BIF READER

**TosaInu** · 10-12-2001, 23:52

Konnichiwa,

Who made the BIFREADER? I like it very much.

We are very interested in a BIF editor and we like to talk with the author.

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Ja mata
Toda MizuTosaInu
Daimyo Takiyama Shi

http://www.takiyama.cjb.net

**Khan7** · 10-13-2001, 00:42

YES INDEED!

Perhaps they could provide the source code also? There are bound to be some other programmers in this forum who could take it and improve it. If it was made with C or C++ I might have a crack at it (though my knowledge is not too extensive).

Matt

**Trousermonkey** · 10-13-2001, 00:52

I'm certainly interested. I've been working in this direction for a while now. Drop me an email if you'd like to 'compare notes'.

nkw10tm@hotmail.com

**RSW** · 10-13-2001, 13:41

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**RSW** · 10-13-2001, 13:45

Konichiwa...
I got many new maps and new campaigns
from here. So I try to send a small gift
to those ppl who like STW and have made so much effort already.
Though my English still stays at the reading level, I would do my best to share how to do and answer your questions.

1) I can provide the source code.
But I wrote it in DELPHI 3.
You need to know the PASCAL language,
if you want to do more based on the program.
(If someone do like to see the source code,
tell me and I will upload it to the upload area.)

2) I wrote some information about the STW's BIF format in the old BIF thread. You can get a quick start from that post.

3) In my view, it's hard to write an editor.
Because you need to do too much work to provide the basic drawing tools.
I would like to draw the the images in
other good softwares (like photoshop).
Then I try to pack the images and convert them to the BIF format.
Even though, We need to do some work to
get a functional converting functions.

Anyway, I would like to know what you want
to do or what you think in the next step.
I will do my best to provide the support.
At last, I am very happy to know that you like my small gift. Thanks. ^_^

**Khan7** · 10-13-2001, 14:06

Well, if it's just a sufficient editing interface that's standing in the way, I'm sure someone has access to some already-made code that could be adapted to handle that well enough..

But hmm.. if perhaps you could either post the source code here or mail it to me.. I don't know Pascal, but I'd probably be able to get the jist of what it's doing, it would be interesting to see..

of course even if I could understand what it was doing, my knowledge of C++ is at a low enough level that I may not be able to do jack squat as far as translating and improving..

Looks like a job for.. *someone else*!

Matt

**TosaInu** · 10-13-2001, 19:38

Konnichiwa RSW san,

Domo arigato gozaimasu, we are very happy with this nice tool. There's one thing which it should be able to do. I know something about Pascal, C++ and C, but I'm not skilled enough to do anything more advanced than a double linked list that can hold objects of different classes. So I can't improve your code.

Please consult Trousermonkey san (nkw10tm@hotmail.com), he's been working on a BIF editor and knows about our 'requirements'.

Thank you very much for your support.

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Ja mata
Toda MizuTosaInu
Daimyo Takiyama Shi

http://www.takiyama.cjb.net

**RSW** · 10-13-2001, 20:40

Ok, I have put the source code (rbifsrc.zip)at the Upload area.

If you have new questions, or need further info try to find me at
rosw@venus.seed.net.tw

**TosaInu** · 10-13-2001, 22:28

Konnichiwa,

Domo arigato gozaimasu RSW san.

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Ja mata
Toda MizuTosaInu
Daimyo Takiyama Shi

http://www.takiyama.cjb.net

**Trousermonkey** · 10-15-2001, 21:54

Looks like you beat me to my own 15min of fame : )

I am researching the development of a photoshop plugin to handle all the editing aspects of the file. I had already gotten it to display the images (although there were still a few minor bugs to work out) but I wanted to avoid having to do the extra work required to put together an editor. The photoshop SDK is supposed to be a pain to write code for but it would be a really nice way to add editing functionality.

You SDK can be downloaded here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloa...s&platform=win

I hadn't done any windows graphical programming before so I've been learning as I go. I'm interested in seeing how you handle some of the problems I ran into.