[Axem]

Hey, so FRED's been bugging me since like... forever.

I want to lock my fighter's weapons, naturally I look for lock-primary-weapons in the... subsystem menu.

And I want to set a death message. Why that's in Special, because the messages menu thinks that sexp smells funny.

Well, NO MORE.

Equipped with a version of Visual Studio that can compile FRED, I dove in and fixed this silly organizational nightmare to the best of my ability! Now things make slightly more sense than before!



ship- sexps in Ship Status! Subsys- sexps in Subsystems! It's a miracle!

Generally how its laid out now is ship related categories, then mission related, then back-end related (variables). Within each subcategory, the sexps are grouped the best I could to their function. Protect sexps are bunched together, lock weapons are grouped together and so on.

http://pastebin.com/0bqcJWEa

Here's a patch of my work. If you have a better organizational method, I'd love to hear it!


(Aaaaaand cue the "But I'm so used to old way" comments!)

[Nuke]

might as well add a textual lisp editor with markup while your at it.
i hate coding by menu.

[mjn.mixael]

I'm used to the old way... however, this is much, much cleaner. Someone had to do it at some point and I vote we adopt it.

Also worth noting that of anyone I would trust to reorganize the FRED menus, Axem is one of them... given is experience with it.

[Admiral MS]

I like it 
It might be unusual for anyone used to the old way but for someone like me who only uses FRED occasionally it would be a real improvement. I can't remember how often I sat there searching a SEXP which was in some category I didn't expect it to be in.

[karajorma]

Axem already knows I like this. Now you all do too.

[Spoon]

Axem already knows I like this. Now you all do too.

+1

[Dragon]

Looks very good. I'm not a very experienced FREDer, and I hate looking for a SEXP through the entire menu, only to find it at the last place I check, usually a completely illogical one. This is something I'd really like to see adopted.

[Goober5000]

I'm used to the old way... however, this is much, much cleaner. Someone had to do it at some point and I vote we adopt it.

Also worth noting that of anyone I would trust to reorganize the FRED menus, Axem is one of them... given is experience with it.

Agreed on all points.

[MatthTheGeek]

This has my seal of approval. Not that I matter much.

[Crybertrance]

Whooo-Hoo! Finally! Thanks a lot Axem, I've spent hours searching for that right sexp and there it was, right in the least place I expected it to be.

[FireSpawn]

Did you add an 'electric boogaloo' button? Because frankly, FRED is in sore need of one of those.

[NGTM-1R]

Did you add an 'electric boogaloo' button? Because frankly, FRED is in sore need of one of those.

What would it do? Turn on...DISCO SEIZURE MODE!?

[mjn.mixael]

Did you add an 'electric boogaloo' button? Because frankly, FRED is in sore need of one of those.

What would it do? Turn on...DISCO SEIZURE MODE!?

That would make FREDing JAD missions a lot easier...

[Rodo]

Had to be done someday. Will abide gladly.

[Valathil]

Everytime i wanna do some simple test mission for something i wanna test i always have to look for some sexp for 5 minutes cause its in some unintuitive submenu so this gets my seal of approval.

[Axem]

I am very disappointed in all of you!

Back where I come from, we ridicule code patches that make sense. Now if ya'll don't start bickering, I'm going to have to just quit!

[FireSpawn]

I am very disappointed in all of you!

Back where I come from, we ridicule code patches that make sense. Now if ya'll don't start bickering, I'm going to have to just quit!

Alrighty then, lets do this ****.

"Derek Smart". Come at me bros!

[Axem]

'Kay, so turns out I didn't re-order the sexps. I had just fit them into new categories. But with this latest patch, stuff is now actually re-ordered.

http://pastebin.com/0bqcJWEa

Also, I actually wrote my first (very basic) original code! If you're one of three people who noticed that the tooltip when you hover over a ship has the angles in silly radians well... now they're in degrees! Much more readable and now... maybe usable for something...

http://pastebin.com/D2x3THAh

[Droid803]

this is cool, but

might as well add a textual lisp editor with markup while your at it.
i hate coding by menu.

THIS PLZ

[NGTM-1R]

THIS PLZ

Axem gives you a man-made miracle and you want the divine.