Exscriptor - new external script editor

[DaOpa]

Hello,

I meant such things like "Command_Get_Ware" and "Command_Return_Home". Sure all Commands ar listed, but this spezial Descriptions aren't there, or I'm not able to find them (could be )

Greetings

[Whimsy]

I meant such things like "Command_Get_Ware" and "Command_Return_Home". Sure all Commands ar listed, but this spezial Descriptions aren't there, or I'm not able to find them (could be)

You mean the normal text names of the ship commands etc? No, those aren't listed anywhere - only the 'ID' names which are all in capitals are shown. But then that's the same in the in-game editor too.

[GULIDRECK]

Hello Whimsy,

thx for your work and usefull tool!


Sorry if my english sometimes bad... (no one is perfect )

I will give you and small info about zlib1.dll.

please follow this LINK thx.

compare your zlib1.dll with that one and when possible refresh your ones with this one thx!

this should also all do, how use zlib1.dll in his programms also EGOSOFT.

to get the realy right version, coz sometimes the infile version or infile informations are wrong or not right!!, you should use an CRC32-Filecheck, to compare and find out did you have the realy right and true one...!

information for all USERS: did you have programms in use, there use a zlib1.dll (and i am sure, ALL USE THEM!), you should check the zlib1.dll's files on your windows system! the best way is to install the latest and true zlib1.dll from the LINK above, in the windows/systems32 folder... also check where you can find other zlib1.dll's in all your files & directorys, with the search command from windows and look did u can change them.

hope this was a little helpfull...


Regards
GULIDRECK


PS: for the Moderators, a STICKY with this information on all Forums-areas and all language-areas, will helpfully, all readers and users, to get this information and can do, what is to do... THX

Sure someone think, thats small bugs, BUT be warned, the problems/results how comes from them, is realy BIG & FAT and mostly, no one find the true realy problem-maker behind there...!!

[ScRaT_GER]

Sorry, but I didn't get the reason, why I should use this zlib1.dll.

Could you maybe explain it further and point out the relevance to this tool?

Greets,
ScRaT

[GULIDRECK]

Hi,

@ScRaT_GER

well i have installed this tool, after i saw, zlib1.dll v1.2.1.0 date 18.11.2003 was installed also into this directory!

i think, when it was installed with this tool, the tool use it also?!
if it so, then is the best, we use the best and buggy free one or?!

this version is extremly buggy...

to get more information about, you should follow my given above link.
for more information read and search all informations on the page or links on there.

the author of it, wrote it also self on his page.


Regards
GULIDRECK

[omarza]

Sorry, but I didn't get the reason, why I should use this zlib1.dll.

Could you maybe explain it further and point out the relevance to this tool?

Greets,
ScRaT

I might be mistaken here but zlib1.dll is basically a library file with function calls for decompressing the script files that are compressed. This means zlib1.dll shouldn't fix your problem you are having. However it is needed by Exscriptor to read the compressed data files (scripts).

Whimsy...thanks for Exscriptor...its a great script editor making life a lot easier for us.

[Cycrow]

zlib is the standard compression tool, its used to compress and uncompress most of the files, any pck files require it, as do any files inside the cat files.

the dll file is included in the game install itself, so its required for the game

[draffutt]

Hello Whimsy:

i have another little bug for yea. i messed up my 0001 file by accident in tc and this is what scriptor reported:

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even thou it was suppose to be reading the L044 file; as you can see it says it can not find the 440001 even thou i have it set for TC.

[s9ilent]

Just another small idea from me

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   <RetVar/IF> <RefObj> -> get user input: type=<Script Reference Type>, title=<Var/String>

It would be nice to have the <script reference type> selectable from somewhere. As of right now we are having to type it out manually, and use the arguments list as a frame of reference (for the available ref. types)

[Whimsy]

i think, when it was installed with this tool, the tool use it also?!
if it so, then is the best, we use the best and buggy free one or?!

I've updated the zlib DLL to the latest version now.

even thou it was suppose to be reading the L044 file; as you can see it says it can not find the 440001 even thou i have it set for TC.

Evidently I missed some of the filenames when updating everything to X3TC. This should be fixed now.

It would be nice to have the <script reference type> selectable from somewhere.

Good idea. I've added this to the object list (Objects --> Script Reference Types).

As always, the new version can be found here.

[GULIDRECK]

THX Whimsy

great work ! (i install later atm no time sorry)


Regards
GULIDRECK

[ScRaT_GER]

I have a small question on an error the Exscriptor displays.

