Catgod pretender viewer now for Windows!

[Gandalf Parker]

Excellent program. (sorry I coudnt help outmore on that)

Excellent intstructions.

Thank you very much.

[Caduceus]

Thanks! I'll load it up tonight!

[Arralen]

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As it seems, catgod.exe does not like being fed folders pathes with spaces in them, like e.g. :
"\program files\dominions3\

I'll have a chat with Dave 'bout this, and will try to implement some kind of workaround maybe.

Meanwhile, simply rename/move your dominions folder (or copy the newlords folder) in such a way that there isn't a space in the path names, e.g.:
"d:\programs\dominions3"
Dominions doesn't really care from where it is run - I have multiple versions installed at the same time by copying the folders.
You can only deinstall from within windows software tab where you installed - but you can simply delete the other dominions directories if you don't need them any more.

[Gandalf Parker]

If it wont accept the newer windows workaround of putting it in quotes..
"program files\dominions3\"
(btw cant lead with a slash)

will it accept the older windows workaround of using a tilde?
progra~1\dominions3\

[Arralen]

Neither Gandalfs first suggestion
catgod.exe "d:\temp\try this out\savedgames\newlords\*.2h"
nor Peters idea
catgod.exe 'd:\temp\try this out\savedgames\newlords\*.2h'
work from the command line on my system (W2k).
Maybe someone could try on XP etc and let me know, but I don't expect them to behave differently at all.

Gandalf, maybe you could try out the linux (command line) version of catgod on your machine and let me know how it behaves if fed with such a file path ? Thanks!
Maybe, just maybe, I get something like a terminal gui done especially for you. It's very much "maybe" because the ncurses equivalent for Tcl/Tk, the term:: functions in Tcllib, are not yet implemented ...

catgod.exe d:\temp\try_th~1\savedgames\newlords\*.2h'
DOES work - but only if there's no 'space' within the first 6 characters.

As I have a hard time implementing the command line syntax anyway - ", ', \ and / are part of the Tcl/Tk syntax - and shortening the path to "someth~1" would be a nightmare (at least for me), I'll wait for a word from Dave or Peter if there's anything that can be done within catgod itself to get this ironed out.
If not, I think I'll resort to copying the pretender files over and scanning them from a temp/subdirectory ...



Btw., I'm still taking suggestions what functions catgodGUI could/should implement ... .

[Gandalf Parker]

I think that most people have it in \program files\ so the tilde answer should work for a large group. But personally I would appreciate it if the drive letter was left off.

And I dont like using gui's on linux. That would be for Johan.
I prefer text mode command line operation on linux. But I dont think I see a need for this on the server. I would probably use it on my WinXP desktop