Re: [Rails-devel] [Rails-users] Game status as text file

[Oliver H. <oli...@gm...>]

Help! I am not into programming at all. I tried to install all this 
Eclipse, Git and Java stuff but did not manage to build the code. 
Anybody who could build the JAR from the latest version for me?

Cheers
Oliver

Am 23.02.2012 15:50, schrieb Erik Vos:
>
> The saved game files consist of a list of serialized java objects, in 
> particular all executed player actions.  It does not contain the 
> current game state.
>
> Rails contains a standalone program class named ListAndFixSavedFiles, 
> with which saved files can be inspected and (to some extent) edited.
>
> While I was at it, I have added a very simple menu option to dump the 
> Game Status panel contents into a text file.  From the commit text:
>
>     Added StatusWindow File menu action to dump the (transposed) contents
>
>     of the GameStatus panel
>
>     into a semicolon-separated text file with ".status" extension.
>
>     Any tooltips (with additional info) are included between braces.
>
> You’ll get a file chooser popup that allows to you set the location 
> and name of the saved file, but it’s not yet intelligent enough to 
> remember previous choices: it’ll always starts with a default file 
> name.  I can change that default if you like.
>
> I hope you can use this file format.  It will not get much better than 
> this.  The tooltips have already been cleaned up a little.
>
> Regards,
>
> Erik.
>
> *From:*Oliver Heck [mailto:oli...@gm...]
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 23, 2012 3:02 PM
> *To:* Erik Vos
> *Subject:* Re: [Rails-users] Game status as text file
>
> I found that at rails.sourceforge.net/javadoc/index.html 
> <http://rails.sourceforge.net/javadoc/index.html>
>
> The physical savegame files are not XML-files, they are in some 
> proprietary format or am I wrong?
>
> Viele Grüße
>
> Oliver
>
>
>
>
>     Am 22.02.2012 um 16:19 schrieb "Erik Vos" <eri...@xs...
>     <mailto:eri...@xs...>>:
>
>         Thinking about it, a straight copy of the text in each element
>         of the JComponent[][] fieldsmatrix in class GameStatus
>         (inherited from GridPanel) might be exactly what you need.
>
>         I would start with dumping that matrix into a CSV file.
>
>
>         Erik.
>