Error could not create cob

MrSpontaneous · Post by **MrSpontaneous** » 27 Sep 2006, 03:55

The title is of this post is the most useless error message I have ever encountered. Now my code probably sucks, but I am still inexpiernced with Bos/Cob. In any case, if some one could tell me what is causing this excessively descriptive error, I would greatly appriciate it.

Thanks

Here is the code:

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#define TA			// This is a TA script

#include "sfxtype.h"
#include "exptype.h"

piece  base, arm1, arm2, arm3, arm4, point1, point2, point3, point4;

static-var  nano_changer, zap_changer, is_building;


SmokeUnit(healthpercent, sleeptime, smoketype)
{
	while( get BUILD_PERCENT_LEFT )
	{
		sleep 400;
	}
	while( TRUE )
	{
		healthpercent = get HEALTH;
		if( healthpercent < 66 )
		{
			smoketype = 256 | 2;
			if( Rand( 1, 66 ) < healthpercent )
			{
				smoketype = 256 | 1;
			}
			emit-sfx smoketype from base;
		}
		sleeptime = healthpercent * 50;
		if( sleeptime < 200 )
		{
			sleeptime = 200;
		}
		sleep sleeptime;
	}
}

MotionControl(moving, aiming, justmoved)
{
}

Create()
{
	nano_changer = 0;
	zap_changer = 0;
	is_building = 0;
	start-script SmokeUnit();
}

SetMaxReloadTime()
{
}

StartMoving()
{
}

StopMoving()
{
}

WhenBuilding()
{
  While(is_building == 1)
  {
  sleep 10;
  }
}

SweetSpot(piecenum)
{
	piecenum = base;
}

RestoreAfterDelay()
{
}

AimFromPrimary(piecenum)
{
	piecenum = base;
}

QueryPrimary(piecenum)
{
    start-script WhenBuilding();

    if(zap_changer == 0)
    {
	piecenum = point1;
	}
    if(zap_changer == 1)
    {
	piecenum = point2;
	}	
	if(zap_changer == 2)
    {
	piecenum = point3;
	}
	if(zap_changer == 3)
    {
	piecenum = point4;
	}
	
	zap_changer = zap_changer + 1;
	
	if(zap_changer == 4)
	{
	  zap_changer = 0;
    }
	
	
}

AimPrimary(heading, pitch)
{
	signal 4;
	set-signal-mask 4;
	turn base to y-axis heading speed <1.>;
	turn base to x-axis pitch speed <1.>;
	return (1);
}

FirePrimary()
{
}

QueryNanoPiece(piecenum)
{
	if( nano_changer == 0 )
	{
		piecenum = point1;
	}
	if( nano_changer == 1 )
	{
		piecenum = point2;
	}
	if( nano_changer == 2 )
	{
		piecenum = point3;
	}
	if( nano_changer == 3 )
	{
		piecenum = point4;
	}
	nano_changer = nano_changer + 1;
	
	if(nano_changer == 4)
	  {
	  nano_changer = 0;
	  }
	
}

StartBuilding(heading, pitch)
{
    is_building = 1;
	turn base to y-axis heading speed <200>;
	turn base to X-axis pitch speed <200>;
	wait-for-turn base around y-axis;
	set INBUILDSTANCE to 1;
}

StopBuilding()
{
	set INBUILDSTANCE to 0;
    turn base to y-axis <0> speed <200>;
    turn base to X-axis <0> speed <200>;
    is_building = 0;

	signal 8;
	set-signal-mask 8;
}

Killed(severity, corpsetype)
{
	if( severity <= 25 )
	{
		corpsetype = 1;
		explode base type BITMAPONLY | BITMAP1;
		explode arm1 type SHATTER;
		explode arm3 type SHATTER;
		explode arm4 type SHATTER;
		explode arm2 type SHATTER;
		return (0);
	}
	if( severity <= 50 )
	{
		corpsetype = 2;
		explode base type BITMAPONLY | BITMAP1;
		explode arm1 type SHATTER;
		explode arm3 type SHATTER;
		explode arm4 type SHATTER;
		explode arm2 type SHATTER;
		return (0);
	}
	if( severity <= 99 )
	{
		corpsetype = 3;
		explode base type BITMAPONLY | BITMAP1;
		explode arm1 type SHATTER;
		explode arm3 type SHATTER;
		explode arm4 type SHATTER;
		explode arm2 type SHATTER;
		return (0);
	}
	corpsetype = 3;
	explode base type BITMAPONLY | BITMAP1;
}

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 27 Sep 2006, 04:06

The entire error message please. Restart Scriptor and try again. Still happenening?

