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GPL Race Engineer!

5 posts by 5 people · 10 Jun 2002 14:08 UTC - 11 Jun 2002 03:07 UTC

Targanon 10 Jun 2002 14:08 UTC#115701
I have been having a problem with GPL race engineer since I installed it under WinXP. everytime I Start it I get errors everytime I load a setup I get errors everytime I save a setup I get errors. the error I get is "parseTrackIni : 52 Bad file name or number at e:\seirra\gpl\tracks\<none>\track.ini" this happens twice each time I load a setup. but the setup loads and saves infact the only thing wrong is that error! there maybe something else that is causeing errors to but I have seen them or found them! I guess it has something to do with the way it see Xp folders & files names.. Help would be good it works but is bugging me! targanon@**********iprimus.com.au take the * 's out before emailing me
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:08:13 GMT, "Targanon" <[email hidden]> wrote: >the error I get is > >"parseTrackIni : 52 Bad file name or number at e:\seirra\gpl\tracks\<none>\track.ini" It might be that GRE is using some windows API to read the 67season.ini. Those API's differs between the windows versions and is a nightmare to use. In this case there isn't much you can do. It could also be that 67season.ini has been changed by some other utility (for example a track manager), and this utility has changed the look of 67season.ini and after that GRE can't read it. Examine 67season.ini with for example Notepad and compare against the 67season.ini file from the CD. If you spot differences, such as where there is a space or not, in the format it probably is this. Many utilities unfortunately changes the format of the ini-files slightly. While tested with GPL it can cause problems in other utilities which expects them to follow "GPL-standard". Cheers, /Martin
If you find out, let me know, it drives me crazy as well. Just following on to what Martin said. It will still do it with just GPL loaded and GPL Engineer installed. Steve "Targanon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... I have been having a problem with GPL race engineer since I installed it under WinXP. everytime I Start it I get errors everytime I load a setup I get errors everytime I save a setup I get errors. the error I get is "parseTrackIni : 52 Bad file name or number at e:\seirra\gpl\tracks\<none>\track.ini" this happens twice each time I load a setup. but the setup loads and saves infact the only thing wrong is that error! there maybe something else that is causeing errors to but I have seen them or found them! I guess it has something to do with the way it see Xp folders & files names.. Help would be good it works but is bugging me! targanon@**********iprimus.com.au take the * 's out before emailing me
[email hidden] (Martin Granberg) wrote on 10 Jun 2002: <snip> > Many utilities unfortunately changes the format of the ini-files > slightly. While tested with GPL it can cause problems in other > utilities which expects them to follow "GPL-standard". A right pain it is too for those of us who write programs that access the .inis - even an extra blank line can throw things out of kilter, and it can take ages to work out what's caused the error. -- England 1 Argentina 0! Yyyyeeeessssss! :-D The GPL Scrapyard: http://www.btinternet.com/~gplscrapyard
... and you're sure it's not the way \seirra\ is misspelled? Jim Targanon wrote:
Quoted text (11 lines)> I have been having a problem with GPL race engineer since I installed > it under WinXP. everytime I Start it I get errorseverytime I load a > setup I get errorseverytime I save a setup I get errors. the error I > get is "parseTrackIni : 52 Bad file name or number at > e:\seirra\gpl\tracks\<none>\track.ini" this happens twice each time I > load a setup. but the setup loads and saves infact the only thing > wrong is that error!there maybe something else that is causeing errors > to but I have seen them or found them! I guess it has something to do > with the way it see Xp folders & files names.. Help would be good it > works but is bugging me! targanon@**********iprimus.com.au take the * > 's out before emailing me

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