[GuideMe] Tease Downloader with EOS Support

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Anyone had any luck with indyc's Trials of the Succubi v1.30? When I download it with the downloader and use GuideMe 4.4 I only get a black screen.

I had a quick look at this and this tease uses some unusual javascript coding (the comments in the code itself call it an ugly workaround) and I don't totally follow what it's trying to accomplish, and why it was done in this fashion. Also the downloader seems to be mangling some parts of the init code which is a known issue, and seems to be exacerbated in this tease due to the complexity of the code.

This is a large and complex tease, and unfortunately I've started a new job and don't have the mental capacity to really dig into it at the moment. It's one that may never convert cleanly, but from what I saw, much of the odd stuff it's doing is intended to address limitations in EOS and could be done differently in Guideme. I spent an hour or two on it and got it to the stage where it loads and you can do stuff, but there are numerous pages that are dead ends or potential dead ends, but perhaps it will give you something to get started with. The modified XML file is attached.

If you update this and get it going further please share with the community by posting it here.

Good luck

PG

Trials of the Succubi v1.30.xml.zip

Thank you very much for spending a significant amount of time checking into this and making it at least somewhat usable. It is a really complex tease and seems to run fairly slow in GuideMe, compared to most others. Given that the native EOS version seems to support returning where you left off, playing it in the browser is still quite fun.

Thanks again!

[indyc]

Anyone had any luck with indyc's Trials of the Succubi v1.30? When I download it with the downloader and use GuideMe 4.4 I only get a black screen.

I had a quick look at this and this tease uses some unusual javascript coding (the comments in the code itself call it an ugly workaround) and I don't totally follow what it's trying to accomplish, and why it was done in this fashion. Also the downloader seems to be mangling some parts of the init code which is a known issue, and seems to be exacerbated in this tease due to the complexity of the code.

This is a large and complex tease, and unfortunately I've started a new job and don't have the mental capacity to really dig into it at the moment. It's one that may never convert cleanly, but from what I saw, much of the odd stuff it's doing is intended to address limitations in EOS and could be done differently in Guideme. I spent an hour or two on it and got it to the stage where it loads and you can do stuff, but there are numerous pages that are dead ends or potential dead ends, but perhaps it will give you something to get started with. The modified XML file is attached.

If you update this and get it going further please share with the community by posting it here.

Good luck

PG

Trials of the Succubi v1.30.xml.zip

I had no idea people were even discussing the code until I looked around. For the code sections labeled "an ugly workaround" that is actually fapnip's contribution and he may be able to help. I assure you my own code is far uglier because I don't have any experience.

I never even considered or tried the offline Guideme so I sadly can't be of any help. However, you can send me PMs to ask about why certain lines of code are there. I didn't put many comments in because I was the only one working on it for most of the year.

[PlayfulGuy]

I had no idea people were even discussing the code until I looked around. For the code sections labeled "an ugly workaround" that is actually fapnip's contribution and he may be able to help. I assure you my own code is far uglier because I don't have any experience.

I never even considered or tried the offline Guideme so I sadly can't be of any help. However, you can send me PMs to ask about why certain lines of code are there. I didn't put many comments in because I was the only one working on it for most of the year.

Thanks for stopping by. Most of the code is pretty easy to figure out, and like I said some of the issues are known issues in my downloader code. I just need to find the time and energy to do it. Unfortunately life is not cooperating right now. If/when I get to looking at it again I'll keep you in mind if I have questions.

Cheers!

[Trusfrated]

I tried downloading Fenway's new "Your Girlfriends' Friend" tease. It uses a prompt to include your name. But GuideMe doesn't prompt for it; it just uses "name" as my name. Is there a setting in the downloader that might be preventing this prompt from being interpreted correctly? I thought it worked on at least some downloaded teases that have prompts.

[PlayfulGuy]

I tried downloading Fenway's new "Your Girlfriends' Friend" tease. It uses a prompt to include your name. But GuideMe doesn't prompt for it; it just uses "name" as my name. Is there a setting in the downloader that might be preventing this prompt from being interpreted correctly? I thought it worked on at least some downloaded teases that have prompts.

I was looking at that tease myself just a couple days ago. There's a sequel now too!

I just tried it with downloader versions 0.93 and 0.95, then loaded it in Guideme 4.4 and it does work (see screenshot), but it does not advance automatically like it does in EOS. You have to click continue a couple times to get the prompt box to appear, but in EOS it advances automatically.

