gholmes714

Thanks Chiron mine was the two -- in the front of line 199. the tekt infore that line was --self.textInput:SetBackground( "Chiran/Lotropad/images/" .. NoteDB[sBank .. "". _" .. sSlot].ImageFile );

Chiran

Yeah, obviously. I guess I wasn't aware of it back then and haven't really touched that since . I was planning for a complete revamp of the plugin, but yes.. it may happen! :P

-Chiran

Garan

Chiran, another option is to make the SetBackground call fault tolerant. You can do this by using "pcall":

if your original line is
you would use
Where YourControl is your control and YourImagePath is the path to the image (or resource ID). This way, if the image does not exist, "success" will be false after the call - you can choose to simply ignore this or add a line that outputs a message to the user indicating the error but allows the plugin to continue functioning.

In this specific case, replace line 199 in LotropadWindow.lua with

Chiran

Hello Haldare of Gilrain!

Let's try to crack this thing then . Yes, it looks like you did set a background image for a note but then the image file was removed while the link to the image still remains. And on my part the code is not so forgiving in that case :/.

There are a couple of options I guess. One is to comment that line (199) in the code by adding double dash in front of it (--). That pretty much disables background images and the plugin should start ok.

Maybe better is to open your lotropad data file and find where the image link is and try to add an image with the same name again under the images directory.

The file should be at Lord of the Rings Online\PluginData\<lotrousername>\AllServers\Lotro padData.plugin. Open that file with notepad and find a line with ["ImageFile"] = "someimage.jpg". So check the filename you found and make 'images' directory again and place an image with that filename there. Or you can just edit line that by removing the image filename while leaving the "" characters there (to be ["ImageFile"] = ""), and then save the file. The file format is very strict and breaks easily so be careful when editing it. You have to find all lines like that to and do the same with each of them.

I hope this helps and the situation is resolved .

-Chiran

shirlzknight

Hi there Chiran, first of all may I thank you for taking the time to bring us valuable plugins that make our favorate game a better place to game. I am having problems with my lotropad after trying to set an image last night, I created a folder (images) in the lotropad files but it wouldnt work, so I removed the image and the folder (so back to how it was) then my lortopad button disapeared, I thought this is strange and tried to manually bring up the 'pad' and received the message "s Online\Plugins\Chiran\Lotropad\LotropadWindow.lua: 199: Failed to load background image." I dont know what to do, I'd be lost without my lotropad as I use it almost constantly for almost everything, its very valuable to me with all the information it contains. I am not very computer literate and have no clue how you guys work your 'magic' but I can however follow intructions if you could possibly show me how to fix my problem. I shall wait on your reply on tenderhooks hoping you can help me (finger and legs toes and all crossed) and many thanks again. Shirlzknight aka Haldare of Gilrain or even sometimes known as Craig
PS I think I should add I use the Lotro Plugin Compendium (LPC) and downloaded lotropad via that app!!

Miss Night Owl Featherton

Thank you so much!!!! It's finally working. I just had to log out of the game and back in again.

Kind regards.

Chiran

Yes, the plugin should still work even though I haven't updated it in ages. Problem could be related to where you copied the files to. I wrote something about it here:
http://chiran.lotrointerface.com/por...a=faq&faqid=17

-Chiran

Miss Night Owl Featherton

I have been looking for this type of plugin for AGES! Unfortunately it says it's "unable to load LotroPad". This plugin sounds really good and I'd love to have this. Not sure what the problem is. Are the 2010 versions still available? I'd appreciate any help you can give me, thank you!

Chiran

Have to say I'm not sure what's going on, but closing window or clicking 'save all' should write notes to disk. Other than that, the notes are saved only in memory if I remember correctly.

-Chiran

magill

If you do not explicitly click "save all" in the window, but either "X" off the window, or click the quill to hide it... you frequently get the same messages:

"Lotropad save executing soon...
"Lotropad settings saved.
"Lotropad data saved.

But apparently nothing happens... sometimes.

So far, I haven't figured out what sequence works and what doesn't. However, I frequently find that notes I wrote are simply not there and sometimes they are.

The only thing which I am fairly certain of -- I rarely, if ever, click save all!

Wazer95

I love this plugin, as it helps me to keep track of all my todos and whatnots xD but was wondering if you could add an option to have the icon remain under a window if the window has been dragged over the lotropad button.

Thanks for ur work!

EDIT: btw, i havent found the option to have it fade like songbook

Chiran

Hi, thanks for the comments. Version 0.81 should have the same icon fade as Songbook. Also, Lotropad does save everything when you close the window from the small X. It also autosaves when you unload plugins (or exit the game). Rest of the time, it just keeps everything in memory. Anyhow, I still have some ideas for the next version (or Lotropad 2?) brewing :-).

-Chiran

syahwhit

I use Songbook on occasion, that is when I have a character I like to RP with more than level, and that would mainly be my minstrel or other characters that don't have any set ranged item. I like how the songbook icon fades out and was wondering if that were possible for the Lotropad or not. Also, from what I've been reading, I'm guessing that the Songbook and Pad have different save functions, but having something to automatically save like the songbook does would also be a nice feature.

Lastly, thank you so much for two indispensable plugins for this wonderful game.

Chiran

I'm not sure.. One thing to notice is that saving happens with a delay which can take as much as 30 seconds. There should be a line in the chat window that reports when a save task has been executed. Could it be that the notes that aren't being saved properly contain some suspicious characters or something?

-Chiran

lostinjapan

I am having major issues with this...seems like half the time the notes I write aren't being saved - even after I click 'save all' 2 or 3 times. I log my character out and when I log another in...all the stuff (except the title) is gone.

Any ideas?