Lunar ALPHA Release!

[TinyTerror]

Well, as promissed, here is the alpha release of Lunar. This is version 0.1.2005.10.29.1755 ALPHA of my plugin, and the first (semi) public release! I would like to keep its use restricted to users of this forum for now, until some more bugs are ironed out. I included a brief readme.txt with usage instructions. Please read it completely before you try to use Lunar.

www.lucidsoft.org/~toast/Lunar/Lunar.zip

I'll try to get the Lunar docs up to date as soon as I can. Right now they are slightly out of date, and don't cover some new features and behaviors that I recently added. The docs are here:

www.lucidsoft.org/~toast/Lunar/lunar.doc
www.lucidsoft.org/~toast/Lunar/lunar.txt

PLEASE DO NOT USE LUNAR ON YOUR MAIN CHARACTER! While Lunar is mostly stable, there is a chance that it will crash, causing FFXI to lock up or crash. I don't want to hear about anyone loosing gil or items because Lunar blew up in the middle of a mog safe or auction house transaction. Be careful when using it until there are less bugs.

Also, if you find a bug, post a message about it! I need your help finding all of them. When you post a but report, please provide as much info as you can about what you were doing when the bug happened, and the script you were using at the time. If you don't want people to see the script, PM it to me. The more help I get from users, the faster I can add new features and kill bugs.

Thanks!

[TinyTerror]

I also included a few of the stupid little scripts I used to test lunar in the scripts directory. Ypu can use them to get an idea of what a Lunar script looks like.

[TinyTerror]

For those of you having trouble getting Lunar to load, download and put this in your c:\windows\system32 folder:

www.lucidsoft.org/~toast/Lunar/SDL.dll

This is the DLL for the threading library I use in Lunar. It's needed for the plugin to load. I've had it installed for a long time because I use SDL alot, so I forgot to include it in the install package.

Thanks to psyic for reporting this!

*EDIT* The zip file should be fixed now.

[TinyTerror]

0.1.2005.10.30.1649 ALPHA is the new version for tonight. I fixed a bunch of isses that were causing errors on load and unload.

[TinyTerror]

Tonight's build is 0.1.2005.11.05.1722 ALPHA. Here is a list of bugfixes and additions for this version:

*Added logging system.
*Fixed FFXI.player_GetCurrentXP( ) bug.
*Fixed major memory leak in the script unload code.
*Fixed thread conflicts on script Author, Contact, Name, and Version set/get functions.
*Recoded Argument and Command handling functions.
*Added Control.control_PressKey function.
*Added half a dozen new Windower related functions.
*Added chat support for german. This is still experimental.
*Reduced the FFXIReader data refresh rate.
*Fixed a bug in the script autounloader.
*Fixed minor bugs in the chat queuer.
*A bunch of other really small things.

www.lucidsoft.org/~toast/Lunar/Lunar.zip

This new version is a little bit different because it opens an additional debug window when it is loaded. DO NOT CLOSE THIS WINDOW EVER! Closing the debug window will also close FFXI. This is useful when FFXI hangs, but can be slightly irritating when you kill it without meaning to.

With this version, a log file is generated that contains exactly the same text as what appears in the debug window. When you find a bug in lunar, send me the log file. It will help me find and fix the bug. Please note that the log file contains a dump of the script you have loaded, so if you are working on something you dont want public, dont post the logfile publicly. You can always PM me your log files.

[TinyTerror]

The is a test release that impliments a few new safegaurds against crashes. I also tried to fix the script/image path problems people were having. Since I have trouble reproducing errors, I haven't tested this out too well. If you are feeling lucky, give this version a try. Do your best to crash it, then send the log files to tinyterror at gmail dot com.

www.lucidsoft.org/~toast/Lunar/Builds/0.1.2005.11.19.1341%20ALPHA/Lunar.dll

Good luck