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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Mobius on May 29, 2009, 05:41:52 pm

Title: MetalDestroyer's Table Editor
Post by: Mobius on May 29, 2009, 05:41:52 pm

I remember a WIP editor/creator by MetalDestroyer. It was mentioned on the HLP news 3-4 years ago (dudes, I really miss the old home page :(), but it's been a while since I last heard of it.

What's the status on that interesting tool? I also remember people claiming that it would have been a very nice program for the community. :)

Title: Re: MetalDestroyer's Table Editor
Post by: Droid803 on May 29, 2009, 05:46:44 pm

Table editing is simple enough by itself though, and an editor with a full GUI (like drop down menus and stuff), might just be excessive.

If it's just a parser that tells you if something is off (in real-time, like some HTML editors do), though. Hell yes, that'd be nice.

Title: Re: MetalDestroyer's Table Editor
Post by: Mobius on May 29, 2009, 05:48:25 pm

Table editing is known to be relatively simple, but a dedicated editor would surely be a valid tool. :)

Title: Re: MetalDestroyer's Table Editor
Post by: Scooby_Doo on May 29, 2009, 07:03:09 pm

I've been playing around and started some work on an editor, mostly to refresh my C# knowledge, I'm getting rather stale at programming.  I'm aiming for xml templates to connect the tool with the table setup (i.e. any additional $entries can be entered into the xml file and it should handle it).  That should help with error checking

Who knows if it'll ever see the light of day or when.

Title: Re: MetalDestroyer's Table Editor
Post by: Dragon on May 30, 2009, 04:24:58 am

It would be nice to have the table editor with error checker and full GUI ,it will just make things easier.
And I think you can do something that enables you to select FSO build you're using and check which features are available in it.
(that means you will be able to use it with all FSO versions ,as well as with retail)

Title: Re: MetalDestroyer's Table Editor
Post by: MetalDestroyer on May 30, 2009, 05:24:23 am

Well, I stopped the development ^^ since I don't have any time since I finish my studies. Perhaps, I will redo all the thing since the code I made was totally crap. Now I has better understanding, to development layers, etc... But it's not for now. Perhaps one day just for fun. :p

Title: Re: MetalDestroyer's Table Editor
Post by: Mobius on May 31, 2009, 02:09:42 am

Does anyone have enough free time to help MD...?

Title: Re: MetalDestroyer's Table Editor
Post by: chief1983 on May 31, 2009, 12:33:50 pm

I'd be curious to know what it looked like, because the implementation of something like that is a bit tricky I think.

Title: Re: MetalDestroyer's Table Editor
Post by: MetalDestroyer on May 31, 2009, 02:15:40 pm

Quote from: chief1983 on May 31, 2009, 12:33:50 pm

I'd be curious to know what it looked like, because the implementation of something like that is a bit tricky I think.

Here what it looked like !
(http://tof.canardpc.com/preview2/ae08238f-4edc-4869-9f56-3bcfa517b972.jpg) (http://tof.canardpc.com/show/ae08238f-4edc-4869-9f56-3bcfa517b972.html)
(http://tof.canardpc.com/preview2/0ec2e639-9b0e-4b84-892f-0facc3a93a91.jpg) (http://tof.canardpc.com/show/0ec2e639-9b0e-4b84-892f-0facc3a93a91.html)