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CypherJF - Sat Feb 14, 2004 2:28 pm
Post subject: Continuum F1 Editor - v.1.2 (beta5) released.

04/30/2007 - Any references to subspacenetwork.com are no longer valid. My homepage is now http://cypherjf.sscentral.com/ and should be that way for some time. I'd highly recommend using this for now, please post any bugs you find.

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download here:
http://subspacedownloads.com/index.php?act=file&fid=1059

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I have included a new F1 Browser on page two of this topic, you may want to check it out.

Continuum WYSIWYG F1 Editor v.1.2 is released...
Last Updated w/ Release: 04/19/2007

Note: this is still considered a 'beta', but is considered more stable than v.1.1

Get it here -- http://www.subspacenetwork.com/f1editor/, or at the bottom of this post.

(sorry for no direct link, this way I would be able to update the file more efficiently with new releases. ie: for when i change it from a beta, to a stable release.)

Release Notes:
04/30/2007 - V. 1.2 (beta) released:
+ Fixed support for %p and %P tags; beta4 had the wrong Pink/Purple matches.
+ Removed %K code.

04/19/2004 - V. 1.2 (beta) released:
+ Added support for the %K tag.
+ Updated: Colors are "web-safe" now.

02/21/2004 - V. 1.2 (beta3) released:
+ Fixed the % Loaded/Saved so it is no longer a decimal.
+ New color for Blue/Purple selected.
+ Fixed: Blue/Pink get saved as green issue.

02/15/2004 - V. 1.2 (beta2) released:
+ Added support for the %b tag, which is the red (chat text)
+ Added support for the %P tag, and %p tag.
+ Fixed: 'save on exit' function.
+ Added the 'colors' & 'macros' menu, on the top menu.
+ Duplicate files in the recent file list will not appear.
+ Added a 'mini help'.

02/14/2004 - V. 1.2 (beta) released:
(Many thanks goto Saion for profiling the program error bugs, features, etc.)
+ Added Scrollbar's, oops!

+ 'Pure White' text issue, hopefully this is resolved.
+ Added: Right click -> Macro list.
+ Changed the 'click a color' to select your text, and right click.
+ Added a caption to let you know which window title you are in.
+ Added: now you can type %(color key), and it will change the color of to be typed text.
Note: It is case sensitive. so %w and %W are different.
+ Added: Percent status for load/safe functions. -- also optomized the 'load' function, faster loading.
+ Changed: the whole new/open/save deal. You can now create a new file without saving first.

If you have any questions/comments/suggestions/bug reports -- please let me know by posting here here or by e-mailing me SScypherjf at yahoo dot com.

Original Dev Thread: (explains more in detail what this is, etc.)
http://forums.minegoboom.com/viewtopic.php?t=2106

Dev Homepage:
http://www.subspacenetwork.com/f1editor/

Reported (Acknowledged) Issues
* none reported as of this beta3 *
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* any 'done' or 'fixed' items will be included in next compile/release.
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Odds and Ends
- Possible addition of Buttons for Colors/Macros (toolbars). (MGB)
- More efficient load/save functions.
- A decent help file.
- 'Preview' feature (Saion)
. tabbed source/wysiwyg view
. powerpoint like control to move 'windows' around.
- export to HTML/LVZ
- find a fix to the '%b'ounty issue.
- margin specification (Saion) {will need specifications}

Mine GO BOOM - Sat Feb 14, 2004 2:53 pm
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Added link to the Rules thread here.

Anonymous - Sat Feb 14, 2004 4:57 pm
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sweeetness lol

Cyan~Fire - Sat Feb 14, 2004 5:34 pm
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Sweet. This is gonna be really useful. Gj!

Why does it take so long to open files??

CypherJF - Sat Feb 14, 2004 6:08 pm
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Cyan~Fire wrote:

Sweet. This is gonna be really useful. Gj!

thank-you, thank-you

lol..

Cyan~Fire wrote:

Why does it take so long to open files??

I discussed this privately with Cyan~Fire, it's just how my methods are implemented, which cause it to be slow. I'll try and focus on this issue, probably in the next release in (1.3 or greater). The functions work as they are now, and I know they're painfully slow. BUT I did manage to get them optomized even more in 1.2, so everyone should be happpppy

lol...

Mine GO BOOM - Sat Feb 14, 2004 6:50 pm
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You could add buttons to the top, in which you could select text color you want. And maybe buttons for the %KEYs. Atleast add the right-click menu into the main menu somewhere.

How about fixing the recent history? Don't add the same link in there twice, just reposition it instead.

CypherJF - Sat Feb 14, 2004 7:31 pm
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Mine GO BOOM wrote:

You could add buttons to the top, in which you could select text color you want. And maybe buttons for the %KEYs. Atleast add the right-click menu into the main menu somewhere.

