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Ok, CEO in game, access mask of 67108863 (all on all). I navigated the html listed in the access log, and here's the message I receive:

Well, since my active time is about to run out, I'll be posting here for until it reactivates.

I want to thank Hel O'Ween for his EVEWalletAware app.

It was the first app that managed saved my Wallet data.


That data would have otherwise been lost.


I don't have bug reports or any questions to share on here at this time.

As mentioned yesterday, I've finished EWA's database update to Rubicon. I alos updated the OP and the webseite to reflect the current version(s).

Hi there Hel O'Ween

I was just trying out EWA after a long break from EVE.

Everything in EWA seems to be working perfectly except the Market Orders: when I try to open them then I receive the message "0 market buy orders found." in the lower left hand corner (same for sell orders as well).

I checked and re-checked my API-key and it's definitely a full API and "Market Orders" are definitely available via that API-key (since they get displayed in other tools such as EVEMON).

Since I initially thought it was an API-caching issue I quit all other applications that are querying my API (EVEMON, apps on my phone etc.) and waited for about 4-5h but nothing has changed so far.

I also checked both the cached XML for market orders as well as the access DB of EWA but both do not contain any market orders what so ever. So it's not a display-problem but rather a problem with my API or a problem with the API-query or I'm simply a ****** (always possible).

I also checked the other obvious things like that I actually have market orders and am using the API-key for the correct account etc...

Lastly, I read the entire documentation in the hopes that I was doing something wrong but I couldn't find anything... is there some problem with the market orders in the current version? Or is it some classical case of ID10T error of some kind?

Thanks in advance for any ideas or advice you can give me...

Also, great work on the tool! I really like it!

Cheers,
Lianara Dayton

Thanks for the fast response.

First off: it's only personal market orders I'm interested in. I currently don't want to access any corp data.

All other personal data (assets, wallet transactions etc.) are working - it's literally only the market orders.

Sadly I didn't see your post early enough and had already deleted any application logs that may have been created during my initial test (see my steps below).

What I've tried since my last post is:

1.) create a completely new full API key, dedicated only for EWA (in case it was some problem with my old API key).

2.) clear the EWA DB ("Nuke Everything!")

2a.) this seems to be causing some problems for me. After "Nuke Everything" I restarted EWA, get the message that it's the first time I started it on this machine, click OK on the message (normally at this point the options window would appear) but I'm now getting a run time error:

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EVEWalletAware

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Run-time error '380':

Invalid property value

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OK

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3.) to resolve the above run time error I simply did a fresh install of EWA (deinstallation, delete any remaining files and fresh install) - after that I didn't get any more errors on start-up.

4.) in the options of EWA I entered my newly created full API key, set it as default, selected my character, saved it as default etc. just the same as I did this afternoon.

5.) i'm sadly still having the same issue - everything works (assets, wallet transactions etc.) but no market orders.

6.) i just checked the application logs and found an entry that sounds like an explanation for my problem:



For privacy reasons I removed my Key and Code from the above log entry. However, I checked both against my API-key & -code and they match (so it's not an issue that a false/invalid code & key are being used for the market order query - unless it's only correct in the application logs but wrong during the actual query or something like that).

I hope this helps to identify the problem!

Please let me know if you want me to test anything or if you want me to contact you directly so we can check it out in more detail.

Thanks in advance for your effort.

Cheers,
Lianara

Edit: after further testing I believe the problem is not the vCode but actually the option to set an API key for "All Characters" or only a single character on the account. See the post after this one for details.

Hi there

I just performed the test with the URL as you suggested.

I receive the following error:



I just deleted my old full API key that I was using for EWA (and the above test) so there's no harm in sharing it with you:

The URL was:
https://api.eveonline.com/char/MarketOrders.xml.aspx?keyID=3356835&vCode=dMsPuTx7m3BFYbJA8YPqqPG12Qs7bsZY13t3tud6LBO0UbLqIl5FtTfCJgrGoaTh

(obviously no longer working since that API key no longer exists)

As far as I can see there are no special characters in the vCode.

I then deleted the above API key and created a new full API and used:



as my new vCode and now my market orders are being correctly loaded and displayed in EWA!

However, I had set this latest API key up for only my trading character and not "All Characters" like during my previous tests - I think that's why it works now, not because of the simpler vCode. See the next post for details

Cheers,
Nialara

This helps a lot. I've never tried to create an API key for "All characters". My guess is that in that case I need to pass an additional parameter to the API to indicate for which char the request is made. I need to do some investigation on that matter.

[Added]


Scratch the above "My guess is ..."

The message you posted tells exactly this fact: for an "All char" key, the character needs to be specified. OK, now I do have to find out ho to check for "All char" keys and where to get the characterID from ...



Nope.

First and most importantly: the API doesn't deal with char names. It solely relies on the API keys

And second: I'm fully aware of potiential problems stemming from apostrophs in names, as my family name might indicate.

CCP delivered early, EWA's database has been updated to include the data for the upcoming Kronos 1.0 release.

Hmm, strange.

I'm using Win7 64 bit myself, so that's not an issue which prevents EWA' installation/usage.

You need to run the setup with administrative proviliges, of course.

And just to make sure the previous setup wasn't broken somehow, I recreated and uploaded it again.

P.S.
When downloading the blank database, if you wnat to use it with your current EWA installation, make sure you either edit the connecting string value in the INI to match the file name or rename the database included in that download from EVEWalletAwareDB.mdb to EVEWalletAware.mdb (not the missing "DB").

A standard EWA installation expects the database file to be named EVEWalletAware.mdb. While EWA's update routine uses the same blank DB provided for download, it handles the renaming thingie for you, of course.

Try Win XP compatibility mode instead, that also should do it.

Also, I'll tell you a secret: if you're fancy, you could

• Move the folder EVEWalletAware from C:\ProgramData to C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\Roaming\
• Edit the INI, section [Database] ...
Quote:

Connection string: Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\ProgramData\EVEWalletAware\DATA\EVEWalletAware.mdb;User Id=admin;Password=;


... to reflect the right databse location (C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\Roaming\DATA\EVEWalletAware.mdb)

• Start the application with the parameter /CurrentUser
• If you're using EWAAutoData as well, you must start it also with the parameter /CurrentUser

It'll then look for it's data in the user profile, which is more conform to Windows policies. I've got this in place for ages, but haven't found a clever way yet to move old EWA user's data to the new location ...