[Zacam]

Thanks for the link!

Well, if/when wxFred starts getting off the ground, actually including this capability into it (via the Campaign Editor, maybe?) might not be a half-bad idea. We already do have a fair number of externalized tools though that building a common framework to run them all in would be nice in the meantime. (This, the ModPack Checker that FSF wrote, PCS2, Mjn's ANI Tools, Contemplates (interface Generator) my proposed HUD builder, etc).

So, maybe a nice all-in-one wrapper for a Community ToolKit/Toolbox/whateveryouwanttocallit.

[m!m]

I'm working on some kind of modding IDE which should contain all sorts of modding tools from a table editor to a mod exporter which would package the files inside a VP. I already got a working EFF viewer/editor and an ANI viewer. I'd also like to integrate a visual HUD_gauges.tbl editor where you could create a custom  HUD layout by using drag-and-drop and then export it to the desired resolutions.

[karajorma]

2) An integral part of FRED. - This would be a lot more complicated. It would allow the user to add new messages or remove old ones and have the tables automatically updated to feature them.
 On the other hand while the stand alone is something that is only run a few times during the dev cycle this feature would run constantly and therefore has much more of a chance of causing problems when different developers have different versions of the tables or missions.

That's the reason why I wouldn't want to see it in wxFRED. It makes more sense as a standalone or at least something you must explicitly choose to run from FRED.

[jr2]

A binary that wxFRED can call, sort of how VPView32 can call other things such as  TblView?

[coffeesoft]

Uhhhmm, really useful, thanks

[m!m]

Sorry for the necro post but I wanted to make this available to anyone who could need this tool.
I created a github repository for this project here: https://github.com/asarium/TStringGenerator
The repository contains the source code and I also uploaded binary packages.

[mjn.mixael]

Hmmm, this is neat.. I'll have to try it out.

I'm working on some kind of modding IDE which should contain all sorts of modding tools from a table editor to a mod exporter which would package the files inside a VP. I already got a working EFF viewer/editor and an ANI viewer. I'd also like to integrate a visual HUD_gauges.tbl editor where you could create a custom  HUD layout by using drag-and-drop and then export it to the desired resolutions.

EFF Viewer/editor? Really? I would like that if it exists.

[m!m]

EFF Viewer/editor? Really? I would like that if it exists.

I actually have an application that is capable of reading and displaying EFFs and ANIs but it is unpolished, full of bugs and pretty much unusable right now.

[mjn.mixael]

EFF Viewer/editor? Really? I would like that if it exists.

I actually have an application that is capable of reading and displaying EFFs and ANIs but it is unpolished, full of bugs and pretty much unusable right now.

 

[MatthTheGeek]

That's why apng will be awesome.

[mjn.mixael]

That's why apng will be awesome.

Quoted for truth. Cannot wait for that.

[Yarn]

I found a minor bug in TStringGenerator: the first XSTR structure that the program finds becomes the last tstrings.tbl entry for some reason. This happens in both versions 1.0 and 1.1.

[m!m]

Do you have a mod where this happens? I could not reproduce this here but I may be  simply lacking example data.

[Yarn]

Do you have a mod where this happens? I could not reproduce this here but I may be  simply lacking example data.

Yes. It happens with the attached file (which is FSPort's fs1_tech-wep.tbm with all index numbers changed to -1) if translated by itself and no tstrings.tbl file exists.

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[m!m]

Ok, I can reproduce the bug and also have found the cause of it. I documented it in a github issue here: https://github.com/asarium/TStringGenerator/issues/1

I will however wait until I have finished the my current refactoring of the code as I will not change anything in the current code base which is simply horrible

[m!m]

Ok everything is done I just pushed version 2.0 to github and also added binary distributions. Please add bugs you find to the github issue tracker, thank you.

[mjn.mixael]

Is there a readme or something? I assumed I could place it in the mod folder and run the jar.. but no such luck.

[m!m]

You have to execute one of the scripts in the bin folder with the -r or -root option to specify the mod folder:

Code: (Example) [Select]

> bin/tstrings -r "/path/to/your/mod/root"