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General Chat / A solution to Mickeys pain-in-the-ass ini scripting!
« on: July 09, 2007, 11:59:17 am »
So. For all of you that have tried to create a server and failed just because the ini scripting was so damn awkward... I felt the same.
So I made a program for it.
And here it is... out for beta testing. This means that it DOES still have bugs. Thats the main reason for me posting this...
Post any bugs, questions, suggests, insults here
Basic Tutorial:
1. You absolutely have to have item.ini (even a blank one) loaded BEFORE any of the controls work. - this really is done on purpose
2. When you push load file, I strongly suggest that you load item.ini and only item.ini... or you will be message-boxed to death.
3. ItemEditor.exe needs to be in the same file as groups.txt and the folder backups
4. Preferences.txt will be created the first time that you run the program. Initially, it will be set to the applications path, but when you load item.ini and the picture folder, these files will come up as default next time. Preferences.txt also holds the backup preference. File>Backup will backup item.ini to a folder called backup followed by the timestamp ending in .bkp. If you uncheck this, it will remain unchecked, but I strongly suggest that you leave it checked and delete old backups. This will prevent any of your errors and any program errors (remember, it IS a beta) from completely screwing up your item.ini.
5. The picture file is the .files folder with the item#.bmp files that you wish to use with your item.ini.
6. The dot checker is a function that will show you the image on a black background so you can edit out any white dots that you see (only use if you edit item#.bmps)
7. Creating new items - if there are no blank spaces in the main list that you can create a new item with, use the resize command. If you go below the value that shows up in the input box, item data will be deleted. Fortunately, there are backups However, do not enter a value too high, as this may eat up memory.
8. You can't change the item number in the text box. Use the list box or search box to select an item.
9. The item.ini text showing up in the text box is only for preview. Editing in this box will do nothing... its just easier to look at all the properties than to select each property individually.
10. Be sure to enter the proper data type (string or integer) for each text box. It does change, and I believe that I put error catchers on all of them. So if you get the message Type Mismatch - thats what it means.
11. Recover Item only works if you have not pushed save item yet.
12. Reload text is redundant at the moment.
DISCLAIMER- This program should not harm your computer or cause any data loss (unless you're a retard). Thus, it is NOT my fault or RpgwoForums fault if this happens. Download at your own risk.
Enjoy
(and i was kidding about the insults...)
So I made a program for it.
And here it is... out for beta testing. This means that it DOES still have bugs. Thats the main reason for me posting this...
Post any bugs, questions, suggests, insults here
Basic Tutorial:
1. You absolutely have to have item.ini (even a blank one) loaded BEFORE any of the controls work. - this really is done on purpose
2. When you push load file, I strongly suggest that you load item.ini and only item.ini... or you will be message-boxed to death.
3. ItemEditor.exe needs to be in the same file as groups.txt and the folder backups
4. Preferences.txt will be created the first time that you run the program. Initially, it will be set to the applications path, but when you load item.ini and the picture folder, these files will come up as default next time. Preferences.txt also holds the backup preference. File>Backup will backup item.ini to a folder called backup followed by the timestamp ending in .bkp. If you uncheck this, it will remain unchecked, but I strongly suggest that you leave it checked and delete old backups. This will prevent any of your errors and any program errors (remember, it IS a beta) from completely screwing up your item.ini.
5. The picture file is the .files folder with the item#.bmp files that you wish to use with your item.ini.
6. The dot checker is a function that will show you the image on a black background so you can edit out any white dots that you see (only use if you edit item#.bmps)
7. Creating new items - if there are no blank spaces in the main list that you can create a new item with, use the resize command. If you go below the value that shows up in the input box, item data will be deleted. Fortunately, there are backups However, do not enter a value too high, as this may eat up memory.
8. You can't change the item number in the text box. Use the list box or search box to select an item.
9. The item.ini text showing up in the text box is only for preview. Editing in this box will do nothing... its just easier to look at all the properties than to select each property individually.
10. Be sure to enter the proper data type (string or integer) for each text box. It does change, and I believe that I put error catchers on all of them. So if you get the message Type Mismatch - thats what it means.
11. Recover Item only works if you have not pushed save item yet.
12. Reload text is redundant at the moment.
DISCLAIMER- This program should not harm your computer or cause any data loss (unless you're a retard). Thus, it is NOT my fault or RpgwoForums fault if this happens. Download at your own risk.
Enjoy
(and i was kidding about the insults...)