Parts of this tease are implemented using a sequence of commands that the downloader doesn't translate properly. I have actually been doing a bunch of work on those parts of the downloader recently in preparation for a new release. I tried it using my current code and it works properly, so I'll try and get that released as soon as I can. I've still got some things on my list to address first.

In the meantime, try clicking continue a couple times....

PG

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[Trusfrated]

I just tried it with downloader versions 0.93 and 0.95, then loaded it in Guideme 4.4 and it does work (see screenshot), but it does not advance automatically like it does in EOS. You have to click continue a couple times to get the prompt box to appear, but in EOS it advances automatically.

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Hmmm. That's interesting. I used downloader 0.95 and GuideMe 4.4. I'm seeing The intro text (model names) on one page, the "enter your name" text on a 2nd page, presumably the prompt on a 3rd page (although I don't see it), and "Welcome name" on a 4th page.

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<Page id="start">
        <javascript>
        <![CDATA[
          function pageLoad() {
              if ( parseFloat(comonFunctions.getVersion().substr(2)) < 4.3 ) { overRide.setPage("GuideMeIncorrectVersion"); return;}
              actionList = [
                { action: 'unset', flag: 'DEBUG' },
                { action: 'eval', statement: 'Sound.stop()' },
                { action: 'eval', statement: 'if ( typeof(initializeScriptVars) === "function" ) initializeScriptVars();' },
                { action: 'globalButton', subAction: 'clear' },
                { action: 'image', file: 'Emily Willis/1673726.jpg' },
                { action: 'say', text: '<p>This tease is best done with a Fleshlight. If you&#39;d like added intensity, please utilize any extra toys you would like. The models are Emily Willis, and Lauren Chelsea.</p>', mode: 'pause' },
                { action: 'say', text: '<p>Enter what you&#39;d like to be called during this tease.</p>', mode: 'pause' },
                { action: 'timer', style: 'hidden', duration: '3' },
                { action: 'prompt', text: '', mode: 'pause', variable: 'name' },
                { action: 'say', text: '<p>Welcome <span>name</span>.</p>', mode: 'pause' },
                { action: 'timer', style: 'hidden', duration: '5' },
                { action: 'say', text: '<p>Note: You may skip ahead to Lauren, starting on the next page <span>name</span>.</p>', mode: 'pause' },
                { action: 'timer', style: 'hidden', duration: '5', target: 'page1' }
              ];
              handleActions(actionList);
          }
        ]]>
        </javascript>
      </Page>

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[PlayfulGuy]

I just tried it with downloader versions 0.93 and 0.95, then loaded it in Guideme 4.4 and it does work (see screenshot), but it does not advance automatically like it does in EOS. You have to click continue a couple times to get the prompt box to appear, but in EOS it advances automatically.

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Screenshot.jpg

Hmmm. That's interesting. I used downloader 0.95 and GuideMe 4.4. I'm seeing The intro text (model names) on one page, the "enter your name" text on a 2nd page, presumably the prompt on a 3rd page (although I don't see it), and "Welcome name" on a 4th page.

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<Page id="start">
        <javascript>
        <![CDATA[
          function pageLoad() {
              if ( parseFloat(comonFunctions.getVersion().substr(2)) < 4.3 ) { overRide.setPage("GuideMeIncorrectVersion"); return;}
              actionList = [
                { action: 'unset', flag: 'DEBUG' },
                { action: 'eval', statement: 'Sound.stop()' },
                { action: 'eval', statement: 'if ( typeof(initializeScriptVars) === "function" ) initializeScriptVars();' },
                { action: 'globalButton', subAction: 'clear' },
                { action: 'image', file: 'Emily Willis/1673726.jpg' },
                { action: 'say', text: '<p>This tease is best done with a Fleshlight. If you&#39;d like added intensity, please utilize any extra toys you would like. The models are Emily Willis, and Lauren Chelsea.</p>', mode: 'pause' },
                { action: 'say', text: '<p>Enter what you&#39;d like to be called during this tease.</p>', mode: 'pause' },
                { action: 'timer', style: 'hidden', duration: '3' },
                { action: 'prompt', text: '', mode: 'pause', variable: 'name' },
                { action: 'say', text: '<p>Welcome <span>name</span>.</p>', mode: 'pause' },
                { action: 'timer', style: 'hidden', duration: '5' },
                { action: 'say', text: '<p>Note: You may skip ahead to Lauren, starting on the next page <span>name</span>.</p>', mode: 'pause' },
                { action: 'timer', style: 'hidden', duration: '5', target: 'page1' }
              ];
              handleActions(actionList);
          }
        ]]>
        </javascript>
      </Page>

I don't know what to tell you. I copied the start page code you posted and pasted it into my copy of the tease (downloaded with version 0.95) and ran it in Guideme 4.4.

