Event Parser / HoI2 Validator

[Halibutt]

I know that someone has prepared a HoI2 Event Parser / Validator and I even found it available for download. However, I also found a bug in it and I wonder if anyone knows how to contact the author. There's no info about the author in the application itself (who is he?) nor I've been able to find any related thread here. Any ideas?
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[Halibutt]

Alternatively, could someone explain to me why the tool freezes when checking .eug files? It loads minister ids, then it starts loading leader ids, posts the following error

[System.ArgumentException: An item with the same key has already been added.]
at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentException(ExceptionResource resource)
at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.Insert(K key, V value, Boolean add)
at EventParser.Validator.LoadLeaders()
at EventParser.Validator.Init()
at EventParser.ValidatingParser.Start(String[] filelist)
at EventParser.main.StartScan()

and then freezes. The same error appears when I check all scenarios, both the normal campaigns and the battlescenarios, both the vanilla ones made by the Paradox, and my own.
Cheers

 

[Halibutt]

Help!

 

[Exterous]

hmmm, where might this event parser be? I will try it out and see if i can help

 

[Halibutt]

http://hoi.coremod.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=434

I'd appreciate that.
Cheers

 

[Exterous]

Well, I just checked it out and I didn't have any problems with the scenario files. It found on average about 5-6 errors (paradox and fan created scenarios) but it never worked on any EUG files i tried. It froze while finding errors on all i tried.

So.......I dunno Sorry

 

[Halibutt]

Which ones, for instance? Let's compare the results...
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[Halibutt]

Ok, I've sent a PM to Coder, the author of the utility. Perhaps he could help me on this one...
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[Halibutt]

Here's what I got from Coder. It didn't solve all of my problems with his utility, but perhaps it might help the others:

Hi there!

Could you help me out with a problem I have with your HoI2 Event parser? All is described here.

Thanks in advance,
Cheers

i fixed this problem some time ago (26.02)
you can get the latest version from http://coder.specialforces.ee/hoi2/eventparser.zip
when you open the zip file the modification date should be 26.02.2005

 

[Halibutt]

Just to let you guys know: Coder issued a brand-new version recently. It works with the mod-dir function now and all of my problems (well... most of them) are now solved. Great tool, it seems.
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[Exterous]

Lol, just when i had time to reply. Sorry, I was really busy and away from my HOI computer. This new version fixes all of those problems?

 

[Halibutt]

Most of them. It still hangs or CTDs on some files, but I can't really tell why and when, since at times it checks those and at times it crashes.

Anyway, after the tool is finally corrected, it would be one of the best and most needed modding tools out there.

Kudos for Coder!
Cheers

 

[Coder]

Most of them. It still hangs or CTDs on some files, but I can't really tell why and when, since at times it checks those and at times it crashes.

Anyway, after the tool is finally corrected, it would be one of the best and most needed modding tools out there.

Kudos for Coder!
Cheers

The validator hangs and CTDs or HOI2? If it's the validator then maybe you could give me the problematic files/mod (i haven't tested the mod-dir functionality much because the program was originally designed to find bugs in the betas)

 

[Halibutt]

The validator hangs and CTDs or HOI2? If it's the validator then maybe you could give me the problematic files/mod (i haven't tested the mod-dir functionality much because the program was originally designed to find bugs in the betas)

It's the validator. Download link to the files in question sent by PM.
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[Halibutt]

found a few bugs in the mod-dir functionality... i uploaded the new version and hopefully it works now (...)

And could you post a direct link to the file? I tried to download the utility from the link posted on CORE site, but apparently it doesn't work...
Cheers

 

[Halibutt]

Bah, it works now, but the new version still crashes on .inc files (at least when I try to parse more than 1 file at a time it choses a random file as the first to check and then freezes with an error message similar to the one in the first post). The same happens when I try to parse only one .inc file.

Finally, the new version apparently crashes on event files as well - no idea why. It seems to me that the last version was waay better - it crashed only from time to time, this version crashes all the time...

Finally, the only option that apparently works without crashing is the scenario check. However, it stops after it encounters the following error:

Validating mod-WERS\scenarios\WERS.eug
IO error: Could not find a part of the path 'C:\GRY\Hearts of Iron 2\scenarios/WERS/sov.INC'.

The funny thing is that apparently it is not a problem for the game itself, only for the HoI2 parser... As a sidenote - the previous version of your utility had no problems with that line either...
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[Coder]

Bah, it works now, but the new version still crashes on .inc files (at least when I try to parse more than 1 file at a time it choses a random file as the first to check and then freezes with an error message similar to the one in the first post). The same happens when I try to parse only one .inc file.

Finally, the new version apparently crashes on event files as well - no idea why. It seems to me that the last version was waay better - it crashed only from time to time, this version crashes all the time...

Finally, the only option that apparently works without crashing is the scenario check. However, it stops after it encounters the following error:
The funny thing is that apparently it is not a problem for the game itself, only for the HoI2 parser... As a sidenote - the previous version of your utility had no problems with that line either...
Cheers

you forgot to change the mod-dir in the options menu?
if you get an error message similar to the first one could you post it here?

 

[Halibutt]

you forgot to change the mod-dir in the options menu?
if you get an error message similar to the first one could you post it here?

Hmmm... I didn't even know you added such an option What should I put there? Is "mod-WERS" enough? If so, then after parsing the .inc files I get the following:

[System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
at EugParser.Tokenizer.IsWord(Int32 c)
at EugParser.Tokenizer.InternalRead()
at EugParser.Parser.Parse()
at EventParser.ValidatingParser.Parse(String filename)
at EventParser.ValidatingParser.ParseAndValidate(String filename)
at EventParser.ValidatingParser.Start(String[] filelist)
at EventParser.main.StartScan()

(and CTD, of course).

If the value to add there is the entire path to the mod directory (C:\GRY\Hearts of Iron 2\mod-WERS in my case), then the error is exactly the same. "mod-wers" doesn't help either. Same is the case of simple "WERS" or "wers". Parsing event files doesn't work either. Any suggestions?
Cheers

 

[Coder]

Hmmm... I didn't even know you added such an option What should I put there? Is "mod-WERS" enough? If so, then after parsing the .inc files I get the following:
(and CTD, of course).

If the value to add there is the entire path to the mod directory (C:\GRY\Hearts of Iron 2\mod-WERS in my case), then the error is exactly the same. "mod-wers" doesn't help either. Same is the case of simple "WERS" or "wers". Parsing event files doesn't work either. Any suggestions?
Cheers

fixed that ctd (and uploaded a new version to http://coder.specialforces.ee/hoi2/eventparser.zip)
the mod-dir value is the same as for hoi2.exe (mod-wers)

 

[Halibutt]

Now it works perfectly, thanks a lot! You're my hero, really!
Cheers