me_aircraft.lua constantly causing ME to hang

[Nealius]

The past couple days I've been making missions in 2.5, and today I went back to edit some. Edit one, save. Edit the next, save. Open the next mission, and it will hang. Restart DCS. Rinse and repeat. I can only save one or two missions before the program gets belligerent.

 

This only appears to happen if I edit Advanced Waypoint functions of the KC130. Earlier today I edited the exact same 14 missions in one sitting with absolutely no errors. Then this evening when I started editing the KC130 is those same 14 missions, I started having problems.

 

Offending portion of the log:

 

2018-02-05 10:27:47.922 ALERT LUACOMMON: Error: GUI Error: [string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_aircraft.lua"]:2083: attempt to index field 'group' (a nil value)

GUI debug.traceback: stack traceback:

[C]: ?

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_aircraft.lua"]:2083: in function 'onSpinUnitOf'

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_aircraft.lua"]:1716: in function 'verifySingleInFlight'

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_aircraft.lua"]:738: in function 'changeType'

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_aircraft.lua"]:1189: in function 'setType'

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_aircraft.lua"]:1084: in function 'changeCountry'

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_aircraft.lua"]:1568: in function 'fillCountries'

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_aircraft.lua"]:1522: in function 'updateCountries'

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_mission.lua"]:1496: in function 'load'

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_toolbar.lua"]:666: in function 'func'

[string "./MissionEditor/modules/me_wait_screen.lua"]:72: in function 'updater'

[string "./Scripts/UpdateManager.lua"]:64: in function <[string "./Scripts/UpdateManager.lua"]:40>

2018-02-05 10:29:51.434 INFO EDCORE: (dDispatcher)enterToState_:5

Edited February 5, 2018 by Nealius

[BIGNEWY]

Hi Nealius

 

I have tried to reproduce but was unable, do you remember which advanced waypoint action combination was creating the problem?

 

It may be worth removing any unofficial mods ( if any ) and doing a cleanup and repair

[Nealius]

This particular time it was moving the "rank" of the TACAN frequency. Before editing it was:

 

1. Tanker

2. Orbit

3. Activate TACAN

4. Set frequency

 

My edit was simply moving the TACAN command up to 2. I was having similar problems with 1.5.8 as well, however 2.2 never displayed this problem at all.

 

Here's one of the mission files for reference.