RE: [Gamedevlists-brew] Alternative to BREW Resource Editor GUI?

[Paul Z. <pa...@bl...>]

I've actually been working on a BREW port of InfoZIP. It's nicer than
just GZIP since its an archive format, not just a compression format
(allows multiple compressed files in one .zip file). I've still got a
bug to fix, but once that's done I fully plan on moving all of my files
into it and getting rid of the .bar file all together.=20

Once the bug is fixed, I'll be able to create the .zip archives for my
games with common archiving tools (Winzip, IZArc, etc) which have a much
nicer GUI than the BREW Res tool (currently, however, it only extracts
from archives made with the InfoZip's Wiz.exe tool).=20

I miss integer resource names, because I can no longer load in an array
of images by saying img[i]->loadFromRes( RES_ID_IMG_01 + i), and strings
take more time to process, but it does make for more simplified and
apparent code. (And I can always edit the filename sequentially: name[4]
+=3D i; img[i]->loadFromZip( name) )

-Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: gam...@li...
[mailto:gam...@li...] On Behalf Of Bill
Kendrick
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 4:38 PM
To: gam...@li...
Subject: Re: [Gamedevlists-brew] Alternative to BREW Resource Editor
GUI?


jh...@lm... wrote:
> My solution is similar; I have long since abandoned QUALCOMM's file
format.

Isn't there a potential issue with taking up extra space when users
disable=20
your app?  (Here I'm assuming this is something that users actually do
in the=20
real world.  I don't have my own BREW phone, so I don't play with other=20
people's BREW apps much.  I can't imagine myself liking an app enough to
keep=20
it, but /still/ having some need to disable it.)

e.g., when one "disables" an app on their phone, it kills the MOD and
BAR=20
files, but that's about it.  (Then it re-downloads everything when it's=20
reactivated)

I guess it can't be too much of an issue, since I have seen so many
people=20
mention that they've stopped using BAR files. ;^)

-bill!



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