init.lua errors for latest stable and beta 4 releases

[humanspida]

Short description of the issue

After installing skin, restarting Rainmeter, loading the skin, opening settings and making changes to the size and number of frames to display, then inputting the Steam client path... my Steam username is automatically added at this point. No other settings changed. No other platforms or windows shortcuts are enabled for the skin, only Steam.
After saving and closing the settings - then refreshing, the skin throws an init.lua error and goes no further.

Expected behaviour was to load all the Steam games, which obviously didn't happen.

Lauhdutin version

Old Version 3.0.4 (with large grey settings window) - stopped working on 11 Sept' 2021, removed for latest stable

Version 3.0.4 (latest stable release) - didn't work, threw an error - provided below

Version 3.1.0 beta 4 - also didn't work, threw same error as stable, provided below

Rainmeter version

Version 4.5 (latest from website)

Python version

Version 3.9

Windows version

Windows 10 Pro 21H1 - Build 19043.1165

Error messages

Version 3.0.4 (old grey settings window) - only said "processing", no other details.

Version 3.0.4 (latest stable release) - init.lua:189: attempt to call method 'endsWith' (a nil value)

Version 3.1.0 beta 4 - init.lua:188: attempt to call method 'endsWith' (a nil value)

Steps to reproduce the issue

Not sure what's causing the issue to be honest. I only know from those init.lua errors that it's not finding what it wants in whichever lua file it's looking in and kacks itself when the information isn't present.
If it cant find the games that probably just means it doesn't know where my games are because they're not in the default location. Strange, this wans't an issue before.

Steam client is in the default location of C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam
Non-game programs from Steam are stored in the default location

Games are stored on a separate drive with the location of D:\Steam\Steamapps\Common
This hasn't changed in years.

I see no way to add another steam location to the skin settings anywhere though... How would I add an alternative location?

Not using community profile parsing, have it disabled.
Steam profile is all set to public anyway.

[humanspida]

Some added information that might help that I noticed was asked for on another, near 3 year old issue thread for games not displaying:

Have tried removing the \documents\Rainmeter\Skins\Lauhdutin@Resources\cache folder and refreshing skin / reloading Rainmeter.
Unsure if this is what fixed the init.lua error for the beta 4 release or not. Games still not displaying though obviously.

There are appmanifest files in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steamapps folder - but only for the 3 programs that are installed in that location.

There are also appmanifest files in the D:\Steam\Steamapps folder - which would be for the games themselves as those are stored on that drive, separately from the non-game steamapps in the default location.

I don't think renaming the appmanifest files is necessary as everything worked fine up till today without having to do that ever in the past.

games.json is empty aside from a single string:
{"games":[],"version":2,"tagsDictionary":[]}

[Nathipha]

Getting the same error. There was a big-ish Steam update yesterday (download queue looks different) and I'm worried that they changed something that the skin relies on. :/
I did also add a couple of non-Steam shortcuts myself but those don't show up either, unless I close the skin through Rainmeter, then open it again.

[humanspida]

Yes, now that you mention it, I remember opening the Steam client and seeing that the whole layout / look had changed rather dramatically and that's a recent change.
It's entirely possible that they have changed how certain data is processed and accessed now.

Hopefully the skins most talented author can provide some tips on how to fix this or if that's not something we can do - update the skin to fix it for us from that end.

[BanCrash]

What Steam version do you have? @humanspida @Nathipha

I tried a fresh install of Lauhdutin and I'm not getting any issue of getting all my steam games (both installed and uninstalled) with the last Lauhdutin beta.

I have this steam version:

EDIT: also not having any kind of issue in my used version.

EDIT2:

Only Steam selected on the fresh install, as you stated. This is what I get.

[humanspida]

I have same version of Steam, literally identical.

I get black bar with the words 'No games to show' on the left side

[BanCrash]

I have same version of Steam, literally identical.

I get black bar with the words 'No games to show' on the left side

Could you open filter.ini and check what do you get? I am interested on the "hidden games" part. Maybe your issue is that your games are detected as hidden games?

[Nathipha]

Yes, that's my Steam version too. Lauhdutin is version 3.1.0 beta 4.
I did hide a bunch of Steam games, checking the ini in a second.

Edit: My Filter.ini hasn't been edited since 2018 (according to Windows' file explorer) and I'm not sure what to look for tbh (there's not "hidden games" part).

[humanspida]

oh wait... i clicked detect games and it spat the init.lua error at me again so I dont think opening the filter .ini is going to give me anything to work with...

That said... the filter.ini does have a line that points to an init.lua file and thats the error im getting init.lua:188: attempt to call method 'endsWith' (a nil value)

I ran the .ini file and cleared all filters, nothing. thats when I tried to detect games and got the init.lua error again

[BanCrash]

Sorry guys, you misunderstood me. I mean to open the Filter skin, you can also do it on the toolbar.

I mean, this:

and check if your games are being detected as "hidden games"

[humanspida]

no filters in play

only poxy init.lua:188: attempt to call method 'endsWith' (a nil value)

which would perhaps help... IF IT TOLD ME which bloody init.lua file it was because theres more than one init.lua and they're in different folders

What that DOES tell me is that on line 188 is where the issue is - obviously not finding the data it wants there

[Nathipha]

Oh sorry. The filter doesn't display anything, it just says "Filter" and the bottom part is empty. I tried to scroll down and the filter window displayed a different error:
Error: init.lua:804: attempt to compare nil with number

@BanCrash Btw, thanks for looking into this! Sorry, I didn't see your last message in the other thread about looking at stuff.

@humanspida Before this error started appearing I kept getting a different lua error every time I started up my PC and I had to do "Reload Games" every time to actually display any games.

[humanspida]

same behaviour with my filter window if i launch it now i have the init.lua error on the bar

[BanCrash]

no filters in play

only poxy init.lua:188: attempt to call method 'endsWith' (a nil value)

which would perhaps help... IF IT TOLD ME which bloody init.lua file it was because theres more than one init.lua and they're in different folders

What that DOES tell me is that on line 188 is where the issue is - obviously not finding the data it wants there

Here you go, checking with notepad is easy to check what line is getting you the error:

This is part of the getLibraries function of Steam:

So yeah, there seems to be some kind of error with Steam in your case. Odd...

Let me think about it a little and see if I can think of something to test if we can know what is not working.

EDIT: The file is Lauhdutin@Resources\main\platforms\steam\init.lua

[humanspida]

thanks for pinpointing the specific init.lua file, at least that's some small step farward... we know what file is kicking the error out and where it is now.

[BanCrash]

Ok @Nathipha @humanspida , let's try this little change:

if value and value:endsWith('\\') then

on the line 188 of the file that I pointed before.

EDIT: Be carerul, Github removes one of the backlash! now it's fixed