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A month or so ago, Techumseh asked me to come up with a means to change the 'skin' of ToT. By that he meant copy a set of City.bmp, CivWin_Back.bmp, and Dialog.bmp files into either the Original, SciFi, or Fantasy folder. Then he had the nerve to suggest keeping it open ended without hardcoding filenames.
That put it into seriously advanced batch programming or VB territory. Opting for the latter, I cobbled together something using VBA in Excel (yes, it requires Excel at the moment). If there is demand, I'll port it into regular VB.
To use,
download CivSkin02.zip and extract all files into the same directory (i.e. must keep the xls and bmp's in the same folder). The xls code should 
find where ToT is on your PC without your intervention.
From the opening screen:
That pops up a dialog.
You're done.
This is a beta.
Works on two of my PC's.
The gfx lack credits at the moment, but they come from Techumseh, Catfish, and myself.
Screenies coming up as soon as I remember how.
Would some brave soul test this for me?
A month or so ago, Techumseh asked me to come up with a means to change the 'skin' of ToT. By that he meant copy a set of City.bmp, CivWin_Back.bmp, and Dialog.bmp files into either the Original, SciFi, or Fantasy folder. Then he had the nerve to suggest keeping it open ended without hardcoding filenames.
That put it into seriously advanced batch programming or VB territory. Opting for the latter, I cobbled together something using VBA in Excel (yes, it requires Excel at the moment). If there is demand, I'll port it into regular VB.
To use,
download CivSkin02.zip and extract all files into the same directory (i.e. must keep the xls and bmp's in the same folder). The xls code should find where ToT is on your PC without your intervention.From the opening screen:
CivSkin v1.0
This program changes the 'skin' of "Civ2: Test of Time" by copying three files from a storage folder to the appropriate game folder: City.bmp, Dialog.bmp, & Civwin_back.bmp. Skins can be previewed before copying.
This program changes the 'skin' of "Civ2: Test of Time" by copying three files from a storage folder to the appropriate game folder: City.bmp, Dialog.bmp, & Civwin_back.bmp. Skins can be previewed before copying.
Directions
1. Edit path to ToT, if not correct.
2. Click "View and Choose Skins"
1. Edit path to ToT, if not correct.
2. Click "View and Choose Skins"
1. Select a skin set
2. Select game
3. Click "Load"
4. Click "Close"
5. Start ToT
2. Select game
3. Click "Load"
4. Click "Close"
5. Start ToT
This is a beta.
Works on two of my PC's. The gfx lack credits at the moment, but they come from Techumseh, Catfish, and myself.Screenies coming up as soon as I remember how.
Would some brave soul test this for me?
, I did finally install VB6 on my PC. Normally, it shouldn't be too hard to shift over to VB, but I haven't programmed in it for almost a decade 
. Let's first see whether the program is useful enough to put in the effort.
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