[7] [CF-Devel] CFJavaEditor update

[kevin at ank.com]

Ah, wonderful addition.  Especially considering that I never 
managed to get any updates to you for the guide (still have
them on my drive, but haven't had time to finish them.)

This sounds much better anyway.

Cheers,
-kls

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 04:36:27AM +0100, Andreas Vogl wrote:
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      I happily announce that there is a new feature for the CFJavaEditor
     
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      available, which is going to make mapmaking significantly easier.
     
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      The biggest problem with Crossfire maps is the terrible
     
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      mess of the arch syntax. Arch attributes like "sp", "wc", "last_heal"
     
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      etc. are confusing on their own - and they get used in so many
     
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      different ways. Even the most passionate Crossfire-developer
     
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      needs a long time to understand half of it.
     
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      I tried to improve the situation by writing my map-guide.
     
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      Docu is a fine thing - but not good enough. It's way too annoying
     
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      to read all that, and look things up repeatedly.
     
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      So now I have integrated a Graphical User Interface in the editor,
     
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      providing a convenient input-mask for all kinds of crossfire-objects.
     
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      The GUI is very flexible, the data is parsed from a definitions-
     
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      file called "types.txt". As you can imagine, this file has a
     
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      non-trivial syntax, but it's quite easy to understand.
     
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      It already contains a lot more information than my map-guide.
     
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      The whole thing is available for now at
     
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      http://mids.student.utwente.nl/~avogl/CFJavaEditor/
      
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      (I can easily put it on cvs later, the new code is
     
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      pretty much stand-alone)
     
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      Look for the red "Attributes"-button...
     
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      Of course the whole thing isn't complete yet.
     
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      And the "types.txt" still lacks a bunch of information,
     
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      but it's already extremely helpful. I started to work
     
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      on this feature long time ago and decided it's time
     
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      for a first release.
     
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      Andreas V.
     
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