[Obsolete] ToEE Front-End v4.01

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  1. Agetian

    Agetian Attorney General Administrator

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    Re: ToEE Front-End v3.1

    UPDATE (20 OCT 2005): Uploaded ToEEFE 3.3 Professional Edition. This version adds the capability to use multiple portrait packs and easily switch between them, and also contains improved documentation with solutions for most common problems.
    Also, this is *the* version that will go into the Co8 v4.0.0 package. :)
    Enjoy!

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  2. Morpheus

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    Re: ToEE Front-End v3.3

    A few suggestions from someone who just tried the latest ToEEFE version (awesome work, pal):

    What about including an option to disable the Intro movies? Co8 3.04 has a .bat file that does this, but it seems like the sort of thing that could easily be integrated into ToEEFE.

    Also, some of the options sound a bit cryptic, and since far too many people just can't be bothered to read the accompanying documentation, what about tool tips displaying when the cursor hovers over an option?
     
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  3. Agetian

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    Re: ToEE Front-End v3.3

    Hey Morpheus,

    Thanks! :)

    Sure, I'll look into it, but in fact it may take longer than we think, since moving movies around is a little bit tricky given the complexity of the mechanism that switches modules... But nothing's impossible, so I'll definitely check this out during the upcoming weekend.

    Sure, that's easy to do -- I'll pencil it into my ToEE tool development schedule and will do it whenever I have some spare time (possibly even tomorrow) :)

    Again, thanks for suggestions!
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  4. Gaear

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    Re: ToEE Front-End v3.3

    :)

    In Agetian-speak, that means "45 minutes from now."
     
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  5. Cerulean the Blue

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    Re: ToEE Front-End v3.3

    Couldn't you just make buttons that ran the existing .bat files? All they do is rename the movies:
    That's from the release notes for Co8 2.0.2.

    By the way, I think integrating this into Toffee would be a great idea.
     
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  6. Agetian

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    Re: ToEE Front-End v3.3

    The trick about running the .bat files from the Toffee is that it won't be "thread-safe" -- I mean, the movie files could be relocated to a certain other location by a Toffee's process (for a while), and the .bat files will fail to do their job. No, this is a bad idea. Toffee will actually have to do the movie stuff itself, by its own code. And this code could turn out to be either really simple or really complicated (I'll look into it today).

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  7. Agetian

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    Re: ToEE Front-End v3.3

    UPDATE (21 OCT 2005): Uploaded ToEEFE 3.3a Professional Edition. This version adds tooltips for all options and buttons, and also changes the import/restore DLL buttons into "Enable Intro Movies" and "Disable Intro Movies" buttons. The old import/restore DLL buttons are no longer needed because every module is allowed to have its own custom DLL specified.

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  8. Morpheus

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    Re: ToEE Front-End v3.3a

    Great stuff! I bow to the master. :notworthy

    Would it be possible to make the enable/disable intro movie thing a switch button, to save GUI space? I.e., have the button read "Disable intro movies" when they are enabled, and "Enable intro movies" when they have been disabled?
     
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  9. Agetian

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    Re: ToEE Front-End v3.3a

    Hmm... these buttons don't eat any extra GUI space since they are there instead of the import/restore DLL buttons which became obsolete after the multi-module support was added... I think I can do it the way you say as well, but that will make an extra branch in the Toffee loading code which could make some of the other stuff go out of sync (because Toffee will have to figure the current state of the movies when it's being loaded, in order to set the proper text for the button - and it's the time when the movies' position can be indeterminate, it could either be the "data" or the "Frontend" folder... hmm... But I'll see what I can do later today. I'm sure it can be implemented, and quite easily, but I want to make sure that I don't introduce any bugs into Toffee by doing this.

    Thanks for suggestion!
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  10. Agetian

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    Re: ToEE Front-End v3.3a

    UPDATE (21 OCT 2005): OK, I did it! I reuploaded Toffee 3.3a with the switch-like button for enabling/disabling the intro movies that conserves interface space. "Nothing is impossible, only improbable" (C) Gadget Hackwrench, CDRR.

    Enjoy! :)

    - Agetian
     
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  11. Agetian

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    Re: ToEE Front-End v3.3a

    UPDATE (21 OCT 2005): Did some cosmetic changes to tooltips and button labels, according to Morpheus' request. Please redownload.

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  12. Allyx

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    Re: ToEE Front-End v3.3a

    Just a quick question, How do you turn a .mes into a .ppf? I tried adding .ppf after the file name and got the resopnse that no portrait packs were available for that mod? I've got 5!
     
    Allyx, Oct 22, 2005
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  13. Cerulean the Blue

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    Re: ToEE Front-End v3.3a

    I just renamed the files. For example, I renamed portrait.mes to portrait.ppf. Windows game me a warning message about changing the file extension, but I just clicked okay and renamed the next one. I tested it with your portrait pack .mes files.
     
    Cerulean the Blue, Oct 22, 2005
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    Re: ToEE Front-End v3.3a

    tried that, now I have portrait.ppf.mes files? could you post them?
     
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    Re: ToEE Front-End v3.3a

    Is your Explorer configured to hide file extensions, Allyx? Maybe that's why you end up with double extensions when you add a new one.
     
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