Quote from Killer Beast :

It used to work on Z28 but then didnt work after.

After what? After you switched to Z30? A few days ago you said "in z28 the error was still there". So you got me confused, now. If the error occurs in Z30 but not in Z28, that would be a bug to report to Scawen.

About the installer, well if it doesn't work, you should still be able to install by hand (look for the step-by-step I posted some days ago).

And you can open the .lfs files in NotePad (or any text editor).

Quote from Senninha25 :

I'm actually running 1.0.3.

What version of LFS?

Quote from Killer Beast :

im on xp..

Are you sure you selected your LFS folder and not the data folder? What version of FlipCams are you using?

Quote from Killer Beast :

Well before the error was still coming up but atm i am running z30. on z28 the error was still there

Was the error there in Z25 too? If not, that might be a bug in LFS.

Here's what that file (fc_runCam1.lfs) should contain:


Can you check and see if this is what you have in yours?

Quote :

On the new install it says it doesnt have data folder on the flipcams installer

Yeah, obviously the installer is not Window7-savy.

Quote from Killer Beast :

Well it doesn't have a views folder and i cant copy over the flipcams.exe

The views folder is created by LFS the first time you use the custom cam. Better do that before installing FlipCams which relies on it. Or you could get the one from your previous install.

Why can't you copy FlipCams.exe?

Edit: what version of LFS are you running, BTW?

Quote from Senninha25 :

I tried it under Windows XP compatilibity mode, and now I get no error messages! But...now everytime I change a camera, a warning pops up (this is Windows Vista/7 stuff, not a problem at all), and it's a bit annoying.

Any way to disable that warning? Or to tell 7 that this application is safe, or whatever?

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And even though it didn't change the name of the "views" folder this time, it won't save my camera views

Which version of FlipCams are you running? If it's the 1.0.2, get the 1.0.3 from the first post.

Quote from Senninha25 :

Shouldn't it just keep a "views" folder along with the "views_cam*" folders?

Yes, that what it should do, renaming the views folder into views_cam*, then renaming one of the views_cam* folder into views. No idea why it does only half of it.

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I'll try to rename "views_cam1" back to "views" but this time running Flicpams.exe under WIndows XP compatibility mode.

Good idea.

Quote from Senninha25 :

Even worse, it renamed the views folder back to "views_cam1" :/

No, that's normal. It's the way it works, renaming folders. What is not normal is that it didn't rename views_cam2 or views_cam5 (depending on which key you pressed) into "views".

Quote from Senninha25 :

yup. Well, it actually had no "views" folder, it had 5 "views_cam" folders instead.

That's what I thought. Rename one of them as "views" and that should do it.

Quote from Senninha25 :

Make sure LFS's data folder contain the "views" folder and four "views_cam" folders."

Well, did you?

Quote from ImudilaSkyline :

Is the Windows 7 problem still not fixed yet? Because I have Windows 7...

To those on Window 7 who have problems with the installer, sorry, I don't use Windows 7 so I can't test/fix it.

But there's a possible workaround to try, that is installing it by hand:

1. open the "parts" folder in your "FlipCam-1.0.3-Install" folder
2. copy "FlipCam.exe" and paste it at the root of your LFS folder
3. copy the 11 files whose names start with "fc_" and paste them into \LFS\data\script folder.
4. open autoexec.lfs from the same folder and add "/run fc_runCam1" (without the quotes) at or near the top of it
5. launch LFS, go to Options > Controls > CTRL +
6. click on CTRL + F11 and type "/run fc_runCam5" (without the quotes) and click OK
7. click on CTRL + F12 and type "/run fc_runCam2" and click OK

That should get it installed and working with the CTRL+F11/CTRL+F12 hot keys (if it works at all). Change steps 7 and 8 if you want to use different hot keys.

If it doesn't work, try to quit LFS and double-click FlipCams.exe. What happens, then?

Hope this helps.

Last edited by FL!P, Sun, 24 Apr 2011 02:39. Reason : Removed the step about /view_save that was dealt with in 1.0.3.

Hi Killer Beast. If FlipCams.exe is not in your LFS folder, obviously it's never going to work.

