[jr2]

How hard would it be to have FRED auto-save the current mission every 5 minutest to a file called fred autosave MM-DD-YYYY-HH-mm-ss??  I wish I knew how to code; I'd take a shot at it.

[Snail]

But it wouldn't save whatever's open in the Events Editor is what people is saying.

[pecenipicek]

FRED is a text editor at heart...
Honestly, even notepad manages an undo >.>

The Events editor is so primitive its laughable. honestly I would prefer it be a notepad-like editor with parsing than the current drop-down list nightmare. In fact, that would probably increase my FREDding speed by tenfold seeing as I memorized all the SEXPs I use anyway, and if I could just type them in I wouldn't also need to memorize which sublocation they're under.

With that you can also actually copy between missions etc.

Sounds like a pipe dream though

Dammit, I'll just FRED in Notepad. **** the visual aids, they're all absolutely useless anyway except for placing ships and backgrounds >.>

While we are talking impossible/ unfeasable things.
I'd like to see the event editor changed to something resembling the coding window in VB. You start typing the name of a SEXP, it gets autocompleted or select from the dropdownlist, hit tab aso.* 


*Yes, i am aware that this would open several cans of toxic worms and it's never gonna happen.

would be awesome tho.

[karajorma]

How hard would it be to have FRED auto-save the current mission every 5 minutest to a file called fred autosave MM-DD-YYYY-HH-mm-ss??  I wish I knew how to code; I'd take a shot at it.

It already does something along those lines but it can't save when an editor is open.

[Scourge of Ages]

Since missions are just text files, somebody could theoretically make a stand-alone program specifically for editing events and stuff. If one could make such an events editor from scratch, it would have all the expandability and features you could throw in there, and you wouldn't need to mess with FRED code at all.
Sure, I doubt that you'd be able to have FRED and the editor working on the same file at the same time, but if all you're doing is some hardcore SEXPing, then that would be fine.

(Please note: I have neither the ability or patience to do this myself, I'm just throwing ideas here)

[TopAce]

Since missions are just text files, somebody could theoretically make a stand-alone program specifically for editing events and stuff. If one could make such an events editor from scratch, it would have all the expandability and features you could throw in there, and you wouldn't need to mess with FRED code at all.
Sure, I doubt that you'd be able to have FRED and the editor working on the same file at the same time, but if all you're doing is some hardcore SEXPing, then that would be fine.

(Please note: I have neither the ability or patience to do this myself, I'm just throwing ideas here)

[Colonol Dekker]

Fred for placement and backgrounds, and info/music.

EvEd for Events briefings and debriefs?