From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-11-16T22:01:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Beginner needs help...

Caesar Salad wrote:
>> What's the platform?  Windows?  I suspect the answer's no, but there may
>> be hooks to do this that I don't know about.
> Yes, the platform is Windows XP, but I intend to make it available to 
> Linux as well. I'm working on an add-on for Age of Empires 2 that 
> enables the player to choose a modpack before starting the game.
Is offering a separate interface that launches the executable with the 
relevant modpack in place not an option?

>>> 2) Can I make Ruby read *.dat files and convert them into *.txt?
> The file is empires2_x1.dat, the data file from Age of Empires 2: 
> Conquerors Expansion. There's a program that does that already (for 
> modpack production), but it works quite slowly (30 minutes to produce a 
> modded data file from an edited txt).
If you can see the source to that program, it's probably worth taking a 
look to see what the file format is.  To implement a reader in Ruby, 
take a look at the bitstruct library - it's probably got everything 
you'll need.

-- 
Alex