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

[speedoflight]

Nothing happens. I mean i double click and there is not even a cmd screen or anything else.

As for the log file, i cant see any log file...

[Ghostneedle1]

I am trying to download mods for FTL so I can enjoy playing it again however I have no idea what I'm doing so I am having great difficulty. I downloaded Python 3.3 but when I try to open modmanager I get a error message saying that no supported version of Python can be found on the system. Can anyone help?

[Vhati]

when I try to open modmanager I get a error message saying that no supported version of Python can be found on the system.

modman.exe will almost always do that. That's why it's broken and should be ignored for now. Double-click main.py instead.

Nothing happens. I mean i double click and there is not even a cmd screen or anything else.

Strange. A Windows Python install should have made main.py double-clickable...

• Open a dos prompt (run as administrator, if necessary).
• cd to GMM's directory. (You can hit tab, one or more times, as you type to autocomplete names)
• Run something like this: c:\Python27\python main.py

What happens when you create the cmd prompt yourself?

[Ghostneedle1]

I double-clicked 'main' and I get this message for a split second then it goes away (retrieved it using modman-log):

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2013-03-12 20:51:48 INFO: Grognak's Mod Manager v1.7.0
2013-03-12 20:51:48 INFO: Platform:    Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
2013-03-12 20:51:48 INFO: Interpreter: CPython 3.3.0 (32bit)
2013-03-12 20:51:48 INFO: 
2013-03-12 20:51:48 INFO: Rooting at: C:\Users\Daniel\Downloads\Grognaks Mod Manager v1.7 Win32\Grognaks Mod Manager v1.7 Win32
2013-03-12 20:51:48 INFO: 
2013-03-12 20:51:48 INFO: Registering ctrl-c handler.
2013-03-12 20:51:48 ERROR: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories: 
    C:/lib/tcl8.5 C:/lib/tcl8.5 C:/lib/tcl8.5 C:/library C:/library C:/tcl8.5.11/library C:/tcl8.5.11/library



This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Daniel\Downloads\Grognaks Mod Manager v1.7 Win32\Grognaks Mod Manager v1.7 Win32\main.py", line 1375, in main
    mygui = RootWindow(None)
  File "C:\Users\Daniel\Downloads\Grognaks Mod Manager v1.7 Win32\Grognaks Mod Manager v1.7 Win32\main.py", line 101, in __init__
    tk.Tk.__init__(self, master, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 1756, in __init__
    self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className, interactive, wantobjects, useTk, sync, use)
_tkinter.TclError: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories: 
    C:/lib/tcl8.5 C:/lib/tcl8.5 C:/lib/tcl8.5 C:/library C:/library C:/tcl8.5.11/library C:/tcl8.5.11/library



This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.

2013-03-12 20:51:48 INFO: 
2013-03-12 20:51:48 INFO: Quitting... (ctrl-break to be rude)
2013-03-12 20:51:48 INFO: 
2013-03-12 20:51:48 INFO: Bye

[speedoflight]

What happens when you create the cmd prompt yourself?

I get the msg "python is not recognized as an external or internal command, program or exe not executable" (is something like that, i am translating from spanish... ).

Its like python is not installed correctly?? i uninstalled all my previous python versions and installed only 2.7.3....

[Vhati]

I get the msg "python is not recognized as an external or internal command, program or exe not executable" (is something like that, i am translating from spanish... ).

Its like python is not installed correctly?? i uninstalled all my previous python versions and installed only 2.7.3...

That's a good translation... and a likely interpretation (or at least not installed where you thought it was).

Make sure you do in fact have the folder you installed python to, and that it does contain python.exe.
If you give the complete path to it in a prompt (something like "c:\Python27\python.exe") you should not be seeing that error. It's getting in the way of other more interesting errors.

[Leafbarrett]

Double-clicking gives a command prompt that flashes for a split second before closing. I managed to catch a screenshot of it, and it seems to say the same thing that running it off of CMD does.

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\FTL\main.py", line 37, in <module>
    logfile_handler = logging.FileHandler(os.path.join(dir_self, "modman-log.txt", mode="w")
  File C:\Python27\lib\logging\__init__.py", line 897, in __init__
    StreamHandler.__init__(self, self._open())
  File C:\Python27\lib\logging\__init__.py", line 916, in _open
    stream = open(self.baseFilename, self.mode)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\FTL\\modman-log.txt'  

However, after I tracked down cmd.exe and ran it as an administrator, it worked. Hopefully this can help other people out.

[Vhati]

I double-clicked 'main' and I get this message:

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2013-03-12 20:51:48 ERROR: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories: 
    C:/lib/tcl8.5 C:/lib/tcl8.5 C:/lib/tcl8.5 C:/library C:/library C:/tcl8.5.11/library C:/tcl8.5.11/library
This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.

I just installed Python 3.3 on Win7 and told it to run GMM from a prompt without issue.
Googling, I can't find a satisfying reason you had a different outcome.
Even when I opted out of installing "Tcl/Tk" (bundled with python) to break it, I got a different message.

One person said running the cmd prompt as admin made python GUIs work.
(You may well have to do that anyway to modify FTL's resources.)

Others said environment variables "TCL_LIBRARY" and "TK_LIBRARY" needed to be set.

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cd "C:\Users\Daniel\Downloads\Grognaks Mod Manager v1.7 Win32\Grognaks Mod Manager v1.7 Win32"
SET TCL_LIBRARY=C:\Python33\tcl\tcl8.5
SET TK_LIBRARY=C:\Python33\tcl\tk8.5
C:\Python33\python main.py

But I never needed to set them.

[Ghostneedle1]

I don't have the slightest idea how to do that. Should I just uninstall and re-install all
of it? Maybe I changed something or selected something accidentally.

[Vhati]

I don't have the slightest idea how to do that.

Sorry...
Article: Start a Command Prompt as an Administrator

Then type the following:

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cd "C:\Users\Daniel\Downloads\Grognaks Mod Manager v1.7 Win32\Grognaks Mod Manager v1.7 Win32"
SET TCL_LIBRARY=C:\Python33\tcl\tcl8.5
SET TK_LIBRARY=C:\Python33\tcl\tk8.5
C:\Python33\python main.py

If running as admin is enough to fix the problem, those SETs may be optional.

Should I just uninstall and re-install all of it? Maybe I changed something or selected something accidentally.

Reinstall Python? If it helps, that would be easiest.
Worth trying once.