Progress on V4

So, what's the status of V4? Well, here's a list of what I know to be not working in the 4.0b release.

• CLI mode is executable is broken. It's actually been broken since release, which suggests it isn't being used much. In any case, this should be fixed soon.
• XP support was broken. Hopefully this is fixed in current code (not released)
• Ruby 1.8/1.9 differences are causing problems. I'm investigating ways to fix this, but it's looking tricky.
• Anything using non-standard DLL extensions doesn't work. 
• And some problems to do with bad emulation of the RGSS scripts.

The last three issues are caused because I'm just loading the Scripts file, and a lot of games appear to do loading and processing on load (rather than on game start). While I'd call it sloppy programming, not much that can be done about it, unfortunately. Hence, I'm considering another new loader. This will either be doing some very lightweight processing on the scripts to figure out the structure (without doing any processing - something that may work as I only require module/class names), or brute forcing the structure from Ruby error messages.

Expect a v4.0c release shortly to fix the first 2 issues, then something else later to fix the others.

RPGMaker Trans v4.0 Prerelease

So I'm uploading this as a prerelease first, because of the massive and extensive changes to RPGMaker Trans. Seriously, there's a lot that happened since the v3.07 release. Excluding bug fixes, here are the big ticket items:

• RPGMaker XP and VX Ace are now supported. Although XP support is somewhat untested at present.
• Translated scripts now have some validation done to them. The validation is not perfect, but it'll certainly stop you from accidentally leaving a closing quote off a string (which is the most common error I've made).
• Heavily customised games should now be supported. Scripts are now loaded into RPGMaker Trans, which should allow even the most heavily customised game to be translated.
• v3.2 Patch format simplifies contexts by removing class names, correcting the order of things to be more logical, and fixes a bug where InlineScripts didn't have their position in the event page displayed.
• And (hopefully) games residing in a non-ASCII folder will now work properly.

The reason for announcing this as a prerelease is there is one thing which needs more broad testing than I can realistically do by myself, which is the method for handling heavily customised games. As this loads in scripts, I'm a little concerned that the incompatibilities between Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.3 might mess up some XP/VX games. If anyone encounters any such game, or any game which doesn't work, please file a bug report.

The prerelease can be found on the RPGMaker Trans website.
EDIT: Prerelease updated to 4.0a to fix a crash when choosing a game through the file picker.
EDIT2: Prelease updatead to 4.0b to fix a crash when launching a Ruby process through GUI.