Easier Data-Editor (STM93 Version)

[Luigi600]

Easier Data-Editor (STM93 Version)
I developed a Data-Editor only for STM93. He wasn't fully satisfied with the current DC editing tools, owing to either a lack of certain useful features or certain quirks that made them annoying to use.
The interest and feedback have be good from other people. So nevertheless, I decided to publish the "Easier Data-Editor". Basically, the editor has default functions. He can read and write data files and contains a Frame Viewer.
The first difference: each file has an own Frame Viewer. So it is possible to see two different characters at one screen.

The "Docking Panel" allows a customized view (I have seen that LF2 IDE has the same library). Each file and Frame Viewer has a movable "window" and this layout can be saved.


Features

• Text Folding
  
• Autocomplete
  
• Frame Viewer
  
• Shows unused/available frame ids
  
• recognises a few "errors"
  • already existing frame IDs
    
  • missing of frame start/end
    
  • missing of O/C/B/WPoint start/end
    
• Frame mirroring (with datas)
  
• Frames Reformatting
  • changes the structure of a frame (eg: pic: 1 centerx: 39 centery: 79 hit_a: 50  _ changes to _ hit_a: 50 centerx: 39 centery: 79 pic: 1)
    
• Paste & Adapt IDs
  • while pasting of frames, it finds available frame ids, changes them and changes the "next" values
    
• Jump to next/previous frame in file or "real" (next-value)
  
• 3D Itrs
  

Options (Click to View)

You have many options to control your editor:
- Amount of maximal recent files
- Saving of the layout (while closing) ("Save last Session")
- Fontstyle
- double opening of files (ATTENTION: NO SYNCHRONISATION)
- maximize the window on start
- On/Off autocomplete
- On/Off text folding (both options needs perhaps a little bit cpu)
- display menu strip (see images; a few more options in frame viewer)

It is possible to synchronise all Frame Viewer screens (Settings -> Global Settings).



Changelog
+ = add; * = bug fixed; - = changed

1-3-0-12 (23. March 2020) (Click to View)

+ select one number, hold on shift and scroll mouse wheel to increase/decrease the number (in text editor)
* scrollbar of the text editor moves while scrolling in frame viewer
* buggy center xy2 (hold on ctrl + mouse position)

1-3-0-1 (01. March 2020) (Click to View)

+ LANGUAGES
+ Runtime Translation
+ Bookmarks
+ Indention
+ Newline char is selectable
+ "Full Restore View" will not jump only to frame id of the last session. Now also to the last "first visible line number"
+ Scrollbar Annotations
- shows the current position, bookmarks, errors, changes and saved lines (overview about the document)
+ Draw B-Sprite
- Settings
- MORE OPTIONS
- User friendly "custom weapons"
- Fixed line number width on the left side
- Keeping of the split orientation
- A lot of intern changes
- Better find/replace/mark (design stolen from Notepad++ :P)
- Better "Error List" refresher
- Better Undo/Redo (i hope so)
- Unused ids shows a range now
- Use line numbers to select lines
- Mirror Tool: weaponact value will not change by heavy weapons
- Frame Reformatting: HDD friendly
- CURRENT LINE WILL BE ALWAYS VISIBLE! <-- NICE
---- IT IS NOT POSSIBLE, that bookmarks are keeping by "cut bookmarked lines" and undo action ----
- Expand/Collapse are disabled now when folding is disabled
- Scrollable Description (Frame Viewer)
- Bold and partly colour buttons for "apply"
- Correct reading of sprites
- Drag & Drop inside the text control
- ALT+Up & ALT+Down for next and previous frame (awful shortcut)
* "Close all Documents" doesn't close anymore Error List and Unused IDs
* "Delete"-Key removes just "Carriage Return" but not "Line Feed" (in case of CR+LF)
* Folding support while runtime
* Updating of text length and lines

1-2-0-119 (29. July 2019) (Click to View)

+ MIN(x) - "Frame Reformatting"
+ MIN(x) - "Frame Reformatting"
+ MAX(+) - "Frame Reformatting"
+ LIMIT(x;y) - "Frame Reformatting"
+ CEILING(x) - "Frame Reformatting"
+ FLOOR(x) - "Frame Reformatting"
+ TRUNCATE(x) - "Frame Reformatting"
+ mathematical operations - "Frame Reformatting"
+ option: reformat only selected text - "Frame Reformatting"
- "Frame Reformatting"-Window
* ZWidth of itrs were wrong (thanks to the guy of the Chinese discord server and STM than ambassador)
* "?" removes negative and sound tags/attributes
* reset of the background-color while zooming

1-2-0-38 (01. June 2019) (Click to View)

- better undo/redo
* no scales if pic ID doesn't exists

1-2-0-0 (Click to View)