Buttons... I've had problems with the toolbar control w/ VB, so I've begun to hate it. Thats why I prefer the right click button

but I'll write in the notes to consider at a later time. -- in regards to buttons: do you mean seperate buttons for the %KEYs_ to bring up a menu? or different button per key?

Mine GO BOOM wrote:

How about fixing the recent history? Don't add the same link in there twice, just reposition it instead.

Done. Will be in next release.

btw, MGB could you lock -> http://forums.minegoboom.com/viewtopic.php?t=2106 for me plz?

Mine GO BOOM - Sat Feb 14, 2004 10:24 pm
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CypherJF wrote:

Buttons... I've had problems with the toolbar control w/ VB, so I've begun to hate it. Thats why I prefer the right click button but I'll write in the notes to consider at a later time. -- in regards to buttons: do you mean seperate buttons for the %KEYs_ to bring up a menu? or different button per key?

Well, I'm more of thinking of good toolbars, in which you can right-click to enable/disable them, thus you can choose if you like the one with every single %KEY in a button form. But if too hard, thats good. But, I'd recommend making a better help file in it, in which it tells people that the stuff is in the right-click menu.

CypherJF wrote:

btw, MGB could you lock -> http://forums.minegoboom.com/viewtopic.php?t=2106 for me plz?

Bah, I'm lazy, you do it (hint hint).

CypherJF - Sat Feb 14, 2004 10:34 pm
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I agree, people won't know to right click to insert such things, etc etc. I'll try and get something going with that in a next release, but definately something that I will try and add.

2nd portion:
'Nice'... I'll go do that right now

CypherJF - Sun Feb 15, 2004 12:20 am
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A bug which I wouldn't have thought about was found, and fixed in the download now available:

for those who used %P and %p in a file (that you opened), the %P was inturpreted as pink, as it should be purple... not that big deal, but now it's been fixed, you'll probably need to re-check your file, if you fall into this category...

Okay, so yeah.. make sure you grab the newest BETA.... plus enjoy some beta fixes

please comment on anything you might discover in the mean time....

Anonymous - Wed Feb 18, 2004 5:50 pm
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hi , what program Can I use to edit the settings of a server?

instead of manually editing the ,cfg file.

CypherJF - Wed Feb 18, 2004 6:00 pm
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Question:

Cruis.In wrote:

...what program Can I use to edit the settings of a server? instead of manually editing the ,cfg file.

CFG files can be edited with a program called FACT's, You can find the link to this program (I believe), on the "Rules for User-Apps" sticky in this topic.

Or just check on SubspaceDownloads.com - Files - Editors -- I know they have it there also. They have a config editor, but becareful not to minimize the CFG editor, to my knowledge, it'll create an error and crash FACTs....

CypherJF - Fri Feb 20, 2004 1:44 am
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User noted: the save/load functions don't round the loading % value; my bad! I took out the round() to help speed up the process... I'll work on choppin down that decimal rotfl...

Suggestion noted: Blue and Purple are extremely close -- I replied, give me some good #HEX colors; ie: color format of that on a webpage; yeah...
and ill consider using them... But at this moment, I took random pixels off of the shortfont.bm2 for my color selection...

CypherJF - Fri Feb 20, 2004 9:32 pm
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D1st0rt suggested:

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good blue/purple 00BBEE/9966FF

Thank-you. Those colors were accepted and will be used.

Anonymous - Sat Feb 21, 2004 3:54 pm
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Blue and pink get saved as green.

CypherJF - Sat Feb 21, 2004 4:37 pm
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Thank-you guest!

Fixed: Beta3 released.

Qndre - Sun Feb 22, 2004 6:07 am
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This version needs an older version of commondialog than included in Windows XP. Please fix that bug. Program doesn't run. But a great idea.

CypherJF - Sun Feb 22, 2004 1:08 pm
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I do not know of a newer Common Dialog Control that came w/ XP. Because that is what I use, XP Home. You can find the common dialog control that I use, on the website...

Qndre - Sun Feb 22, 2004 1:57 pm
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Hehe. You can't just download and use new libraries like the commondialog of Microsoft. I know that but I tried it out. You have to register the objects and libraries so that they become part of the system and part of the kernel. Great idea but actually doesn't work.

SuSE - Sun Feb 22, 2004 4:03 pm
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Qndre wrote:

is that something new with XP? It's not a problem on older OSs afaik

Qndre - Sun Feb 22, 2004 4:17 pm
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Akai wrote:

[..]

is that something new with XP?

No. Every version of windows needs to have system components (DLLs, Libraries, ActiveX-Components, etc.) registered. That's why I love Linux.

The programs don't become part of the system in Linux. But in Windows they do.

