A way to display mod information

[AL|EN]

Hello,

Is there any way for WeiDU to display the content of:

title/name of the mod VERSION AUTHOR

right after we run Setup-ModName.exe ?

Example:

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WeiDU version 23113
This is a non-stable version. Unless you're sure about what you're doing, consider downgrading.
Using Language [Polski]

Using lang\pl_pl/dialog.tlk and lang\pl_pl/dialogF.tlk

Test Mod 0.3

AL|EN (you@example.com)

Install Component [ALIEN NPC - BG2 - Polski]?
[R]e-Install, [N]o Change or [U]ninstall or [Q]uit?
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/7844/lbq8.png

[Kulyok]

Since some modders are absent and AUTHOR information(which means not a name, but a valid e-mail address in some cases) is not valid, and other authors would prefer not to display this, I'd propose this to be made optional, if at all.

[Wisp]

WeiDU has no real concept of the name of the mod. The closest would be the name of the TP2 file, which may or may not be informative (e.g., fl#amm.tp2) and may or may not correspond to the name of the mod folder.

[AL|EN]

But can WeiDU just read this information from AUTHOR variable? And maybe we can add EMAIL variable also ? And then just display this information or not display it, based on something like MODINFO 1/0 from tp2. What do you think?

[DavidW]

Hang on. If you're choosing from within the tp2 whether to display it in any case, why not just put a PRINT statement in the tp2?

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ALWAYS
    ACTION_IF !VARIABLE_IS_SET have_said_hello BEGIN
        OUTER_SET have_said_hello=1
        PRINT "This mod is called mymod, and is written by myname"
    END
END


[AL|EN]

Hang on. If you're choosing from within the tp2 whether to display it in any case, why not just put a PRINT statement in the tp2?

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ALWAYS
    ACTION_IF !VARIABLE_IS_SET have_said_hello BEGIN
        OUTER_SET have_said_hello=1
        PRINT "This mod is called mymod, and is written by myname"
    END
END


I don't know, you tell me  I just want to display such information before choose of the installation of the mod/components. Can you show me where is should put those lines? Right now, inserting them before "BEGIN @0" cause error.

I try also put only PRINT "This mod is called mymod, and is written by myname" before BEGIN @0 but same error. Putting it after BEGIN @0 works but that is not what i want. Anz chance to allow PRINT before BEGIN ?

[DavidW]

In the Preamble (the bit of the tp2 file before any BEGIN component commands) there is space for a set of commands that are executed at the beginning of every command; that's the ALWAYS block. However, it won't be executed until you actually try to install a component, so it's not quite what you need.

A better way to do that would be to override some of the hardcoded strings WEIDU displays in starting up. If you look in the WEIDU download folder, under examples/prompts.tra, you'll see that an awful lot of WEIDU hardcoded strings can be overridden by setting translation strings with codes less than 0. So if you're au fait with how the translation-file system works, you can do it that way. (If you're not, there are various tutorials, including in WEIDU itself.)

[AL|EN]

I know how translation system works, but to achieve what I want, I would have to change "BETA warning" string. It's impossible and it would be a very ugly hack. If this isn't to much work, I request to enable PRINT before BEGIN.

[Wisp]

I might be able to swing a new TP2 flag that could print an arbitrary message before components are handled. But that would be a feature for WeiDU 233.

[AL|EN]

I might be able to swing a new TP2 flag that could print an arbitrary message before components are handled. But that would be a feature for WeiDU 233.

No problem, I think that there are much more important functions to add