- ATTENTION: Custom syntax files doesn't work anymore because I changed the XML format. They are similar but not equal
+ marks of changed and not saved lines
+ marks as "Saved" when you not more can click on undo
+ highlight of the current line
+ view splitting!
+ unknown syntax list than error (easier to find stupid mistakes)
+ search just in selection(s)
+ highlight
+ tool: apply attributes of
+ insert function
+ custom example weapon via settings.xml (see screenshots to apply)
+ temporarily cursor hiding while moving of b/c/o/wpoint
+ option to fill itrs/bodies rectangles or not
+ file info (text length and lines)
- "direct result" is removed - movement of the frameviewer will show direct in text editor without a lot of undo/redo
- autocomplete is disabled at the moment
- synchronisation of the background color
- restore the full last view (selected frame etc)
- wpoint draws about itrs
- text file encoding its now UTF-8 (lf2 will read the data file fine)
- revision of the reformatter (values detection works better now; need not more two $/? for catchingact/caughtact; syntax added)
- supports comments with "#"
- keep view of the current frame id
- changed a few descriptions
- tab colors

(to put in nutshell: a lot of fixed - mostly i forgot to write down but main...)
* HTML export wants a existing file...
* undo/redo/save buttons was enabled without reason
* error: "no text editor is selected"
* search and replace
* select "Top Left" while sizing by small box sizes
* syntax highlighted numbers in a word
* crash, when contains "-" behind a number
* better exe file finder

1-1-0-10 (Click to View)

+ opacity option
* scrolling in/out was little bit "wiggled"
* risk of "half" pixels solved to 99,9%
* not correctly display of all opened frame viewers (menu -> window -> frame viewer)
- edge of 3d itr is small
- other load method for bitmaps
- paste & adapt ids use now the current position

1-1-0-8 (Click to View)

* correct show of a 3D itr box
- "auto close" removed by frame viewer menu options

1-1-0-7 (Click to View)

(debug version; not public)
+ frame 116 & 117 shows rock
* unused frames/error list work again
(with this bug fixed also "Paste & Adapt IDs" fixed)
* crash while pressing "enter" by a not finish frame
* context menu; text-editor: big icons (?!)
- frame viewer gets just the focus if you click in (CTRL + R works better)
- default zwidth change from 12 to 15 (lf-empire is a lie!)

1-1-0-6 (Click to View)

(debug version; not public)
+ scrolling factor changes with the zoom level
* subpixel by squares
* also subpixel by (body/itr-)rectangles
- shows wpoint, also if doesn't exist the weaponact (wpoint by weapons works now)
- max zoom changed from 600% to 1400%
- brighten up of opoint
- color of cpoint changed (reminder at me: Chocolat)
- event handler changed; text editor doesn't get instantly the focus (= searching per menustrips works)

1-1-0-5 (Click to View)

+ auto switch
+ synchronization of selected ID
* a little bit performance improvement

1-1-0-4b (Click to View)

+ "Stone" (Heavy Weapon); at current frame IDs 12-19 and 50-51
* crash by empty W-/C-/O-Point (f*** "AndAlso")
* crash if... i don't know

1-1-0-3 (1-1-0-2b) (Click to View)

* no synchronisation of the 3D Itrs options (global settings)

1-1-0-2 (Click to View)

+ 3D Itrs
+ Export to HTML file
* Tag Adder has the same shortcut than "Show current Frame Viewer"
* big lag while resize/move of itrs/bodies (reason: combobox frame thing...)
* frame viewer not working if empty start

1-1-0-1 (Click to View)

+ Combobox with Frames
+ Open and Save as Text File
* new name failed by "Save As"
* BIG POSSIBLE PROBLEM that not all frame viewers or text editors catch the events (save etc)
- Go-To selected "Frame" instead "Line"
- shortcut keys for all functions

1-1-0-0 (first public version) (Click to View)

+ tooltip text added to tools than info (mouse hover a questionable feature)
+ "Frame Viewer" to Text-Editor-MenuStrip
+ CTRL + H opens/closes FrameViewer of current file
+ a few more icons
- project name changed
- few tool names changed
- just one undo by frame reformatting
- paste & adapts IDs included now hit_ tags
- faster viewing of files while tab switch
* no padding of the text-editor by frame reformatting
* weapon hitboxes were not sync
* wpoint was not sync

Screenshots

Spoiler (Click to View)

Synchronisation:


Mirror:


Frames Reformatting (left side old; right side new):


3D Itr


Menu Strip:


Paste & Adapt ID


Synchronization of selected ID + Auto Switch

Download
Current Version: 1.3.0.12 (23. March 2020)
Download
Source Code on GitHub (That is my first open source project. Please understand that i know nothing about publish on GitHub.)



