extension problems (e.g., oba-flowchart NPE)

[uckelman]

We have somebody posting about VASL extensions issue in our fourm: https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/3-6-2-and-vasl-6-6-3-1-oba-flowchart-vmdx-error/73348

Does anybody recognize those errors? It looks like the oba-flowchart extension in use isn't compatible with Vassal 3.6. Is there a current one? If not, it needs to be fixed and recompiled. There's also a bug in VASL.build.module.ColorChanger.changeColor(), which, despite its name, isn't in VASL but is in one of the extensions loaded, though I can't tell which one.

The only error there I see which is for us to sort out on the Vassal side is the SSL certificate one---which, if anyone here is able to replicate that, please let me know, as I cannot and have no way of troubleshooting it myself.

 

[hongkongwargamer]

@Pacman Ghost Heya, does "ColorChanger.changeColor()" relate to your latest enhancement to your utility? ie http://www.gamesquad.com/forums/index.php?threads/new-program-to-help-set-up-vasl-scenarios.148281/post-2077682

 

[uckelman]

One of the several problems is a VASL bug: https://github.com/vasl-developers/vasl/issues/1055

 

[uckelman]

It looks like the oba-flowchart extension needs to be updated for Vassal 3.6, as it uses a method which was long deprecated and has now been removed: https://github.com/vasl-developers/vasl/issues/1056

 

[bprobst]

The extension does actually still work though. You get the error message when you first open the extension in a session, and then after that everything behaves correctly.

 

[uckelman]

If the extension really does still work, then that code isn't being called and can just be deleted. Either way, I've opened a ticket so someone can look into it.

 

[DougRim]

Away from my desk fro a couple of weeks. Will work on this in January.

In terms of the ColorChanger thing, based on the other post from @uckelman with the stack trace, this appears to be in an obsolete extension. We should not fix it. We should just tell users to delete it.