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The Vista Looks Bad

September 8th 2007, 01:15 AM
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Hasai
Peasant He/Him Finland
I want to have your abortion 
I'll be going to work tomorrow, hopefully I'll get an answer by the time I get back.

Today, I decided to screw around and make a dmod on this computer, but unfortunately, Vista doesn't seem to allow me to create/edit/save txt/c files in any of my folders. I do have an administrator account. Perhaps, its some weird bug involving Vista and HP security software. DMODS appear to run fine, but I haven't really done any extensive testing on this computer.

The error message I get when I try to save scripts is that the path or filename is invalid, which is, of course, retarded since it exists, and even if it didn't exist, I'm telling it to save it. This has to be the stupidest OS in existence.
September 8th 2007, 10:22 AM
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Christiaan
Bard They/Them Netherlands
Lazy bum 
Hmmm. I also use Vista, but I don't have any of the issues some people here seem to have. Possible ways to create .c files:

1) Open Notepad/Wordpad/etc. (NOT MSWord! but the cheapass one). Type your script. Then click on "save as". Change "as .txt" into "all files". then save the file as "script.c" ("script" can ofcourse be anything). Tada, you created a .c file.

2) Select an existing .c file in Windows. Then copy it. Paste it and rename it as you like. Then open it and start scripting.

TIP: When selecting a .c file, right click it and choose "open with" then select Notepad or whatever it is called and select "always open with this program". This way you can easily edit scripts using Notepad.
September 8th 2007, 02:38 PM
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drath
Peasant He/Him United States
Humans are crunchy and filled with Katchup. 
I have a vista and have simular problems. I couldnt find any way to make d-mods on it if you still have a xp id use it to make d-mods. I belive that vista has a glitch in some computers that it cant find its files easly.
September 8th 2007, 08:03 PM
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Christiaan
Bard They/Them Netherlands
Lazy bum 
What exactly is the problem then? I've quite some experience with Vista now, maybe I could help out.
September 9th 2007, 11:47 AM
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Sharp
Peasant She/Her Finland
 
I remember getting into some trouble when I tried to copy-paste .c files - the game crashed or something, can't remember as it was 7 years ago But the message is still clear, I swore to spread the message of not copy-pasting .c files and here goes: don't do it!

(Unless someone did something to fix this problem with the updated versions of dink.)