rombot stucks in start when checking for ingamefunctions

[Rintintin]

I used rombot for months but from one day to another it gets stuck in in start.

Its the phase when it checks for the ingamefunctions:

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Testing 'ingamefunctions' macro. If it gets stuck here, please update the 'ingam
efunctions' by copying the 'ingamefunctions' folder from 'rom/devtools' to the g
ames 'interface/addons' folder.
The game client did not crash.

I already reinstalled:
- ROM - the game itself
- micromacro (V1.03)
- svn checkout of rombot (rev 761)
- copied the latest ingamefunctions to the addon folder.


i don't know what else i could do.

[rock5]

It's not a problem with ingamefunctions because otherwise it would have got stuck before printing "The game client did not crash". It prints "The game client did not crash" when it does the error callback. Usually that's when it has an error but there is no error message. Strange. Have a look in the log.txt file in the micromacro folder. Maybe it printed an error in there.

[Rintintin]

I really did a lot of test in the past days. And now it seems to be fixed. All I had to to is change the startbot.bat


this is how it looks like NOW.

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@echo off
SET folder=%~dp0
START ../../micromacro.exe "%folder%/bot.lua"

It even starts up faster.. Maybe it's worth to determine, it it should be checked if it can be submitted to SVN.

[rock5]

So you are saying "FOR /F "tokens=1 delims=" %%A in ('cd') do SET folder=%%A" doesn't work for you? That's strange. Maybe it has something to do with the version of Windows you are using. What version are you using? Is there anything unusual in the bots folder name?

It doesn't matter though. Your solution is definitely a more elegant solution. I think we can change the bat files to use this new method. We can even simplify it further like this

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@echo off
START ../../micromacro.exe "%~dp0/bot.lua"

[Rintintin]

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@echo off
START ../../micromacro.exe "%~dp0/bot.lua"

Hell yes. The shorter the better.

I'm using windows 7 64bit. But there are more strange thing going on. The Bot does not accept any key inputs when the game window has the focus. It need to click the black rombot windows when I'd like to pause or stop the bot with END/CTRL+L

in the past i was able to control three instances of Runes of magic with three seperate bots. But now rombot ceases working when Runes of magic is started more than once. All in all i assume its an issue with windows that there is something installed or running that prevents the proper function of the the bot in a strange unknown way.

[rock5]

It sounds like an issue with micromacro. What version of micro macro are you using? Is it 1.03?

[Rintintin]

read my first post, please. It should be mentioned all in there.

[rock5]

Sorry about that.

The code that checks for ctrl-l being pressed and checks which window is active, is in micromacro. That's why I suspect it. Maybe you can download a fresh copy of mm and see if it works.

[Rintintin]

I found that piece of software that hooked into rombot in a nasty way:

Syngergy - a software KVM-Emulation that is use to control two computers with only one/mous/keyboard. Especially the related windowsservice messes it all up.
http://synergy-foss.org/

I changed the startupmode to MANUAL and everything is, as it should be.
It's all that simple

[rock5]

Interesting software. I saw something like that once but it was advertised as corporate software and wasn't free. Nice to see a free one.

[Rintintin]

yes you're right. But related to rombot it's a pain. I think you'll confirm, if you would install it.

[chesterfield]

6:24am - The 'ingamefunctions' folder, in the games 'interface/addons' folder, i
s out of date. Current version is 5, you have 7. To update, right-click the 'int
erface/addons/ingamefunctions' folder and select 'SVN Update' or copy the 'ingam
efunctions' folder from 'rom/devtools' to the games 'interface/addons' folder. T
hen restart the game.

i have take it.it does not function


i cant english

[rock5]

Seeing as it is asking for version 5 I'd say your bot installation is corrupt. Right click the 'rom' folder and do an 'TortoiseSVN/Revert'.