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dvw86 · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 636 Location: Washington State

I'm trying to put some games into my Ice menu. Trouble is that the game starts and promptly quits. It only happens on Memory, Voom, War, and XRick. here is the code that I'm trying to use in the menu.

GuestToo · Puppy Master Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4078

i haven't tried any of these programs yet
maybe you need to change the working dir before they start

you could make a simple wrapper script

right click in my-applications/bin and click New Script ... name it martian (if you like)

edit the script, so it looks something like:

dvw86 · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 636 Location: Washington State

Well I made the script and clicking on it starts the game. However when I start it from the Ice menu, the game starts up and instantly quits.

GuestToo · Puppy Master Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4078

if it starts from the script, it should start by running the script from a menu

are there any error messages in /tmp/xerrs.txt?

dvw86 · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 636 Location: Washington State

That's what I thought too. There were some errors generated. I'm not sure which file it is referring to though.

System init Ok.
Entering game...
can't read from file

dvw86 · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 636 Location: Washington State

It's almost like Rox or Ice doesn't have permission to read a file. I still haven't figured it out. Any more ideas?

GuestToo · Puppy Master Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4078

sometimes there are problems starting a program with a different working directory, so it will find the files in one case, but not in the other ... sometimes a program will get the working dir from dirname, which can cause problems if the program was run using a relative path (like ./my-program), which is why i suggested a script that cd's to the dir and runs the program using an absolute path

other than that, i can't think of any other significant difference starting a program by clicking it or from a script or from a menu ... you should have the same rights and permissions, i think

i think if the program will start from a script, it should start from the menu

i haven't tried the program at all ... i assume it's an X program and not a console program? (i think it would have to be an X program if it will run by clicking it) ... if it's a console program, you would need to start it something like rxvt -e my-program ... but i don't think it is

there must some reason it isn't working, but i don't know what it is

dvw86 · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 636 Location: Washington State

Well I have tried this on two different computers and Puppy 1.0.4 and 1.0.3. Starting the programs from Ice in 1.0.4 always crashes, with or without using the wrapper script. Starting the program from Ice in 1.0.3 without the wrapper script crashed, but when I used the wrapper script in 1.0.3 it worked. The only other differance is that Puppy 1.0.3 is an option 2 HD install. If you get a chance could you give it a try. I'm starting to wonder if there isn't a problem with my pup001 file in 1.0.4?

duke93535 · Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2005, 16:30 Post subject:

You might rethink the common source of those dot pup games. I had nothing but trouble from those games, in the ice window maker.

klhrevolutionist · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 1124

I'm not sure that I can help, but I believe memory game or martien requires
SDL, If my memory serves me, dvw86

EDIT- Bruce B. some of the games such as barrage.pup and xrick.pup are to big to post, so that is why you are linked to your host file.

sorry for the troubles

Bruce B · Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2005, 21:37 Post subject: Re: well

duke93535 · Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2005, 22:43 Post subject:

Barrage dot.pup works fine with the ice window maker menu and i just put a symbolic link to mini icons, i have downloaded barrage.pup with the link at Contributed Dotpups works fine bruce.

Bruce B · Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2005, 23:14 Post subject:

Duke, it works, you say?

I tried it again and got the same page I got before. Only this time I read the page. Big difference when you read.

http://www.yourfilehost.com/media.php?cat=other&file=barrage.pup

What can I say? Sorry for the static on the line. Thanks for your help

mike · Joined: 13 Aug 2005 Posts: 75 Location: Bowser

it happens to everyone Bruce Smile

dvw86 · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 636 Location: Washington State

Interesting, Barrage works in Puppy 1.0.3 from the Ice menu without a wrapper script, but it refuses to work in 1.0.4 with or without a wrapper script.