Space Empires V Editor 1.1 Released

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Elsemeravin said:
Another very small problem. If I enter a picture number in the component editor, then click on another filed, the picture is not updated. I need to click the 'up' button, then the 'down' to get the right pic to be displayed (I think you should override the "lost focus" event).

Yeah, that's likely what I need to - which also means I probably need to do the same for any editable combobox,
numeric up-down field, etc. I currently do it for textboxes, but it's a pain in the *** because the IDE does not do LostFocus as the defualt event type so I have to go and add it manually in the windows-generated code.

Ah well - it's not a major enough problem that I'm gonna worry about it much, but I'll eventually probably fix it

Something than would be useful for pic selection would be to be able to have the whole pic grid displayed and just have to click on the you want. Currently you have to either know the pic number or click many times to find the right one. If Image Mod arrives, it will only get worse.

Seems like this would be pretty unwieldy once you got to 100+ images, honestly - not to mention memory-intensive (though admittedly, these images are tiny, so that's probably not a worry). A scrollable pane with images that you can click on to choose would probably work. Sounds tedious to work on, though, honestly

EDIT: Another good thing would be to parse the whole file and indicate on the left column in red the components containing errors. That way you could always be sure you did not insert a new mistyping error without having to click on every single component of the list.

The editor already does exactly that on load and when you try to save it. The last column goes red when there's an error. You might have to widen your window to see it though.