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Cannot connect to TGB exe

by Justin Jones · in Torsion · 06/18/2009 (5:04 am) · 3 replies

Hi

I downloaded the Torsion demo to try with the TGB demo, before shelling out for the full thing.

I compiled a project - Blackjack into a separate directory.

Directory stru is c:\Blackjack\Blackjack.exe
main.cs
few other required dll's
\common
\game

In Torsion I set up a project and "Precompiling" works fine.
I can also "Run without Debug" and the game opens and runs properly.

However I cannot connect using the debugger using the defaults and my window login password.
I even tried port 8080 and some other ports but the "connect" dialog just sits there.

Address: 127.0.0.1
Port: 6060
Password: xxxxxxx (windows XP login password)

I have Zone Alarm and when I tried to "connect" first (F5), the Zone Alarm dialog appeared. I clicked allow and the log in Zone alarm shows that item "TorqueGameBuilder" has full access and the EXE pointed to by this entry is the correct Blackjack.exe.

What is going on here and how can I connect to debug?

Thanks in advance.
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Justin Jones
#1
06/18/2009 (5:33 am)
This connection problem is now solved.

It was Zone Alarm blocking all along. Here is what I did to fix it.

1. Zone Alarm. I went to the Program Control and then the Programs tab.
2. Selected and deleted all refrences to TorqueGameBuilder and (important) Torsion Torque Script IDE.
3. I started Torsion and when ZA's dialog appeared, I clicked Allow and Torsion opened.
4. In ZA I found the new entry for "Torsion Torque Script IDE" and set the Trust Lebvel to Full, and all the other items Ticked.
5. In Torsion, I removed the password and left that field blank so only address 127.0.0.1 and port 8080 were filled and then clicked "Connect" and I was connected immediately.

I can now run the game in Debug mode as well.

Now on to more testing and code stepping.

Cheers

Justin Jones
#2
06/18/2009 (6:10 am)
Oh Oh

Now I get a message

Connection to debug server failed. Invalid password......

I almost give up on this.

Associate Tom Spilman
Sickhead Games
#3
06/18/2009 (1:07 pm)
Don't leave the password blank... TGB doesn't like that. Use anything other than blank and it will work just fine.

The password is not something to secure your local use of Torsion to debug. The password is used to keep others from your local network out of your debug session.