#Steam Update Buttons

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bright token
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Wishlist:

  • icon in the main menu to indicate that there are updates available
  • download progress indicator
  • update all button
  • show a version diff after a mod is updated
left fractal
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So how does this work now? you can see in steam that's not the last version?

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Can you also update with it or trigger a force update after closing the game, or do you still need to verify game files

bright token
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It compares the update time of the last time each item was downloaded vs what the server has as the last update time,

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and then when you press the update button will ask Steam to update the mod

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The Steam API has two different way to query for mods, one gives local data, and the other gives fresh data from the server,

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so you can use this mod instead of verify game files,

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at the moment it only has update one-item-at-a-time, but might be quicker than verifying game files

scenic dragon
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Nice idea!

scenic dragon
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Btw, you've included "src" into the release. Is it intentional?

bright token
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yea, I'll drop it in the next release, I've added everything to github now.

scenic dragon
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Just ntoiced that after update, the mod version doesn't change in the list. Would be nice to have it change. Maybe even with a new icon, indicating that a restart is needed. Btw, your mad doesn't mark self as not existing on Steam, but I didn;t find it in Workshop.

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And not only this. Checkout TimberCommons - it's local mod too.

bright token
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yea, the mod doesn't display anything for local mods

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and agreed with the "show that the item was updated". I was thinking of showing something like: old versionnew version

scenic dragon
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For the local mods, workshop_data.json file can be checked to see if the mod is on Steam or not. Not sure how useful it would be for the others, but for be it would be super convenient since I frequently switch local/workshop versions.

bright token
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Unfortunately that doesn't help, because it's not comparing anything in workshop_data.json

scenic dragon
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What's the call? What do you pass in teh request?

bright token
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or I guess asked another way, how would that help / what should it do for local mods?

lost pike
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Local mods (from mods folder) , if contains mod.json are handled by Mod Manager....

scenic dragon
bright token
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It's asking the Steam Workshop API the "time updated" for the item, via GetItemInstallInfo (gives local value) and QueryUGCDetails (gives server value)

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Unfortunately SteamUGCDetails doesn't contain any version information, only TimeUpdated (and TimeCreated)

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which is why those are the values shown in Player.log

scenic dragon
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Yeah, I forgot Workshop doesn't have versions at all.

bright token
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Update: Version 0.0.8

Show mod version changes when downloads complete

lost pike
bright token
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It's quiet subtle, but easier to do with limited time.

bright token
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and just for you I put the files into a directory in the zip file 😄

bright token
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This may "just work" with update 6 as it's released, please let me know if there are any issues with it.

lost pike
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steam update mods like crazy, but, not so good, so, cannot check the Update Button 😢

bright token
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you mean that unsubscribe/subscribe dance is no longer required?

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i.e. is Steam now correctly downloading mods when they get updated?

scenic dragon
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Steam supposed to handle it seamlessly. It wasn't do stuff for the experimental branch, but for the main one it should. At least, it's what I heard 🙂

bright token
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Update 0.0.9

Don't crash if connection to Steam client is not found

lost pike
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Nice, TY 👏 . Sorry that cannot test, I have an internet connection that is too good 😮

bright token
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np, if it's working for you, then there's no change,

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I finally got a 2nd copy purchased via Steam, and for some reason the game can't detect my Stream (all running under Linux)

lost pike
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It's not that point. It suppose to test, but, in this case, cannot 😮

bright token
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How would you test?

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broken internet connection will not reproduce the error,

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erorr was big nasty crash screen at startup

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and player.log had "Native Crash Reporting" in it,

lost pike
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YA, must wait to test until steam got broken ..

bright token
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Update 0.1.0

Adds an icon on the main menu "Mods" button if updates are available
Tidies up log messages to have a common prefix
Add tentative support for mods that support multiple versions.

bright token
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Update 0.1.1

Adds an update all button and tooltips

woven spindle
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you do have a steam account right?
im thinking if you would be up for me uploading it to steam and add you as a creator so when you get it to work you can upload ThinkingIT

bright token
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I do (I've added it to my discord profile). If steam allows multiple authors for a mod then I think that would be okay.

woven spindle
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Last time I tried using it, it was before I had access to the game on Steam, and nothing worked,

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but I assume it will work now that the game is in my Library

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woven spindle
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Can see it will test it later

bright token
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thanks,

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It's missing the mod tag

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I wonder how much that matters to the game, hmmm

woven spindle
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its found ingame so the tag probobly only do so its harder to find in the workshop

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bright token
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I wonder what format kvtags is supposed to be in,

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Also the only visiblity options are "Friends-only", "Hidden" or "Unlisted". Does that change after some review process?

woven spindle
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hmm not sure

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or is it becasue of not set tag?

bright token
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I'd be surprised if it's because the tag is missing,

bright token
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ahh, it's because my steam acct is still a limited account (I only have access to Timberborn via Family Library, so I've never bought anything directly in my acct)

woven spindle
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its placed as unlisted right now?

