Hey all...

I finally got around to installing CuteFTP, so I could upload the new build. As usual it *should* run if you have quest installed - please report if you cannot get it to work on a machine with Quest installed.

The prog is here.
It has a 'What's New.txt' file now, which includes stuff from versions 1.0 (well - not alot in 1.0) and from versions not released to the public.

I haven't tested the new setting (warning setting) out fully so please feel free.
And I have yet to convert quest.dat for more syntaxes... syntax's....synta - you get the point!

I was going to make a .RTF help file with this release but I started and didn't know where to start - so I gave up. Any questions I'll answer them here!

Hi CW,

Oh this is good! One suggestion is to add the "Find" function to the file menu. This would save a lot of time when I'm searching for occurances of a word throughout the ASL file.

Thanks,

Russell

hmmm

Thanks for the suggestion - am adding it to the list now.
I have a finding program made (which searches for occurences of one word/sentance, and allows you to view the text inbetween the resultant lines), but it's quite different to the way I'll have to implement the search feature in the RTF box I'm using...

This'll be the first new feature in version 1.4.

First thing I notice when running on XP is that there's not much of a border left at the bottom, which makes me wonder whether you made the same mistake I did in your Form_Resize code, namely using the form's Width and Height properties to work out how to resize your controls, when instead you ought to use ScaleWidth and ScaleHeight - as these measure the internal area of the form, ignoring things such as the window caption height. On Windows XP, if you just use Height, this includes the bigger-than-in-previous-version caption height, making your resize code lop the bottom off the form.

I think maybe you have to try this on XP to see what I mean

Also you can resize the form to zero size, whereupon you get a run-time error.

On your Settings window, when I click Apply I expect changes to take effect immediately. Instead they take effect when I close the form, which is a little non-standard. Your tab control looks rather old-fashioned but that's just a cosmetic point Also I think a fixed-width font such as Courier New is a more sensible default (though of course you may disagree)

Your Lists windows have an ugly default icon rather than a pretty icon (or no icon at all).

Other than that it's coming along nicely!

Thanks for that info. As I usually have XP without 'teletubby mode' on I don't notice that, but I made an account just for this purpose, producing (for those without XP, or without the default skin):


I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with the resize error.
I fixed a problem with the program crashing when you minimize it (how I missed that the first time round I don't know) which was in version 1.0, but now I'll need to look into the resizing to very small... The information on internal height/width might help me on another project.

I'll have settings change immediately then - it's just that since you can't (or shouldn't be able to!) goto the editor until you close the settings window then there was no point - but it's just a little bit of code anywho.
I was debating whether to close the settings when pressing the apply button or not - any preference?
I shall probably leave the tab control for version 2, since I don't want to cut everything and move it across to a new tab control .
The 'Courier New' is quite a good idea - I just couldn't be bothered to change it...
And finally onto the List's form - yeah, I deleted the icon and instead of restarting the form, or finding a better one, I left it. I'll probably replace it soon.

Thanks again for the info, any other bugs (apart from the one in the 'What's New.txt' file) please contact me...

I suggest you have the settings window have the standard OK and Cancel buttons, with OK applying the settings and closing the window, and Cancel not applying any settings and closing the window. It's how most windows in most apps work so it's best to keep things standard, otherwise things get confusing.

You can have no icon at all for the Lists windows. In VB if you select the Icon property (which will be set to "(Icon)") and hit the delete key it should remove the icon entirely, so there's no need for the ugly default one there. This is what I do for many of the windows in my programs, and it saves having to find or design an icon when there's really no need for one.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Graphics\Icons

I haven't tried it yet but by the looks of it it's gonna be good

Matthew G.

I've been meaning to get to work on this to get version 1.4 going (with a couple of fixes and whatever) but I haven't been motivated enough.

I'll get onto this after I get the battle engine done though.