Tech tree viewer in the works...

[Lemmy]

Originally posted by Hank:
The JDBC/ODBC bridge connects Java to Access fairly quickly. But the better design is to do as you are planning, parse the SEIV files themselves for the data you need that way your techtree will be able to pickup patch changes and probably even mod changes easily.

yep, that's right, i'm writing a seperate Loader class, so that any patch changes will be easily updated.

Originally posted by Ransack:
I was thinking of doing something like this too. One difference is that I am planning to use SVG as the output format. This would allow you to just point at a tech-level node and see in a floating window exactly what became available at that point.

Sound like a good idea?

hmm, don't know much about SVG, other that it's based on xml?