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if it will be then i can link to it in description as a way to fix problems :p

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and later we can see how many have had problems with not updated mods by checking the downloaded amount 😛

bright token
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It's Friends-only at the moment, and it won't let me change it.

bright token
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Known issue: It doesn't have the "Mod" tag, so won't show up with the default filter

woven spindle
bright token
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The Mod tag has now been added, so it should appear in searches correctly.

bright token
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Update 7 compatibility is blocked on Update 7 compatible TimberApi, so need to wait for that first

bright token
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I have it working with update 7, but it requires new TimberAPI (the parts it requires seem to be working)

left fractal
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And you got TimberApi build in the end ?

bright token
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yea, it uses the UIBuilder

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I got enough of the dlls needed,

left fractal
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YA_AgreeGe good

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I was thinking of uploading partial TimberApi, but since I might have a solution. It probably is fixed this weekend. Otherwise I upload a partial TImberApi anyway.

bright token
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so for now I just copied the old version and deleted everything except the new dlls I needed

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(TimberApi.dll, TimberApi.UIBuilderSystem.dll, TimberApi.UIPresets.dll)

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I think there was only a single (unreachable code) warning between them,

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but a buunch of errors and warnings on other dlls

left fractal
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Oh for sure

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Enough changed KEKW

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Alot just code style changed from out Timberborn though

bright token
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yea, I had to move a bunch of stuff around for this mod, because stuff moved

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The Bootstrapper bindings, and requirement to Export them was the biggest issue,

left fractal
bright token
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once I figured out what had happened and how to work around it, it was reasonably easy

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I only had to add a single proxy function to export the functionailty that was broken,

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bright token
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Steam Update Buttons does work with latest update, but needs to have TimberAPI UIBuilder installed (TimberAPI itself is not yet updated to be compatable).

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load order needs to be manually changed in the mod list too default load order is fine

scenic dragon
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@bright token What do you use TAPI for? Button creation?

bright token
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Yea, UI buttons

scenic dragon
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This is kind of easy to overcome if you know the right USS class. Which buttons do you need? I can help.

bright token
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New buttons

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You can see them in the screenshots

scenic dragon
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Can you ping me a link in the code where you create them?

bright token
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there are also two Image.cs files

scenic dragon
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Give me 10 minutes, I'll make USS and the code.

bright token
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I'd actually love some custom graphics. I only have the ones in place that I do as placeholders.

scenic dragon
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I've spent like a week creating the Unity based UI design solution. Now it works. I create all styles and visual element in Unity and then compile them as an asset.

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It may be overkill if you need just one button, but if you make dialogs - it's a deal breaker.

bright token
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The USS isn't the issue. I was avoiding having to install Unity

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I can do CSS half asleep, i'm sure USS would be easy enough

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it looks pretty much identical

scenic dragon
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What is the "Image.cs" file? Can't find it.

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bright token
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UpdateAvailableImage.cs and UnavailableImage.cs

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those are the 3 files that call UIBuilder.Create<T>()

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is you search for uiBuilder.Build you can find where they're instantiated.

scenic dragon
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Any request for a specific USS resource name?

bright token
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I'm not sure how/where it would be used,

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so osmething like SteamUpdateButtons or steam-update-buttons may work?

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Should it be $somethingStyle.uss?

scenic dragon
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Nope, it can be any name.

bright token
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the game uses CoreStyle.uss, CommonStyle.uss, etc right?

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I have SteamUpdaterConfigurator, so maybe SteamUpdaterStyle?

scenic dragon
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Ah, good call. You probably don't want to attach the standard styles, so the defaults needs to be reset.

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Only one of the 3 buttons has a click sound attached. Is it intentional?

bright token
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only the Button has a click sound correct,

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the other two images are not buttons, just indicators,

scenic dragon
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    var style = _assetLoader.Load<StyleSheet>("UI/Views/SteamUpdateButtons");
    var template = _visualElementLoader.LoadVisualElement("SteamUpdateButtonsTemplate");
    template.styleSheets.Add(style);

Get children from the template visual element. Each child is the element as on the picture.

