[ssmit132]

He's invented a time travel program! 

[maxim4o]

Ops now, I forgot to set the time
Actually I can't figure out how exactly to produce Unix time?   

[Rodo]

when opening huge vp files such us the new media vps, the program takes a long time to open, that's the only thing I've noticed so far.

[maxim4o]

Yes that is because it unpacks the entire VP file into the work directory.
I have to think of a way to minimize the performance impact though.

[maxim4o]

VPEdit 0.13 is ready
-a context menu is added for the tree list
-read-only VPs can be imported, too
-entries get correct timestamps when VP is extracted(at least I think so )
-Extract directory renamed to Extract all
-Better handling of some errors

I have added a version without installation too, you can try if it works on Linux
Remember, you need to install Mono on Linux first(and do not set file associations)

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[Water]

Found another crash. In the tabs if you select close all except this tab you get

************** Exception Text **************
System.IO.IOException: The directory is not empty.

May be clearer to rename close file to close tab and export all to export tab 


When closing a tab that had saved a new vp I got this.

************** Exception Text **************
System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 'C:\FreeSpace2\a\1'.


This app *can delete* the directories used in the setup phase. (on some crashes) I wasn't 100% sure before due to testing it late. You may want to take creation of those directories out of the users hands. It will recreate them but any other data in them is gone.

[maxim4o]

Happy New Year by the way!

It crashes this way because it(for now) tries to delete the entire directory, and if the directory is opened in Explorer or some other program... you know what happens
That's why the program is still 0.1x, because it's pretty unstable... I hope some work will bring it closer to Maja...

[Water]

Happy New Year by the way!

Cheers 

The thing is, you are asking people to choose two directories. So one of my choices the day before was C:\FreeSpace2      Some people here may have a minor problem with this 

That's why I'm wondering why the directories are a user choice. Shouldn't the software create it's own working directories leaving a users data safe. If someone set their mod directory as a path, with no real backup it could be a bit more than a minor issue.

[maxim4o]

Lol I have never thought of that.
Reminds me of a CD burning program that had an option "Delete files' folder after burning".
If you selected that option and added something directly from C:...
I gets fun!

I will make the folders not be deleted entirely, but just emptied of their contents.
This will fix many bugs I hope.

Any suggestion about the "hard-coded" temporary folders?
It should be something the user isn't going to create in the VPEdit directory... this way his info might be overwritten!

[Water]

A user won't be messing about in the VPEdit directory. Keep your software seperate from the data. If it is in Program Files then there are two ways to use it. Either from the start menu or from association with a vp.

Keep the working directory in the VPEdit directory. You will either be importing files mostly from a data\* directory to create vp's or as a viewer/extractor for vp's

Do you really need the backup directory? How do you use the current backup folder? When saving a vp with the same name you get the standard do you want to replace? dialog box

[maxim4o]

For now the backup directory saves only the currently edited file, so it can be quickly restored to the original one.
However in that version I am adding a new option.
In when extracting a VP another VP is overwritten, if VPEdit crashes both VPs are gone.
Now there is an option to move the overwritten VP file to the backup directory, so it will be safe there, and even if the program crashes, the VP file will still be in that backup folder.
Additionally, VPEdit now notifies the user when the backup directory isn't empty, and asks if it should be emptied.

[Water]

Why not rename the old one to file.bak write the new one, when that completes delete file.bak

[maxim4o]

Well I guess I can remove the backup directory...

[maxim4o]

VPEdit 0.14 is ready

-the backup directory is gone
-directories are now emptied, not deleted entirely
-a new About box
-optional backup for overwritten files during export
-the working directory is no longer chosen by the user - however it can be changed by editing the config2.txt file in the VPEdit folder

Enjoy! (I have added a noinstall version, too, hope it works on Linux)


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[Rodo]

I get an access error every time I try to import any VP, I checked the maindump folder and edited it so it's r/w able but it still crashes.
Is there an error log where I can get the message from? it's quite large to type directly.

might as well want to disable the export button if the explored vp contains no files.

[maxim4o]

@Rodo
Did the program ask you about new first-start settings?
You can try to open config2.txt in the program folder and post it here.
By the way I-ve found a bug by myself - the Backup option isn't saved in the config file except the first time the config file is made.

[Rodo]

@Rodo
Did the program ask you about new first-start settings?
You can try to open config2.txt in the program folder and post it here.
By the way I-ve found a bug by myself - the Backup option isn't saved in the config file except the first time the config file is made.

It did asked if I wanted to make back ups and if I wanted to make VPEdit as the default .vp tool, I checked both.
the config file seems to be congruent with my earlier choice.

[maxim4o]

That's good.
Can you post only the exception text(it's usually only one row).
It should say something like System.xxx.xxx.xxxException.

[Tinman]

I tested VPEdit_0_1_4 on MacOS X and Mono2.0.
Is is importing a vp-file but I get this files in the parent folder -> see PNG

so I think the file-management is windows only and it will most likely run with the same issues under Linux

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[maxim4o]

Well anyway it is good that it runs.
I will try to improve the file management.
By the way what is the directory separator on OSX?