MrSpontaneous · Post by **MrSpontaneous** » 27 Sep 2006, 04:14

Here is the entire error message. . .

Compiling Bos...
Compiling sfxtype.h
Compiling exptype.h

Making Cob...
Error (209): Could not create cob [ C:\Documents and Settings\DoomOfAges\My Documents\Ideas\mod idea\Nightmare\Scripts\AgoSeed.bos ]

One or more errors occured while compiling the script.

yes, the error persists after restarting scriptor

209 is the last line of the script (last line with code any way

)

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 27 Sep 2006, 04:45

No idea if NTFS could fuck this up but try it on a non NTFS partition...

MrSpontaneous · Post by **MrSpontaneous** » 27 Sep 2006, 04:56

NTFS? I have succesfully compiled other units before, so I don't see why this one would suffer from some sort of opperating system problem.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 27 Sep 2006, 05:09

Try putting Create() at the bottom. It's actually always a good idea to do that because it lacks prototypes...

Other than that, no idea. Couldn't see anything it should compile... still this looks like insufficient rights to create or write files in that directory.

MrSpontaneous · Post by **MrSpontaneous** » 27 Sep 2006, 05:29

I don't know what permission I would be missing. . .Do you know which it would be (name etc.) and what it would be located under?

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 27 Sep 2006, 05:39

Eh no I don't use NTFS but for 2k itself (for a reason) nor WinXP (obvious)...

Try compiling a different script in the same directory to rule out if it's the filesystem. NTFS options can be found in that directory's attribute page... I'd rather not explain now how to find the user rights right now :P
Hum take a working script and reinsert functions from one to the other until you notice what's broken, although I doesn't look broken.

Anyway it's late, 5:35 am (again), gotta catch some Zzzs... :)

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 27 Sep 2006, 05:44

Your best bet is probably as he said, remove sections until it works, then reinsert them til it doesn't.

MrSpontaneous · Post by **MrSpontaneous** » 27 Sep 2006, 06:58

Looks like its the stupid file system. . .probably reset its self because I had to wipe my harddrive recently. . .

thanks

Edit: still cannot find were to set the permisions. . .

MrSpontaneous · Post by **MrSpontaneous** » 27 Sep 2006, 08:23

help? I would rather not sift through all the buggerred windows permissions and administrative info just to compile my lousy unit

.

Archangel of Death · Post by **Archangel of Death** » 27 Sep 2006, 08:46

Perhaps there is a bit of rogue data that slipped into the file, scriptor might not show it because it wouldn't know how to interpret it into characters, but it would still have to try to compile it. I think I've had that happen a couple times before.

Try just copy pasting it into a new file.

MrSpontaneous · Post by **MrSpontaneous** » 27 Sep 2006, 09:06

nope, its not that . . .

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 27 Sep 2006, 12:29

Erm... almost always, an error like that indicates something that isn't closed properly.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 27 Sep 2006, 13:09

You mean like there's a another "broken" instance of scriptor in the background which got the file rw+ opened?

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 27 Sep 2006, 14:06

Compiles just fine here. Is your harddrive full?

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 27 Sep 2006, 16:27

rattle wrote:You mean like there's a another "broken" instance of scriptor in the background which got the file rw+ opened?

Nah, he means a closing bracket might be missing. A "}". But KDR says he can compile fine so that must not be the case.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 27 Sep 2006, 18:13

I suspected that as well but there wasn't anything missing...

MrSpontaneous · Post by **MrSpontaneous** » 27 Sep 2006, 22:41

My hard drive has plenty of space, I think its what rattle said and for some reason I don't have permission to compile. . .as I tried another script and it would not compile either (that one was already finished, and compiled) and got the same error.

It being most likly that I am lacking the nessiceary permissions, does any one know which one I would be missing and were I can locate it?

PauloMorfeo · Post by **PauloMorfeo** » 28 Sep 2006, 00:17

MrSpontaneous wrote:Looks like its the stupid file system. . .probably reset its self because I had to wipe my harddrive recently. . .

thanks

Edit: still cannot find were to set the permisions. . .

- Right click on a folder or file.
- Select "Properties"
- You should have a tab named "permissions" or something!? Post here which tabs it has. I'm not on a Win right now. Also, WinXP has a nasty tendency to change behaviour of things for ways more *newbie-firendly* which just end up beeing more confusing.

Anyway, try striping a script of everything but the essential and build it. If you can build that but not the one you've shown, it's not permission issues.

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