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dreamy tapir Jun 13, 2024, 10:33 PM

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Dunno why this won't work

balmy kilnBOT Jun 13, 2024, 10:33 PM

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dreamy tapir Dunno why this won't work

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@dreamy tapir

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dreamy tapir Jun 13, 2024, 10:33 PM

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pliant wind Jun 13, 2024, 10:33 PM

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where is the theme file relative to main.spec

dreamy tapir Jun 13, 2024, 10:34 PM

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Idk

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I could show you where my themes are located tho

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pliant wind Jun 13, 2024, 10:34 PM

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can you send the path for themes/ and show the spec file

dreamy tapir Jun 13, 2024, 10:35 PM

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"C:\Users\user\OneDrive\Generator Incremental Simulator\src\themes"

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# -*- mode: python ; coding: utf-8 -*-


a = Analysis(
    ['main.py'],
    pathex=[],
    binaries=[],
    datas=[('src/themes/*.json', 'themes')],
    hiddenimports=[],
    hookspath=[],
    hooksconfig={},
    runtime_hooks=[],
    excludes=[],
    noarchive=False,
    optimize=0,
)
pyz = PYZ(a.pure)

exe = EXE(
    pyz,
    a.scripts,
    a.binaries,
    a.datas,
    [],
    name='main',
    debug=False,
    bootloader_ignore_signals=False,
    strip=False,
    upx=True,
    upx_exclude=[],
    runtime_tmpdir=None,
    console=False,
    disable_windowed_traceback=False,
    argv_emulation=False,
    target_arch=None,
    codesign_identity=None,
    entitlements_file=None,
)

pliant wind Jun 13, 2024, 10:35 PM

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try removing the spaces in ur path. those are never good

dreamy tapir Jun 13, 2024, 10:35 PM

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wdym

pliant wind Jun 13, 2024, 10:36 PM

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"Generator incremental Simulator" will only give you issues in the future

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some programs dont handle spaces in files well

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dont think its related to this issue though since its not being used to get themes

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ig it could be depending on how whatever you are using builds exes

dreamy tapir Jun 13, 2024, 10:39 PM

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I am using pyinstaller

dreamy tapir Jun 13, 2024, 10:39 PM

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pliant wind "Generator incremental Simulator" will only give you issues in the future

same issue

pliant wind Jun 13, 2024, 10:44 PM

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https://pyinstaller.org/en/stable/spec-files.html

pyinstaller --add-data "src/README.txt:." myscript.py

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have you tried manually adding the data

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to see if that works

dreamy tapir Jun 13, 2024, 10:45 PM

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yes

pliant wind Jun 13, 2024, 10:45 PM

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what command did you do

dreamy tapir Jun 13, 2024, 10:45 PM

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the exact one you used

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i also used --onefile and --noconsole dunno if there're related

pliant wind Jun 13, 2024, 10:46 PM

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when you have run pyinstaller did it make a themes folder at all

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datas=[('src/themes/*.json', 'themes')],

makes a themes folder that puts all the json files

dreamy tapir Jun 13, 2024, 10:47 PM

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pliant wind when you have run pyinstaller did it make a themes folder at all

where would that be?

pliant wind Jun 13, 2024, 10:47 PM

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have you looked at the documentation for spec files?

dreamy tapir Jun 13, 2024, 10:47 PM

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yes and i don't understand a single thing

pliant wind Jun 13, 2024, 10:47 PM

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pliant wind Jun 13, 2024, 10:48 PM

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dreamy tapir yes and i don't understand a single thing

being able to understand documentation is a really good skill to have

dreamy tapir Jun 13, 2024, 10:49 PM

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pliant wind

How does that help the app load the files?

pliant wind Jun 13, 2024, 10:50 PM

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wym

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thats an example

dreamy tapir Jun 13, 2024, 10:50 PM

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Exactly what i said

pliant wind Jun 13, 2024, 10:50 PM

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the same thing you did here
datas=[('src/themes/*.json', 'themes')],

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the idea is that you take the example but change it up for your use

dreamy tapir Jun 13, 2024, 10:50 PM

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This is the path the game is looking for

manager.get_theme().load_theme("src/themes/main_menu_theme.json")
manager.get_theme().load_theme("src/themes/generator_menu_button_theme.json")manager.get_theme().load_theme("src/themes/main_menu_theme.json")
manager.get_theme().load_theme("src/themes/generator_menu_button_theme.json")

dreamy tapir Jun 13, 2024, 10:51 PM

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pliant wind the idea is that you take the example but change it up for your use

HOW

pliant wind Jun 13, 2024, 10:51 PM

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well the first thing you would look at is the path

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obviously your path isnt /mygame/sfx/

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its /src/themes/

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you want json files so instead of looking for mp3 just change that to json

dreamy tapir Jun 13, 2024, 10:52 PM

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I did and it didn't work

pliant wind Jun 13, 2024, 10:52 PM

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i have a hunch its partially because you dont really understand how pyinstaller works

dreamy tapir Jun 13, 2024, 10:53 PM

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You think i would be here if i did

pliant wind Jun 13, 2024, 10:53 PM

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well sure you can understand something and ask for some help

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but pastnig lines into your project hoping someone elses config works is a recipe for unmaintainable code

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im not trying to be a dick or anything but i see it a lot

dreamy tapir Jun 13, 2024, 10:54 PM

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doesn't it copy to a folder called themes?

pliant wind Jun 13, 2024, 10:54 PM

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it should

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is there a themes folder that pyinstaller created?

dreamy tapir Jun 13, 2024, 10:54 PM

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Idk where pyinstaller created it's files

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I just know it creates a temporary folder when the executable is ran

pliant wind Jun 13, 2024, 10:55 PM

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try replacing
datas=[('src/themes/*.json', 'themes')],
with
datas=[('/src/themes/*.json', 'themes')],

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their example has a / at the beginning of the path

dreamy tapir Jun 13, 2024, 10:57 PM

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No the first one was the correct path

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Unable to find '\src\themes\*.json' when adding binary and data files.

pliant wind Jun 13, 2024, 10:58 PM

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try moving a theme file into the same directory as your spec file

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so you can just put theme.json to load it

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so we can see if its a path issue or something else

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if it can find the json file in the same directory as it we can narrow the issue down to the path itself, not an issue on a larger scope

dreamy tapir Jun 13, 2024, 10:59 PM

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I moved the executable to the parent directory so i don't think it's a path issue since the app is literally running

dreamy tapir Jun 13, 2024, 11:00 PM

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pliant wind try moving a theme file into the same directory as your spec file

I found the issue

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@pliant wind Ok so the game is looking for json files at this location
manager.get_theme().load_theme("src/themes/main_menu_theme.json") src/themes which was making it ignore themes bc that's not the actual directory for the game. I just got what you said earlier.

pliant wind Jun 13, 2024, 11:03 PM

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ah

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