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Offline jcompton

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Feature Request: conditional COPY_EXISTING
« on: July 25, 2002, 01:18:11 AM »
Here's the scenario:

We want to give Anomen dream-script material in TOB. PDIALOG.2DA defines ANOME25D.bcs, but it does not actually exist in-game. (It's not even a stub, it's just flat-out not there.)

So here's the situation: We can, of course, copy in a new one, but then if someone else comes along and does the same thing...blah.

FORBID/REQUIRE_FILE WOULD get us around the problem, but that's not very user-friendly. "Install Kelsey TOB V1 (Pick this one if you're pretty sure that nobody else has come along and made major changes to Anomen.)" ... eh.

Soooooo... how about some sort of conditional COPY_EXISTING that allows us to say "Okay. If this .bcs exists, we would like to COPY_EXISTING it. If it doesn't exist, please copy in our new version."                    
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Feature Request: conditional COPY_EXISTING
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2002, 01:23:13 AM »
Actually, I didn't explain the scenario quite right.

We'd like to do this:

If ANOME25D.bcs exists, we want to EXTEND_BOTTOM it.

If it doesn't, we'd like to COPY ours over.

Thoughts?                    



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« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2002, 02:21:09 PM »
I absolutely support this request. This way we could set a new compatibility solutions in cases where our mod would kill another one or we could totally reject installations of certain modified files (items) that exist in previous mod(s).

My actual example:
SPfixpack (WeiDU form) is NOT compatible with Baldurdash's fixpack, because Baldurdash already cleared things from hex point of view, so WeiDU will simply drop out of installation with an error if someone tries to delete erroneous part of an bugged item that Baldurdash already made.                    



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« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2002, 04:50:23 PM »
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I absolutely support this request. This way we could set a new compatibility solutions in cases where our mod would kill another one or we could totally reject installations of certain modified files (items) that exist in previous mod(s).

My actual example:
SPfixpack (WeiDU form) is NOT compatible with Baldurdash's fixpack, because Baldurdash already cleared things from hex point of view, so WeiDU will simply drop out of installation with an error if someone tries to delete erroneous part of an bugged item that Baldurdash already made.
Sorry to hijack your thread jc, but since I see Extremist posting on here I might as well ask him now.

I've being working on combing all the Baldurdash fixes/cheats into WeiDU form as well Exremist.  I have everything done except the SOA bugfixes, and well, since you've done that already, I'm wondering if you mind if I add it to my installer as well.  I'll give you full credit for it of course, and you can even check my work thus far if you want.

Yes/no?                    

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« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2002, 04:33:57 PM »
I've mailed you about this. Since it is fix/cheat/tweak compilation by Baldurdash, please use his bugfix solutions.
My solutions are mostly different than his ones.
And trust me, my solutions are not nor can be compatible with his works.

And as I've already said number of times, I don't want to have anything with cheats/tweaks unless the pack is called CHEAT or TWEAK with big letters, regardless what Wes says.

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If I see it right, you think that I've transformed Baldurdash's bugfixes into WeiDU format. If you think that, you're wrong. All and I mean ALL fixes I wrote by myself - from the scratch. Some of the fixes will be the same of course, but you can't make a different fix when it's about removing some effect from an item, right?
Anyway, not a single fix in my fixpack is from Baldurdash's fixpack.                    



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« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2002, 12:10:24 AM »
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Actually, I didn't explain the scenario quite right.

We'd like to do this:

If ANOME25D.bcs exists, we want to EXTEND_BOTTOM it.

If it doesn't, we'd like to COPY ours over.

Thoughts?
I can add:

IF predicate THEN tp2_actions [ ELSE tp2_actions ] ENDIF

as a tp2 action. So you could say:

IF this-file-exists THEN EXTEND_BOTTOM blah ELSE COPY blah2 ENDIF

This will take about 10 minutes (== very simple).

Please list all predicates you think you would like (I can add more later, but a good seed set). For example, "file exists" "file size is ]= X" "file contains string Y".                    

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« Reply #6 on: August 02, 2002, 12:24:55 AM »
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I can add:

IF predicate THEN tp2_actions [ ELSE tp2_actions ] ENDIF
                   Ah. I'd been wondering for a while why .tp2 didn't have if/then/else but I also couldn't think of any real reason to need it so I kept my mouth shut. :)

We'll work up a list. Thanks.                    
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« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2002, 10:26:29 PM »
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We'll work up a list. Thanks.
                   ...maybe some other time, since 62 is already out. :)

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« Reply #8 on: August 02, 2002, 11:02:21 PM »
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We'll work up a list. Thanks.
Sorry we weren't faster
Not at all. You are one my few, proud, "valued users". :-) You are certainly not beholden to me to exhibit any sort of celerity. Just let me know if it works.                    

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« Reply #9 on: August 04, 2002, 12:32:21 AM »
Just dropping by to report success.

A few places where improvements could be made, which I'll list at the end of this post.  First; the code that actually worked.

ACTION_IF        // Start an IF/THEN/ELSE statement
  FILE_EXISTS ~override\anome25d.bcs~    // Doesn't work with just ~anome25d.bcs~, so if it's hidden in a .bif it won't work.
  THEN BEGIN
EXTEND_BOTTOM ~anome25d.bcs~ ~kelseytob\scripts\j#ano25d.bcs~ // Added a fake little script, and it appended fine.
END
  ELSE BEGIN
COPY ~KelseyToB\Scripts\J#Ano25D.bcs~ ~override\ANOME25D.bcs~ // When the fake script was gone, the entire script was copied.
END

So there you go.  As for the room for improvements, see above comment about not checking .bif's.  I don't suppose it's likely, but if someone puts out a mod that--*ahem!*--has a chitin.key and new .BIFs we'll want to be able to look for them.

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« Reply #10 on: August 04, 2002, 12:22:18 PM »
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Just dropping by to report success.

Great!

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So there you go.  As for the room for improvements, see above comment about not checking .bif's.  I don't suppose it's likely, but if someone puts out a mod that--*ahem!*--has a chitin.key and new .BIFs we'll want to be able to look for them.

I'm not clear on exactly what power you want here. Are you looking for a new predicate? If so, when should it be true and when should it be false?                    

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« Reply #11 on: August 04, 2002, 03:48:42 PM »
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I'm not clear on exactly what power you want here. Are you looking for a new predicate? If so, when should it be true and when should it be false?
                   I believe he wants FILE_EXISTS to be able to look both in the designated directory (override, in this case), and through the BIFFs listed in chitin.key.

                   
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« Reply #12 on: August 04, 2002, 05:11:37 PM »
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I'm not clear on exactly what power you want here. Are you looking for a new predicate? If so, when should it be true and when should it be false?
I believe he wants FILE_EXISTS to be able to look both in the designated directory (override, in this case), and through the BIFFs listed in chitin.key.
                   I will include that predicate in the next weidu release.                    

 

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