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Title: the great mystery: dlg-files
Post by: on Wed 02/06/2004 19:55:51
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
Title: Re: the great mystery: dlg-files
Post by: Hollister Man on Wed 02/06/2004 20:29:27
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.
Title: Re: the great mystery: dlg-files
Post by: Pumaman on Wed 02/06/2004 22:26:42
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.
Title: Re: the great mystery: dlg-files
Post by: on Thu 03/06/2004 11:42:13
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.
Title: Re: the great mystery: dlg-files
Post by: on Thu 03/06/2004 11:44:12
or do you think of making a AGS-plugin ...?

/me doesn't know how to. *feelingstupid*
Title: Re: the great mystery: dlg-files
Post by: Hollister Man on Thu 03/06/2004 21:30:28
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?
Title: Re: the great mystery: dlg-files
Post by: MrColossal on Thu 03/06/2004 21:53:44
the one by ca0mgr doesn't export, hollister man, so in a way it's useless when it comes to improving on AGS
Title: Re: the great mystery: dlg-files
Post by: Pumaman on Thu 03/06/2004 22:59:37
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.