I click continue twice, there's a 3 second delay, then the input box appears (screencap 1), I enter my name and click continue again and get screencap2.

Perhaps if you can post the full xml of your downloaded tease (and maybe even the jscript log) I can troubleshoot more. I even compared the start page code you posted with what's in my version of the guide and they are identical.

You haven't by any chance modified the "defaultCSS.TXT" file in your Guideme folder have you? I really can't thnik of anything else at the moment. It's quite strange.

PG

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[Trusfrated]

I just tried it with downloader versions 0.93 and 0.95, then loaded it in Guideme 4.4 and it does work (see screenshot), but it does not advance automatically like it does in EOS. You have to click continue a couple times to get the prompt box to appear, but in EOS it advances automatically.

Spoiler: show

Screenshot.jpg

Hmmm. That's interesting. I used downloader 0.95 and GuideMe 4.4. I'm seeing The intro text (model names) on one page, the "enter your name" text on a 2nd page, presumably the prompt on a 3rd page (although I don't see it), and "Welcome name" on a 4th page.

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<Page id="start">
        <javascript>
        <![CDATA[
          function pageLoad() {
              if ( parseFloat(comonFunctions.getVersion().substr(2)) < 4.3 ) { overRide.setPage("GuideMeIncorrectVersion"); return;}
              actionList = [
                { action: 'unset', flag: 'DEBUG' },
                { action: 'eval', statement: 'Sound.stop()' },
                { action: 'eval', statement: 'if ( typeof(initializeScriptVars) === "function" ) initializeScriptVars();' },
                { action: 'globalButton', subAction: 'clear' },
                { action: 'image', file: 'Emily Willis/1673726.jpg' },
                { action: 'say', text: '<p>This tease is best done with a Fleshlight. If you&#39;d like added intensity, please utilize any extra toys you would like. The models are Emily Willis, and Lauren Chelsea.</p>', mode: 'pause' },
                { action: 'say', text: '<p>Enter what you&#39;d like to be called during this tease.</p>', mode: 'pause' },
                { action: 'timer', style: 'hidden', duration: '3' },
                { action: 'prompt', text: '', mode: 'pause', variable: 'name' },
                { action: 'say', text: '<p>Welcome <span>name</span>.</p>', mode: 'pause' },
                { action: 'timer', style: 'hidden', duration: '5' },
                { action: 'say', text: '<p>Note: You may skip ahead to Lauren, starting on the next page <span>name</span>.</p>', mode: 'pause' },
                { action: 'timer', style: 'hidden', duration: '5', target: 'page1' }
              ];
              handleActions(actionList);
          }
        ]]>
        </javascript>
      </Page>

I don't know what to tell you. I copied the start page code you posted and pasted it into my copy of the tease (downloaded with version 0.95) and ran it in Guideme 4.4.

I click continue twice, there's a 3 second delay, then the input box appears (screencap 1), I enter my name and click continue again and get screencap2.

Perhaps if you can post the full xml of your downloaded tease (and maybe even the jscript log) I can troubleshoot more. I even compared the start page code you posted with what's in my version of the guide and they are identical.

You haven't by any chance modified the "defaultCSS.TXT" file in your Guideme folder have you? I really can't thnik of anything else at the moment. It's quite strange.

PG

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I sure appreciate you taking a look at this; I know you're quite busy. However, I think I figured it out.

The problem appears to be with the "Configure GuideMe EOS Lib for use with Text To Speech (TTS)" setting under the XML tab in the Downloader. I always have this enabled because I always use TTS for GuideMe teases. It just copies all the text in the tease to the clipboard so my other software can read the words aloud. You added this setting at my request earlier in development. Prior versions were copying a lot of code and punctuation marks to the clipboard too, making it unlistenable. I don't fully understand what it does but it apparently it must cause issues with form filling?

