Opened 18 years ago

Closed 6 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

#2788 closed defect (fixed)

ALL: Engine creates launcher entry when failing to launch

Reported by: salty-horse Owned by: bgK
Priority: high Component: GUI
Version: Keywords:
Cc: raziel_nosgoth@… Game:

Description

Using current svn.

When launching scummvm with a target name that is not defined in .scummvmrc, it is searching the current directory.

When the following targets are not defined, they show a "game data not found" error, then return to launcher with new entries created for them: feeble simon1 simon2

The SWORD1 engine correctly displays a "files not found" error, but does not create a new entry. Perhaps that behaviour can be copied to the Simon engine easily.

Ticket imported from: #1544799. Ticket imported from: bugs/2788.

Change History (22)

comment:1 by Kirben, 18 years ago

Owner: set to Kirben
Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

comment:2 by Kirben, 15 years ago

Owner: Kirben removed
Resolution: fixed
Status: closednew

comment:3 by sev-, 15 years ago

Does it still occur in SVN?

comment:4 by sev-, 15 years ago

This tracker item is pending response by the submitter; we cannot continue processing it before that happens. As a consequence, its status has been set to "Pending". It will automatically revert to "Open" once a new comment is made to this item. If no response is made within 14 days, it will automatically be closed.

Thank you.

comment:5 by sev-, 15 years ago

Status: newpending

comment:6 by salty-horse, 15 years ago

Status: pendingnew

comment:7 by salty-horse, 15 years ago

Yes, it still occurs in the latest revision.

comment:8 by sev-, 15 years ago

Priority: normalhigh

comment:9 by sev-, 15 years ago

Raising priority. This bug is nice to get fixed before the release.

comment:10 by sev-, 15 years ago

Owner: set to Kirben

comment:11 by sev-, 15 years ago

Raising priority. This bug is nice to get fixed before the release.

comment:12 by Kirben, 15 years ago

Owner: Kirben removed

comment:13 by Kirben, 15 years ago

To clarify, the problem occurs with any target this time, and isn't specific to AGOS engine.

I suspect it could be related to merger of detection code in past, but no idea on the exact cause this time around.

comment:14 by salty-horse, 15 years ago

Component: Engine: AGOS--Unset--
Game: Simon the Sorcerer 1
Summary: SIMON: Engine creates launcher entry when failing to launchALL: Engine creates launcher entry when failing to launch

comment:15 by salty-horse, 15 years ago

The new launcher entry is not saved after quitting, so the bug isn't that bad.

I did some research: The gameid in the command line is set as the config domain. base/main.cpp:detectPlugin() then sets the "gameid".

When the game execution fails in runGame(), the launcher appears. gui/launcher.cpp::updateListing() encounters the new domain. Since it has a gameid but no description, it fetches the default description.

Somewhere after the runGame failure, the domain should be removed. The problem is, how to differentiate between existing entries (with domains) that failed to launch, and this new "dummy" domain that failed to launch?

comment:16 by sev-, 15 years ago

Fixed in SVN.

comment:17 by sev-, 15 years ago

Owner: set to sev-
Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

comment:18 by bonki, 6 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: closednew

This doesn't appear to be fixed, possible duplicate in #10334.

comment:19 by bonki, 6 years ago

As I understand it, the implemented workaround only works for engines which use the advanced detector so this is still broken for all (?) other engines, including SCUMM.

Do we have to duplicate the workaround for all non-AD engines or can we solve this in a more elegant way? Why do we allow specifying a gameid without --path in the first place? What is supposed to happen in this case?

comment:20 by raziel-, 6 years ago

Cc: raziel_nosgoth@… added

comment:21 by bgK, 6 years ago

Owner: changed from sev- to bgK
Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

This should now be fixed by commit 643ce81cf7.

comment:22 by digitall, 5 years ago

Component: --Unset--GUI
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