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I have been meaning to get around to this since well forever. Now that I have the technical knowledge and skill to make, design, and program a WYSIWYG editor I have actually started to make one. This editor will be unique in the fact that it will work even with new additions to the interface. If a new element in introduced it will just list it as UNKNOWN. This will allow you to change the values still however you will not see the change since the program will not know how to use the type yet. Other planned features are the ability to "play" the interface meaning have it seem like you in the game with each gauge going down then up, the animations cycle, etc... I am currently writing my own XML parser to do this since I need it to be very specific with my program. Progress will be slow, but by the end of the night I hope to have a semi working very limited parser done. My progress will be posted as I continue. Please post an ideas on features that can be added. Any useful links please also post. Also don't flame me because you think I'm just some kid who likes to talk big because this is really happening. I will also make it open source at some point after release.

08-14-2005, 12:45 AM	#1
GreenDragon An Icepaw Kobold Join Date: Oct 2002 Server: Vazaelle Posts: 89	A new WYSIWYG editor on the horizon. (With basic screensshots. new as of 4/8/07) I have been meaning to get around to this since well forever. Now that I have the technical knowledge and skill to make, design, and program a WYSIWYG editor I have actually started to make one. This editor will be unique in the fact that it will work even with new additions to the interface. If a new element in introduced it will just list it as UNKNOWN. This will allow you to change the values still however you will not see the change since the program will not know how to use the type yet. Other planned features are the ability to "play" the interface meaning have it seem like you in the game with each gauge going down then up, the animations cycle, etc... I am currently writing my own XML parser to do this since I need it to be very specific with my program. Progress will be slow, but by the end of the night I hope to have a semi working very limited parser done. My progress will be posted as I continue. Please post an ideas on features that can be added. Any useful links please also post. Also don't flame me because you think I'm just some kid who likes to talk big because this is really happening. I will also make it open source at some point after release.