[achtung]

Maja

Figured I'd upload it, don't know how long attachments last.

[Water]

Operating Instructions

Very easy to use.

[achtung]

I like cross-platformness.

[karajorma]

Looks good to me. A couple of minor gripes

1. When writing a VP file it doesn't append the .vp extension if you don't supply it yourself.
2. Although you can select multiple files you can't move them. It simply picked the last one I selected and moved that.


Apart from that it looks pretty good I found it much easier to use than VPmage (the UI on that one confused the hell out of me for a long time) but this one was much cleaner. I find the ability to edit files very useful.

Only major drawback I see is that this is going to give me all kind of support headaches from idiots altering the root VPs when they really shouldn't have since you've made it so easy to do that now.

Do you have a permanent location in mind for downloads? I'd like to get this one into the FAQ when I update next.

[achtung]

I posted a link above if you want to use that.  It's up to the author though.

[WMCoolmon]

Looks good to me. A couple of minor gripes

1. When writing a VP file it doesn't append the .vp extension if you don't supply it yourself.
2. Although you can select multiple files you can't move them. It simply picked the last one I selected and moved that.

1) Yup.
2) Yeah, that one was on my todo list, but I decided it wasn't vital enough to postpone release. Multi-selection isn't really supported by anything else, either.

Still, I'm surprised those are the only bugs that popped up. (Pleasantly surprised, that is.)

Apart from that it looks pretty good I found it much easier to use than VPmage (the UI on that one confused the hell out of me for a long time) but this one was much cleaner. I find the ability to edit files very useful.

Only major drawback I see is that this is going to give me all kind of support headaches from idiots altering the root VPs when they really shouldn't have since you've made it so easy to do that now.

Yeah. I had meant to add a CRC32 check lockout, but I didn't get that implemented - it's part of what I consider the CVP package, as I don't want to have more than one CRC check (eg the nonstandard fs2_open one) running around in the codebase.

Do you have a permanent location in mind for downloads? I'd like to get this one into the FAQ when I update next.

Not really. If I had some kind of webspace that I could upload it to and track the number of downloads I would use that. Unfortunately I don't; and everything decent I know of, you have to pay for. ('decent' = free, fast, no ads, no registration or similar BS)

[Turey]

Not really. If I had some kind of webspace that I could upload it to and track the number of downloads I would use that. Unfortunately I don't; and everything decent I know of, you have to pay for. ('decent' = free, fast, no ads, no registration or similar BS)

I'm sure someone around here has some webspace they can give you.

[achtung]

Not really. If I had some kind of webspace that I could upload it to and track the number of downloads I would use that. Unfortunately I don't; and everything decent I know of, you have to pay for. ('decent' = free, fast, no ads, no registration or similar BS)

I'm sure someone around here has some webspace they can give you.

I'm usually pretty open with hosting for projects/friends.

[nubbles526]

User-friendly, looks proffesional! Great VP maker tool!

[WMCoolmon]

Not really. If I had some kind of webspace that I could upload it to and track the number of downloads I would use that. Unfortunately I don't; and everything decent I know of, you have to pay for. ('decent' = free, fast, no ads, no registration or similar BS)

I'm sure someone around here has some webspace they can give you.

I'm usually pretty open with hosting for projects/friends.

Cool, check your PMs.

[MP-Ryan]

I'm resurrecting this from the dead because I think it should be stickied.  After using Maja for about 10 minutes, I've uninstalled VPView entirely.  Great program, WMC

[Mustang19]

Nice one, WP! Mind if I put this on Hades Combine, or are you getting to that?

[Kazan]

so.. when can we expect a proper installer and something other than a .jar?

[Wanderer]

hmm? jar is a proper executable

[Kazan]

a JAR is a java container that holds compiled pcode classes.. it is not an executable - it still requires and external exec (the java interpreter) to run

in my experience windows has problems understanding this

[blowfish]

Yes, in Windows I think you have to launch a JAR with something like Command Prompt (or whatever they call it now) and also an install of JAVA.  On a mac you don't get this problem because OSX can launch JAR files as applications.

Oh, and I can't open TGA files with Maja on a mac.  I get no error message, but the picture doesn't display.

[jr2]

On Windows:

open command prompt:

start > run > type
cmd
and press enter (or command if you have windows 9x or ME)

then type this in (assuming you have Java installed, of course) and press enter

java -jar <path to .jar file eg "c:\documents and settings\jr2\desktop\blah.jar" -- yes, quotes included>

type
exit
and enter to exit the command prompt after it is done.

[Kazan]

i know how to do that.. my point was either make an installer that does the setup shortcut for us or compile it to machine language like decent languages do

[blowfish]

i know how to do that.. my point was either make an installer that does the setup shortcut for us or compile it to machine language like decent languages do

I haven't seen anything that compiles Java into machine language.  Then again I haven't looked very hard.  But its just not generally done.

[karajorma]

There are ways but frankly I'd rather he just stop *****ing about Java like anyone other than him gives a ****.