the great mystery: dlg-files

[dopefish]

first of all i excuse my bad english.

i intend to make a tool for making dialogs. (i know that there is one, but that one doesn't fit to our requirements )
but i have a problem i writing the dlg-file, that should be imported in AGS.

the script itself is not the problem. There is a lot of text, which cannot be displayed.

does anyone knows how to write dlg-files, or to display the whole content?

sincerely
dopefish

[Hollister Man]

Its documented in the last stable update of the engine, and in the (now locked) beta thread that is slowly moving downwards on the forum.

[Pumaman]

Rather than trying to interpret the dlg file, you might do better to export it yourself with the COM Plugin API in whatever format you want.

[dopefish]

You seem to know what you're talking about  but i don't really understand what you mean.
I never worked with API-functions, but i couldn't imagine, that they make a file working automatically.

[dopefish]

or do you think of making a AGS-plugin ...?

* dopefish doesn't know how to. *feelingstupid*

[Hollister Man]

Okay, in the beginning post you asked how to write .dlg files.  You can't really without programming something.  Either a standalone program, or a plugin that uses the API functions.

You have not really explained why neither the built-in dialog editor nor the one programmed by ca0mgr would be inadequate.  Why are they not useable?

[MrColossal]

the one by ca0mgr doesn't export, hollister man, so in a way it's useless when it comes to improving on AGS

[Pumaman]

If you don't want to write a plugin, then the dlg file format is indeed documented in the TECHINFO.TXT file in the v2.61 docs folder.