Awesome! That sounds really neat - I'll try and give it a go over the
weekend. (Does this mean it's time to start designing app & file-type icons?
;-))
Sorry, I've been a bit quiet lately. A mixture of work, visiting friends
from abroad and vacations have kept me away from Adonthell in recent weeks.
Things are calming down a bit now though... :-)
Regards,
- James
On 14 July 2011 22:36, Kai Sterker <kai.ster...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Kai Sterker <kai.ster...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > There's one more thing on my mind, however. As discussed before, I
> > want to change the file extensions for models and maps at least, so
> > that they can be associated with the respective tools. My suggestion
> > would be .amdl and .amap (as it would be consistent with .adlg), but
> > I'm open to something else too. That will require a change to the
> > engine, so it can detect file type by peeking at the content instead
> > of just checking the extension. That way, existing models (like all
> > the test data) could keep their current .xml extension, but the new
> > ones we create for the WE remake should best be switched over to the
> > new naming scheme.
>
> This seemed more interesting than the other stuff, so worked on that for a
> bit.
>
> With newest engine and tools, you will now be able to double-click on
> .amdl files to open them in modeller. At least if you are running
> Linux. To get this working, make sure to 'make install' in
> adonthell-tools too.
>
> You will also find that I have started prefixing the tools with
> adonthell-, so you'll have to launch adonthell-dlgedit or
> adonthell-modeller now.
>
>
> And, as an added benefit, when starting modeller from the command
> line, it's no longer necessary to pass the -g and -p parameters if you
> specify a model to load. I.e.
>
> adonthell-modeller
> adonthell/wastesedge/models48/map/wall/outside/white/out-IBL.xml
>
>
> Also note that all these changes are backwards compatible. I.e. even
> without renaming all models to .amdl, stuff will still continue to
> work.
>
> Kai
>
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