Startup Problemes

[bovi]

I'm sorry, but I don't know just how the Trivial Script works. It's never worked for me, but apparently many get it to work. You should be able to use the shortcut.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Ok here are the basics from how I understood 'em (note I did not write the Trivial Script):

Some General Stuff:
Each of those so-called shortcuts under Windows are made up of two parts:
(1) The program to launch and any optional arguments to it: this is the target.
(2) Where the program is supposed to think it is (current working directory, pwd): this is what start in refers to.

(2) Is important because it influences how opening files works: opening file test.txt when your current working directory is X:\Test results in opening X:\Test\test.txt; opening file test.txt when your current directory is C:\Test results in opening C:\Test\test.txt.

Trivial Script Specific Stuff:

(1) The trivial script is basically an interpreter being fed an XML file. This is done by passing the file name after the -s argument in the target of your shortcut:
P:\ath\to\TrivialScript.exe -s scriptname.xml
For EB the script is called ebconfig.xml; so it becomes something like C:\Program Files\Europa Barbarorum\TrivialScript.exe -s ebconfig.xml
(2) For this to work the current working directory must be the directory in which the script resides -- and due to what is written in that ebconfig.xml file it must also be the directory which contains your RTW.exe ...

So the shorcut ends up looking like:
Target: P:\ath\to\TrivialScript.exe -s ebconfig.xml
StartIn: P:\ath\to\your\RTW\folder

Say Trivial Script is installed in C:\Program Files\Europa Barbarorum\ and EB is installed in C:\Users\John Doe\Games\RTW\

Then the shortcut becomes:

Target: C:\Program Files\Europa Barbarorum\TrivialScript.exe -s ebconfig.xml
StartIn: C:\Users\John Doe\Games\RTW

Note to Bovi:

It has worked for you too. You may want to look up the very first alpha/beta builds we got to test when EB 1 was still called Polymorph I think.

[bovi]

Oh. I guess you're right, that was before I tried to install it.