metherul/automaton

The open modpack platform.

automaton's Issues

Fatal Error when using a custom W10 theme

Just so it's known, if you use a custom theme for Windows 10, such as Penumbra 10s, Automaton will crash on launch. The issue can be easily resolved by going back to a standard W10 theme.

Could not load file or assembly 'PresentationFramework.Penumbra10s, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Here's the log if you're interested, but it's a small issue in any case.
Automaton_1.3.4.0_5-15-2019 1-10-03 PM.log

Automation not associating with nxm:// links

Hey I posted this in the discord earlier but I thought I'd post it here too. Automation is not associating with nxm:// links for me. I don't know if it helps but I have never used Mod Organizer, Nexus Mod Manager, or Vortex on the affected pc.

Log and Firefox screenshot if it helps:
https://pastebin.com/XchxDjM1
https://i.imgur.com/LwI31oE.png

I'm not a developer so I don't know how much help I can be but if you need any more information let me know! :)

Global application logging

Renaming executable breaks NXM linking

Automaton/src/Automaton.Model/NexusApi/NxmHandle.cs

Line 25 in fdb9a58

Registry.SetValue(@"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\nxm\shell\open\command", "", $"\"{Path.Combine(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory, "Automaton.exe")}\" \"%1\"");

In the above line, Automaton registers "Automaton.exe" as the link handler. If the user has renamed Automaton.exe for some reason, this does not work. It would be better to register the current name of the executable.

Right -lick on title bar crash

Potentially related to #49 as it is the same error message, however this is present in 1.3.4.0

To reproduce (using Windows 10 Home): open Automaton, right click on title bar.

Log:

[13:16:51.3871636] [.ctor] 14/07/2019 1:16:51 PM Automaton/1.3.4.0 (Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.18362.0; x64) .NET Framework 4.8.3801.0
[13:16:51.3871636] [.ctor] 14/07/2019 1:16:51 PM Is admin: False
[13:16:51.3871636] [.ctor] 14/07/2019 1:16:51 PM Automaton Start
[13:16:51.4798817] [.ctor] Long path enabled. Continuing.
[13:16:51.4838720] [.ctor] LineNumber: 0, FilenName: , MethodName: Callout_FoundName
at MS.Internal.Xaml.Parser.GenericTypeNameParser.Callout_FoundName(String prefix, String name) Prefix 'materialDesign' does not map to a namespace.
[13:16:52.6758441] [.ctor] LineNumber: 0, FilenName: , MethodName: DragMove
at System.Windows.Window.DragMove() Can only call DragMove when primary mouse button is down.

Fatal Error: Unable to find an entry point named 'GetWindowDpiAwarenessContext' in DLL 'user32.dll'.

This error showed up. I'm running the newest version and I've never used it before, so I'm guessing this is a problem on my end. Any idea how I can fix it?

Closing the file browser dialog when adding mod removes the mod entry, even if no mod was chosen.

As title says.

Steps to reproduce:
Load a modpack, choose any 2 folders and choose to manually download the mods.
Click the find locally button (or whatever it is called) to the left of any mod, and close the file browser dialog without selecting any file. The mod entry will now disappear, even if no file was chosen.

Expected behaviour: Validate the path returned by the file browser dialog (or even just its exit status, which currently seems to be ignored) and show an error message if the path is invalid, and no error message if the dialog was closed without choosing a file, without removing the mod entry from the list of mods.

~~WIKI~~

Documentation on the inner workings of the PackFiles -- for both of our sakes.

My PC has flagged Automaton as a harmful program twice

Ok so, like the title says my PC has flagged Automaton as a harmful program twice. Not only that but it was flagged by two different programs.

The programs that flagged it as harmful were Avast and Malwarebytes.

Crash when two of same mod are in source location

Thanks to Gatonegro, Electraumatized and rodericktech.

Null Reference Crash in ViewModel.ValidateMods

MissingMods = new ObservableCollection<Mod>(Validation.GetMissingMods(sourceFiles)); crashes the application when no mods are missing.

