FLSHELL

khayman

Hi everyone,

Im trying to use flshell on a private server but it doesnt seem to want to load
The hope was to use it for banners while flhook gives players commands to use (i know there maybe some issues with this).

i have made a fresh install of freelancer (without FLHOOK)
then i have installed flshell 1.3 (public)
the server does fire up but cant load flshell…… i get this in the server error file:

****** New Log (Version 1.0 Build 11) ******

1: C:\work\builds\dalibs\dalibs-build\build\Src\DACOM\Dacom.cpp(612) : ERROR:General:DACOM: AddLibrary: unable to load dll ‘C:\PROGRA~1\FLShell\FLShell.dll’, ignoring…

any ideas/help would be great.

thanks in advance Khayman.

khayman

due to the amount of ppl that have read this post and made no reply ive come to the conclusion:

1. No-body knows
2. No-body can be bothered
3. No-body cares

my main goals are to set personal banners (including a welcome to the server player name banner)
and possibly a banner when entering systems

the plan was to use flhook for player commands and flshell / flcd for the banners… but it seems everyone fits into one of the three catorgries above $:-\$

yes… some of you may say… download flcd or shell again, well ive tried this with no joy!

if anyone does happen to read this post and has the knowledge, the time or the love of freelancer and understands what its like to be so mad at re-downloading programes that should work… please feel free to leave any information…

as for me?.. i’ll be pulling me hair out trying to get this to work

Icely

I fit into category 1 as far as FLShell goes, but perhaps you can accomplish some of what you want with Ioncross Freelancer Server Operator (IFSO). I’m not sure what you mean by personal banners; IFSO can do global banners and welcome to the server messages. No possibility of banners upon entering a system though.

khayman

Thanks for your reply icely,

I’m trying not to use IFSO the timed banners do work, but the “welcome to the server” banner doesnt. Also i would like to add the system banners too (i.e welcome to omicron Alpha home of the outcasts).

do you know if FLShell should work from your pc (i.e download it, add the path in the library and hey presto)
or do the text files need to be elsewhere (i.e on a website / forum or whatever)

Ive been told that shell wont work with x86 or 64-bit Servers, and that if this is the case i would have to create a separate application workspace for a 32-bit app and run it in there (whatever that means)

im using windows xp pro but i got no idea if its 32, 64 bit or x86

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@khayman:

Hi everyone,

Im trying to use flshell on a private server but it doesnt seem to want to load
The hope was to use it for banners while flhook gives players commands to use (i know there maybe some issues with this).

i have made a fresh install of freelancer (without FLHOOK)
then i have installed flshell 1.3 (public)
the server does fire up but cant load flshell…… i get this in the server error file:

****** New Log (Version 1.0 Build 11) ******

Â 1: C:\work\builds\dalibs\dalibs-build\build\Src\DACOM\Dacom.cpp(612) : ERROR:General:DACOM: AddLibrary: unable to load dll ‘C:\PROGRA~1\FLShell\FLShell.dll’, ignoring…

any ideas/help would be great.

thanks in advance Khayman.

What says Dependency Walker ( http://www.dependencywalker.com/depends22_x86.zip) about flshell.dll ?

Xarian_Prime

Main reason why ye drew a blank m8…

No-one uses Shell anymore really… now that Hook can do most of what shell used to do “on the side” ;D

Check out M0tah’s posts history, in there there will be a link to the latest v1.6.3 on the forge… add a few plugins… and your more stable that ever… with only 1 extra proggy running… ;D

M0tah

@Xarian_Prime:

Check out M0tah’s posts history, in there there will be a link to the latest v1.6.3 on the forge… add a few plugins… and your more stable that ever… with only 1 extra proggy running… ;D

There’s obviously some misunderstanding about the different versions of FLHook, so I’ll try to clear it up.

As far as I know there’s currently two versions of FLHook that extend the functionality of v1.5.5 and that have had recent releases: the plugin version, developed by w0dk4, and '88 Flak’s version, developed by me. There is another version, the Leipzig City version, but it was released a while ago and doesn’t seem to be actively developed anymore.

My ('88 Flak’s) version has many more built-in features than the plugin version does, but it does not support plugins. I have ported some of the features from my version to plugins for the plugin version, but many of the features have not been ported. The latest release of the plugin version is v1.6.0 and the latest release of my version is v1.6.4.

Xarian_Prime

sry m8… ;D haven’t actualy had a chance to play with the new one… then i woulda known about the plugins

in fact i haven’t played with the tech since i replaced w0dk4’s with yours… a few weeks ago… with 1.6.3… which looks real good ;D i must say… just been busy in other areas of coding heaven/hell…

Nieckey

Im not sure, but you may can try to Disable the Windows DEP if you enabled it.

FR

I m not sure

but as far as i remember,
FlShell wants a ‘path’ to it’s own directory and to freelancer\exe.

And possibly the names of the directories are wanted
shorter than this one : “\PROGRA~1”.

Wicked_Witch

Don’t know if you use CD. Otherwise you can think of using the msgboard.
Use it now for Â a while and works fine

For FLShell the first things i can think of is this:

Did you put it on the right way in the dacom.ini file? C:\PROGRA~1\FLShell\FLShell.dll
Did you check FLSchell is on the place you put in the ini file? Maybe you installed it on another disc.
Or maybe a corrupt dll file.

M0tah

@Xarian_Prime - no problem, I just didn’t want people thinking that I was the one who coded the plugin version or that my version supports plugins.

khayman

Thanks everyone for your reply’s

Dependency Walker says that 1 or more files dont support 32 or 64 bit files or something, so im guessing my pc cant run flshell…

thanks for all your efforts to help, if i do manage to get it working i’ll make a post incase anyone in the future runs into this problem.

Wicked_Witch

@khayman:

Thanks everyone for your reply’s

Dependency Walker says that 1 or more files dont support 32 or 64 bit files or something, so im guessing my pc cant run flshell…

I guess it don’t run on 64 bit. Because i run xp to, the 32 bit version, and it works without any probs

OutCast

I agree with Nieckey, i had that same problem and solved it by disabling DEP for flserver.exe.

And flshell doesn’t support x64 AFAIK.

StarTrader

What’s DEP and where and how to disable it?

Xarian_Prime

I take it your on Vista m8

Data Execution Prevention… the most evil thing ms has thought up in years…
It’s supposed to save you from malware… but most of the time its crazyware itself blocking things
without telling you… or just plain forgeting what you’ve told it b4…

with the “old view” active
Control Pannel/System -->> advanced system settings… under Advanced tab click “settings” in the performance area…
DEP is the last tab… but oh nelly u only half way now…

You have 2 options… leave it as is… or go though every program and tell DEP its safe… and i mean EVERY program windows apps the lot… fauilire to do just that forced my PC to “prevent” windows login… that was a fun week i tell ye…

Best of luck…

Bejaymac

Safest way is not to install programs to the “Program Files” or “Program Files (x86)” folders, as it’s those 2 that DEP “interferes” with.

Oh and it also helps to “kill” that PITFA UAC as well

OutCast

And flshell doesn’t support x64 AFAIK.

Well here we go… Now i’m running flshell on x64 ;D
Anyone had experience with that? What kind of bugs can i encounter?
Flserver is running as 32-bit process though, may be in this case flshell is okay?

I had already some strange things happend like kicks with no reason when trying to buy a ship, very seldom though. And i don’t even know where are they come from…

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Btw! On x64 machine with x64 Os : How about to copy x86 dlls to flshell folder from x86 xp (or google)?