"Spritenames must be 4 characters"

[DonaldDuck]

I dont know if ZDOOM is trolling me, but it keeps on saying my actors sprite names need exactly 4 characters, and it has already 4 characters?
Maybe I'm just too blind to find the error....

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actor jumper : doomplayer replaces doomplayer
{
  Player.JumpZ 12
  Height 47
  Radius 12
  states
  {
  Spawn:
    SDOM A 0
  SpawnLookLeft:
    SDOM AAAAAAA 1 A_JumpIfInventory("LookingRight",1,"SpawnLookRight");
	loop
  SpawnLookRight:
	SDOM EEEEEEE 1 A_JumpIfInventory("LookingRight",0,"SpawnLookLeft");
	loop
  WalkRight:
    SDOM BBBBBBBBCCCCCCCC 1 A_JumpIfInventory("LookingRight",0,"WalkLeft");
	loop
  See:
  WalkLeft:
    SDOM FFFFFFFFGGGGGGGG 1 A_JumpIfInventory("LookingRight",1,"WalkRight");
	loop
  JumpRight:
    SDOM D 1 A_CheckFloor("SpawnLookRight")
	loop
  JumpLeft:
    SDOM H 1 A_CheckFloor("SpawnLookLeft")
	loop
  }
}

NVM, i found the error. I used semicolons...

[Gez]

Yeah, that error message is not always appropriate, since it happens also for problems unrelated to the number of letters in the sprite name.

[Jimmy]

Get rid of those semicolons on the A_JumpIfInventory lines.

[Enjay]

When you get a message like this and you can't see anything obvious with the exact bit that the message describes, it's always worth looking either side of the reportedly faulty code because the problem usually lies within a few characters of it.

[amv2k9]

Yeah, it's only with Strife dialogue scripts that you need to go crazy with semicolons every line

[Matt]

Something that's helped me a lot is to use a plaintext editor that shows you the line numbers. That way most of the time you instantly narrow it down to what line is causing the problem.

Notepad2
Leafpad (screenshot thumb in right-hand column)

[Gez]

Something that's helped me a lot is to use a plaintext editor that shows you the line numbers.

Like SLADE.

[SFJake]

Notepad2

What?

Why not use Notepad++?

[Xaser]

Because he doesn't.


Is there any particular reason I needed to post this?

[Matt]

Because Notepad++ is slow to load and has a bazillion options I don't need whereas Notepad2's defaults are already known to do like 95% of what I want to do, and the times I want to type something into a plaintext editor rarely if ever coincide with the times I want to fiddle around with the program I'm using?

[NeuralStunner]

I'm baffled at both "slow to load" and "has a bazillion options" (neither has ever been an issue for me), but okay.

[Gez]

I use Programmer's Notepad.

[Graf Zahl]

I use Programmer's Notepad.

I used that, too, but the inability of its creator to fix a critical bug with replacing multibyte characters in UTF-8 documents made me switch to Notepad++.

Because Notepad++ is slow to load

Bollocks!

and has a bazillion options I don't need whereas Notepad2's defaults are already known to do like 95% of what I want to do, and the times I want to type something into a plaintext editor rarely if ever coincide with the times I want to fiddle around with the program I'm using?

I guess the only response here can be 'you fail it'. I never had any problems with Notepad++'s standard settings. But in general my impression has always been that the simpler the tool, the sooner you will reach its limits.

[Matt]

So I just gave NP++ another try at the office.

1. I was not mistaken - having both pinned to the taskbar and opening by clicking on each button, NP2 opens virtually instantly while NP++ takes about about a third of a second longer. Hardly a crippling problem, but it's just enough to make visible what should ideally be transparent to the user.
2. There's no way to get rid of tabs completely. You can get close with that empty-file trick and hiding the tab bar, but hit New Document and you've got a new tab that looks exactly like reused window. I suppose what I want is counter to authorial intent here, but most of my open plaintext document organization is done with differently sized and shaped windows on multiple desktops, and all tabs in one window = chaos for me.
3. There's no way to remove a keyboard shortcut - and it's not smart enough to delete an old shortcut that is identical to one you've just set.
4. Certain keyboard shortcut configurations arbitrarily fail to work, or work in bizarre ways. Try to set up a Firefox-like tab movement (ctrl+pageup/down) and you can't move more than one tab without releasing both keys. And a shortcut to the preferences menu simply doesn't work.
5. Isn't it a bit of a step backward to have no native timestamp function?
6. Isn't it a bit of a great leap backward to require administrative privileges to install a plugin to a program you could run out of the zip!?

Maybe I just don't do enough coding in enough dozens of languages to appreciate it, but the cons are really outweighing the pros here...

On the bright side, I was reminded to turn on some options in NP2 that I should have had on a long time ago...

[NeuralStunner]

There's no way to remove a keyboard shortcut

Erm, yes there is. You set the key to "None".