UX bug in troubleshooting dialog.tlk not found

[tlplayer]

{
"exe": "Baldur.exe",
"path": "/home/tplayer/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Baldur's Gate II Enhanced Edition",
"locale": "en_US",
"display": 0,
"ms": 300,
"accelBorderless": "CommandOrControl+Q",
"accelSheet": "CommandOrControl+A",
"accelCloseAll": "CommandOrControl+X"
}

[130545:0930/173613.254784:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(276)] GLib-GObject: ../../../gobject/gsignal.c:2685: instance '0x103400119cd0' has no handler with id '758'
Configuration file "path" is invalid. Will revert to default.

Please include the path that was searched for the dialog.tlk file

bg-partner/src/config/config.ts

Line 94 in ead0aff

if (!fs.existsSync(path.join(this.obj.path, 'lang', this.obj.locale, 'dialog.tlk'))) {

[gatperdut]

Hi 👋

1. Please include the path that was searched for the dialog.tlk file: You mean that the output Configuration file "path" is invalid. Will revert to default. should include the path in which dialog.tlk is searched for? When path is invalid the default is (for linux) /home/<user>, as the readme says. I think it might be invalid because of the spaces in the path you posted. Could you copy the game folder somewhere else than steam's installed games folder, rename it to something without spaces like BG2, and running the game from there?

2. Why is exe in your config Baldur.exe? Shouldn't it be BaldursGateII, since you are running linux?

[tlplayer]

Good Morning 👋

1.1 Yes. That will help me know where it was looking and validate manually.
1.2. Hmm moving the folder there is a bit of friction, and path.join(this.obj.path, 'lang', this.obj.locale, 'dialog.tlk') should handle spaces fine. I think the issue is when Linux is looking for the path it doesn't have permission to look inside the .steam folder because it's hidden. Making a symlink to the directory from home works.

:~$ ls
Applications  Desktop  Documents  Downloads  Music  Pictures  Public  Templates  Videos
:~$ ln -s "/home/tplayer/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Baldur's Gate II Enhanced Edition" ~/bgee
:~$ ls
Applications  bgee  Desktop  Documents  Downloads  Music  Pictures  Public  Templates  Videos
:~$ cd bgee

2. I think it's because I swapped to the proton version because it ran better with mods. The Linux version breaks when you run tolower which is required for mods like cdweaks, ui++ etc. due to Window's case insensitive file system. This was simpler than cpiofs

Now I have another problem which is finding .bif files by case sensitivity. Can the reads be case insensitive using some code like the following?

import fs from "fs";
import path from "path";

function readCaseInsensitive(baseDir: string, filePath: string): Buffer {
  // split the path into components
  const parts = filePath.split(path.sep);
  let currentDir = baseDir;

  for (let i = 0; i < parts.length; i++) {
    const part = parts[i];
    const entries = fs.readdirSync(currentDir);

    // try to find an exact match first
    let match = entries.find(e => e === part);

    // fallback: case-insensitive match
    if (!match) {
      match = entries.find(e => e.toLowerCase() === part.toLowerCase());
    }

    if (!match) {
      throw new Error(`File or directory not found: ${part} in ${currentDir}`);
    }

    currentDir = path.join(currentDir, match);
  }

  return fs.readFileSync(currentDir);
}

private read(name: string): void {
  const fullPath = path.join(handlers.config.obj.path, ...name.split('/'));
  const buffer = readCaseInsensitive(handlers.config.obj.path, name.replace(/\\/g, '/'));

  const fileEntriesCount: number = buffer.readInt32LE(0x8);
  const filesEntriesOffset: number = buffer.readInt32LE(0x10);

  for (let i = 0; i < fileEntriesCount; i++) {
    const fileEntryOffset = filesEntriesOffset + i * 16;
    const fileOffset = buffer.readUInt32LE(fileEntryOffset + 0x4);
    const fileSize = buffer.readUInt32LE(fileEntryOffset + 0x8);
    const file = buffer.subarray(fileOffset, fileOffset + fileSize);
    this.files.push(file);
  }
}

Thanks for the help ❤️

[tlplayer]

I ran it with bg1 since bg2 was modded. I got the screen and all the check marks were green. Then I tried control or command q and the screen wouldn't full screen. What is your linux setup that you've tested with? Maybe I can work backwards from there.

[gatperdut]

This couple of weeks things are a bit hectic, but I'll get back to you. In the meantime, some thoughts:

• I had never thought of running the win version under Linux. The linux and win versions have different offsets for some runtime structures, so this for sure won't work out of the box. But I think it can be achieved via a new configuration key, os, with values win32 or linux or null/auto, to force it. Worth investigating.
• The case insensitive approach sounds interesting, and it's probably necessary for the point above. Again, I'd allow the user to configure that via a caseSensitive key, values true/false.
• As for the accelBorderless not working, that's odd. My configuration was not very different to yours, just a different path mostly. Did you manage to open a character sheet with accelSheet? Some things to check that for sure are problematic:
  • Wayland gave me problems, are you windowing with that or X11?
  • Did you install wmctrl and xdotool?
  • Did you run linux_on.sh? (I assume so, because you mention all checks in green)

[gatperdut]

One other thing, if you haven't checked this out: might be a good alternative. See the post from argent77.
https://www.gibberlings3.net/forums/topic/28516-the-linux-users-guide-to-installing-mods-on-the-enhanced-editions/

[tlplayer]

I figured it out. I was missing xdotool. Once I ran these commands to check the error popped up. thanks!

Check install of tools to detect game while running

wmctrl -l | grep -i baldur
xdotool search --name "Baldur"
--This command came back with tool not installed, running sudo apt install xdotool fixed the issue. 

I think maybe failing if the xdotool is not detected might be useful

[gatperdut]

Awesome, will do a new release with all these things.

So you got it running? Accelerators respond and such?

[tlplayer]

I got BG1 unmodded to work and show character sheets very nice. BG2 has some weird stuff with bif files and when I was messing with BG2 while modded by renaming all the files to uppercase it corrupted some dialog.tlk and item descriptions went haywire. I've seen the mounting case insensitive disk solution before but I'm worried I'll mess it up or it won't work and frustrate me. It's also a lot to have a separate mount for things like this, so from a layman user POV it is probably too complex.

[BettaGeorge]

Not technically related to the issue, but @tlplayer the newest (beta, but stable) version of WeiDU adds native support for case-sensitive filesystems. I am running EET, SCS, and some other mods with it and have encountered no issues. No more tolower, no more ciopfs. (EET requires some light editing, but we have already opened a pull request to fix it in main.)