silver
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I'd like a button on hold management that drops all the text strings on scrolls and characters into a text file

i.e.

Foo Level: 1N: scroll (15,16): Hi, I'm the scroll text.
Bar Level: 2S: Speech Happy Beethro,0,"Ha ha. I win! I always win!" (sound: none)
Baz Level: 3S: Speech Goblin King,0,"", (sound: doh.ogg)

it would still be up to the hold developer to edit that to add context (especially to character speech)... but it would save a LOT of cut and pasting...

of course, this only has specialized purposes, so perhaps belongs at the bottom of the TODO list, but still



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[Last edited by silver at 08-22-2006 08:37 AM]

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silver wrote:
I'd like a button on hold management that drops all the text strings on scrolls and characters into a text file

i.e.

Foo Level: 1N: scroll (15,16): Hi, I'm the scroll text.
Bar Level: 2S: Speech Happy Beethro,0,"Ha ha. I win! I always win!" (sound: none)
Baz Level: 3S: Speech Goblin King,0,"", (sound: doh.ogg)

it would still be up to the hold developer to edit that to add context (especially to character speech)... but it would save a LOT of cut and pasting...

of course, this only has specialized purposes, so perhaps belongs at the bottom of the TODO list, but still

Well it would be alot more useful with a import option, which would allow you to do a bit of error correction, then importing it back in, and to be able to work on drod without people asking why you are playing games.

Not to meantion how useful it would be when beta testing someone else's hold.

silver
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man, oh man. I don't know that you could pay me enough to even TRY to write the import. there would sooo many things that could go wrong there. but the export would still be useful in debugging and spellchecking.


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[Last edited by silver at 08-22-2006 09:57 AM]

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This feature is in already. Since 2.0.8.

You should have the line "ExportSpeech=0" in the startup section of drod.ini. Just modify that to '1' and export the hold normally. I've never tried it, but I think that's how it should work...

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silver wrote:
I'd like a button on hold management that drops all the text strings on scrolls and characters into a text file

i.e.

Foo Level: 1N: scroll (15,16): Hi, I'm the scroll text.
Bar Level: 2S: Speech Happy Beethro,0,"Ha ha. I win! I always win!" (sound: none)
Baz Level: 3S: Speech Goblin King,0,"", (sound: doh.ogg)

it would still be up to the hold developer to edit that to add context (especially to character speech)... but it would save a LOT of cut and pasting...

of course, this only has specialized purposes, so perhaps belongs at the bottom of the TODO list, but still

silver, this is your lucky day. In drod.ini, set

[Startup]
ExportSpeech=1

Export the hold in question from the Holds Screen, selecting to export speech when prompted. (You don't actually have to export the hold also.)

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Naturally, this 'exportspeech' thing does not work for scrolls.

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Tim wrote:
Naturally, this 'exportspeech' thing does not work for scrolls.

That's right. There's a new feature in TCB that will export scroll text along with speech.

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gah, is it in UTF-16? wouldn't UTF-8 be friendlier to text editors? (since the 99% case would be that UTF-8 is no different from ASCII).

does someone have a recommendation for a utf-16 to utf-8 converter utility?

edit: gah. I just needed to upgrade Ultraedit from 9 to 12.



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[Last edited by silver at 08-23-2006 08:59 AM]

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silver wrote:
gah, is it in UTF-16? wouldn't UTF-8 be friendlier to text editors? (since the 99% case would be that UTF-8 is no different from ASCII).

TCB will support UTF-8.

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silver wrote:
does someone have a recommendation for a utf-16 to utf-8 converter utility?

I usually read the text on a browser, then select all text, and copy and paste it into a spelling checker.

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silver wrote:
does someone have a recommendation for a utf-16 to utf-8 converter utility?

Notepad. It reads Unicode-16 docs and has a UTF-8 format save option.

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For Linux (etc), you can use Kate (or, of course, one of those textmode editors there's constant flamewars about).

Btw, DROD doesn't use UTF-16, it uses UCS-2 (little-endian). Either will work fine as long as you only use lower values, though. (The difference is that UTF-16 can't use all 16 bits in a word for data and can extend to 32-bit for larger values, while UCS-2 is 16-bit only and can use all 16 bits).

- Gerry

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mrimer wrote:
Notepad

I am still using win2k

trick wrote:
Btw, DROD doesn't use UTF-16, it uses UCS-2 (little-endian).

fair enough

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