Quick Fix for Upgrade Issue

Message from DoctorGibbs

After the August, 2004, upgrade (version 2.12 to 2.15), many There/Perl scripts, including the ever popular Automagical Costume Changer, won't work without the simple fix described here.

The problem is very simple: The main There window used to have the title "There". Now, it has a different title. On my computer it is "There (DX8)", but it might be different on other computers. Since the Automagical Costume Changer needs to know what window to send your costumes to ;) it needs to know the title of your There window.

(For experts, actually, the main thing it needs the There window title for is to send it a SHIFT-CTRL-L and activate the localhost:9999 server.)

Anyway here is the quick fix to restore your Automagical Costume Changer to working order:

  1. Log on to There. If necessary, put it in windowed (not full-screen) mode by clicking on the appropriate box at the upper right of the screen.
  2. You should now see a title bar at the very top of your main There screen. Write down exactly the title. It might be "There (OGL)" (without the quotes) or "There (DX8)" or it might be something else.
  3. Locate on your computer the file TherePerlSubs.pl . If you installed the Automagical Costume Changer in the normal way, it should be in C:\Program Files\DoctorGibbs\ThereOutfits .
  4. Open TherePerlSubs.pl with a plain text editor like Wordpad or Notepad, but NOT with Microsoft Word.
  5. About 7 lines down, you will see the line
    if ($title eq "There") { return $_;}
    Change this to
    if ($title eq "There (OGL)") { return $_;}
    or whatever you wrote down in step 2, EXACTLY.
  6. Save TherePerlSubs.pl and exit the editor.
  7. That's it! Everything should work now!
When I have a chance, I'll update the installation files, but I haven't done so yet.

Good luck to all!

Dr. G.