0.3.2 will automatically be uninstalled and replaced with 0.4

There is no beta 4. If you mean the SimpleUI Editor testing release, you can just delete it before you install 0.4 (if you put it in /usr/bin)

Niel,

I just realised I left 1 file out of the package, it has now been updated.
If you don't mind re download the deb file and reinstall, or if you like I can just send you the missing file.

That will fix the first problem, but you seem to also have a parcel that's missing its icon entry... Is that deliberate or ,maybe just something you've missed?

Last edited by SublimePorte (2008-05-03 7:52:10 am)

It ran through the various installation dialogs before telling me that it had unintalled it but on reloading the GUI the icons were still there and it still wouldn't reinstall.

All of the icons are still there? Did you try running the uninstall icon from Launcher Tools folder? Also did you have other icons already in your Launcher Tools folder?

I'm happy to try to work this through with you to resolve these issues rather than getting a quick fix by just installing a another file but I have to go out in a bit.

Shouldn't be too difficult to isolate.
Try this awk command to check the icon attributes of your parcels.

awk '$1 ~ "parcel" {print $3}' simpleui.rc

If $3 doesn't give you the icon attributes try $2 or $4

When you find most of the output is icons scroll up and see if you can find a few that aren't icon attributes, those ones might not have icon attributes.

Thank you, glad you liked it.

I should implement some routines to check for parcels that are missing vital attributes I guess, like emeditor's node check.

When i install it, it says that it cant be installed. Try reinstalling.

When i then open synaptic. While its downloading the packages, it the says the following:

E: The package altools needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.

E: Internal error opening cache(1). Please report


Any ideas? thanks

SublimePorte wrote:

Thank you, glad you liked it.

I should implement some routines to check for parcels that are missing vital attributes I guess, like emeditor's node check.

You can get the source code to 0.5.5 and have a look at how I implemented the recovery functions.
I did it in the following way, if the simpleui.rc fails to load due to incorrect syntax, it starts the recovery option:
    load the file in an internal memo
    add a unique line of text after every node
    split the text into an array using the unique line of text as delimiter
    loop through each array item and parse them individually.

Niel1952 wrote:

I just right-click on the downloaded .deb file in File Manager, select Install .DEB file, enter my password and (subject to the issues above) it just installs.  How are you trying to install it?

yup. thats what I did.

As a work-around, I installed the old version (0.3) which installed fine and then reinstalled version 4 and that made it work.

My new problem though is when i run it, i cannot delete certain icons. my problem is that i have two tweakeee icons and when i tried deleting one and then saving the changes, it both still appears. as if i didnt do anything

love the program much better.
1problem is that when i use the editor, it does not work. i click savechanges then i reloadalg but nothing happens...
know why this is happenng?

SublimePorte wrote:

kieonsegg,

Does it reload? Or nothing at all happens?

i am able tochange like the name of the tab and add icons, and i see them within the program. i click save and then click reloadasuslauncher and i come back and nothing has changed. and when i open up the program again it shows that nothing has been changed

reinstalling (as suggested also gives error messages:

/home/user> sudo dpkg -i altools_0.4.1.deb
Selecting previously deselected package altools.
(Reading database ... 72856 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace altools 0.4.1 (using altools_0.4.1.deb) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/altools/uninstaller.py", line 18, in ?
    simple = xml.dom.minidom.parse(SIMPLEFILE)
  File "xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1915, in parse
  File "xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 924, in parse
  File "xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 207, in parseFile
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: undefined entity: line 3566, column 115
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/altools/uninstaller.py", line 18, in ?
    simple = xml.dom.minidom.parse(SIMPLEFILE)
  File "xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1915, in parse
  File "xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 924, in parse
  File "xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 207, in parseFile
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: undefined entity: line 3566, column 115
dpkg: error processing altools_0.4.1.deb (--install):
subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/altools/installer.py", line 39, in ?
    fixDuplicates()
  File "/opt/altools/installer.py", line 30, in fixDuplicates
    fhand2.write(simpledom.toString(4))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/codecs.py", line 501, in write
    return self.writer.write(data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/codecs.py", line 178, in write
    data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf6 in position 2036: ordinal not in range(128)
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
altools_0.4.1.deb

this may sound stupid but what do i type in to treminal because altools dosent work and neither does simpleuieditor

SublimePorte:

thanks fr the info...

"Your simpleui.rc has bad xml in it, that's why it's not working. You need to either try to fix the xml (if you know how it should be) or restore your simpleui.rc from an old copy."

I got the error message on a freshly restored (F9) stock 701...

of course it still could have some bad xml... but still it is strange...