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Problem loading GUIs made from previous version

by Stuart Kenny · in Torque Game Builder · 07/30/2007 (5:13 pm) · 3 replies

I recently upgraded my TGB part-way through development (always a risky venture).

When I try to edit my GUIs I get a message saying "You have loaded a Gui file that was created before this version. It has been loaded but you must open it manually from the content list dropdown."

However, it doesn't actually appear in any drop down list. Am I missing something or is this broken?

I really don't want to redo all my GUI elements just to make some minor changes.


Stuart Kenny
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Torque Owner Melissa Niiya
#1
07/30/2007 (5:17 pm)
Hm can you go into the GUI editor, click File->Open GUI and open your GUIs that way? After saving, they should be in the dropdown that lists GUIs. Let me know if this works/doesn't work, I'll try to find an old version of TGB somewhere to test it.

Torque Owner Stuart Kenny
#2
07/31/2007 (2:49 pm)
I tried that, but no luck.

I made the original ones with 1.1.3. I am currently using 1.5.1

Thanks for looking into this.

Stuart

Associate Justin DuJardin
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#3
08/17/2007 (5:30 pm)
Stuart,
This happens because your gui files do not contain a key token that 1.5 uses to identify loaded files.

Conversion

To make your GUI files compatible open them up in a text editor and locate the first line that resembles the following. 

new GuiControl() {
Note that yours may be a new GuiControl with a different class name; for exmaple GuiBitmapCtrl.

so your first object (and likely line) would look like

[b]%guiContent = [/b]new GuiControl() {

with the added script in bold.

Note that you do not need to do this to access your gui's. Once you load them and get the 'old version' message box, you may reload the gui editor and then select them from the drop down list of GUI's provided to you.

Cheers,
-Justin