"Error: Cannot process COPY_TRANS" means what, exactly?

[jastey]

I am actually asking because I cannot COPY_TRANS a state where the transaction contains sleep() (BG1). Weidu gives me the error message "Cannot process COPY_TRANS". Could it be that the action sleep() is borked?

The state in question is from drunk.dlg:

IF ~~ THEN BEGIN 4 // from: 3.2 3.1
  SAY #5031 /* ~Hey!  Whats are you,  uhhhhh.........~ */
  IF ~~ THEN DO ~Sleep()
~ EXIT
END


I am using I_C_T to this state, which doesn't compile with the error "Error: Cannot process COPY_TRANS" (no more information).

I can do I_C_T to other states and other dlg-files, though (and they actually work in the game).

COPY_TRANS from this state didn't work, either (I tried the work around with INTERJECT and COPY_TRANS, but no luck).

Any ideas?

[Kulyok]

It sounds stupid, I know, but maybe it doesn't like that you're having the ~Sleep line split into two? What if you simply put it like

IF ~~ THEN DO ~Sleep()~ EXIT

?

[jastey*]

The state is from the original game. Maybe that is the problem, but it meens I'd have to adjust the state, first, one way or the other. I am considering erasing the sleep() command by A_T_A (only for BG1, in Tutu / BGT the I_C_T works fine).

Still, is there a docu as to what "cannot process " means in this case?

[Wisp]

"Cannot process COPY_TRANS" is a catch-all message signifying there was some unspecified error (i.e., as far as error messages go it is not a very helpful one).
I doubt it's the wayward tilde causing it. Those are common.
I can't reproduce this problem locally, but if you want to pursue the matter, I can add some more information to the current error message, and probably add a few more checks to try to narrow the problem down. Maybe a less ambiguous error can shed some light on the matter.

[jastey]

That would be very cool! More detailed error message, I mean.

Did you try to I_C_T to this state in BG1 (TotSC), and it worked without problems?

[Wisp]

Yes. If you fax over your code I can give that a try, if you like.

[jastey]

What exactly means "fax over"?

My code is basically

I_C_T %tutu_var%drunk 4 c#q12_Drunk
== %tutu_var%drunk IF ~Global("C#BGQE_NPCReactions","GLOBAL",1)~ THEN ~bla~
END

(with %tutu_var% = ~~ for BG1)

If you get this to install without problems on your vanilla BG1+TotSC game, I would be interested to see your decompiled drunk.dlg. Thank you in advance!

[Wisp]

Yes, it installs.
My drunk 4 is the same as the state you posted.
I guess I should try to pencil in some time for poring over the code and making some educated guesses for where tighter error checking could be useful.

[jastey]

While trying to compile your drunk.d as a quick fix I discovered that ~Sleep()~ is not listed in my BG1 game's action.ids. I guess that's the problem. I would like to include it, but I cannot find it in the IESDP. What would the "official" patching code look like? e.g., for ApplySpellRES, it is:

APPEND ~action.ids~ ~160 ApplySpellRES(S:ResRef*,O:Target*)~       
UNLESS ~ApplySpellRES~

It would be something like

APPEND ~action.ids~ ~xxx Sleep()~       
UNLESS ~Sleep~

but I don't know which number I should give it?

[Wisp]

I think one of the developers goofed and there is no and never was a "Sleep" action. You can probably confirm whether it is an issue by replacing it with a valid action, e.g., PlayDead().

[jastey*]

I tried replacing the sleep with ~~ by using REPLACE_TRANS_ACTION, but it was in the same .d and gave the same compiling error. Was it because the state wasn't changed until after the compilation of the d? I cannot remember correctly. I think I have to do changes like that first or with a different command so weidu knows that it takes the changed state for the COPY_TRANS. Can someone tell me, maybe I have to use two separate .d?