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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Solatar on July 21, 2005, 06:30:01 pm
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For a couple years now, I've been using Araneae (http://www.ornj.net/software/araneae/) as a text editor and HTML editor because it highlights HTML tags. With the release of their new version, it's possible to create custom file types with customized ways of highlighting things. I like this program, because of all I think it has to offer. Therefore, I've taken the liberty of doing an addon with Volition Table files (the skill to do this required nothing more than XML editing...).
The Program (http://www.ornj.net/software/araneae/) (obviously, I didn't write the program, I just added some stuff to the Extensions folder).
Go to the Araneae public download forum. If you find any bugs in the program, go ahead and post them there so that you can help them out.:)
EDIT: Link edited per request.
The Files (http://www.geocities.com/mpkerrigan/vtable.zip)
Stick all three of these in the Extensions folder found in the main program directory. You should be able to select Volition Table File from File>Document Type.
A screen:
(http://www.geocities.com/mpkerrigan/screeny.jpg)
I'd also pimp this program to anybody doing HTML editing...
Again, all I've done is make copies of three files, and then edit them to highlight stuff found in table files.
Known bugs:
@ to : is supposed to be highlighted (for weapons.tbl stuff), but if weapon names have @ in front of them, it highlights the weapon name plus half of the line below it (until it hits a : )
If anybody likes this...enjoy. Took me only a little while to do, but I figured I'd share the wealth.
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Downloaded, set up, and given a quick test. I noted that the install says that it expires at the end of this month. I assume a new build will be available after that?
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The final release of the program is supposed to be after this expires. I haven't seen anything that says it's not free, so I'm assuming it'll work just like this (the last version of Araneae has always been free, with an option to voluntarily register that provides no benefits except a nice gesture to the programmer (not a bad thing..)).
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Here, I'll do it so no one else has to:
:necro:
I'm sorry, but I have to bump this instead of starting a new thread. I still use this for table editing, although with Araneae 5 it was always giving an error. Turns out that the vtable.clips file needs a small change to it. The opening and closing araneaelibrary tags need to be changed to <araneaeclips version="1.0"> and </araneaeclips>, respectively. I still recommend this to anyone doing a lot of table editing, and if anyone else can figure out how to make it address the bugs that would be great. The only thing I'd rather see is a similar plugin for Notepad++ since it's typically my editor of choice, and is still being updated.
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i use notepad++, aside from tables and mission files, it marks up lua, c and c++, html and pretty much any language you can come up with. it also has more features than you can shake a stick at.
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i use notepad++, aside from tables and mission files, it marks up lua, c and c++, html and pretty much any language you can come up with. it also has more features than you can shake a stick at.
Same.
Just wish they'd throw a Linux release out there. :(