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Or, you can create each element yourself;

    var style = _assetLoader.Load<StyleSheet>("UI/Views/SteamUpdateButtons");
    var element = new NineSliceButton();
    element.styleSheets.Add(style);
    element.AddToClassList("update-button");
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Alas, custom USS are not supported by the game. So, you need to add the stylesheets explicitly after the asset is loaded. I'm going to spend some time fighting with it.

scenic dragon
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Well, getting elements from the template turned out to be not that strightforward. Since it's a custom style, it should be applied to every element there is being extracted:

    var style = _assetLoader.Load<StyleSheet>("UI/Views/SteamUpdateButtons");
    var template = _visualElementLoader.LoadVisualElement("SteamUpdateButtonsTemplate");
    var button = template.ElementAt(0) as Button;
    button.styleSheets.Add(style);
    var image1 = template.ElementAt(1);
    image1.styleSheets.Add(style);
    var image2 = template.ElementAt(2);
    image2.styleSheets.Add(style);

Not exactly simpler than making each control separately and adding stye/class.

bright token
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might as well just make 3 different templates surely?

scenic dragon
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It can work, but only if loading via asset loader: _assetLoader.Load<VisualTreeAsset>(). It's due to VisualElementLoader detaches the elements from the asset, and the style gets lost.

serene ledge
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steam update button works. doesnt crash game and updates (functions)

bright token
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yep, as long as you have TimberAPI UIBuilder enabled too,

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I may get around to updating it properly this weekend

serene ledge
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ty so much. the update button makes updating so much easier

bright token
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yea, I want to add some sort of indicator that it's "busy updating",

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I forgot to backup the metadata before I did updates today though, so I'll have to wait for another day

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I should do the backup now, so that I don't forget

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done

bright token
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I'm getting complaints on my mods that they haven't been updated for 0.7.1, 🥲 they're all grown up

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bright token
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Seems to work with 0.7.2.0, so I don't think any changes are needed.

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unborn haven
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I love using this mod to update this mod 😛

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Thanks for work on this normanr LoveIT

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unborn haven
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(Ignore the double arrows, the game and macOS see the same key-press when I take a screenshot with cmd-shift-4)

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The download pending image must be nice, honestly. I was just thinking how it is hard to tell it's even doing anything

bright token
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Especially when there are multiple mods to update

unborn haven
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Yeah. Biggest pet peeve of mine with the mod stuff in this game is clicking ok on the initial mod screen does almost nothing visually to tell me it's loading. and it takes .. .time

bright token
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Yea, it could show a loading progress bar

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Or tick each item as it loads

unborn haven
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I think they just "grey out" the okay button maybe? but even that isn't enough honestly

bright token
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Just hide it 🙂

lost pike
bright token
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Yea that would work too

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any idea what the slow part of the process is?

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it's quite quick with some mods,

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and anything but quick with others

unborn haven
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I mean, it takes < 5 seconds so not really slow

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but long enough that macOS gives me a spinning beachball

lost pike
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Codeless mod are loading faster

bright token
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yea

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I wonder how long the asset bundles take to load, hmmm

bright token
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ahh, ahaha, they're loaded no less than 3 times,

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once just after loading mods, once before the main menu loads, and once when loading a game

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example logs:

21:02:58 Loading emberpelts_win
21:03:06 Loaded in 00:00:08.1863255
21:03:06 Loading modmanagerui.bundle
21:03:06 Loaded in 00:00:00.0017231
21:03:06 Loading modsettings_win
21:03:06 Loaded in 00:00:00.0017510
lost pike
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luckly, don't have Water Beavers for U7, or the time will sky jump 🤔

bright token
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I think I will format it more like:

21:06:57 AssetBundle.LoadFromFile: Loading emberpelts_win
21:07:06 AssetBundle.LoadFromFile: Loaded in 00:00:08.7714904
21:07:06 AssetBundle.LoadFromFile: Loading modmanagerui.bundle
21:07:06 AssetBundle.LoadFromFile: Loaded in 00:00:00.0017723
21:07:06 AssetBundle.LoadFromFile: Loading modsettings_win
21:07:06 AssetBundle.LoadFromFile: Loaded in 00:00:00.0016206
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I could put the full path, but the filename is unique as far as I can tell

bright token
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Please check it out and let me know if it breaks anything.

unborn haven
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Oh, you didn't upload it to steam 😛 (Was going to see how the progress icons looked )

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But nothing is crashing at least

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Currently installed mods:

Modded: true, official
- Harmony (v2.3.3)
- More Mod Logs (v0.1.1)
- Construction Queue (v0.1.0)
- Iron Teeth Hazard Awareness Tails (v1.3)
- Mod Manager (v3.0.4)
- Mod Settings (v0.7.2.0)
- Goods Statistics (v0.7.2.0)
- Minimap (v0.7.2.0)
- Pipette Tool (v2.0.5)
- Plank Texture Swap (v1.0.1)
- POTAILTO (v1.5)
- TimberApi (v0.7.12.0)
- TimberApi UIBuilder (v1.0.0.1)
- Cutter Tool (v0.7.1.1)
- Steam Update Buttons (v0.1.4)
- Tool Finder (v0.0.5)
- Goods Tracing (v1.3.0)
- MoreGroups (v3.0.2.1) # This is a locally modified version
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unborn haven
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Yeah, the logs are in fact verbose+++ 🙂

