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Agonostis
November 19th, 2005, 01:37 PM
I installed Beta 14 tonight, after having been successfully using Beta 5-2 for weeks now.

My GML did not work straight away - none of the serial commands worked for my tv (the only serial device i have). I banged my head against the problem for 45 minutes until i discovered that the serial definition file *written by Promixis*, packaged in the *about to go gold release* of G4 had a typo. Anyone finding this thread with unexplainable non-working of their panasonic plasma should open up the lua file and add in the missing 'l' to the "GlobaName" property.

But even fixing that wasn't successful - now girder crashes hard whenever i do a serial command, rendering it unusable to me. Please help me fix this problem.
Ron
November 20th, 2005, 08:09 AM
Thanks for pointing out that typo.

Can you specifiy how you recreate that crash exactly?
Agonostis
November 20th, 2005, 02:15 PM
1. Boot computer
2. Launch Girder
3. Ensure serial plugin is enabled
4. Type "Panasonic:On()" in Interactive Lua Console
5. TV turns on
6. Girder crashes with error above.

For reference, 5. and 6. occur simultaneously.

Any thoughts?
Promixis
November 20th, 2005, 04:20 PM
1. Boot computer
2. Launch Girder
3. Ensure serial plugin is enabled
4. Type "Panasonic:On()" in Interactive Lua Console
5. TV turns on
6. Girder crashes with error above.

For reference, 5. and 6. occur simultaneously.

Any thoughts?

hm, at least it turned on the tv :D

what os are you running?
Agonostis
November 20th, 2005, 05:17 PM
Windows XP sp2.
Ron
November 22nd, 2005, 02:18 PM
Your bug is not forgotten,... it's in the queue.
Agonostis
November 22nd, 2005, 02:55 PM
Thanks!
Ron
November 23rd, 2005, 09:42 AM
Could you uncomment line 47 in file Panasonic TH####.lua in the plugins\serial directory?



serial.Classes.Queued.ReceiveResponse (self,data,code)


thus:


-- serial.Classes.Queued.ReceiveResponse (self,data,code)


See if it crashes again.
Ron
November 23rd, 2005, 10:06 AM
I've prepared a dll with debug information.

Please install debugview:

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/DebugView.html

Also please install the attached DLL. Then run debugview and start Girder. Then type Panasonic:On() and take a screenshot of the error dialog that pops up (like you did before).

Then attach both the screenshot and the debugview out here in the forum.
Agonostis
November 23rd, 2005, 03:14 PM
On it. Thanks Ron.
Agonostis
November 29th, 2005, 03:45 PM
So I never actually got around to installing these extras, but so far, B16 seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks guys.
Promixis
November 29th, 2005, 05:10 PM
So I never actually got around to installing these extras, but so far, B16 seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks guys.

Great,

If you have any addtions or corrections to the serial file for the Panny, please upload it.