When I unchecked this setting and re-downloaded the tease script, it worked perfectly as far as the form and the Name variable was concerned, but it brought back all the extra things that shouldn't be spoken:

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#container { height: 100%; overflow: auto; }

This tease is best done with a Fleshlight. If you'd like added intensity, please utilize any extra toys you would like. The models are Emily Willis, and Lauren Chelsea. Enter what you'd like to be called during this tease.

document.getElementById("container").scrollTop = document.getElementById("container").scrollHeight;

Memory refresher here: https://milovana.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=24101&p=304141&hilit=tts#p304141

I might note that that if you're able to fairly simply fix this, there is still a remaining (although tolerable) issue with the TTS workaround, and Your Girlfriends' Friend is a good example. If you press Continue on a page where additional text is added to the same page, the clipboard is repopulated with all of the text on the page instead of just the additonal text. One some pages this can make it re-read everything multiple times with only the last bits being new. Knowing that you're looking to release a new version, I figured I'd at least mention it again. Thank you again!

[RemiHiyama]

I might note that that if you're able to fairly simply fix this, there is still a remaining (although tolerable) issue with the TTS workaround, and Your Girlfriends' Friend is a good example. If you press Continue on a page where additional text is added to the same page, the clipboard is repopulated with all of the text on the page instead of just the additonal text. One some pages this can make it re-read everything multiple times with only the last bits being new. Knowing that you're looking to release a new version, I figured I'd at least mention it again. Thank you again!

I suspect that's a GuideMe limitation. I don't think there's any way to append text to the right pane, you have to construct the whole thing every time. And then GuideMe sends the whole contents of the pane to the clipboard. After attempting to strip out html tags, but apparently it misses some things. Which isn't the most surprising thing in the world, simple regular expressions and html tend not to get along.

The tag filtering could probably stand to be beefed up, but it might also be worth adding a way for teases to indicate exactly which text should be sent to the clipboard for cases like this where the simple handling isn't going to be appropriate.

[Trusfrated]

I might note that that if you're able to fairly simply fix this, there is still a remaining (although tolerable) issue with the TTS workaround, and Your Girlfriends' Friend is a good example. If you press Continue on a page where additional text is added to the same page, the clipboard is repopulated with all of the text on the page instead of just the additonal text. One some pages this can make it re-read everything multiple times with only the last bits being new. Knowing that you're looking to release a new version, I figured I'd at least mention it again. Thank you again!

I suspect that's a GuideMe limitation. I don't think there's any way to append text to the right pane, you have to construct the whole thing every time. And then GuideMe sends the whole contents of the pane to the clipboard. After attempting to strip out html tags, but apparently it misses some things. Which isn't the most surprising thing in the world, simple regular expressions and html tend not to get along.

The tag filtering could probably stand to be beefed up, but it might also be worth adding a way for teases to indicate exactly which text should be sent to the clipboard for cases like this where the simple handling isn't going to be appropriate.

Thanks for that explanation. I think the Downloader could optionally break those pages up into multiple ones to get around this limitation (it sort of seems like that's what it's doing now with the TTS option enabled), but understand it may not be worth the effort for the number of people it would benefit. The tag filtering might be a more elegant solution but also sounds like a lot of work.

Hopefully fixing the Downloader TTS issue with how it handles forms is easy and more straightforward. Just hope that the TTS copy to clipboard feature will be kept in mind as development on both the Downloader and GuideMe continue to move forward.

Thanks again!

[PlayfulGuy]

I sure appreciate you taking a look at this; I know you're quite busy. However, I think I figured it out.

The problem appears to be with the "Configure GuideMe EOS Lib for use with Text To Speech (TTS)" setting under the XML tab in the Downloader. I always have this enabled because I always use TTS for GuideMe teases.

Memory refresher here: https://milovana.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=24101&p=304141&hilit=tts#p304141

Ah yes! The TTS setting! That will help a lot. I'll look into that.

I might note that that if you're able to fairly simply fix this, there is still a remaining (although tolerable) issue with the TTS workaround, and Your Girlfriends' Friend is a good example. If you press Continue on a page where additional text is added to the same page, the clipboard is repopulated with all of the text on the page instead of just the additonal text. One some pages this can make it re-read everything multiple times with only the last bits being new. Knowing that you're looking to release a new version, I figured I'd at least mention it again. Thank you again!

Odd, I thought I had fixed that. I did make a bunch of changes for that last release though so maybe I broke it again.

It can, and will get fixed.

