GuideMe (TeaseMe v2.0) - Current Build 0.4.4

[sirveillance]

Is there a reupload (preferably on mega) for GottaEdgeEmAll ? That would be awesome.

[philo]

Hi.. i finally gave the new downloader a try with mixed results, some teases downloaded and some not. . Mostly flash teases. .also missing the sounds in teases..
Much Thanks

Can you give examples of teases that don't work?

[guardianx]

@Philo or anyone who might know:

This is driving me a little bananas.

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Cannot call property length in object The String Contents. It is not a function, it is "number".

PG

Playful, just ran into this myself. Here's the reason why, length in the javascript string object is a property, not a method. Which means you simply should just leave out the () parenthesis:

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//This works:
var xxx = "abc";
var i = xxx.length;

//this doesn't:
var i = xxx.length();

[denialslave2010]

I have a stupid question. I need to know,where,to,extract the teases to use them. Like specific location. I thought just extracting them to the main file would work, but it doesnt. Thank you in advance.

[lola88e]

I have a stupid question. I need to know,where,to,extract the teases to use them. Like specific location. I thought just extracting them to the main file would work, but it doesnt. Thank you in advance.

In TeaseMe extract xml file and folder in to the teases folder :)

Hi.. i finally gave the new downloader a try with mixed results, some teases downloaded and some not. . Mostly flash teases. .also missing the sounds in teases..
Much Thanks

Can you give examples of teases that don't work?

https://milovana.com/webteases/showflash.php?id=33487

This tease fails to download completely, sound files missing. Thanks

[PlayfulGuy]

I'm trying to modify it to be a little more general like this:

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  function parsePageArgs(args) {
    var text;
    if ( args !== undefined ) text = args;
    else text = scriptVars.get("pageArgs");
   // parse the text and return
.....


PG[/quote]

Hmm. I'm not by any means a javascript guru:P.

But I'm pretty sure you will get an error by typing

 if ( args !== undefined ) text = args;
 
 it should be:
 
  if ( args != undefined ) text = args;[/quote]

Actually, in javascript ==, ===, != and !== are all valid, and are in fact different.
== and != use less strict type enforcement. For example, saying 
   if ( value == false ) 
will return true if value is 0, a null string, or the javascript constant false.
  if ( value === false ) will return true only if value is the javascript constant false.
!= and !== are the "not equal" equivalents.

PG

[PlayfulGuy]

@Philo or anyone who might know:

This is driving me a little bananas.

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Cannot call property length in object The String Contents. It is not a function, it is "number".

PG

Playful, just ran into this myself. Here's the reason why, length in the javascript string object is a property, not a method. Which means you simply should just leave out the () parenthesis:

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//This works:
var xxx = "abc";
var i = xxx.length;

//this doesn't:
var i = xxx.length();

Thanks guardianx. I knew that's what was going on, but I was puzzled because what was supposed to fix it didn't work. Looking at it again today I think I was having a senior moment and was applying the fix in the wrong case. The work around I used is good enough for now. Maybe I'll revisit it later with a clearer head.

PG

[Alex69]

Hi!

Is there a version of Teaseme or Guideme for macintosh computers?
Thank you in advance

[PlayfulGuy]

Hi Philo,

Hope you're still around and doing okay. Haven't seen you chime in here for a while.

I've encountered a small issue with comonFunctions.GetRandomFile(). If the folder contains subfolders GetRandomFile may return a folder name as well as a file name. I think it should only return regular files.

I'm trying to load a random image file using "*" as the wildcard so images can be jpg, or png, or whatever.
I'm forced to call GetRandomFile, check the result to see if it's a folder, and keep trying again until I get a file.

Thanks,

PG

[d3vi0n]

My Heart's Club Revisted heavily uses files, folders and tags for different media like images, animated gif, clips and videos. So I had similar problems. I wrote my own functions to get what I want.

comonFunctions.ListFiles() only lists files, not folders...

comonFunctions.ListSubFolders() only lists subfolders, not files...

Both functions return a string, not an array.

So you have to parse the string to create an array with the individual file- or foldernames.

Example for files:

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function fGetFilesArray(vFolder) {	
	var vFilesList = comonFunctions.ListFiles(vFolder);
	var vFilesArray = [];
	if (vFilesList.length() == 0) {
		// Folder contains NO Files 
		vFilesArray = [];
	} else { 
		if (vFilesList.search(",") == -1) {
			// Folder contains one subfolder
			vFilesArray = [vFilesList];
		} else {
			// Folder contains multiple subfolders
			vFilesArray = vFilesList.split(",");
		}
	}
	return vFilesArray;
}

Example for folders:

