In a moment of pure genius last night I ported ftmap to Win32. As its the
first time I'd loaded MS Developer studio, I thinks thats good going.
If you'd like a version that runs as a console program (i.e. in a DOS box) on
Win32 (tested on Win95) then let me know. Given tools like EXCEL I think they
could be modified to produce the data files ftmap uses, this should open the
tool up to the general FT public.
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If you want the distribution respond to me PERSONALLY and not ME TOO to the
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Hello Tim: Well I've got your program. However, I have a little trouble making
head or tail of it. I'm trying to make sense of the README file, but it still
Minbari to me. Could you help a poor, dumb, yank out?
Later,
Mark
What particular questions do you have? I went to some effort to document
everything - but you can never expect to produce documentation for all
levels of user without a lot of effort. The bits that apply to Win32 use are
at the bottom of README. The other bit to understand is the format of the data
file. If you follow the Win32 example it works and produces a map.
I too have had a dabble with the ol ftmap program and after a bit of work got
it working and producing maps just fine. One thing that is quite confusing is
the header section as windows users can't use the awk script to merge the
files. I am fortunate in having access to both unix and windows systems, and
eventually worked out that no i did not want HEADER: at the begining of the
first few lines of file. Maybe a merged file would be a gould example to
include in the distibution (there was ment to be, but
wasn't).
Over all though it's great.... All we need now is more pretty pictures for the
ships. (Narn and Centauri particuarly).
I am working on a front end program to generate the input script file for
windows. Like many of my projects it may never finish, but if it does I'll let
you know:)
I also wonder if any atempt has been made to port ftmap to visual c++ or
similar, thus making it a windows rather than dos application. The only reason
I ask is that the only language I'm any good at is VB which can't send
keystrokes to none windows programs. I am currently learning visual
c++ so maybe I won't have that problem for long.
-Michael