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23:58:17 PipetteTool.PipetteTool.Load()...
23:58:17 PipetteTool.PipetteTool.Load() executed in 00:00:00.0013670
23:58:17 TimberApi.Tools.ToolGroupSystem.ToolGroupSpecService.Load()...
23:58:17 TimberApi.Tools.ToolGroupSystem.ToolGroupSpecService.Load() executed in 00:00:00.0332650
23:58:17 TimberApi.Tools.ToolSystem.ToolSpecService.Load()...
23:58:17 TimberApi.Tools.ToolSystem.ToolSpecService.Load() executed in 00:00:00.0503260
23:58:17 TimberApi.BottomBarSystem.BottomBarService.Load()...
23:58:17 TimberApi.BottomBarSystem.BottomBarService.Load() executed in 00:00:00.0246960
23:58:17 TimberApi.BottomBarSystem.BottomBarUiService.Load()...
23:58:17 TimberApi.BottomBarSystem.BottomBarUiService.Load() executed in 00:00:00.0004780
23:58:17 Cordial.Mods.CutterTool.Scripts.CutterToolService.Load()...
23:58:17 Cordial.Mods.CutterTool.Scripts.CutterToolService.Load() executed in 00:00:00.0006010

for example, is this looking correct for you?

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bright token
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theo? do you have a link?

left fractal
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Hmm maybe it was yours all the time

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Thought theo had it's own since he said someone to use it.

bright token
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not sure. There are at least 6 theo's on this server

left fractal
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The modder

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theapologist not theo 🥲

bright token
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ahh, gotcha

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maybe as one of the TImprove mods, but I don't see it mentioned anywhere

unborn haven
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(I think theapologist's name is Luke?)

bright token
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yea

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at least the profile name on mod.io and Steam

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(This time backported the 0.1.4 and 0.1.5 changes for Update 6 too)

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digital saffron
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Hey @bright token , thanks for the great mod! I have an idea for you. I have some mods that are no longer updated, some that I don't need anymore, and one that has vanished from Steam alltogether. Is it possible to add an UI button to manage mod subscriptions from within the game? Either like you add the update button with this mod you can add an (X => remove mod subscription) or an (S => go to Steam page) or make your own icons.

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I hope since you know how to manipulate the load order UI that you can create this. If you have lots of mods, it may make things easier to manage 😉

bright token
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I think it might be possible to unsubscribe, but I sort of want to stay away from adding functionality for that. Adding a direct link to the Steam page would be easier to do (maybe make the existing cloud clickable?)

bright token
digital saffron
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Thanks, I'll check that. But I like your idea of making the cloud icon clickable and leading that to the steam page of the mod. I'm actually kinda surprised it didn't do that already 🙂

dense schooner
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This (and all my other mods) seem currently broken in experimental. Any patch/fix date estimate?

serene ledge
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I was just using it the other day? Wonder if the recent hot fix broke it

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serene ledge
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Usually with updates, especially new versions, I turn off all mods except the update button. If the update button crashes I turn that off. Manual update (unsubscribe then subscribe again). Reload the the game with only the update button. Then if it crashes it's probably the mod. If it doesn't and works, then the remaining mods with updates will show up

foggy rover
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When I go offline on Steam, the update button for a mod still displays, when clicking on it nothing happens, and after 5 minutes you then remember that you went offline, go back online on Steam and now the button works. Yes I know its a PEBCAK bug

bright token
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Does the log show anything interesting?

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If there's an error, then I could probably surface it

foggy rover
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Well, was going to check, but I guess you already updated it. 😆

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bright token
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? Nope, no recent update

foggy rover
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Never saw those icons before.

woven spindle
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Maybe the cache was updated😉 (steam)

foggy rover
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No idea what is happening. Went offline again, launched game, and now its back to "normal"? Lets see if the log catches anything, there is one pending update

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I clicked the button 3 times

bright token
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The icons are "couldn't find the mod on Steam"

foggy rover
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Maybe Steam is doing some caching because I did the same thing now, and those icons did not show up

bright token
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Yea, the cache probably expired

bright token
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The result from SteamUGC.DownloadItem of True vs False indicates if it actually queued the update. So I could add a dialog box if it doesn't return True

bright token
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(also the link for KnatteAnka.ExtendedFloodgates is in a different format, still works though)

bright token
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heh, that's one way to fix it (by removing the text entirely)