How do you do it?

[OOTPinSTL]

How do you folks make all these nice utilities? Is there some program you use?

I'm only asking, because I've got some ideas for some of my own, but I have no clue how to go about it.

[Tony M]

I can't speak for everyone here because everyone has their own way of doing things.

I use Visual Basic to write my stuff, and I wrote a dll that allows me to read and write directly to the .dat files. I know that some people access the csv's to do their utilities (Comedian2004 for example)

[Khaos]

Originally Posted by redsoxford

I can't speak for everyone here because everyone has their own way of doing things.

I use Visual Basic to write my stuff, and I wrote a dll that allows me to read and write directly to the .dat files. I know that some people access the csv's to do their utilities (Comedian2004 for example)

So OOTP7 is done in .net?

I ask since you are using OOP to access the dat files.

I'm old. My first programming class was Fortran (Wat FIV compiler) then Pascal. I liked Assembler the best. I'm weird that way.

I wasn't cut out for programming though. I went the network-infrastructure-sysadmin route.

Now I manage all open source and admin a linux-apache-tomcat-jboss environment with all the apps done in java. I also built a CVS and Luntbuild server for the developers to use.

I'd love to learn a little more about your dll some time. I wouldn't mind dabbling again. I have VB somewhere in my office that I can install again.

[Tony M]

Originally Posted by Khaos

So OOTP7 is done in .net?

I ask since you are using OOP to access the dat files.

I don't know what brand of C or C+ or C++ that OOTP is written in but I guess that's its language as it require the C runtime libraries to work.

My code is completely separate to that of Markus. I took hex-dumps of the dat's and then used the csv files to pinpoint areas of data and then went through the game flipping options and saving and re-dumping to work out what had changed and went from there.

It was then a case of putting it all together and seeing how the structure held.

[The Wolf]

Originally Posted by Khaos

I'm old. My first programming class was Fortran (Wat FIV compiler) then Pascal.

WATFIV? The original one-pass programming language? Whoa, you aren't kidding about being old, WATFIV is from the early early early days of computing.

[falkonisback]

Speaking of .DAT files...does anybody know if there is anything in any of the DAT files that shows the year that a player retired? That piece of information has got to be somewhere!

[Tony M]

Originally Posted by falkonisback

Speaking of .DAT files...does anybody know if there is anything in any of the DAT files that shows the year that a player retired? That piece of information has got to be somewhere!

Yep, in the player_nnnn.txt file...

[jarmenia]

Originally Posted by redsoxford

I don't know what brand of C or C+ or C++ that OOTP is written in but I guess that's its language as it require the C runtime libraries to work.

I'm pretty sure its in an ANSI version of C++ linked to OS specific libraries since OOTP runs on both a Mac and PC. Anything .net would be horridly slow as it would be the equivalent of writing OOTP in java.

[falkonisback]

Originally Posted by redsoxford

Yep, in the player_nnnn.txt file...

I messed around in Access for a little while and wrote a couple of functions that does exactly that..finds the line that says the player retired and parses the date out of it. I think this will work just fine..Thanks for everyone's help!!