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Hi

I compiled from CVS and got FO to work, and I successfully compiled it. Then FO crashed because i had no default/data, so I downloaded data.tar.bz2 (from somewhere off the forums), uncompressed it into default, and then ran FO again.

Joy! It works! I get a slash screen and everything.
Bummer. Everything's in 1280x1024 resolution and my laptop only does 1024x768. I can't see half the game!

Work-around anyone? Is there a setting that I'm missing or do I need a new set of data files for that resolution?

I don't mean to be a brat. I'm just trying to get FO running on my machine so that I can start contributing, and to also post on the Wiki how others can get it to run on theirs.

I browsed the CVS tree and there is no "data" folder in there under "defaults". Where are we storing the data files? How are we making them available to downloaders? Even the July 2004 v0.2 files that you can download from SourceForge don't come with data files. Is this intentional?

Regards

Carlos

'K. Doing ./freeorion --help gets me some options, chief of interest to me are:

--app-height
Sets vertical app resolution. | Default: 1024

--app-width
Sets horizontal app resolution. | Default: 1280

Also in UI/ClientUI.cpp I find:

db.Add( "app-width", "Sets horizontal app resolution.", 1280, RangedValidator<int>(640, 2048));
db.Add( "app-height", "Sets vertical app resolution.", 1024, RangedValidator<int>(480, 1536));

Let's see if that gets me anywhere.

Carlos

Okay. Solved my resolution crisis.

But what's the process being used to distribute the data files?

Carlos

Thank you pd for putting me on the right path.

For anyone who needs to know, data-files can be got here:

http://freeorion.org/index.php/Compile# ... ng_Artwork

Sorry for polluting the forums.

Carlos

no problem :)

next time, you should possibly use the edit function *g*

try freeorion -g to generate config.xml


You can then edit config.xml to change the default resolution to whatever you'd like.

You might also want to set log-level to DEBUG (though it only works for the client at the moment... though you can edit SeverApp.cpp if you want the server logs as well)

Thanks lads.

And <log-level>DEBUG it is then.

Other than that and compiling with '-g', is there anything else that I could do to maximize debugging output from FO?

The reason that I ask is because debugging is part of how I want to contribute to the project.

Carlos

in ServerApp::ServerApp, comment out this line:

//m_log_category.setPriority(PriorityValue(GetOptionsDB().Get<std::string>("log-level")));

and add in this line:

m_log_category.setPriority(log4cpp::Priority::DEBUG);

For some reason the debug level isn't retreived by the server from the client's config.xml. Without this change, you won't get any server logs (in freeoriond.log).

And you can get debug output to the logs using

Logger().debugStream() << "whatever text" << someObject.getter() << " and " << someVariable;

Cool. Thanks Geoff.

Funny, that option was new to me. I had to catch every exception to find the deprecated options.

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try

freeorion -h

it lists all the command line options.