If you tried to reinstall FlipCams and the exe was still not there, maybe you don't have writing permissions to that folder?

Navigate to your "FlipCam-1.0.2-Install" folder, then open the folder "parts", copy FlipCams.exe from there, and paste it into your LFS folder. Then Launch LFS and see if it works.

Yeah, it happened already with a previous version of FlipCams where Avast AV suddenly started finding some virus. In fact it wasn't FlipCams only, but also Autohotkey and every executable built with it. By then, all I had to do to get rid of those alerts was to rebuild those exe with the latest version of Autohotkey. So when I have a moment, I'll try to do the same again.

Are these alerts you get really intrusive? Do they pop up up when you switch cameras and bring you back to the desktop, for example?

Glad it worked. And thanks for the Nobel!

Make sure you don't have 5 folders named "views_cam*". If you do, get rid of one of them.

Well, if TV Director uses to overwrite the custom view, it will still do it with this version, because that has nothing to do with FlipCams.

However, in this case you could decide that one of FlipCam's cameras will be reserved for TV Director and always switch to that camera before you use TV Director's T-cam. That way, the four other FlipCams' cameras will be left untouched.

I just released FlipCams 1.0.3 that adds compatibility with patch Z. Get it from the top post in this thread.

Stick to 1.0.2 if you keep using patch X.

Enjoy!

Flip

Quote from Degats :

(I think that's right)

It is. Senninha25, see that post and that one for more info.

Flip

Ah, OK, makes sense. Thanks for the info!

Scawen,

From a discussion in the FlipCams thread, it appears that LFS no longer saves the changes the user does to the custom view. Is that on purpose? I remember you saying at some point that LFS won't save or reload the custom view any more when it's not necessary, but I would assume that it'd become necessary to save when the user changes the settings.

It's not a problem for FlipCams, because it's easy to add "/view save" to a few scripts to work around it, but people who don't use FlipCams can't save their custom views any more?

Thanks,

Flip

I see. Wouldn't this be a bug in LFS, then? Scawen wrote that LFS no longer saves the changes when it's not necessary, but I would assume that it becomes necessary to save them when the user changes the settings.

Quote from vicbel :

When you make changes to any of the 5 views you need to enter /view save in the chat window before changing views otherwise the changes would be lost.

You mean LFS no longer saves the changes to the custom view? Or are you saying that it doesn't "remember" that you changed from one cam to another, so if you go to another view (track cam, for example) then back to the custom view, it would not show the last cam you selected in FlipCams?

Thanks for the heads-up, vicbel!

I can't test it at the moment, but those who want to try, it's very easy:

Open LFS\data\script\fc_reloadView.lfs in any text editor. Here's its default contents:


Just comment out /press v and /shift v by adding a new slash ahead of them, and type the following on one line:

/view reload

Then save and close the file. That should restore FlipCams' functionality in Z.

Quote from Scawen :

Quote from Degats :

Same here with the flipcams problem.

The program appears to be operating properly - message appears, folders in /data are renamed - but the views aren't reloaded/updated from the files.

Edit: maybe LFS no longer reads the views file every time the view changes to custom?

I think you have found the problem. LFS does not keep loading and saving the custom views if it has no reason to think anything has changed. I haven't looked into this properly. Maybe I will need to add a text command like "/reload_view" or something like that. Flipcams would need to be updated. How does Flipcams try to reload views? Does it flick to cockpit then back to custom view?

Hi,

FlipCams currently reloads the custom view by running the script LFS\data\script\fc_reloadView.lfs. Here's its contents:


As you can see, there are two different methods: flick to another view and back, or switch to the custom view (the former is used by default). In both cases, LFS used to reload the custom view from file.

So yes, something like /reload_customview would be cool, as long as it works also when the custom view is not displayed.

Thanks for looking into that, Scawen, and thanks to Ripley for the heads-up by PM!

Flip

Quote from hp999 :

Hi,Fl!p!I downloaded you software,and installed it and began to record.But I still can't understand-how can I see what I recorded?Could you or someone explane it to me step by step?hp999

Hi,

See Getting Started. There's a step-by-step there. Does it help?

Flip