SPECIAL THANKS TO
STM93 (a lot of testing)
Nyamaiku
Amadis
Leaf.F
AdiDidIt ("Paste & Adapt IDs", "Tag Adder" and "Auto ID Changer" based on his ideas)
RazenBrenday for the LF2 Font

[Uri]

Good work! I am now using it as the data editor for my LF2 Strategy project. I will be sending Feedback and ideas soon.

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General ways to advance the project:

It is a good idea to publish the project in GitHub. Also, creating the option for people who know coding to create plugins and add them easily will be useful. I am Highly Recommending borrowing ideas and source code (C#) from the great project LF Studio.

https://www.lf-empire.de/forum/showthrea...=LF+Studio
The project, existing plugins and ideas for future plugins

https://www.lf-empire.de/forum/showthrea...=LF+Studio
first comment: active download for the program and link to the source code.

also looking at IDE and VDC may be useful for ideas.

My feedback:

Easy, by importance:

Running the game from whithin the program + having it update itself with needing to reload it (see REAL TIME DATA CHANGER:
https://www.lf-empire.de/forum/showthread.php?tid=7967
)

Enbaling multiline Find And replace

Recognising the error of leaving an unrelated letter somewhere (with that the game crushes, its important)

An Animator Automatic Creator (LFS):


Sprite Viewer+Adding sprite files in one click automatically (LFS)

Adding a Sprite Animation Viewer (LFS):

Spoiler (Click to View)

Adding a sound plugin (LFS):

Spoiler (Click to View)

making the go-to frame default instead of go-to line, it takes time to switch it every time and the line will only seldom be useful.

Add the option to open text files within the program (see LFS)


Takes time, by importance:

A way to represent the Z axis in the visual windows, I saw that you tried to manage to do it.

Adding go-to tag (walking, jumphit in davis...) and making it default over frame and line (LFS):

Spoiler (Click to View)

having the game updated without reloading it, already exists in this editor: https://www.lf-empire.de/forum/showthread.php?tid=7967

project option like in LFS or Microsoft programming programs:

Spoiler (Click to View)

Hotkeys: creating keyboard shortcuts to all the functions.

[Uri]

I have Updated my Feedback above.

Hope you are going to continue working on it! kul-el Ihtiram (all the honor, meaning good job)

[Uri]

Where is the "Paste & Adapt IDs: while pasting of frames, it finds available frame ids, changes them and changes the "next" values" function?

[Luigi600]

Where is the "Paste & Adapt IDs: while pasting of frames, it finds available frame ids, changes them and changes the "next" values" function?

You can see it on the screenshots. Edit > Paste & Adapt IDs.
Btw update is in progress with few changes, but no time...

[Ramond]

Ok, color me impressed. Once I get back to DCing I will definitely give this tool a try. And since it has the Spyderman seal of approval I'm having that feeling I won't be disappointed by it.

[Luigi600]

Possibly, I had should mention, that this project a side project. So it is a small editor.
Btw the project is open source now but it doesn't have an interface for plugins (but Easier LF-Editor gets an interface)

Summary of Update
Multiline find & replace added, combobox of frames added, start within program added, go-to automatic selected frame, big bug fixed

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+ having it update itself with needing to reload it (see REAL TIME DATA CHANGER)

Real Time Data Changer is difficult to implement and i don't have interest to "copy and paste" a function without to create ideas about it - perhaps in Easier LF-Editor.

Recognising the error of leaving an unrelated letter somewhere (with that the game crushes, its important)

good point, but then i must change the library and that needs a little bit time...

An Animator Automatic Creator (LFS) [and] Adding a sound plugin (LFS)

You get this functions in Easier LF-Editor.

Sprite Viewer+Adding sprite files in one click automatically (LFS)

No interest in a data editor...

A way to represent the Z axis in the visual windows, I saw that you tried to manage to do it.

I not "tried" it, I did it.

project option like in LFS or Microsoft programming programs:

Easier LF-Editor...

[Uri]

Happy to see the progress, thanks.
I have used this editor for quite a while now and haven't seen any visual representation of the Z axis. I see there is an axis for it in the visual window but not that the itr et cetera appear differently using this axis when I edit. for example, if I add a zwidth to a certain Itr, it appears the same no matter if there is a zwidth tag or what is its value.

[Luigi600]

So based on Uri's comment: 3D ITRS! (and a few performance things).

Changelog:
+ 3D Itrs
+ Export to HTML file
* Tag Adder has the same shortcut than "Show current Frame Viewer"
* big lag while resize/move of itrs/bodies (reason: combobox frame thing...)
* frame viewer not working if empty start

Screenshots (Click to View)

//EDIT (2018/11/17): (fixed) global settings are buggy for 3d itrs

Downloadlink

[Luigi600]

Interim a small update:
+ auto switch
+ synchronization of selected ID
* a little bit performance improvement

Features in action: