half the symbols that exist in languages that don't use the English alphabet.

Haha, that's what you start out with. But if you hit Home (or Insert, not sure which?) you should get a menu full of editors (or you can type stuff like /mapeditor /editmap … it changes between versions) If that doesn't work you'll have to head into the server, right click your name in the playerlist and make yourself an admin, it changes real-time. It's basically a game with a built in editor. :) Everything you change changes for all your players as soon as you hit that save button.

Interesting, I guess it's on my end that it doesn't feel like running then. Wonder if it's related to my VM. Anyway, good to hear it works at least.

Interesting, I just tried it myself with the version @[member="Seth"] supplied and it seems that **the server is not a runnable executable**, it simply crashes instantly with **a generic "has stopped working" error**. I'd say that's where the problem lies. Ha! I'd compile a new version for you, but unfortunately I don't have VB6 on my work machine. I guess that answers a couple things though, so much for trying to be clever asking questions! Hehe. Anyhow, the empty list you see would be a server selection window yes, it's part of the old 4.x system where you had a launcher and then that window would pop up letting you select a server. (You can skip it nowadays, but it comes back up when the connection fails)

I personally quite like [InnoSetup](http://www.jrsoftware.org/) combined with [ISTool](http://sourceforge.net/projects/istool/). It's quite powerful and has no annoying ads or anything in it.

> I know that I'm probably necroing a dead thread but I have a peculiar problem. While my files are placed properly, it says that my rar file is not a RAR archive.. > > (Precise wording: version1.rar is not RAR archive) > > > > [http://weapontestworld.netai.net/Rotsupdates/](http://weapontestworld.netai.net/Rotsupdates/) > > > > By clicking this link, you can clearly see that the archive is indeed a RAR. > > I changed the source to look for update.ini because my host doesn't like .txt files. > > > > Maybe it's my winrar config that has an issue? I can't access that link at all, unless it has been removed since. > How can I put a label with the filesize? Maybe the player wants to know the size of that update. > > Something like this: > > -snip- It should in theory be possible, but it's not something I've looked into for this particular project. I might include that in a more up to date version I'm messing around with, although this time it won't be using VB6.

I would say each OS has its merits depending on what the user or client wants.. Linux is highly customizable and you can get it to do exactly what you want, but it's not as intuitive as Windows in a lot of ways, Windows tends to be more user friendly and easy to get into. As for viruses and faults, every OS has vulnerabilities and people exploiting them. With systems such as Linux these are just as common as they are with Windows, but because the install base (especially on consumer machines) is so much lower there's not nearly as many people trying to abuse said vulnerabilities. I wouldn't say any one is better than another in terms of security, in the end it's mostly up to how you set it up.

Alright, let's start with the basics instead of guessing.. * Have you installed the Library Files? (I would assume so, as it doesn't instantly crash) * Do you have Administrative permissions on your computer? * What exactly happens when you launch the server? * Does the server show up in your Task Manager? Based on your replies I am guessing your client launches, what screen does it come up with first?

What's the full sub you're trying to do this on? There's several ways I can think of that could cause it to go awry.

Definitely possible, but you'd have to go through every packet handler on the server and add stuff like that in yourself.

EO4 uses a more fleshed out, patched up and optimized (supposedly?) version of the Event System present in 3.0\. It might be worth checking it out if you're interested in the system.

Hmm, I doubt it matters in most cases. But it never hurts to ask rather than get a whole shitstorm thrown in your inbox right? :P

Not to be rude, but did you contact the original creator(s) and make sure it's alright to keep using their name?