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[FreddyM]

Hello,

I have used the old Deluxe CMD version before, where we could memorise player names and recall them with F1, F2, ... in the profile screen before singing.
We are more than 2 singers but only have 2 mics, so we sing 2 by 2. Recalling the memorised names juste before singing was very cool. How can I do that with WorldParty, to avoid writing the names every time we change singers ?

[daniel20]

right now it's not possible, we have it in our pending list for new releases.

[FreddyM]

Ah, OK, I'll have to wait.

Gracias / Thanks.

[FreddyM]

I tried to get the source code, to see if I can make a dirty temporary hack to put predefined names instead of writing them each time, in wait for the next version.

I followed the wiki, installed Atom + the language and build packages + the FreePascal compiler (version 3.0.4 for Win32).

When I compile (from Atom or directly under cmd with compile.bat), I have an error :

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Error: Can't open resource file "MyDir\ultrastar-worldparty\src\..\res\link.res"
Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
Fatal: Compilation aborted

(MyDir replaces the real directory)
It seems that there is only warnings in the 480 lines of compilation, no "error".
In "Build", 340 files have been created, but not the link.res

Can someone help me see where I've done something wrong ?

[daniel20]

double click on /res/rcompile-fpc

[FreddyM]

Rhhaaa !
I' had seen this .bat and had changed the path in it (it's 3.0.4, not 3.0.0 and I installed fpc in another dir than C:/FPC), but just tried to exec in in the cmd, alone, not before compiling.

OK, muchas gracias, it works now, the exe is created

[FreddyM]

Again, thanks,

The change works (I can use F1 to F3 on the selection screen to overwrite names and avatars, but the predefined players are not in config.ini, they are hardcoded in UScreenPlayerSelection).
I will do with my dirty change in wait of the official release

[daniel20]

we are going to do a rework of profiles, so there's going to be plenty of changes

[FreddyM]

we are going to do a rework of profiles, so there's going to be plenty of changes

Yes, seen a thing about that in the "alfa" branche on github.
As said above, my changes are just a dirty hack to overwrite names (and avatars) when on the players buttons (iteration1) of the player selection screen. I haven't tried to understand how to use the config.ini to store these "quick names" (perhaps the [NameTemplate] is meant to do that).
The next version will do this in a far better way, I assume.