caqo on 20/9/2016 at 00:58
I use the .ini provided in the new version, and then, I select the folder for the fanmissions, nothing more. You have to change the ini in every version.
Dahenjo on 20/9/2016 at 01:50
Ok, thanks. So you deleted the NewDarkLoader.ini used by 1.2 before moving to 1.3, correct? Actually, NDL doesn't come with the ini, it creates one on first start if it doesn't exist, or it can use an existing one created by a previous version. During testing, R Soul told us just to overwrite the previous NewDarkLoader.dll file (not the ini) each time and it could use the ini already there, but I've just tried it both ways (with and without the ini) on 1.3 and still get the same problems. Until 1.3 I was using the existing ini for each new version and everything worked normally.
Now I'm doing a fresh T2 install to test with 1.2 and 1.3 to see if there was something in the old T2 install that may be causing this, and will report on those results.
EDIT: Brand new T2 install, after setting up using 1.3 it had just as long delays as with the old T2 (reported above) and very obviously still wasn't working right. I then overwrote the NewDarkLoader.dll from 1.3 with the one from 1.2 and using the same ini file that 1.3 had created, it opened immediately and worked normally. The only difference was the DLL.
So far it's only caqo who has tried 1.3 so can one or two others please try it?
caqo on 20/9/2016 at 03:51
You're right, I was confused by the english.ini file.
Now I'm so lost. I copied the newdarkloader.dll from the zip file (1.3), and overwrite the other, both was same version and size, and now I have all the issues that Dahenjo wrote. NDL takes too much time to be opened. :rolleyes:
So, I can confirm Dahenjo's issues.
EDIT: I found something interesting. I noticed that everytime you run Thief, NDL re creates the file NewDarkloader.ini, but I noticed that it is done several times, if you see the file while wait for NDL to load, you can see that the ini file size changes from 0 bytes to 61 Bytes (in my case), at least 4 times, and each time it takes a time.
Dahenjo on 20/9/2016 at 04:30
Quote Posted by caqo
You're right, I was confused by the english.ini file.
Now I'm so lost. I copied the newdarkloader.dll from the zip file (1.3), and overwrite the other, both was same version and size, and now I have all the issues that Dahenjo wrote. NDL takes too much time to be opened. :rolleyes:
So, I can confirm Dahenjo's issues.
EDIT: I found something interesting. I noticed that everytime you run Thief, NDL re creates the file NewDarkloader.ini, but I noticed that it is done several times, if you see the file while wait for NDL to load, you can see that the ini file size changes from 0 bytes to 61 Bytes (in my case), at least 4 times, and each time it takes a time.
That is strange if it was the same version, but thanks for trying it again and confirming it wasn't just me. And that is interesting what you noticed, I didn't think to look at the NDL.ini while waiting. It shouldn't do that and hopefully it is a clue to help R Soul find the problem. I went back to 1.2 with my old T2 install so am fine again for now. You can get 1.2 again from the OP if you need it.
fxdwg on 20/9/2016 at 12:42
My apologies.
I can also confirm Dahenjo's experience with v1.3.
I replaced newdarkloader.dll, english.ini, and readme.html from v1.3 over v1.2.
There is a serious lag in loading NDL and column sorting.
R Soul on 20/9/2016 at 14:52
Thanks for the feedback. I was beginning to suspect column sorting, which also happens on startup because sort preferences are remembered.
R Soul on 21/9/2016 at 01:51
I've reduced the number of times the ini file is written to. Now it only happens when the window closes. That may seem unrelated to sorting, but the sort state was being saved in the ini file, and NDL was doing that with a lot of other values too. I wanted to keep the ini up to date, but since most things are shown to the user via the interface, NDL need only update the file once per session.
Please try this version and see if performance is better:
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http://www.mediafire.com/download/2p3y5lcy12d3jps/NewDarkLoader1.3.1.zip)
For users of previous versions, only NewDarkLoader.dll needs to be extracted. No language changes since 1.2.
Dahenjo on 21/9/2016 at 03:32
1.3.1 is better in all respects, no lag now doing any of those things. Good work!
Scrooge on 21/9/2016 at 05:53
A small thing I would love to have fixed is the mousewheel focus on Windows 7 and below: You have to click a pane first to have it focused, then only the mousewheel works in that pane.
You probably have "automatic" focus on the hovering mouse pointer on Wndows 8 and beyond because the system does it for you, so the problem do not appear on these more modern systems.
It is a known "lack of feature" on Windows 7, which often leads to add code like
if (window.canFocus()) {window.setFocus()} as a workaround.
And yes, I had the lag issue too in 1.3, now gone in 1.3.1, thank you !
R Soul on 21/9/2016 at 14:38
As I started looking in to the problem I realised why there was such a long delay. I had it so that saving any ini value would update the file, but my code for saving the sorting info was being made during a 'sort compare' event, which happens each time one cell is compared to another. When sorting a column, every cell has to be compared to every other cell, so that's a lot of file updating.
The ini values are stored in memory, so I changed the save feature to only save to memory, and leave file updating till the window closes. And 'save sort info' now only happens after sorting has finished.
From now on I'll only be tweaking things/fixing bugs. No new features. I consider the Win7 scroll thing to be a tweak, so I'll see what I can do about that.
