shadriel

ok you UI editing fiends with your mass amounts of quickly updated UI's... just what program are u using to do it with? sidlwidl is so outdated now that i'm lucky if even 1 out every 10 UI pieces i try to load up with it, will actually load, the rest either do nothing at all, or it tells me there is an error. its driving me nuts! i'm so frustrated i'm contemplating learning some programming languages just so i can fix that durned sidlwidl dinosaur myself. don't get ur hopes up on me fixing it any time soon tho, programming langs confuse me to hell atm /cry. plz tell me one of u has a working editor, better than sidlwidl, i don't even care if i have to buy it, so long as its not a ridiculous price, i just want a usable editor for my EQUI, between notepad and sidlwidl, i feel like i'm just stumbling around in the dark here. i've managed ok for over a year now, but its just gotten too far behind. plz help =/

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shadriel

well i guess thats a no, none of u has anything better than sidlwidl /sigh... after a few more days of frustration i've decided to give a shot at fixing the program myself, or attempting to write a new one based off it if i can figure out how. (Sidlwidl has been driving me batty for too long, now i've got delusions of fixing it omg halps!! time to have me committed for sure!) i've been wanting to learn how to do that sort of stuff for a while anyway. like i said before tho, don't get ur hopes up too much LOL, i think i just may b in over my head here. i've ordered some books on programming with C and C++ tho, so maybe teh EQ interface world will get lucky! i've got loads of free time and nothin better to do besides some more EQ, so i'll b givin it my best shot. heheh, if i do succeed, you guys will b the first to know, wish me luck =)

Egras

I have really moved on to mostly notepad and use SIDLWIDL for the little stuff. I feel your pain as this was the staple program for newer coders and its a real pain to remove parts of the xml for SIDL to understand them.

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nilepez

Is the source code available anywhere? What lanaguage was it written in? My guess it's in some .Net language, but I guess it could be in C. Of course it doesn't matter if you don't have access to the source.

shadriel

the source code for sidlwidl? as far as i know, it was never released, but it may be out there somewhere and i just don't know it. i haven't looked for it yet, since i don't know enough yet for it to matter lol

nilepez

You really want to know what the source is (assuming it's available) before you learn a language. After all, you want to be able to read whatever he's written and possibly modify it (assuming it's not a total mess).

As i said, I think he used VB (possibly .net) or C#, but I don't know for sure and C++ is possible. I know I'd need to know a lot more about Sidl than I do.

Zanl

There is an SVN Archive of the source code as of 2005-08-09 at svn://svn.jrh.net/EQUI . One of these days I am going to get around to looking at this and seeing what I can figure out. However, I know very little about .net and I am just not sure how many more new tricks this old dog can learn. Any .net wizards out there?