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Old June 20th, 2005, 12:32 AM

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Default Re: New Map Utils For Dom2 - Now Available

In the initial version I'm working on now I'm not going to include the ability to edit descriptions but in future versions it may be possible.

The issue with unit descriptions is basically that within they are often stored in variable length string buffers (this is probably due to both the complier and intentional development) which essentially means the new strings / descriptions have to be the exact same length as the old ones in order to function properly - either that or alter the entire string structure which then means that every reference to the old strings has to be updated which is rather difficult when hex-editing.

This issue can be worked around - possibly by expanding the data segment... but I hesitate to do that as it would make porting this change to other non-windows OS's very difficult.

I believe however many of the types of descriptions should be easy to alter and I will look into that after I have more of the GUI coded.
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