Dr Brain - Sun Feb 22, 2004 8:11 pm
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Qndre wrote:

[..]

No. Every version of windows needs to have system components (DLLs, Libraries, ActiveX-Components, etc.) registered. That's why I love Linux.

The programs don't become part of the system in Linux. But in Windows they do.

Wrong with at least the DLL part. And seeing as the libraries are DLLs, you are wrong there too.

And LOL about Linux not doing that. It's a lot worse on Linux. I love linux, but that isn't one of the reasons why.

CypherJF - Mon Feb 23, 2004 1:22 am
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Uh huh, this has gone off topic...

Qndre wrote:

This version needs an older version of commondialog than included in Windows XP. Please fix that bug. Program doesn't run. But a great idea.

If you could please screen shot and send it to me... it'd be great help thanks - cypherjf at subspacenetwork dot com

wEaViL - Mon Feb 23, 2004 1:33 am
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ok so if your running xp pro and it says the ocx "is not registered or missing" then how do you get it to work? I tryed putting it in the windows, windows/system. and the windows/system32 folders but nothing worked.....

CypherJF - Mon Feb 23, 2004 2:10 am
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Put it in your X:\Windows\system32\

Then start-> run->

regsvr32 "X:\windows\system32\nameofOCX.ocx"

replace X w/ w/e drive letter, and nameofOCX with the name of the file...

wEaViL - Mon Feb 23, 2004 2:25 pm
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Thankx... works now

CypherJF - Mon Feb 23, 2004 2:27 pm
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No problemo!

Glad to hear..

Kliff - Fri Feb 27, 2004 4:15 pm
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The download link from your site seems to broken.

CypherJF - Fri Feb 27, 2004 4:53 pm
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Sorry about that, fixed. :-/... I hate when edits get overwrote...

Qndre - Sat Feb 28, 2004 5:25 am
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I overwrote the commondialog version which came with XP with yours. Now your software works.

CypherJF - Wed Mar 03, 2004 2:10 am
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My harddrive crashed, but no worries the sourcecode is saved

... but it'll be a while until I can get going on the project again. Anyhow..

note2self: how about an export to html?

Smong - Tue Mar 09, 2004 2:14 pm
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CypherJF wrote:

give me some good #HEX colors; ie: color format of that on a webpage; yeah...and ill consider using them

I read this a long time ago, I just got a spare few minutes to change the color picker in my paint program to hex. My memory remembered your post incorrectly, here are websafe colours:

gray: 999999
green: 66CC66
blue: CCCCFF
red: FF3300
yellow: FFCC33
purple 9966FF
orange: FF9933
pink: FF9999

Thought I'd post it as someone could make use of my waste of time.

CypherJF - Thu Apr 15, 2004 9:41 am
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Was working on a new 'engine' for the editor, and designed this 'F1 Browser'.

edit: Found an hypothetical issue, %Y%%Ybounty
The code removes the color tags at the end, resulting first off:
%bounty, which is correct. but when it comes time to remove %b tags,
ounty is left. So I flipped this around, so %b is checked first, then to %W, so the word %b<something> wont get erased. :/

Yeah, Imma figure this one out

haha..

fixed:
- 1 scene issue.
- minor code issues.

CypherJF - Sat Apr 17, 2004 5:59 pm
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There are a few issues left before I would consider releasing this, but here are a couple screen shots from the new editor... See attachments.

Anonymous - Sat Apr 17, 2004 6:02 pm
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So long as load/save is fast and the colours match SS it will be OK.

CypherJF - Sat Apr 17, 2004 7:12 pm
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Okay, yes I did use your suggested web-safe colors; for the colors in the WYSIWYG portion.

'Source' view - allows you to edit your source code directly.

'Viewer' view - allows you to be able to edit the F1 file w/ a WYSIWYG style.

To be done:
Viewer -> insert, delete "windows".
Export -> .hlp, .lvz, .html

Issues:
Will notify the user that 'changes have been made' and will you like to update your source: when you open -> switch to viewer -> and back, and the F1 wasn't made w/ the editor. This is simply because of the checker, saying: I have this copy of what the source should look like, this is what I generated it to be, so there's a mismatch, let's use my version. Make sense, it's not that big of a deal but it can be anoying/misleading..

What I like to call the '%b'ounty issue. I need a better way to remove %- tags properly. Right now it loops through replacing("%" & the letter) with "", in this order: W,P,Y,R,G,B,p,b. So if %Y%%Ybounty%W, it'd loop through remove the %Y, leaving %bounty, but then it'll chop out the %b also, leaving 'outy'... So as a temporary fix, i switched the order... so it:
%bounty.

But that could leave issues for other possibilities, make sense

lol..

edit:
Also the issue of tooltip only allowing a very limited # of characters for the path. Possibly write my own tooltip :/?

