Anyone working on a modding tool yet?

[Phoenix-D]

Sj has a slot modder and a store modder out; I don't know of anything else.

[Drax]

I was wondering if anyone has started work on a modding utility for the data files in starfury - like the editors for se4. Or should I just start up VB and make on myself?

[Wydraz]

[Suicide Junkie]

I have a nifty VB library of functions for working with MM style datafiles if you want.

[Ed Kolis]

You do? VB 6, VB.NET, or some other Version? Post them, I might be able to use those... nah, I never get anything done

[Suicide Junkie]

http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/miscel...-functions.zip

Most of it is meant for dealing with one-liner strings from the text files.
For example,
X$ = addvalue(X$,n)
This looks for the := and then adds n to the number it finds there. Non-numbers or words count as zero and are changed into just n.

"Get/Set first pos number" is for those "Ability # name := blah blah" type lines.
The "Get/Set nth value" functions is a generalization of the previous, and is great for working on the damage at range line.

[Ed Kolis]

You don't like comments, do you, SJ?

I've been spoiled by the latest IDEs' "you type a dot after something and it tells you all its properties and methods" and "you type an opening parenthesis and it tells you all the function's arguments"... and I STILL need comments to jog my memory!

[Suicide Junkie]

Heh. What's a comment, and how do I do a goto in this language?

[Instar]

Goto sucks!! EWwwwwwwwwwwwww!

[Ed Kolis]

Though there are times when I am tempted to use it instead of more "sophisticated" programming techniques... I mean, which is easier to read:

Old-Style Quick & Dirty Gotos

code:

---

foreach (Array innerArray in outerArray)

{

  foreach (Item i in innerArray)

  {

    if (i == target)

    {

      foundit = true;

      goto done;

    }

  }

}

done:

---

"Sophisticated" Procedural Programming Workaround

code:

---

foreach (Array innerArray in outerArray)

{

  foreach (Item i in innerArray)

  {

    if (i == target)

    {

      foundit = true;

      // can't break out of more than one loop at once without a goto!

      break;

    }

  }

  // so I have to check again in each loop level to avoid wasting time searching for something I already found!

  // not too annoying with only 2 levels, but with more... 

  if (foundit == true)

    break;

}

---

OK, that wasn't the best example (when was the Last time you had more than 3 levels of nested loops anyway? ) but there ARE times when a goto would come in handy, but I couldn't make myself touch it for fear of being shunned for life