SCI Companion V3 - alpha build notes/bugs/feature requests

[troflip]

If anyone has had issues with undo in the script editor, please let me know if you can figure out a repro.

Occasionally, undo will undo way too much (and so you've essentially lost a granular log of your changes). Really annoying, because you have to basically redo, and then remove the little bits you added recently. I've been trying to track this down, but I don't know how to repro it - it seems to happen randomly.

[Kawa]

Oh yes, very much so. I have to be real careful when undoing stuff.

[troflip]

If you can figure out what causes it, please let us know. It hasn't happened to me at all today, so clearly I'm not doing the right things (or actually doing the right things )

[Kawa]

Well, off the top of my head it just looks like it undoes in too-large chunks. For example, I'd change something over on the top of a file, then scroll down to about midway and change a single character there. Undoing would take that single character and half or more of the earlier block up top.

Perhaps flushing (is that the word?) an undo state when clicking or otherwise changing the caret position (not by changing the text!) would help? In the above scenario, the undo would then only hit the one character in the middle, and leave the block up top for the next hit of Ctrl-Z.

Of course, this is all blind cellphone-in-bed rambling.

[troflip]

It's not as simple as that. I tried to diagnose it yesterday, but it was behaving correctly. No matter where I added text, an undo always undid a reasonable amount. The last few characters, the last word, the last thing pasted, etc...

But, I think I may have just found a repro using the find dialog....

[troflip]

Ok, looks like the repro is:
- do something
- then click elsewhere in the document and go type a letter  (usually you would type a space or hit enter to make a new line or something - at least that 's what I was doing when I was trying to repro it - and when you do that is breaks the ties with the current undo record)

Result, the letter (and subsequent letters) get merged with the previous undo record.

Now I have to figure out how this text editor thingy is actually supposed to work. #notmycode

[Collector]

I was going to ask doesn't the control you are using for the script editor manage the undo stack. Sounds like you would need to go through the code for that control. How much work would it be to replace it with another one?

[troflip]

It's much easier to just modify it than to replace with another control.

[Collector]

I was wondering as I seem to remember that you had mentioned before not being happy with it. Is it still being actively maintained?

[troflip]

Yeah, it annoys me, as does anything MFC-related (so, like all of SCI Companion's UI). It's not being maintained. But, that doesn't really matter, I can just make the changes I need to it. And I've made a number of modifications to it to suit SCI Companion's needs, so switching to some other syntax-coloring editor doesn't really make sense.

[OmerMor]

I found out (actually was told by csnover from scummvm) that SCI Companion can open and even decompile SCI2.1 games.
The trick is to rename the resources from resmap.nnn and ressci.nnn to resource.map/nnn.

I tested it on Hoyle 5 (Classic Games) and it worked perfectly.

It would be nice if SCI Companion could support these games natively, but until then renaming the files is a good workaround.

[Kawa]

Wait what?!

Edit: can confirm, LSL7 doesn't seem to work at all resource-wise, GK2 works for graphics.

[troflip]

The trick is to rename the resources from resmap.nnn and ressci.nnn to resource.map/nnn.

How does the naming scheme work? Like, why does the master resource map have a number?

[Kawa]

How does the naming scheme work? Like, why does the master resource map have a number?

That must be why the GK2 scripts and such were just plain missing -- they'd be listed in RESMAP.001, while I looked in RESMAP.000

[lskovlun]

How does the naming scheme work? Like, why does the master resource map have a number?

That must be why the GK2 scripts and such were just plain missing -- they'd be listed in RESMAP.001, while I looked in RESMAP.000

Actually, they hide in RESSCI.PAT (the corresponding map being RESMAP.PAT) 
EDIT:  And to answer troflip's question, there is one per CD, and an additional one to copy to the hard drive.
EDITEDIT And .AUD and .SFX volumes too.