[Petrarch of the VBB]

Well, how about it?
Now that the code has been released someone could cobble it together with the basic apps like vpview and its siblings, and a few others like fs2view and fs2mm and stick all over the web. Thunder was on about spreading news of the code release and this would be an ideal system, no?

[Unknown Target]

There already is one, sort of;):

www.descent-network.com

[Petrarch of the VBB]

If you're talking about the Descent MAnager Freespace Kit, well that's just VPView and its siblings in one happy family bundle, isn't it?

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Petrarch of th VBB
Well, how about it?
Now that the code has been released someone could cobble it together with the basic apps like vpview and its siblings, and a few others like fs2view and fs2mm and stick all over the web. Thunder was on about spreading news of the code release and this would be an ideal system, no?

I think you mean SDK...

Sounds like a good idea to me - anyone here know what a SDK should have in it and how it should be arranged, etc? 'Cause I don't...

[Fozzy]

I was thinking about making a table editor, not that cra**y table view thing.

You could actualy select a ship and its contents will be displayed in a text box.

and also add a ship

when the file saves it will tell you if the file is to large

[Nico]

Originally posted by Fozzy
I was thinking about making a table editor, not that cra**y table view thing.

You could actualy select a ship and its contents will be displayed in a text box.

and also add a ship

when the file saves it will tell you if the file is to large

bah, i'd rather use notepad

[Stunaep]

Originally posted by venom2506


bah, i'd rather use notepad

'nuff said.

[EdrickV]

Originally posted by venom2506


bah, i'd rather use notepad

I use Wordpad.

[Unknown Target]

So do I
Why casn't you use the things from Descent Network? I got the plugins, and, bam, it's an SDK

[CP5670]

I use Notepad if the file is smaller than 36kb; if the file is larger than that, Notepad cannot open it and so I use Wordpad instead.

We have the full source code for FS2 though, so at this stage I don't think that an SDK would be of much use. The complete source, along with all of the great tools out there (especially the DM ones) like an uber-SDK.

[EdrickV]

Now that I'm thinking about it, the one thing that SDKs usually include that we don't really have is in depth documentation. And that would be a nice thing.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

For documentation you could take the major online references and tutuorials, and a few of the VBB threads that people salvaged, a few threads from here, bang them together and whizzbang wallop, you've got documents.

(Minnie Bannister voice) You must have the documents to prove it you know.

BTW, notepad rules them all! It even makes a good HEX editor, I like it better than AXE, anyway.

[EdrickV]

Originally posted by Petrarch of th VBB
For documentation you could take the major online references and tutuorials, and a few of the VBB threads that people salvaged, a few threads from here, bang them together and whizzbang wallop, you've got documents.

I meant documentation of the source code. Things like what the heck NOX does. (Which is nothing as far as I can tell.) Or where particular functions are defined, so we don't have to go searching through all the files to find the definition of a particular function.
Try searching for int3 using Find Files & Folders sometime. You should get about 167 results. Of course, a little familiarity with how these people think about defining stuff like that and some common sense can eliminate most of those but it could be quicker to look it up in an index. Especially when you're examining one function that relies on 3-4 other functions which may not all be in the same file.

[YodaSean]

Originally posted by sandwich
Sounds like a good idea to me - anyone here know what a SDK should have in it and how it should be arranged, etc? 'Cause I don't...

As far as I can tell I think they can be just about anything that helps you with whatever the SDK is for.  Like utilities, tutorials, reference, etc.

[Fozzy]

What about if it had an error checker?