Esf Total Editor

**husserlTW** · January 26, 2011, 05:20 PM

Did you type a full name with extension for output esf, e.g. myfile.esf?

**Aermanner** · January 27, 2011, 03:44 AM

Originally Posted by husserlTW

Did you type a full name with extension for output esf, e.g. myfile.esf?

Indeed I did, I tried both with and without the extension, but no luck. It gives me the folloing message in the command window:

xml2esf:198:in 'start_element': undefined method 'to_sym' for ["magic", "43982 0 1256918690"]:Array (NoMethodError)

Along with some other stuff, but I guess this is the important message. Perhaps I have installed JRuby wrongly?

**husserlTW** · January 27, 2011, 05:09 AM

The luck of extension is responsible for finding in converter folder the output file and not in Esf folder. About the error message I am sure Taw will get a clue of what is going on.

**taw** · January 27, 2011, 05:31 AM

Originally Posted by Aermanner

Indeed I did, I tried both with and without the extension, but no luck. It gives me the folloing message in the command window:

Along with some other stuff, but I guess this is the important message. Perhaps I have installed JRuby wrongly?

I've seen this error message before. This is either badly installed nokogiri or old version of esfxml.

To install correct nokogiri:

jgem uninstall nokogiri
jgem install nokogiri --pre

To get recent version of esfxml go here.

**Aermanner** · January 27, 2011, 05:55 AM

Originally Posted by taw

I've seen this error message before. This is either badly installed nokogiri or old version of esfxml.

To install correct nokogiri:

jgem uninstall nokogiri
jgem install nokogiri --pre

To get recent version of esfxml go here.

It was an old version of the converter, apparently, now it works!

Husserl, I used the converter that came with your download, perhaps it should be updated (or perhaps it's just me, I hope nobody else has this problem).

Thanks, guys, it is much appreciated!

**taw** · January 27, 2011, 05:59 AM

Originally Posted by Aermanner

It was an old version of the converter, apparently, now it works!

Husserl, I used the converter that came with your download, perhaps it should be updated (or perhaps it's just me, I hope nobody else has this problem).

Thanks, guys, it is much appreciated!

Gui is maintained by husserlTW and esf-xml converter is maintained by me, so there's a huge coordination problem here with either of us providing a single zip with both. We definitely need to sort it out somehow :-/

**Dionysius the Mighty** · January 29, 2011, 10:38 PM

I'm having an issue with this tool, whenever I try and convert startpos.esf into an XML file it seems to start the conversion, then I get an error saying that it can't find a bat file, then it seems to continue, tells me that the esf has been converted, then brings up another error message, which if you click on a certain button closes the program. I've looked through all the folders associated with the editor, and I cannot find the XML version of startpos.esf anywhere, even though when I try and convert it again it asks me if I want to replace an existing copy.

**husserlTW** · January 30, 2011, 04:53 AM

Maybe it would help if you had copied the error messages (details) so I could see them. The problem with bat file has to do either with corrupted file (re-download ETE) or some security process prevents the program from making the necessary batch fie to complete the conversion.

**Dionysius the Mighty** · January 30, 2011, 04:34 PM

This is the error message that comes up during the conversion process:

And this is the error that comes up at the end:

**.Mitch.** · January 30, 2011, 05:50 PM

I got that too. I guessed it's due to a bad directory in the coding. If you just simply find esfxml.bat, all of the code in it should be created, so just run the .bat and it will do the conversion.

**Dionysius the Mighty** · January 31, 2011, 12:38 AM

I've found the bat file, but when I try and run it it brings up an empty command box which then vanishes without doing anything.

**husserlTW** · January 31, 2011, 05:38 AM

Originally Posted by Dionysius the Mighty

This is the error message that comes up during the conversion process:

And this is the error that comes up at the end:

Copy this part of the error message please so I can see it all please (you can copy/paste it). What is your OS?

Originally Posted by .Mitch.

I got that too. I guessed it's due to a bad directory in the coding. If you just simply find esfxml.bat, all of the code in it should be created, so just run the .bat and it will do the conversion.

If the problem was that, it would be easy to be fixed. But commands are correct and as you see he has not even the esfxml.bat file made. Moreover I have not received any other report like it.

Btw Mitch have you any idea of this problem: As you've noticed in menu bar there are 2 folder links that target to Esf Folder and Xml Folder. If you install the application using a setup.exe when you click either of those it goes in Documents and not it's target folder. But if you just copy the application it works fine. Why is that happening?

**Okmin** · January 31, 2011, 07:53 PM

Just something I found out (probably not related to any of those problems up there ^)...

On Windows Vista and 7 you need to Run as Administrator. Otherwise it stops working after you click Esf to XML

**CavalryCmdr** · February 01, 2011, 02:47 PM

I've noticed the pathfinder in the total editor is not always compatible with the esf2xml converter, for best results copy the "EsfTotal Editor Release" folder to your core directory (ie C: ) so the path is much simpler (C:\EsfTotal Editor Release) also, move the files you want to edit into the C:\EsfTotal Editor Release folder (not a sub folder) for the xml2esf move the XML FOLDER ("caiset" folder, not the xml's therein.) Then run TEE and select the file/folder in the C:\EsfTotal Editor Release directory. This generally will solve the "file not found" type error. (which is often what the dos shell error is, atleast in my case)

I'm running XP, so things might be a little easier for me, but if you copy-paste taw's newest rb files into the EsfTotal Editor Release\Converters folder and follow his readme file for the JRuby download
http://jruby.org.s3.amazonaws.com/do...sjre_1_5_3.exe
finally goto the dos shell and do the jgem uninstall nokogiri / jgem install nokogiri --pre commands. That will get the basic potential problems out of the way so husserlTW can figure out the real problem if it still remains.

**uken** · February 13, 2011, 01:55 AM

Thank you for program, but where I can find converted .xml files? In which folder?

**husserlTW** · February 13, 2011, 05:18 AM

In Xml menu up in the middle.

**ForteS** · February 25, 2011, 02:31 PM

Are you planing to add the script option?

**husserlTW** · February 25, 2011, 03:47 PM

There is no point to update program when Taw updates his work almost every day (which is very very good for us). I'll wait some more times for more goodies and a better development of the existing. Anyway I'll rework it completely some time in the near future.

**taw** · February 25, 2011, 06:01 PM

Originally Posted by husserlTW

There is no point to update program when Taw updates his work almost every day (which is very very good for us). I'll wait some more times for more goodies and a better development of the existing. Anyway I'll rework it completely some time in the near future.

I update code a lot, but interface to the code is quite stable, and most of the changes are simply new scripts added.

Just go forward with it, without a GUI I lose most of the users ;-)