Tag Problem

[wraith808]

I'm evaluating Zeus and it seems nifty, but I have one problem- xtags is not working, or at least it keeps popping up dialogs saying it's not. The exact error message is:

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Unexpected Error Spawning xTags Executable
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xtags.exe --c-types=+fp --excmd=p --fields=+afmikKlnsSz --sort=no -f C:\DOCUME~1\cxlittle\LOCALS~1\Temp\.tag

Make sure the xtags.exe installation directory has been added to the
system PATH environment variable.

Note: Use Ctrl+C to capture this message to clipbaord.
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OK
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xtags is on my path, and when I try to use the command given above, it doesn't work directly with xtags. How do I fix it?

PS- are gmail e-mail accounts banned from this board in general?

[jussij]

xtags is on my path, and when I try to use the command given above, it doesn't work directly with xtags. How do I fix it?

Which version of Zeus are you running

I think this problem might have already have been discussed in one of these links:

http://www.zeusedit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=241
http://www.zeusedit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1017

Another thing you can try is to delete the xtags.ini file found in the Zeus install folder, but make sure Zeus is not running at the time.

Zeus will recreate the xtags.ini file but the command line details in the new file might be different.

Failing that you can also edit the command line found in the ini file

Let me know if none of these links help fix the issue.

PS- are gmail e-mail accounts banned from this board in general?

Unfortunately, this phpBB like most phpBB forums is under constant attach by spammers and spammers love to use gmail as there throw away forum activation e-mail account.

Hence the reason for some of the unfortunate forum restrictions

Cheers Jussi

[jussij]

In one of the links from the previous post I managed to fix a problem raised by Antti with the following response:

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This command line:

xtags.exe --c-types=+fp --excmd=p --fields=+afmikKlnsSz --sort=no -f C:\DOCUME~1\mauranen\LOCALS~1\Temp\.tag

suggests the file name is blank. Notice how the .tag at the end seems to be missing the base file component

The file name should have come from the tags database so I suspect the database might have been corrupted

To fix this try doing a full tags rebuild using the Tags, Rebuild menu command.

If this does not work then close Zeus and try deleting/renaming all the *.zbd files. These files should be in the same directory as the *.zpi file.

In both case Zeus should recreate new database files which will hopefully remove the corruption.
<--- end quote --->

The bug he describes looks a lot like yours so I suspect doing a tags rebuild should also fix this issue

Cheers Jussi

[jussij]

I looked at the code that displays this message box and it will get displayed whenever the running of the xtags.exe returns any type of error.

The message box was originally added because, in very early versions of Zeus the user had to add the Zeus install folder to the PATH and this message box was a reminder of that.

But I suspect the error message is now being displayed because xtags.exe is actually returning an error code (i.e. it runs into trouble while trying to tag the file).

So in the next version this message bug is going to be made a debug only option, which means that if the debug is off then it will not be displayed.

Cheers Jussi

[jussij]

The latest Zeus beta removes this message box.

It also adds a new option to do checkout on edit (see Options, Editor Options, Source Control panel).

The latest Zeus beta is found here: http://www.zeusedit.com/z300/zeus-beta.zip

For details on how to install the upgrade see the instructions found in these links:

http://www.zeusedit.com/zforum/viewtopic.php?t=6922
http://www.zeusedit.com/zforum/viewtopic.php?t=2719

Cheers Jussi