Mine GO BOOM - Sat Apr 17, 2004 7:17 pm
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CypherJF wrote:

screen shots from the new editor... See attachments.

May I recommend png format for screenshots of programs in the future? Much clearer (lossless) and smaller file sizes.

CypherJF - Sat Apr 17, 2004 7:52 pm
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fine fine, be so picky MGB

pft haha

Cyan~Fire - Sun Apr 18, 2004 2:41 pm
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Why don't you parse all the '%' at the same time? Just search for it and then decide color based on the letter afterwards.

CypherJF - Sun Apr 18, 2004 7:03 pm
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The same would happen cause it'd think the %b in %bounty would be a color.. hMmm

edit:

I don't think there will be a true way of verifying it... I mean, yeah :/ unless I have a list of built in 'do not touch' text or something i dunno.

Doggeti - Mon Apr 19, 2004 5:50 pm
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Evaluate every % and if the user really wants a % to be printed out he has to write %%.

So, go through code, when you come to a % check next character. If it's a color indicator set the color; If it's a % print out a %; Otherwise ignore it.

CypherJF - Mon Apr 19, 2004 7:01 pm
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my older version did this: loaded the file went through every character (bad!!), and checked the next character to see if it's a color or 'K' tag, and if it was, it ignored it from the richtextbox.

How I setup this newer one, is it goes through the richtextbox finding the % and tries and locate the next one if there's a color tag following it, but doesn't remove these tags until the end, until i just do a string replace... which is bad in itself..

So, ...

the %% wouldn't be compatable w/ continuum, if I'm understanding you correctly.

Smong - Tue Apr 20, 2004 8:32 am
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Out of the commands.hlp:
%Y%%Ybounty%W Your bounty

So shouldn't you process %b first?

CypherJF - Tue Apr 20, 2004 9:18 am
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Thats what I'm doing to resolve it for now; I can't think of any commands that begin with any of the other letters: B K P R W Y b p. hmMm.. wow i just love randomly typing up thoughts I have and posting em

Cyan~Fire - Tue Apr 20, 2004 5:46 pm
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The thing is if you parsed all '%' by themselves, the "%%Ybounty" wouldn't be a problem.

CypherJF - Thu May 27, 2004 9:38 am
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Lang: Visual Basic 6

Here is the source to my newer non-released version of the F1 Editor. As I have very little time to invest in this project anymore; I have several idea's started but not completed. Many area's could be optomized, etc. You will have to forgive the messy-ness of the code, but it works.

A condition on use of my source: You must publically state that this program was originally coded by CypherJF (ssCypherJF@yahoo.com).

Please feel free to let me know of any progress you make; and compiles you release.

Adios.
CypherJF (ssCypherJF@yahoo.com)
05/2004

CypherJF - Mon Jul 12, 2004 7:38 pm
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Sorry for the bump, I -just- realized, that it'd be smart to check for the max lines for a window..

CypherJF - Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:53 pm
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Build 1.4 beta 5 has been released to appease those people who were having fits about the pink and purple tags. After reviewing the source a bit more it appears %K stuff in beta4 may have caused some issues (no one said anything? or maybe I did something un-released in the meantime). Anyway, check this out and post any issues that you encounter (though you shouldn't!). Yes, the last release was 3 years. Yes, Vb6 does run on Vista, surprisingly.

Hakaku - Sat May 26, 2007 11:27 am
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Same minor bug: In the original Continuum one, everything works perfectly. In the F1 editor's version, there's a problem in the line "%Y%%bounty%W", whereas the following gets colored red in continuum (%b). (perhaps adding the brown font would help to know beforehand)

Continuum:

Quote:

%Y%%Yfreq%W Your frequency
%Y%%Ybounty%W Your bounty

F1 Editor's original commands.hlp:

Quote:

%Y%%freq%W Your frequency
%Y%%bounty%W Your bounty

F1 editor's resaving of original Continuum one:

Quote:

%Yfreq%W Your frequency
%Ybounty%W Your bounty

And a second bug (when typing non-standard characters):
"Invalid run-time error '380':
Invalid property value"

Another small bug: When using the macros, I add one, but then remove it using "ctrl+z". I decide to add another one, and it's illegible (i.e. black font on black background).

And two last small things: The black background doesn't fully stretch to match the box, so I can partially see a bit of my desktop. - And, it's possible to copy+paste things into the F1 editor (such as pictures or files); but it doesn't affect anything after its saved though.

Other than all that, I think it's pretty well done! If there'd ever be a next version, I'd be nice to have pages for each f1 thing (e.g. everytime it reads #title, start new page). - PS: The max lines that Continuum allows is 36 after the title, and from left to right is illimited.