[WMCoolmon]

Just curious...

Edit: Screenshots/descriptions

VPView - screenshot
Directory structure to the left in tree view; preview pane in the lower left; files of the currently selected directory to the right in a detailed list view.

VPCS
Files/directories in a single large treeview. Modification operations performed via menu items.

VPMage - screenshot
All currently loaded VP files in a list to the left; files/directories in a small treeview to the right; debugging/status output in the middle; modificiation operations performed via buttons below the treeview.

VPCS 2
Directories to the left in a tree view; files to the right in a detailed list view; modification operations performed via menu items.

QuickVP
Directories/files at the bottom in a detailed list view; buttons and menus above the list perform modification operations.

[Taristin]

VPView. It's what I'm so used to.

[Kie99]

VPView, I've never tried anything else but I've never needed to.

[Trivial Psychic]

I use QuickVP for accessing TBP Base releases, but it has an annoying bug.  Sometimes when you try to view or extract some selected files, it tries to extract half the archive.

[MatthewPapa]

VPview undoubtably. Its both the easiest to use and the most effective. It would be nice if we could edit it like a zip archive though....

[pyro-manic]

I've never used anything other than VPView, as it does the job very well.

[Solatar]

I wasn't aware of the existance of a lot of these programs, VPView has always been good enough for me.

[FireCrack]

vpview, see abov reasons.

[WeatherOp]

VPView, works good, simple, and I wouldn't care to learn another.

[Cobra]

the latest VP view. it's teh roxxors!

[karajorma]

VPView for viewing. VPCS for building.

 I like the idea of VPMage but quite frankly I could never figure out how to do anything with it.

[Kazan]

VPCS2 is in wxWidgets - if you want to take maintainership of it and make it more featurefull, change the GUI, and make sure it's linux compatable send me an email/pm and i'll give you access to my sourceforge CVS

[aldo_14]

VPView I guess; although I'd be happy just using a command line tool to actually build the things - I'm not too bothered about a GUI for that.

[Starman01]

VPIView

I never knew, that others even exist, so I used only that in all the years

[Kosh]

VP View for viewing, but for building I use Kazan's VP constructor. It's simple, easy to use, and effective.

[Nuclear1]

VPView for reasons apparent in the name. VPCS for building VPs. VPMage seemed much harder to work with, IMO, so when I downloaded Kazan's tools, I was happy to find a VP constructor with it.

[Kazan]

there are much newer versions of my tools then the ones in the bundle - see http://www.sf.net/projects/alliance

[edit]

apparently i haven't code-rolled VPCS to there ever.. i'll do that tonight

[Mongoose]

I've never needed to build VPs, but I couldn't imagine anything else that organizes them as well as VPView does.

[Kazan]

VPCS2's interface is very very close to VPView's arrangement.. and it wasn't completed being fleshed out

IIRC it also supports vp2vp copy - i need to check if i finished that though

[Nuke]

im quite fond of qvp myself. i perfer the winzip-esc interface. it has performance issues and some bugs but i figure why use 2 programs when theres one to do both jobs of viewing vps and making them. i rarely open vps anymore and instead perfer to create new data from scratch than use something from the vps. stuff like textures, i keep in my modding dir in bmp format for use in truespace. i rarely deal with vps so the bugs dont bother me much.