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function fGetSubFolderArray(vFolder) {
	var vSubFolderList = comonFunctions.ListSubFolders(vFolder);
	var vSubFolderArray = [];
	if (vSubFolderList.length() == 3) {
		// Folder contains NO Subfolder 
		vSubFolderArray = [];
	} else { 
		vSubFolderList = vSubFolderList.substring(2, vSubFolderList.length()-2);
		if (vSubFolderList.search("\", \"") == -1) {
			// Folder contains one subfolder
			vSubFolderArray = [vSubFolderList];
		} else {
			// Folder contains multiple subfolders
			vSubFolderArray = vSubFolderList.split("\", \"");
		}
	}
	return vSubFolderArray;
}

Then you could for example check each filename if it has the "correct" filetype by checking the ending (.jpg for example). And lastly you could combine foldernames and filenames into a new array containing each file including its complete folderpath (for example: "random\solo\babes\hot1.jpg"). Pick an random Elelement from that array using the range (0, Array.length+1) and you can directly use the resulting string to add it as media to your pages.

For my Heart's Club Revisted: At the start of the game and as part of the settings the player can initialize or refresh the random media files. The script then searches all random media files, sorts them into their categories and saves arrays for each individual category containing the list of all files (including the folderpath). So i have all random media files ready to go when i need them in the game and this way i make sure, a wrong filetypes or empty folders don't break the game. It makes in general the handling of the different files much easier.

I hope this helps a bit.

[philo]

Hi Philo,

Hope you're still around and doing okay. Haven't seen you chime in here for a while.

I've encountered a small issue with comonFunctions.GetRandomFile(). If the folder contains subfolders GetRandomFile may return a folder name as well as a file name. I think it should only return regular files.

I'm trying to load a random image file using "*" as the wildcard so images can be jpg, or png, or whatever.
I'm forced to call GetRandomFile, check the result to see if it's a folder, and keep trying again until I get a file.

Thanks,

PG

Yes still around.
Work is taking up a lot of my time right now and I have got back into full time development so coding in my spare time has been less a priority.
I have been working on getting Javascript debugging working for a while now which would allow you to step through javascript code and see the variables etc. it has meant quite a few changes around java script so I need to test it to make sure I haven't broken anything.
Once that is released and stable I will be looking at fixes and changes.
I am hoping to spend some time on it over Christmas.
And yes RandomFile should only return files not directories, so I will have a look at that when I get time.

[Edge88]

Hey :)
Is there a version for MAC too? :)

[philo]

Hey :)
Is there a version for MAC too? :)

It has been written so it can run on a mac, however putting together a release and testing it requires a mac, which I don't have.
(and probably never will)
There have been a few people that have managed to get older versions working.

There may be some minor tweaks needed to GuideMe as the directory separator in windows is \ and in Mac it is /. I have tried to write code that should use the right one. However some teases may have \ hardcoded in them.

Tech info on what needs doing is in the spoiler

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Guideme is written in Java and can be run on any compatible system.
However it uses a couple of things to do this.
SWT (which handles operating system specific display functions) so you need the correct SWT jar for Mac
VLC (which handles video and audio) so again you need the correct vlc for Mac installed

There is also whether you a use 64bit or 32bit Java runtime engine.
The JRE, SWT and VLC must all be either 64bit or 32bit

[PlayfulGuy]

Hey :)
Is there a version for MAC too? :)

It has been written so it can run on a mac, however putting together a release and testing it requires a mac, which I don't have.
(and probably never will)
There have been a few people that have managed to get older versions working.

There may be some minor tweaks needed to GuideMe as the directory separator in windows is \ and in Mac it is /. I have tried to write code that should use the right one. However some teases may have \ hardcoded in them.

Tech info on what needs doing is in the spoiler

Spoiler: show

Guideme is written in Java and can be run on any compatible system.
However it uses a couple of things to do this.
SWT (which handles operating system specific display functions) so you need the correct SWT jar for Mac
VLC (which handles video and audio) so again you need the correct vlc for Mac installed

There is also whether you a use 64bit or 32bit Java runtime engine.
The JRE, SWT and VLC must all be either 64bit or 32bit

philo,

For what it's worth, I've found on Windows that it doesn't matter whether you use "/" or "\". I think Java is aware of this difference and handles it automatically.

PG

[PlayfulGuy]

New version of the download program
There were a few teases that didn't download correctly the latest version is enhanced to process the nyx script that it was failing on

(downloaded teases will work in ether teaseme or guideme)

32bit version
https://mega.nz/#!1U4xABzC!q8dXdHsasGsB ... YPnAqRvvN8
64bit version
https://mega.nz/#!FYImCYSD!EC_OcsT7ExW8 ... S5DsspmXjM

philo, Is the source for the tease downloader available anywhere? This is something I could get into wrapping my head around and helping to maintain. Particularly if you could give me an overview of how it works and where to focus.

I tried downloading Nezhul's "Will You Want To Go On" recently and most of the delays are broken, and it still doesn't download the audio, and if there are errors it doesn't tell you that.

PG