Spring RTS Engine

any one know of any tools that can take txt formated files such as fbis or what ever and do a batch file addition or maybe a string replacement?
such as say i ahev 200 units or so and with the new release of spring i decide to impliment a new feature that is shared by many units such as nanocolor=.50 .50 .75; or what ever... i could just drop all my fbi files in and tell it to add that string to the end maybe a replace } with
nanocolor=.50 .50 .75; and a }. that would work?

oh the time it would save me and many other modders

Ultra Edit 32 does this beautifully, costs a few bucks though.

There's a project over at Sourceforge called Notepad++ or Notepad+ or something that may have similar functionality though, and it'll be free.

http://www.vim.org - the One True Editor. Takes a little while to learn it, though

The site seems to be down.

Ultra Edit 32 for the Win.

(Amased someone else uses/heard of it)

aGorm

I use Advanced Find and Replace. It allows for advanced grep-parser stuff, like variable calculations- you can literally do stuff like, "find every hitpoint value X, multiply by Y, and then change X"

Some pretty serious stuff, Maybe I'll need it some day..

Caydr wrote:The site seems to be down.

Oh my god...

::head explodes::

Probably those Emacs terr'ists.

EditPlus 2 is pretty decent but it's not free either. Got regex search/replace functions but you can't have it multiply anything. Also regex is very slow in EP2 (for mass replacements >100k) but I managed to jump to certain values in one keystroke highlighting them which is neat.

Working on it. I've got an app I've built that takes an XML config file of simple modifications, parses the whole project tree, and then spits out a mutator with non-destructive modifications (so you keep your comments and formatting - although any new elements may not be properly tabbed).

The catch is that I can't find a good app that can read Microsoft's XSD (XML type-definition) file to provide non-painful autocomplete.... everything but the built-in DotNet tools and Visual Studio itself insist that the autogenerated XSD and XML files don't validate. Even MS's XML Notepad gets confused.... and working without autocomplete on this stuff is pretty nasty.

http://fileuniverse.com/?p=showitem&ID=1680

My FBI editor. Load stuff in, and you can do batch operations using the tools in the extra menu. A little bit of Excel knowhow is required to use this to its full potential, but even if you dont know much bout Excel its pretty handy.