Another embarassing error

So I finally found someone that had an error that I could play with. Armorvil was kind enough to send me his kernel2.bin that wasn't loading correctly. Well, WM wasn't loading it correctly at any rate. He thought it was weird that once WM failed to load it, the original text would still be displayed. Indeed it is a bit strange, but that's because it's already loaded the text from the KERNEL.BIN that the PSX uses. So if it tries to load kernel2.bin and fails, WM will use the KERNEL.BIN text that it keeps handy. Pretty neat, huh? :)

Anyway, what the problem really was is that the buffer I had allocated for uncompressed file size wasn't large enough for the text he had compressed. I try to dynamically allocate memory so not to use too much or too little so I just set the uncompressed buffer to twice the compressed file's size. Not a bad theory, but his compression ratio was GREATER than 2:1! That means the resultant uncompressed file is MORE than twice the size of the compressed one so the buffer I had allocated to hold it was no longer large enough. Bummer. Since I know now that the normal limit for uncompressed text in FFVII.exe is 27K (refer to previous entry) then I set the size to 32K (since I know that Aali's customizations allow for larger text sizes).

Also, I've been getting complaints that after lots of editing, sometimes the text will get jumbled and confused with other texts. I believe this is a problem with the way I'm compressing text on listboxes. So if you had.....something like... aww, heck with it. I have no idea what it thinks it's doing. It changed

Cotton Dress
Satin Dress
Silk Dress
Wig
Dyed Wig
Blonde Wig
Glass Tiara
Ruby Tiara
Diamond Tiara
Cologne
Flower cologne
Sexy Cologne
Member's Card

into:

Cotton Dress
Satin Dress
Silk Dress
Wig
Dyed Wig
Blonde Wig
Glass Tiara
Ruby Tiara
Diamond Tiara
Colog lower colog Sexy Colog Member's Card
lower colog Sexy Colog Member's Card
Sexy Cologne Member's Card
Member's Card

If anyone has an explanation or theory as to how "ne\n" gets changed into " " let me know.