I suspect that's a GuideMe limitation. I don't think there's any way to append text to the right pane, you have to construct the whole thing every time. And then GuideMe sends the whole contents of the pane to the clipboard. After attempting to strip out html tags, but apparently it misses some things. Which isn't the most surprising thing in the world, simple regular expressions and html tend not to get along.

The tag filtering could probably stand to be beefed up, but it might also be worth adding a way for teases to indicate exactly which text should be sent to the clipboard for cases like this where the simple handling isn't going to be appropriate.

This is totally a result of the way the downloader handles things too. There's a huge chunk of javascript added to each downloaded tease whose entire purpose is to make Guideme act more like EOS. In EOS a page can display multiple lines of text using timers, and each line stays on screen and the following lines get added to it.

In my javascript code I simulate that by displaying the first line and saving the current page text in a scriptVar, then on each iteration I add the new text to the scriptVar, and redisplay the page with the new extended text. All I need to do is only set the new text when TTS is enabled in the downloaded tease.

This is part of what I was experimenting with last week when I made that post in the Guideme thread about the Timer xml node. If it could be implemented using timer nodes it would be more seamless.

PG

[PlayfulGuy]

I tried downloading Fenway's new "Your Girlfriends' Friend" tease. It uses a prompt to include your name. But GuideMe doesn't prompt for it; it just uses "name" as my name. Is there a setting in the downloader that might be preventing this prompt from being interpreted correctly? I thought it worked on at least some downloaded teases that have prompts.

I've corrected this problem in my current code and the attached zip file contains a copy of this tease that works as expected.
I'm still working on some other stuff before I issue a new release but thought you'd enjoy this in the meantime.

PG

Your Girlfriends' Friend.zip

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[Trusfrated]

I tried downloading Fenway's new "Your Girlfriends' Friend" tease. It uses a prompt to include your name. But GuideMe doesn't prompt for it; it just uses "name" as my name. Is there a setting in the downloader that might be preventing this prompt from being interpreted correctly? I thought it worked on at least some downloaded teases that have prompts.

I've corrected this problem in my current code and the attached zip file contains a copy of this tease that works as expected.
I'm still working on some other stuff before I issue a new release but thought you'd enjoy this in the meantime.

PG
Your Girlfriends' Friend.zip

This is great. Everything seems to be working as intended with the form, variables, and especially with what is getting copied to the clipboard for the TTS. So nice to not have all those "Continue" buttons as well. You are amazing and your skills are much appreciated! Looking forward to the updated software release.

[PlayfulGuy]

New version available! The links in the first post have been updated.

I have uploaded a new version of the downloader (version 0.96) that addresses various issues. Most notably, the issue of false trojan/virus warnings should be resolved. For those that are interested, I followed the instructions in this article to download and recompile the pyinstaller code on my development machine and it seems to have done the trick.

I uploaded a test build to VirusTotal on January 23rd and only one of 60 vendors flagged it. I repeated the test today and no vendors flagged it, so it got better after a week.

If you get any virus or trojan warnings please let me know!
The results from today's upload are in the spoiler below.

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Other changes include:

• Many bug fixes
• Improved TTS support (seems to be complete now)
• Improved detection and fixing of dead end pages
• The text portion of "say" actions is now enclosed in double quotes so that single quotes can appear in the text without escaping them. This makes updating page text much more user friendly. (I should have fixed that a long time ago!)
• Moved a bunch of the logging options to a separate tab to tidy up the UI
• Improved the code that simplifies the action list so the action list is generally shorter and simpler

Many other issues still remain, and my next step is a major re-write of the code that translates the "init" javascript from advanced EOS teases. The current code really trashes some of them

I have also been in communication with @EroticDevelopment and @RemiHiyama regarding updates to GuideMe for sound file handling so estim teases can be better supported. This will still take a while, but hopefully we'll get there sooner rather than later.

If you run into issues please let me know.

If you have specific teases you would like to download that aren't working, please let me know. These help me improve the downloader tremendously.

If you download a tease and get it working in GuideMe please share!

[RemiHiyama]

I have also been in communication with @EroticDevelopment and @RemiHiyama regarding updates to GuideMe for sound file handling so estim teases can be better supported. This will still take a while, but hopefully we'll get there sooner rather than later.

I don't think you've sent anything to me about that one, actually. Though sound stuff might be a bit too far in the weeds for me. (I did have some requests for New Button Tricks from you on my agenda though.)