WowReader status and help threadFollow

OSX, pleeeeeease!

I've never had a problem with this program till about 2 days ago - nothing changed except the data as i have played the game since the last update i did, i ran it to update my profiles and like the posters previous there is a broken loop.

It downloads patch.xml and then tries to download the wow reader, it closes and reopens the updater, rinse and repeat until you catch and click the x in time.

It either seems to think there is a new version and can't physically download it - thus crashing and retrying, or some sort of confliction? There's no problems with the firewall, nor router.

Hope theres a way to fix or work around this problem because this program was amazing D: Is it broken for a select few? i'll try removing addons and adding them one by one to see if it's a confliction - but i'm not sure that there should be.

Thanks for your help.

Possibly a request posted before, I can't see it but anyway.
My guild contains European members playing with foreign copies of the game. Most of the profile seems to work fine with WoWReader, what doesn't is the skills page. WoWReader seems to pick up the details and pass them on to the server, but it doesn't come out in the XML feeds. Would it be possible for this to be added?

You can see the guild table here:
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/guildroster.html?guild=Honour&server=Sylvanas

Mplicit is the first person I noticed the issue with, he actually has leatherworking and skinning skills, as can be seen on his personal profile: http://wow.allakhazam.com/profile.html?95463

Just registered, downloaded WoW reader and logged into my 3 characters, however only 1 is showing in my character profile. I'm on Silvermoon (Europe) is it possible that there is conflict with my character names and someone in the US?

Redownloaded it. Rebooted. It worked 1 time. Played WoW again, tried again and it gave an error, same error as last night.

This time I got the actual error message instead of just the log:

************** Exception Text **************
System.ArgumentException: Found a low surrogate char without a preceding high surrogate at index: 1017. The input may not be in this encoding, or may not contain valid Unicode (UTF-16) characters.
Parameter name: chars
at System.Text.UTF8Encoding.GetBytes(Char* chars, Int32 charIndex, Int32 charCount, Byte[] bytes, Int32 byteIndex, UTF8Encoder encoder)
at System.Text.UTF8Encoding.GetBytes(Char[] chars, Int32 charIndex, Int32 charCount, Byte[] bytes, Int32 byteIndex, UTF8Encoder encoder)
at System.Text.UTF8Encoder.GetBytes(Char[] chars, Int32 charIndex, Int32 charCount, Byte[] bytes, Int32 byteIndex, Boolean flush)
at System.IO.StreamWriter.Flush(Boolean flushStream, Boolean flushEncoder)
at System.IO.StreamWriter.Write(String value)
at wowreader.LuaData.UploadCompleted()
at wowreader.Upload.NetIO(NetworkStream m_ns)
at wowreader.Upload..ctor(WDBReader[] readers, CrcDB cdb, LuaData td, MainWindow mw, Boolean uselogin, String login, String pw, Boolean manual)
at wowreader.MainWindow.upload(Boolean manual)
at wowreader.MainWindow.UploadButton_click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

I've looked and I can't find any write up on this tool.

-Does it run in the background while your playing?
-Do you have to have it on while your playing for it to work? (Becuase I noticed that if I turn in on after I log, it fails to update. But if it running while I'm playing after I log it uploads fine.)
-Where does the data get stored on my pc?
-Does it earae after it uploads?

These are just a few questions that have come up in my guild. You cant honestly ecxpect people to just DL and install this thing with no explanation or write up on how to use. If there is a link please advise then. I've found a few anwsers in here but not everyone has the time to comb through these forums to find answers.



Edited, Fri Apr 29 09:23:39 2005 by Tristax

I have tried to load WoWreader today, and the updater is trying to run it gets 4 bars in and then stops and starts again

it keeps repeating this over and over

OS - xp
time - UK 17:33

any help would be great, as this is one of the best plugins I have used.

Error Log:




No debugger found:


Reinstalling does not fix. It worked just a few minutes before this problem popped up.

Let me know if there is a fix.





Edited, Fri Apr 29 17:33:25 2005 by MeliaFoH

MeliaFoH: Can you email a copy of your SavedVariables.lua to rale@allakhazam.com? I'll look over it and see what exactly is causing the parsing error.


Anyone having trouble updating - please post, PM, or email me the contents of patch.log and startup.log from your wowreader directory.

I agree with what Tristax said. I'd like answers on his questions as well as directions--in the readme file, perhaps, and on the "download wowreader" page on this website. My friends and I would appreciate that a lot, as allakhazam seems like a powerful tool.

For anyone getting the error starting with "[string "chunk"]" followed by a line number, if you could email me at rale@allakhazam.com with a copy of your SavedVariables.lua from '\WTF\Account\<your accnt>\' in the place you installed wow, it would help a lot in tracking down the problem. Thanks.

Rale: I sent the email to you.