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[sLackeR-hub]

Hi I'm Slacker (Patrick) and I am an alcoholic..... Wait wrong discussion.
I like re-creating quests that are missing from ACE currently, so if there are any quests missing that may be your favorite please let me know.

DT(Asheron'sCall)4lyfe

[jsprenkle]

Hello, I have a question about an error while compiling ACViewer. It gives an error from something called "monogame builder." Do I need to add the package from nuget?
Jay (AKA Uzik from Solclaim)

[jsprenkle]

ACE submodule

At first I only pulled down the ACViewer code, but then found the dependencies to the ACE projects. Pulled them down too and they built without issue. It might be the new version of Visual Studio has done something to break the build. I looked for a bit for the 2019 version, but Microsoft doesn't want us to be able to find it easily!

Thanks

[gmriggs]

I've been using VS2022 to build ACViewer. Are you using the full version, or Community Edition?

[jsprenkle]

Community edition. I uninstalled the monogame nuget package (version 3.8) and ran the executable installer for version 3.7. I'm now able to compile and debug the app! :)
They've made a lot of changes in the years since I've upgraded

[gmriggs]

Glad to hear it!

I will add it to my todo list to find out what is still needed from the 3.7 pipeline, as I thought everything was upgraded to 3.8 already

Thanks for the info, it is much appreciated

[jsprenkle]

I should have, but didn't document the steps I took to get it working. I do recall:

• The post build event copy statement did not work. It appeared to be related to deployment so I removed it.
• When running in debug mode loading UI resources fails because the working directory is different. Changing it in the debug launch properties will not fix the issue (limitation of Visual Studio). You can't add the resources directory as copied content when building (limitation of Visual Studio). I finally had to copy all resources manually to the debug working directory ( bin/debug/something_I_forget/ )

I've given up on trying to contribute to projects. Even when they solicit them they aren't really welcome or won't make any effort. If the project is active and contributions will be welcomed I'd be willing to give it another try.