Replacement for Modswapper

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by The Big Mc
I have a question how the hell do you change the daters on a mod I can change them in a scenario but not in a mod.

Daters? What do you mean by daters?

[The Big Mc]

dates you no the 3000bc to what ever dates.

[Pedrunn]

Big Mc, you do realize that you can change the dates through the DiffDB.txt right?

[The Big Mc]

yah but i can't find the file with the dates in it.

[J Bytheway]

Do you mean the kind of alterations you make with turnlength.txt? I believe that is impossible except in scenarios.

[The Big Mc]

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[Martin GĂĽhmann]

Originally posted by J Bytheway
I'm trying to replicate the behaviour of ModSwapper in its copying of files, but what I'd like to know is how it handles different language versions? What paths does it copy from/to for the mods' versions of Great_Library.txt? Is this always english, or does it vary?

No it is not always english it depends on the content of your civpath.txt, here is mine for example:

.
setup\data\max\ctp_data\videos
default
german
..\..\ctp2_data
..\..\scenarios
.\save
games
queues
mp
scen
maps
clips
gamedata
gamedata
aidata
uidata
uidata\layouts
uidata\fonts
graphics
graphics\sprites
graphics\tiles
graphics\patterns
graphics\pictures
graphics\icons
graphics\cursors
sound
videos

That's the file to look it up how the language folder is named.

-Martin

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by Martin GĂĽhmann
No it is not always english it depends on the content of your civpath.txt, here is mine for example:

So it copies both from and to the language folder there specified? Presumably that means that you have to copy all the files across when you install a mod with only english files?

[Martin GĂĽhmann]

Originally posted by J Bytheway
So it copies both from and to the language folder there specified? Presumably that means that you have to copy all the files across when you install a mod with only english files?

Yes, if you don't have the English version of the game and you have a mod that is not in your language then you have to copy the files on your own to the right location.

[J Bytheway]

Celebration!

For the first time I actually got some mods to appear in my program! And the first thing I discover is that my list box is not nearly big enough . This deserves a screenshot.

Although (as you can see) you have the option to change language, it is initially selected automatically from civpaths.txt, so don't worry about that - I'm trying to make this newbie-friendly and moderately-competant-person-proof (I'd never aspire to fool-proof), which are things at which my programs rarely succeed...

I'm at 1829 lines of code and counting... I didn't think I'd need quite that many, and it'll be longer before it's done. However, considering CTPEd has ~10,000 lines I guess this is still pretty small by comparison... My contemporary Computer Scientists seem to be churning out thousands of lines every day at the moment .

[Peter Triggs]

Looking good, John.

[Pedrunn]

Originally posted by J Bytheway
However, considering CTPEd has ~10,000 lines

And i thought I wasa big-shot by making the city expansion 1,630 slic code. How prepotent

BTW, looks great indeed. Infinite times better than I had imagined with all this new functions

[J Bytheway]

Pedrunn: I bet 1600 lines of SLIC are harder to debug than even 10,000 lines of Visual Basic .

Another random and probably unimportant question:

Would people prefer this if it appears centre screen or in the Windows default position?

[Immortal Wombat]

The LOTR slic I just finished has about 3000 lines. About 2/5 of that is messageboxes.

But I'd still rather that than any vB. Good job, John.

*Centrescreen

[J Bytheway]

OK, here's a preliminary version. It seems to at least do everything that ModSwapper does and all the obvious further options, but I have yet to test all the advanced stuff that mods are supposedly able to do (since none of the mods that currently exist utilise these features, for obvious reasons, and I'm going to have to make some up to test them).

Have a go and tell me what you think, especially anything which isn't obvious or self-explanatory.

I've provided a minimal readme (basically it only tells you the command line options so that you can create shortcuts for your favorite mods), and a sample mod definition file showing off all the other features (the ones which I haven't tested yet, but feel free to do so yourself )

Either unzip into your main CTP2 directory and run it from there, or else look in the readme to see how you can specify the CTP2 path on the command line.

This is just the executable, and that should be OK for most people since I used only standard Windows Common Controls, but if you're missing .ocx (likely with Windows 95 or 98) files you can get the relevant ones here.

(Incidentally, it totals 2287 lines now)

I hope this doesn't screw up too many peoples' installation's .

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