Add null checker to Validation.GetMissingMods(sourceFiles);

[Suggestion] Add an icon to indicate that a file is in queue

If you as a free user tries to download another file before the first one is ready then there's no indication if the file is queued or not. It would be really helpfull if this was shown

The optional installer needs to be setup and implemented in both front-end and back

NXM Worker is not included in the application

Missing mods count always starts at the total count of a mod pack.

When loading a mod pack and some mods are already installed, the count will still start at the total count of mods in the mod pack.

Example, I load a modpack containing 13 mods, but I have already downloaded a few. It will show 13 missing instead of the actual missing 5 (in this example pic). When a mod is found/downloaded, it decrements by 1 correctly. IE: If I find 4 of them, it will show 9 as missing, but only 1 file is shown in the app.

Global dialog needs to be implemented for general user-facing messages

Crash on Load of Bad .auto file

If you load a file that isn't actually a .auto file it crashes the program.

Was just wondering what the program would do if I changed a txt file to a .auto and obviously it doesn't like that. Crashes without any error message or anything. Don't know if this is helpful or not, but figured it was worth at least a report.

Automaton crashes after downloading one mod

Using the auto-download feature of Automaton results in it crashing after downloading just one mod. I have attached my most recent log file, but don't understand what is causing it to crash.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Automaton_1.3.5.0_21-06-2020 13-17-08.log

Application exit handling for cleanup

Manually adding a mod immediately directs me to install the modpack.

When I open the file chooser to select a mod, Automaton goes directory to the Success page, and directs me to install the modpack, which then promptly fails.

Logs below:

[13:53:14.5607864] [.ctor] 5/18/2019 1:53:14 PM Automaton/1.3.4.0 (Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.17763.0; x64) .NET Framework 4.7.3416.0
[13:53:14.5607864] [.ctor] 5/18/2019 1:53:14 PM Is admin: False
[13:53:14.5607864] [.ctor] 5/18/2019 1:53:14 PM Automaton Start
[13:53:14.6817782] [.ctor] Long path enabled. Continuing.
[13:53:14.6957786] [.ctor] LineNumber: 0, FilenName: , MethodName: Callout_FoundName
at MS.Internal.Xaml.Parser.GenericTypeNameParser.Callout_FoundName(String prefix, String name) Prefix 'materialDesign' does not map to a namespace.
[13:53:16.4595465] [ChooseModpack] Opening modpack filesystemBrowser
[13:53:19.9878906] [LoadModpack] Modpack loaded
[13:53:48.8078566] [Initialize] Initializing API base
[13:53:48.8078566] [Initialize] Apikey empty
[13:53:53.6911985] [Initialize] Key captured
[13:53:54.0086628] [Initialize] User premium status: True
[13:53:54.0086628] [Initialize] User is logged in
[13:53:54.4596913] [GetMissingMods] Missing mod count: 257
[13:54:14.4201811] [PurgeQueue] Queue purged of mod: Wyrmstooth 1.17B with MD5 of 09e09bc2424319e4b37264629c6ef956
[13:54:21.3570508] [ValidateTargetModArchive] Missing mod count: 256
[13:54:29.8697598] [DebugWrite] [INSTALL] Installing Mod Organizer...
[13:54:29.8717596] [ExtractToDirectory] Extracting: to C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim\Ultimate Skyrim 4.0.4
[13:54:29.8937750] [.ctor] LineNumber: 0, FilenName: , MethodName: .ctor
at SevenZipExtractor.ArchiveFile..ctor(String archiveFilePath, String libraryFilePath) in C:\Programming\C#\SevenZipExtractor\SevenZipExtractor\ArchiveFile.cs:line 26 Archive file not found

Install button crashes the application

7za.exe runs in the background on Application exit

Need to hook up a window event handler to clean up after an uncalled application exit.

The login request times-out too quickly (logging in with a VPN)

Initially I was trying to login through Automaton to Nexus while having a VPN turned on. The request, however, was regularly timing out too quickly (~ 20 seconds after clicking the button), way before the Nexus authentication page even started loading (~ 20 seconds after the time-out).
Not sure exactly how did the VPN influence anything since it doesn't add but milliseconds to loading times but I tried it close to 20 times with consistent results. Even when running Automaton as administrator (a bit of hopelessness there).
Upon turning it off the request came through fine and quickly.

