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[Askot Bokbondeler]

Help window doesn't seem to be opening. 
Also, how do I access the part of this program where it sorts inorganics?

the program is in alpha. it is likelly that those features haven't been implemented yet

hey look, a ninja

updated download?

Not yet, ran in to some bugs last night.  It's not quite where I want it to be yet.

ok, best luck with that

[BradUffner]

The inorganic stuff is under the tools menu.

...Which seems to be broken in the current build... <sigh>Add one more bug to my list.
Sorry about that.

[BradUffner]

The first Beta version has been released!  Get Beta 1 from the first post.

Things finally seemed stable enough, and enough features exist to actually move Raw Explorer from Alpha to Beta Stage.

[BradUffner]

Ehh.. You may want to hold off on the update for a sec. I just found a pretty major bug.  I'll have it fixed in a few minutes.

[BradUffner]

Ok, Beta 1.1 is up. This will fix the crash that happens after opening some of the dialogs and then trying to edit the object that was displayed from before the dialog.

[Markus]

Impressive work, sir. I applaud your fine effort.

Now, to MOD some more!

[Askot Bokbondeler]

deleting objects isn't working for me

[BradUffner]

deleting objects isn't working for me

Fixed in beta 1.2, which I just uploaded.

*update*
In case anyone hasn't noticed, the menu to update token definitions has moved from Help to Tools.  I think it makes more sense there.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

fantastic! thanks

edit: what's a gump?

[BradUffner]

fantastic! thanks

edit: what's a gump?

"Gump" comes from the old MMO "Ultima Online".  Gumps where little visual forms that the server could send to the client for things like menus and buttons and other UI stuff.  I wrote a program for people who ran Server Emulators to help them design gumps without having to look at the ugly text code.  In a lot of ways Gump Studio is a lot like Raw Explorer in what it does.  I bought the domain name Gumpstudio so that I could host the project there.  I've been hosting all my other stuff there since it's the only domain I own.

[Webcarrots]

Help window doesn't seem to be opening. 
Also, how do I access the part of this program where it sorts inorganics?

The Help menu is just a place holder until I can actually write some documentation.  There may be some other buttons and menus scattered around that don't function yet either.  The inorganic stuff is under the tools menu.

Thanks for replying. And jeez you update fast! Adding and removing is in! This was the bit I was waiting for! Thanks for this program, I think it'll make modding DF a lot easier. 

[BradUffner]

The next version will include batch scripting.  You will be able to run 2 different kinds of scripts, the first works at the library level, the 2nd works on specific selected objects only.

Scripts will be stored as text files in the "Scripts" folder, which will be read out when the program starts and will show up as a menu.  They can be organized by sub folder, and the script menu will mimic it's layout with submenus.

This is an example of a script that can be run on an entire library to remove the aquifers from the game.

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imports RawExplorer
public class Script
  public sub Run(library as RawLibrary)
    for each obj as RawObject in library.getAllObjects
      obj.removeToken("AQUIFER")
    next
  end sub
end class


I'm still working out the details, so things will probably change slightly. For those of you familiar with it, this script is indeed written in VB.NET, I plan to also support C#.  I originally tried both LUA and Javascript, but couldn't get it working the way I wanted.

It'll probably be a few days yet before I have this working the way I want and get all the bugs worked out, but I'll be posting updates and snippets of scripts to use as examples of doing different things.

[BradUffner]

Final form of a script in vb.net to remove the aquifer tokens:

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imports RawExplorer

public class Script
inherits ScriptBase
public overrides sub runGlobalScript(library as RawLibrary)
for each obj as RawObject in library.getAllObjects()
obj.removeToken("AQUIFER")
next
end sub
end class

Same script in C#:

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using RawExplorer;

public class Script : ScriptBase
{
public override void runGlobalScript(RawLibrary library)
{
foreach (RawObject obj in library.getAllObjects) {
obj.removeToken("AQUIFER");
}
}
}


Each script can override "runGlobalSCript", "runBatchScript", or both.  runGlobalScript is run once each time the script is run, before runBatchScript is called.  runBatchScript is called once per object in the batch of selected objects.  Both function are passed a reference to the RawLibrary that has all of the objects and sources in it so that you can do things like add or remove objects from the library, or mess with all of the objects in some way. runBatchScript is passed a reference to one RawObject each time it's called, as well as a reference to the RawLibrary that it's in.

You will be able to make full use of the .net framework and call any public classes that RawExplorer has defined internally as well as any public methods on them.  You should be able to do almost anything with this, from popping of dialogs and prompting for input on what actions to take to reading and writing files.

[Reudh]

I'm downloading the actual program now. YAYAYAYAYAYAY!


Well done brad on making it to Beta!

[Jeoshua]

I've spent some considerable amount of time editing the token definitions and uploading them to the database.  There's quite a lot missing and I've been focusing on the creatures.

I hope I've put stuff in the correct format, but looking through I notice that there needs to be a definition of subtypes for Creatures.  There are two subtypes of creature token:

CREATURE:CREATURE
CREATURE:CASTE

This needs to be sorted out, so that we can place caste tokens below and as children of their respective castes.

Also, I'm having some trouble in figuring out how to define the [BODY: token.  It takes a list of body parts, but I don't know where to tell the program to find these parts, or how to tell the program that the list can be ANY size, and contain any valid name data for those body parts.

And, as a feature request, I would like to be able to put the application focus on the list at the right, then type in the name of something and have it come up.  You know, like Windows Explorer or one of a myriad of user interfaces that use this kind of lookup.