Reply To: MWEdit
Are the wide characters versions still necessary? There’s been a lot of Unicode support added to Windows since then
Could be useful to add one to open a file from the command line. Mod managers could then easily let you choose to edit a file, for instance. Pretty easy to implement, would just need to brush up on the specific format. Can definitely add it to the wishlist. Can’t think of any others that would be helpful, can you?
Was thinking Meson since it is easier to read. It didn’t yet exist when I was working on BOSS but I do like what I’m reading about it. That’s definitely not set in stone, though
Got OpenMW mostly set up today for future testing. Morrowind itself (before OpenMW was installed as I had to generate the INI file) complained about it missing the plugin files even though they were enabled and had to disable them and enable them again before I could get it to launch. Still need to tweak the settings but it’s probably good enough for now. May try playing the game at some point. 😛
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cxxopts looks like a nicely done library for more complex command line arguments. Looked at gflags and Boost.Program Options and they were a bit more cumbersome to use
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A lot of the macros can probably be switched over to static const variables now that I think about it, going back to the earlier post about them.
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There are a lot of pragmas that deal with memory alignment. Since MWEdit doesn’t work with accessing memory, we may be able to remove them without any kind of ill effects. Will require research
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The conversion to constructors and destructors may be a bit cumbersome as the code heavily relies on custom create and destroy functions. That may be more easily done with a real IDE as opposed to a text editor so will put it on the back burner for now.