Problem with this timer - error message

Posted by Rjak on Wed 28 Jul 2004 02:28 PM — 2 posts, 12,526 views.

Romania #0
OK. I have this timer, is working, but each time I open timers menu i got this error message: "Not a valid base64 string - incorect lenght (not mode 4)"
Like i said, the timer is working, here are the contents; it s once at 2 mins
save
wake
stand
drink barrel
get steak all.exo
eat steak
put steak exo
sneak
avoid
mindboost
harden
e
s
e
fill barrel fountain
w
n
w
avoid
sleep

What's wrong with the trigger? is too long?
Thanks Rjak
Australia Forum Administrator #1
I can't reproduce this on that timer, however what I think might be happening is the stuff you have on your clipboard.

MUSHclient tries to decode the clipboard when you open the timers menu to see if you have an XML string on it, so it can enable the "paste" button. Under certain rather obscure circumstances it will pass its first test but fail its second, which accounts for the error message.

The specific circumstances are that you have a form-feed character on the clipboard, (hex 0C) and that the clipboard contains only the letters A-Z and/or the characters "+", "/", and "=", and that *including* any form-feed characters the number of characters on the clipboard is mod 4 (divisible by 4) but without the form-feed characters the number of characters is not mod 4. The problem will also occur if you have a vertical-tab character on the clipboard (hex 0B).

This will be fixed in the next version, for now copying something else to the clipboard should fix it.