EXTENDER Help

[Carman Bulldog]

Copy and Pasted from Stelmack Soft Utility Suite Thread:

I'm trying to run extender and am clearly an idiot. When I run the application, I select "File" which brings up the "Choose FOF Game". However, the select Game screen is unpopulated.

I'm assuming that I need to copy and paste some files from one place to another, but not sure how and where. Sorry if I missed this elsewhere.

Or alternatively this could be some sort of Vista issue.

Thoughts?

[gstelmack]

If you were using any hacks to run the UtilitySuite, undo them. It supports all the new directory structures natively. If the "Choose FOF Game" field is blank, it can't find any saved games in app data's universe folder. Some of the registry and other hacks that were needed with the old version might interfere with the new one.

[Carman Bulldog]

Thanks for the feedback. However, this is the first time I had installed FOF on this computer and first time ever using the Utility Suite. The only additional add-ons were Change Tracker (which was causing problems due to Vista and thus forced me to run it off a thumb drive) and the Glossy Logos. This is what the screen looks like...




I figured out how to get Extractor and Analyzer both working, but for some reason Extender won't pull up any saved games.

When I go into the App Data folder and the Universe Folder, all the saves are there.

I did have to do an un-install and re-install of FOFC due to some sort of issue with city populations but didn't mess around with the registry files at the time.

[gstelmack]

Try this:

In Documents\StelmackSoft\UtilitySuite, create a file called "FOFPath.txt". Put two lines in there. First line is the path to your FOF installation directory (over in program files), second line is the path to the FOF app data directory, the one that contains the universe, leagues, etc folders. Then try again and let me know if it finds things. It may be that my code to find the app data area is wrong for Vista or something (it works for me on Win7 right now). At some point I need to put in code that shows you where it's looking.

[Carman Bulldog]

Yep, that did the trick. Thanks a bunch.

[jley618]

I have the same issue with Extender.

Created FOFPath.txt in folder as shown.

1st line, I put the path to the executable for the game.
C:\Program Files\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007

2nd line, put the path to the app data:
C:\Users\Jason\AppData\Roaming\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football 2007

I am running 32-bit Vista, and I know that Extractor is working fine.

Please advise.

[Yoda]

I would double check that first path... I think it's usually more something like:

c:\program files(x86)\solecismic software\front office football 2007

unless you forced the install to the program files folder, it usually installs in the program files (x86) one

[gstelmack]

That's only on 64-bit, his path is correct for 32-bit.

[jley618]

Any ideas as to why I can't get a league list to choose from?

[gstelmack]

I'm out of ideas if the FOFPath.txt file idea didn't work. I hope to add some debugging output to a future version to help diagnose path issues, but I have nothing else to go on right now.