Export process corrupts .paa image files

[OfficialStamper]

When exporting project to arma folders, any .paa image files copied get corrupted and arma will not load them giving the following errors in .rpt file:

10:55:50 Bad DXT2-5 mipmap size
10:55:50 Size out of range

[Krzmbrzl]

Maybe this has something to do with #146. Could you check whether the .paa files are valid after they have been imported into the workspace (e.g. by manually copying it into a mission folder from there and try to load it in Arma)?

[OfficialStamper]

I am trying to @preserve folders containing any image files without success. Can what is the correct syntax?

e.g Folder structure:
\resources\img

@preserve "resource"
or
@preserve "resource\"
or
@preserve "resource\*"

Help! ;)

[OfficialStamper]

Maybe this has something to do with #146. Could you check whether the .paa files are valid after they have been imported into the workspace (e.g. by manually copying it into a mission folder from there and try to load it in Arma)?

Yes, the files within the eclipse project are valid. Using Arma 3 Tools | texview2 correctly displays the image. However, any .paa exported via SQDev cannot be viewed using the same method.

After export, my only option is to completely shut down arma (I think it caches the .paa somewhere), manually replace the .paa files outside of eclipse, restart Arma.

n.b. the links in #146 are broken.

[Krzmbrzl]

If you want to use regular expressions for the @preserve attribute, you have to prefix the expression:

SQDev/plugin/Raven.SQDev.Util/src/raven/sqdev/sqdevFile/ESQDevFileAnnotation.java

Lines 237 to 244 in 1261f31

	if (currentValue.startsWith(REGEX_PREFIX)) {
	// the value is to be interpreted as a regular expression
	// remove the prefix though
	currentValue = currentValue.substring(REGEX_PREFIX.length());
	} else {
	// quote the input as it must not be interpreted as a regular expression
	currentValue = Pattern.quote(currentValue);
	}

The respective prefix being <RegEx>

SQDev/plugin/Raven.SQDev.Util/src/raven/sqdev/sqdevFile/ESQDevFileAnnotation.java

Line 377 in 1261f31

public static final String REGEX_PREFIX = "<RegEx>";

If not the name of the folder to be preserved should suffice. Note however that this only prevents the folder from being deleted but not from being overwritten. In order to achieve both, you have to preserve the folder in the target-dir (as you already did) and ignore the folder in the workspace when exporting the project via the @ignore attribute. That should do the trick.

Yes, the files within the eclipse project are valid. Using Arma 3 Tools | texview2 correctly displays the image. However, any .paa exported via SQDev cannot be viewed using the same method.

Hm alright... That's very weird though. I am using Java's Files.copy method to copy files around.

SQDev/plugin/Raven.SQDev.Misc/src/raven/sqdev/misc/FileSystemUtil.java

Line 355 in 1261f31

Files.copy(file.toPath(), targetFile.toPath(), new CopyOption[] { StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING });

and I assumed that this shouldn't change the copied files.
And since you are trying RegExes in the attributes, I assume you are on the dev-build of the plugin?
If not then I think this is indeed a duplicate of the referenced issue. In that case I'd advise you to get the latest dev-build available through the SQDev-Discord in #testing (its pinned to the channel)

[OfficialStamper]

@Krzmbrzl I'm using 0.7.7 from the Releases tab, I suspect that is not your dev branch.

I do not see a dev branch, only Master, gh-pages and plugin.

If there is another version other than 0.7.7 that I could use, please advice. Happy to give feedback.

[Krzmbrzl]

Ah yeah that could be the problem then. As I wrote above the dev-version can only be downloaded via Discord from the #testing channel

[OfficialStamper]

[note to self, always read the small print]

Yup, got your Dev from Discord, installing now. Will let you know, thanks for the quick and great response.