Grognak's Mod Manager v1.7 (Updated March 6, 2013!)

[Vhati]

Whenever I launch modman.exe it say's I don't have python installed, I do.

Ignore modman.exe for now (it's broken), and run main.py directly.
- Windows XP: Double-click main.py.
- Windows Vista/7/8: may have to do this.

[Vhati]

And are there any really bad bugs in 1.6 that 1.7 fixed?

I personally downgraded to 1.6 from 1.7 because I've had 0 problems with 1.6 and 1.7 [...] (as far as I can tell) no benefit.

Changelog for 1.7:
* Lowered the minimum required Python version to 2.6
* Added a Linux/Mac launcher (modman.command) to guarantee a terminal
- Added forum-scraped metadata for most mod files at the time (based on their md5)
- Added a right-click clipboard menu to the text area.
- Added ini setting: never_run_ftl
- The ini's ftl_dats_path is ignored if it's invalid
* Added graceful exit on ctrl-c or Windows terminal closing
* Fixed data.dat/FTL.app file chooser, which sometimes left files hidden
* Fixed fatal TclError for non-US locales with commas for decimal points
- Moved dat backups to GMM/backup/ (bak's in the old location will be deleted)
* Made the code tolerable by Python 3.x
- Made the Patch/Toggle/Forum buttons expand to accomodate their text
- Added "Validate" button to check mods for problems
- Added support for appending xml files with unicode UTF-8 BOMs
- Updated backend (un)packer to ftldat r7 (plus changes for Python 2.6/3.x)

The biggest benefits were for Linux and OSX users, some of whom would not have been able to run the mod manager at all until 1.7. The locale bug crashed 1.6 on certain Windows boxes. Some Windows users had another problem (see below).

Is there any reason why 1.7 needs to run as an Admin but 1.6 does not?

AFAIK, it's not a requirement of any specific version of GMM.

Windows, since Vista, is often protective of special directories, like Program Files, and prevents non-admin apps from writing there. That may only apply to apps that aren't themselves within Program Files. I'm not familiar with the policy.

GMM 1.6 shipped with a redundant main.py baked into an exe, along with a copy of Python. The process of generating that exe becoming untenable, and complaints about virus-scanners raising a false warning (summarily deleting GMM) as a sideeffect of the bundling, led to a new exe.
GMM 1.7's exe was handcoded to search for an existing Python installation and run that against main.py. Due to an oversight, it doesn't look in the right places, and mistakenly thinks Python isn't available.

[Clockwork757]

Whenever I launch modman.exe it say's I don't have python installed, I do.

Ignore modman.exe for now (it's broken), and run main.py directly.
- Windows XP: Double-click main.py.
- Windows Vista/7/8: may have to do this.

Thanks, that fixed it!

[5thHorseman]

Windows, since Vista, is often protective of special directories, like Program Files, and prevents non-admin apps from writing there. That may only apply to apps that aren't themselves within Program Files. I'm not familiar with the policy.

Thank you for answering my question. It's nice to know that I'm not actually missing out on anything

I have no idea why my version of Windows 7 has no problem with 1.6 modifying the FTL files without running in Admin mode, but I'm going to take advantage of the fact due to not having any of the problems people reported with 1.6.

[Vhati]

.
Modman.exe Beta 2013-06-27

Okay, I've rewritten modman.exe. Anyone wanna test it?

Just drop the attached exe into your existing GMM folder.
This time it checks PATH and the registry (both 32bit and 64bit keys if available) for Python.

It essentially runs "python.exe main.py" in a window for you, when double-clicked.
You should be able to right-click it to run as admin, too.

The source is available here.
.

[5thHorseman]

.
Modman.exe Beta 2013-06-27
Okay, I've rewritten modman.exe. Anyone wanna test it?

I just tested it really quick (applied a patch to my exe) and it works great, just like 1.6 did.

In fact, it's so much like 1.6 it even says it's 1.6

Grognak's Mod Manager
by Grognak (version 1.6)
Thanks for using GMM. Make sure to periodically check the forum for updates!

[kartoFlane]

Can confirm, the .exe works fine for me too (win 7 64) :)

[hayden9966]

I installed python but it doesn't work I have installed at least four different versions but it still doesn't work please help

p.s. I'm running on windows 8 if that'll help

[Captain lizzy]

I realy loved using this on my old pc because it worked, but now I got a new pc with the correct version of python and everything else it needs, help please

[Vhati]

I installed python but it doesn't work

I got a new pc with the correct version of python

Ignore modman.exe for now (it's broken), and run main.py directly.
- Windows XP: Double-click main.py.
- Windows Vista/7/8: may have to do this.


Or you can use the replacement exe I just made.