First the error message:

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Error while loading C:\Spiele\X3 Terran Conflict\t\8100-L049.xml - loading aborted. Der Index und die Länge müssen sich auf eine Position in der Zeichenfolge beziehen.
Parametername: length

The error log says the following:

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Error Log
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Exception occurred: Error while loading C:\Spiele\X3 Terran Conflict\t\8100-L049.xml
Message: Der Index und die Länge müssen sich auf eine Position in der Zeichenfolge beziehen.
Parametername: length
Stack Trace:    bei System.String.InternalSubStringWithChecks(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Boolean fAlwaysCopy)
   bei System.String.Substring(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length)
   bei X3_Script_Editor.XData.loadLanguageFiles()
Source: mscorlib
Target: System.String InternalSubStringWithChecks(Int32, Int32, Boolean)

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The t-file #8100 is a quite long t-file containg many comments written like this:
\\ Comment here
Might that be the problem?
Ingame it's working correctly.

I hope you recognize the corresponding english texts and know what causes the problem.

Greets,
ScRaT

[Whimsy]

The t-file #8100 is a quite long t-file containg many comments written like this:
\\ Comment here
Might that be the problem?
Ingame it's working correctly.

Any chance you could upload the 8100 file somewhere? I can tell from the error message roughly what's going wrong but without the file, I can't find out the actual cause.

[Litcube]

You know what would be neat? An option in the Tools menu bar that checks all the scripts in your script directory to see if the current script is being used at all, and if so, opens all those scripts. If not, it lets you know.

This would be useful, because sometimes we make a change in the parameters in a library script thta's being used in dozens or more scripts. We often have to go back, find all of them, and change all of those script references if we make a change to a single library.

What do you think?

[Whimsy]

You know what would be neat? An option in the Tools menu bar that checks all the scripts in your script directory to see if the current script is being used at all, and if so, opens all those scripts. If not, it lets you know.

That's a good idea - you're right, it could be quite useful. I'll give it a go and see what happens.

[Litcube]

Hooraisins!

[ScRaT_GER]

Hi Whimsy,

you got mail.

Greets,
ScRaT

[mpcribeiro]

Hi,


Does it runs on XPPro 64?

I seem to have a little problem starting the app... this is the pop-up

Exscriptor.exe - Application Error

The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click OK to terminate the application


Cheers

[Ponder]

small question
If I modify the TShips did the Exscriptor notice that and add the new ships to Objects?

PS: sry for my bad english but I'm from germany

[Whimsy]

The t-file #8100 is a quite long t-file containg many comments written like this:
\\ Comment here
Might that be the problem?
Ingame it's working correctly.

I managed to investigate the problem and I've found the cause. Oddly it wasn't the comments (which is what I expected), though I am surprised that they work - normal XML comments are <!-- comments like this --> rather than C-style doubleslash comments. But X3, C#, and Internet Explorer all seem to deal with them.

Anyway, the problem turned out to be the sector IDs. The ID also contains the x/y coordinates of the sector in question, in the format 102yyxx (e.g. Kingdom End is 1020101), but the first two in your file had a different ID that Exscriptor couldn't recognise. I've improved the error handling for this now so that an invalid sector ID won't stop the whole file from loading.

You know what would be neat? An option in the Tools menu bar that checks all the scripts in your script directory to see if the current script is being used at all, and if so, opens all those scripts. If not, it lets you know.

You can revel in your hooraisins as the new version includes this function. It probably needs more testing and it's not very sophisticated, but basically there's now an option in Tools that says 'Find calling scripts'. It then scans through all the scripts (unfortunately this takes a while, during which you can't do anything else) and if it finds any that calls the currently opened script, then it prompts you to open them. Try it out and see what you think.

Does it runs on XPPro 64?

I seem to have a little problem starting the app... this is the pop-up

Exscriptor.exe - Application Error

The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click OK to terminate the application

It should run on XP 64, as far as I know. But normally that error occurs when you don't have .NET installed - do you definitely have the most up-to-date .NET Framework installed from Microsoft? If not, try that and see what happens. Otherwise, let me know and I'll investigate further.

small question Smile
If I modify the TShips did the Exscriptor notice that and add the new ships to Objects?

It should do, yes - Exscriptor reads the TShips file too, and as long as the entries there have corresponding entries in an XML file too (to give them a name), then they should show up. If not, then something may be wrong...

As per usual, the latest version is now available here.