ID:1275807
 
Resolved
When a skin saved its main window in a minimized state, it would not appear after the splash screen.
BYOND Version:499
Operating System:Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Web Browser:Chrome 27.0.1453.94
Applies to:BYOND Pager
Status: Resolved (499.1189)

This issue has been resolved.
Descriptive Problem Summary:
Version: 499.1187
When attempting to open a single player game of Boxed, I am getting the Byond logo and the ad starts to come up, but says that I have to install Flash and enable it in IE in order to see ads. I've been seeing ads until the new update, and I'm pretty sure I'm up to date. I'll check and edit if I'm not. After a few seconds, the ad goes away, and the help file for the game pops up, but that's all. The game itself never comes up, though an instance of DS is running and can be shut down through task manager.

I don't have any of the code for this game anymore, unfortunately, but I'm pretty sure it just browses a help file to the player on login.

Numbered Steps to Reproduce Problem:
Attempt to play game.

Code Snippet (if applicable) to Reproduce Problem:


Expected Results:

Actual Results:

Does the problem occur:
Every time? Or how often?
Yes

In other games?
Not that I can tell. Tried about a dozen games or so.
In other user accounts?
Happens with all my accounts.
On other computers?
Don't know.

When does the problem NOT occur?

Did the problem NOT occur in any earlier versions? If so, what was the last version that worked? (Visit http://www.byond.com/download/build to download old versions for testing.)

Workarounds:
I ran into this problem once during testing (on a different game), but wasn't able to reproduce it afterwords. I'm thinking that the browser pop-up is what is causing the skin file to fail to launch/corrupt.

Anyways, as a temporary work around, this problem can be fixed by clearing out the games skin file.

To do this: Open the BYOND pager > Menu (Gear symbol) > Preferences > Advanced > Open user directory > Skins > flick(Or other author name) > boxed (Or other game name) > Delete skin.dme, skin.dmf and saved.txt. (Note that dream seeker may actually be running in the background and will need to be terminated using the task manager, in order to delete the skin files.)

Im currently having this same issue with Bleach By VcentG after updating to the current build. Ill try that work around then come back and edit.

EDIT:
just deleting "saved.txt" worked for me.
In repsone to what you sent me what happens in the new version is that when i install for the first time it works but after that one time after i exit ad finishes and all but the byond game doesnt pop up Instead what i see instead of the game which is a part of the game is is this ur first time? But the game itself is not there. Or it is ther ebut just hidden on the pc for no reason
In response to Narutogokuichigo4
I've moved your post here. You posted a response to a completely unrelated bug report, rather than to our pager conversation (the thread for that appears in Your Updates at the top of the page), but I believe the issue you're having is the bug being discussed in this thread so this is probably where it belongs.

The solution being discussed in this thread so far involves deleting the saved.txt file from the game's skin directory. I'd like you to try the following steps:

1) Open your BYOND user data directory. This is probably in My Documents\BYOND. If you're not sure where to find it, the pager will let you open it if you go to Preferences | Advanced in the menu.

2) Find the directory for the game you're joining. It'll be like Skins\[author]\[game].

3) Rename saved.txt to another file, like saved-old.txt.

4) Try joining again. If this works, please let me know. You can paste the contents of the saved-old.txt file here.
Some games dont got skin file in their folder just a notepad named "saved"
Renaming saved.txt worked. If I rename it back, it breaks again.


This one doesn't work:
menu.stretch.is-checked = "true"
menu.icon32.is-checked = "false"
menu.icon16.is-checked = "false"
mainwindow.pos = "281,0"
mainwindow.size = "640x440"
mainwindow.is-minimized = "true"
mainwindow.is-maximized = "false"
mapwindow.pos = "0,0"
mapwindow.size = "645x667"
mapwindow.is-minimized = "false"
mapwindow.is-maximized = "false"
mapwindow.map.icon-size = "0"
outputwindow.pos = "0,0"
outputwindow.size = "645x667"
outputwindow.is-minimized = "false"
outputwindow.is-maximized = "false"
outputwindow.output.max-lines = "1000"
rpane.pos = "653,0"
rpane.size = "645x667"
rpane.is-minimized = "false"
rpane.is-maximized = "false"
rpane.rpanewindow.splitter = "50"
rpane.textb.is-checked = "true"
rpane.browseb.is-checked = "false"
rpane.infob.is-checked = "false"
browserwindow.pos = "none"
browserwindow.size = "640x480"
browserwindow.is-minimized = "false"
browserwindow.is-maximized = "false"
infowindow.pos = "none"
infowindow.size = "640x480"
infowindow.is-minimized = "false"
infowindow.is-maximized = "false"
mainwindow.mainvsplit.splitter = "50"
mainwindow.input.command = ""
mainwindow.saybutton.is-checked = "false"
mainwindow.macrobutton.is-checked = "false"
mainwindow.hostb.is-checked = "false"


This one does:
menu.stretch.is-checked = "true"
menu.icon32.is-checked = "false"
menu.icon16.is-checked = "false"
mainwindow.pos = "395,164"
mainwindow.size = "640x440"
mainwindow.is-minimized = "false"
mainwindow.is-maximized = "true"
mapwindow.pos = "0,0"
mapwindow.size = "644x667"
mapwindow.is-minimized = "false"
mapwindow.is-maximized = "false"
mapwindow.map.icon-size = "0"
outputwindow.pos = "0,0"
outputwindow.size = "643x667"
outputwindow.is-minimized = "false"
outputwindow.is-maximized = "false"
outputwindow.output.max-lines = "1000"
rpane.pos = "0,0"
rpane.size = "643x667"
rpane.is-minimized = "false"
rpane.is-maximized = "false"
rpane.rpanewindow.splitter = "50"
rpane.textb.is-checked = "true"
rpane.browseb.is-checked = "false"
rpane.infob.is-checked = "false"
browserwindow.pos = "0,0"
browserwindow.size = "640x480"
browserwindow.is-minimized = "false"
browserwindow.is-maximized = "false"
infowindow.pos = "0,0"
infowindow.size = "640x480"
infowindow.is-minimized = "false"
infowindow.is-maximized = "false"
mainwindow.mainvsplit.splitter = "50"
mainwindow.input.command = ""
mainwindow.saybutton.is-checked = "false"
mainwindow.macrobutton.is-checked = "false"
mainwindow.hostb.is-checked = "false"
Lummox JR resolved issue with message:
When a skin saved its main window in a minimized state, it would not appear after the splash screen.
Works fine with the latest update.