Talk:RoboResearch

SVN Update Notes

If you update from SVN, be ready to change your .cfg files. The example "run.cfg" is updated - it's still easy. Perhaps easier than they were! --Simonton 04:25, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

HSQLDB No More

Beware of abrupt shutdowns of the database server. I just lost all my scores between Simonton/PFResearch 0073 and 0083, apparently because I closed Eclipse which simply killed the database process, instead of shutting it down nicely. I certainly thought it would handle such things better than that, and I have done it many times before with no consequence, but apparently my timing was bad this time. Does anyone have a good recommendation for a more reliable database that can be run without firing off a separate process, if desired? --Simonton 07:51, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

It looks like the Apache Derby implementation distributed with Java 6 would be the natural choice! Expect that change to come in the near future, for fear of losing more of my data otherwise! --Simonton 15:04, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

It happened again. This time I only lost some data for 0088. I wasn't going to be upset if I lost alot more, but it just confirms this is a switch that has to be made. For now I'm making a copy of the database directory before I kill the database server. Sending the sever the shutdown command via SQL would work, but that's too much effort. They should make it accept a clean shutdown command from the terminal in which you launch the server, that would be handy. --Simonton 02:21, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Buggy when running from GUI

Hey Simonton if you're around. I found a bit of a odd bug when trying to run the TCRM here. Under the GUI it always fails with:

Thread 1: Unrecognized output from robocode, "Aborting battle, could not find robot: apv.AspidMovement 1.0".  Killing battle.

whereas in the CLI it works just fine. Not sure why all this is but if I find a fix I'll tell let you know. --Rednaxela 07:10, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, okay, I discovered that the problem disappaered if I cleared the working_dirs directory, and renamed all the bot jars to match the version number they have in the properties file. It seems that RoboResearch doesn't like jars that are differently named than the default, and some such non-default names are included in the zip files for challenge bots. Anyways I have it working now, and maybe this info posted here might help someone else. --Rednaxela 19:06, 21 December 2008 (UTC)