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My First "Gotcha"

by Aaron Davenport · in Torque Game Engine · 08/13/2001 (10:23 pm) · 5 replies

Decide to play with the example program but found that changes to the GUI wouldn't save (wouldn't get error's when trying to save, but when I restarted the prog'y it was back to the original)

Solution:
--check the attributes on the files, alot are marked read-only. Uncheck read-only box in the file properties through explorer and try saving again.

Didn't want anyone to make my simple mistake :o)

,Aaron
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Torque Owner Owen "WDA" Ashcroft
#1
08/14/2001 (4:51 am)
easier way is to open a command prompt. goto c:\garagegames and type:
attrib *.* -r -s -h -a /s /d
and sit back whilst everyfile loses every attribute :)

Owen

Torque Owner Blayne Watt
#2
08/14/2001 (5:33 am)
Or, if on WinME / Win2000, do properties on the folder, and tell it to have them affect all subfiles/folders. (Look, they added something useful! Unlike getting rid of Find Files... sigh)

Oh, and in this case, the quick dos method is simply:

attrib -r *.* /s

(I've found that the MS PowerToy Dos Prompt Here is a wonder for having to do this stuff... just right click on a folder, DOS Prompt Here, and you open a dos shell in the selected directory... another item MS should have built in)

-bw

Torque Owner Richard Green
#3
08/14/2001 (10:27 am)
Totally unrelated to V12 - but Find Files has just been renamed to Search.

Torque Owner Ailuro
#4
08/14/2001 (11:08 am)
And for extra, added fun, you can hold down Window (that key between your left Ctrl and Alt) and F, and it'll pop open the search box.

Also good with D, M, E, and R.

Torque Owner Blayne Watt
#5
08/14/2001 (4:46 pm)
Actually, the SEARCH is not the same as FIND FILES... it has similar functionality, but Find Files is a separate entity from your explorer... meaning I can search, and not lose my results when I click on one of the options. Also, I found that doing MULTIPLE criteria searches screwed up with SEARCH... I did a search for all files with a date newer than yesterday, with a file extension, and some other criteria (can't remember) and it found EVERY file on my hard drive, not just the new ones.

-bw