Countries like japan, italy and el salvador are not displaying for some reason...
Some released countries are not displaying like ukraine.

Related: #40, #12

I think the solution is to upload the image in art assets.

Adds more information to the end user.

This text doesn't provide which documents path. The objective of this issue is to provide a way to better show what the documents path is.

It is something like:

C:\Users\$USER\OneDrive\Documentos\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV

I think it should be "Playing hoi4" or something.

Maybe a good idea is to add some intelligence and display other things as well.

Game launches fine, however error messages appear and appears to be accessing wrong file-path, user profile is not called User? (e.g. "Users/User/etc." should be "Users/actualusername/etc."

Describe the bug

I think checkupdate isn't working somehow

We are having trouble when installing the presence with the new update 1.14.4.3.

We can't change the launcher-settings.json, this causes the presence to not update.
Error:

'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x90 in position 792: character maps to <undefined>

Possibly related: #36

Line in code:

Temporary solution

Change exePath in launcher-settings.json to:

"exePath": "./runRPC.bat",

I don't know if it's because of this mod called "The Road to 56" but is there any way to fix this to show the country your playing as?
I tried many ways to solve it maybe I am dumb lol I can't seem to find a solution. Cheers!

Adds more information to the end user.

start "hoi4RPC.exe" "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\hoi4Presence\checkupdate.exe"

This drive name is fixed and needs to change like setup.py changes the installation.

We fix this issue making setup.py rewrite this line and making it point to the exact location.

Both for presence path and checkupdate path

Create an setup.py that install all the files (batch and .exe and all with the dependencies) and configure the initialization automatically.

Basically, create a new workflow for when a release tag is created.

Like in:
https://github.com/marketplace/actions/automatic-releases#create-a-new-github-release-when-tags-are-pushed-to-the-repository

This will define a new tag "release" to be the most stable version.

Then checkupdate.py must be updated to reflect the new changes, it should check the version.json in the latest tag.

This workflow also needs to validate version.json, see #45 is also related.

summary

• Create the new workflow to trigger when a new version tag is created and auto set as the latest release
• Update checkupdate.py to see the latest tag
• Auto bump and validate version.json, related: #45

We can create, somehow, a github workflow to build the exe files and release the packages. This would create a CI/CD and make the release more easier.

Solving this issue first would be better-> #9

Discuss and implement how to automatically update the script.

To test if the presence is really working before merging.

It's one of the best mods in HOI4 and also one of the most played.

And also we have a wiki:

https://oldworldblues.wiki.gg/wiki/Nations

Finish the documentation...

Create an uninstaller to bring back the vanilla game.

See #2

In: https://github.com/ThiaudioTT/hoi4-presence/blob/main/src/discordRPC/main.py#L32

Does not need to be autosave.hoi4, it can be whatever the name is, just search for a recent file in that Dir.

Create an /docs folder and add documentations there OR

Elaborate repository Wiki.

Describe the bug
When executing hoi4rpc it says it

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Execute hoi4rpc.exe

Solution:

Adds psutil to requirements.txt

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50316358/error-no-module-named-psutil

The github actions doesnt have it, so it is building wrong.

We can set any image to large_image:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64417184/how-does-pypresence-work-where-do-i-get-the-image-key

Maybe we can upload the images on GitHub and use it as a source of flags instead of modifying in discord developer portal.

Before merge a PR.

it should:

verify branch main for version.json.

See if it is bumped, if yes -> ok to merge

For things like debug print and sys.exit.

Example of a code:

debug("Oopsie, I am silly, I made a bug")

This will print in console. (if debug mode) and pause for 1 second.

A debug mode

We need to have a debug mode to make it easier to develop and test it.
Like: auto save always new.

We could have different large_images showing when we don't have a country for it.

Images like:

• Some random printscreen of the gameplay
• Different icons

etc.

This will help with the release packages. Make a CMAKE/Makefile using batch, or something, to compile all the files in one folder.

When I get some error, the program exit it without any warning in some cases.

We need to find when and where this occurs and adds a time.sleep(10) (or other thing) to let the user know that we get an error.

Add checking if paths in installer are all valids.

If it isn't valid, ask the user to enter the path again.

Obs:
Checking if the path is valid isn't enough, we already do it. Check if the path contains the game and the others resources that the presence uses (if any) and asks the user until we find a real valid path.

Currently, the presence works perfectly only with the "main" countries.

Add all the others countries, as well their flags, use discord developer portal to see if the images are good.

It gives an error and then, exit.

Change checkupdate and add exceptions with time.sleep.

Write a program to check if updates are available.

This could help:

https://pypi.org/project/update-check/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12842693/python-check-for-updates-for-a-program

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72191474/how-to-update-software-made-with-python

version.json

{
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "auto-update": false
}

You can auto-update using HTTP or requesting the user to do it.