Re: [opendemo-devel] Re: plan for OpenDemo editor

[Dr. U. G. <Uwe...@ph...>]

Hello!

Here are the next few things about ODcut (copied out of my .plan on
machinima.com):

ODcut, the simple OpenDemo file cutter program just reached the prototype
state. It is written in plain Perl and uses XML::DOM for XML file manipulating
and WxPerl (and with it WxWindows) for the GUI. A plain console mode like in
demcut is also available.

It is already checked into CVS and needs the current OpenDemo from CVS (the
binary release opendemo-20031008 is too old).

It can cut and paste (with frame accuracy) parts of different OpenDemo files
into one. These parts may be played back backwards. There is a real time
preview window (Q3A will be remote controlled much like in KeyGrip2) and a
simple slider to seek through the input file.

It works currently with Linux and Q3A. The other games will follow. Windows
will follow, if I learn how a named pipe and symbolic links work there.

It does not do any delta expansion and re-compression yet (OpenDemo files are
delta encoded) but this is the next task, which must be done in C (Perl is a
bit too slow for real time sensitive things) and SAX (DOM is too slow at
comparing 2 document sub-trees).

Bye, Uwe