Don't know how much is this influenced directly by Automaton, setting a longer wait period for the request would, at least, put a band-aid on it, I think.

Files dissapearing

I downloaded Automaton to install Ultimate Skyrim. After automaticly downloading all the mods and installing them to ModOrganizer I can't open any of those files. When i go to the place where they are saved, none of them are visible, folders are empty (Mod storage location and install folder). What is strange in this is that when i open Automaton again and it asks me to load modpack, i can see all of the missing files via selector. I have Windows 10 and I've recently did an format so my hardware is "clean".

Ps. When i reinstall, new and old files are still not visible.

Installation source is offset too far when empty

When "source": "", it moves everything into a directory with the name of the extracted archive. Issue is coming from the SevenZipHandler.

Startup Error (Prefix 'materialDesign' does not map to a namespace.)

Full error message here

Map images within modpack content directory for usage in the optional installer.

is automaton dun yet?

Is there a reason to use SevenZipExtractor and not just SevenZipSharp

I just ask because it doesn't look like there's a package requirement on SevenZipExtractor, which makes the project fail to build from source.

Crash on trying to download deleted file

I am repeatedly getting this error when trying to download DynDOLOD Resources.
The exact file that should be downloaded is not on the download page anymore. it is probably crashing trying to download the nonexistent file.

Switch 7za.exe to native .DLL

Fatal Error when trying to log into nexus

Automaton_1.3.4.0_16-4-2019 4-43-51 PM.log

Here's the log file produced
FIXED: Restarting my PC somehow fixed the problem

Adding manually the last mod on the list brings you to the 'Install Modpack' step

When you add manually the last mod on the list the app skips to the install part even if you still have other mods to download before

Startup Error (Property accessor 'ValidateMods' on object 'Automaton.ViewModel.BootStrapper' threw the following exception:'An exception was thrown while activating Automaton.ViewModel.ValidateModsViewModel.')

MainWindow is not loading in ModPack data

Might be an issue with either IEnumerable or the Messenger service.

NEW ISSUE dragging with middle mouse crashes automaton

if you click the middle mouse button and movethe mount the application will crash

Right-clicking anywhere in the Automaton 1.3.0b window at any time causes a crash

The title says it all, really - I'm not sure what else to add, except a screenshot. This error reproduces in all windows during all stages of downloading and installation, as far as I can tell. I nuked my install-in-progress a few times by accident, until I learned to stop being jittery and leave it alone while it did its thing.

(Edit: Kudos on this amazing application, though - just installed US4 with premium Nexus and auto downloading, and the whole experience was super smooth. You've done a great thing for the Skyrim modding community with this.)

Inclusion of readme.txt for post-install

SevenZipHandler needs to be rewritten

Removal of 7za.exe needs to be explored, as well as a simple, faster and safer method of moving files around.

This may solve issue #11

Temp directory gets locked behind windows UAC / Explorer.exe

Looks like on certain occasions Explorer.exe will take control of the temp directory preventing it from being edited or deleted.

It may be related to attempting to move a directory using File.Copy().

Note that this will most likely be solved by a SevenZipHandler rewrite.

Clicking a mod link just as another mod finishes downloading causes Automaton to crash.

Log here: https://pastebin.com/fMwKA4mR

I suspect only the last few lines are relevant however.

Feature Request: Show current download speed in kB/s / mB/s

Show current download speed in kB/s / mB/s

I would suggest centred at the bottom (inline with metherul / version number)

Crash when installed mod directory already exists in the installation folder

Option to allow for unpacking of .BSA files

Would it be possible to add an option to allow for the unpacking of .BSA files during the installation process?

Fatal Error: Value does not fall within expected range

As reported on discord

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I have a relatively poor internet connection.

I've encountered this error 5 or 6 times over a period of about 6 hours. I'm not sure how common or frequent it has been, as I've been remoting into my PC to check the download progress, once every 2 or 3 hours.

When this error occurs, I still have network and disk activity, and regular memory usage.
I also notice that the downloads still progress, the missing mods counter ticks down, and it moves on to the next mod without any issue.

I am running the latest .net version.

log.txt