Jim/Donald,
Its been almost 2 months since my last message, so you may want to
refer to Message No's 2086 & 2116 to refresh your memories. I have
written 3 LaserTank High Scores utilities (by golly I have a
Utilities SUITE!!). They are (from the comments in their source code
files);
; LaserTank Levels Completion Statistics Utility (LTLCStat).
; This (program) computes the Levels completion statistics of a
; user selected input LaserTank Levels file, e.g., InFile.lvl. The
; High Scores file for Infile.lvl, InFile.hs, must exist in the same
; folder. The output of this program is a table containing; the
; number of levels, the number of levels completed, the number of
; levels not completed; and the percent of levels completed, for; All
; of the (not deleted) levels, and each difficulty category of levels
; (i.e., Kids, Easy, Medium, Hard, Deadly and NR). This output is
; displayed on the screen, and the user presented with (limited)
; options to either; copy it to the Windows Clipboard (replacing its
; contents), or copy (or append) it to the LTLCSOut.TXT file in the
; same folder as the InFile.lvl file. This text file is created if
; it doesn't exist. CAUTION: This program assumes that files with
; .hs and .lvl extensions are valid LaserTank High Scores and Levels
; files, respectively.
; LaserTank Delete High Scores Utility (LTDelHS).
; This (program) deletes High Scores from a user selected input
; LaserTank High Scores file, e.g., InFile.hs. It has two modes of
; operation; (1) Individually delete the High Scores of user selected
; levels in InFile.hs, and (2) Delete the High Scores of all of the ;
; Deleted levels in InFile.hs. For mode 2, the LaserTank Levels file
; corresponding to InFile.hs, InFile.lvl, must exist in the same
; folder as InFile.hs. CAUTION 1: This program assumes that files
; with .hs and .lvl extensions are valid LaserTank High Scores and
; Levels files, respectively. CAUTION 2: To be completely safe, ;
; backup the input High Scores file (InFile.hs) when prompted to do
; so, or before running this program.
; LaserTank Copy High Scores Utility (LTCopyHS).
; This (program) copies the "better" High Scores (see below) of a
; user selected input LaserTank Levels file, e.g., InFile.lvl, to a
; user selected output LaserTank Levels file, e.g., OutFile.lvl. The
; High Scores data for these files are in the InFile.hs and
; OutFile.hs files, respectively. The InFile.hs file must exist in
; the same folder as the InFile.lvl file. If the OutFile.hs file
; doesn't exist in the folder containing the OutFile.lvl file, it
; will be created (if necessary).
; For InFile.lvl and OutFile.lvl levels with matching "playfield"
; definitions, the InFile.lvl High Score is "better" (and optionally
; copied to OutFile.hs) if it has fewer moves, or, if the moves are
;;equal, it has fewer shots. The InFile.lvl High Score is always
; "better" than a matching OutFile.lvl level that is not completed
; (i.e, its number of moves is 0 or 'null'). If two or more levels
; of OutFile.lvl match an InFile.lvl level, only the first (lowest
; numbered) one is considered.
; CAUTION 1: This program assumes that files with .hs and .lvl
; extensions are valid LaserTank High Scores and Levels files,
; respectively. CAUTION 2: To be completely safe, backup the output
; High Scores file (e.g., OutFile.hs) when prompted to do so, or
; before running this program.
As I said (ref. Message #2116) these programs were written in
WinBatch (ref. www.WindowWare.com). Good News: I now have access to
a WinBatch compiler so these programs are stand-alone Windows (any
32-bit version) applications (.EXE files). Hence, they can be
uploaded (alone with 2 required DLLs) for use by anyone in the Group.
However, before I upload them, I have a few questions.
Q1 (for Jim/Donald): Do you think anyone would be interested in
these programs? (If not the other questions are moot.)
Q2 (for Donald): The LTLCStat and LTDelHS programs recognize a
'deleted' level iff (if & only if); (1) it is Not Rated (i.e., the
574-th byte in its .lvl fileentry is a 0 or 'null'), AND (2) its name
is "Deleted Level <n>" (w/o the quotes, but case sensitive) where <n>
is the level's number. Is this the 'standard' way to define deleted
levels? If not, what other methods are/will be used?
Q3 (for Jim): I consider these programs to be freeware as long as
LaserTank is freeware. However, if LaserTank ever becomes a
commercial/shareware product (e.g., do you have any idea how much its
going to cost you to send 2 kids to college?), I would
expect fair compensation for their use. Is this OK with you?
Q4 (for Jim): As I said in Message #2116, the WinBatch source code
files for these programs are only usefull if you have WinBatch (ver.
2000B or later). Do you want me to upload them (along with the EXEs)
anyway?
Regards,
Harvey
Its been almost 2 months since my last message, so you may want to
refer to Message No's 2086 & 2116 to refresh your memories. I have
written 3 LaserTank High Scores utilities (by golly I have a
Utilities SUITE!!). They are (from the comments in their source code
files);
; LaserTank Levels Completion Statistics Utility (LTLCStat).
; This (program) computes the Levels completion statistics of a
; user selected input LaserTank Levels file, e.g., InFile.lvl. The
; High Scores file for Infile.lvl, InFile.hs, must exist in the same
; folder. The output of this program is a table containing; the
; number of levels, the number of levels completed, the number of
; levels not completed; and the percent of levels completed, for; All
; of the (not deleted) levels, and each difficulty category of levels
; (i.e., Kids, Easy, Medium, Hard, Deadly and NR). This output is
; displayed on the screen, and the user presented with (limited)
; options to either; copy it to the Windows Clipboard (replacing its
; contents), or copy (or append) it to the LTLCSOut.TXT file in the
; same folder as the InFile.lvl file. This text file is created if
; it doesn't exist. CAUTION: This program assumes that files with
; .hs and .lvl extensions are valid LaserTank High Scores and Levels
; files, respectively.
; LaserTank Delete High Scores Utility (LTDelHS).
; This (program) deletes High Scores from a user selected input
; LaserTank High Scores file, e.g., InFile.hs. It has two modes of
; operation; (1) Individually delete the High Scores of user selected
; levels in InFile.hs, and (2) Delete the High Scores of all of the ;
; Deleted levels in InFile.hs. For mode 2, the LaserTank Levels file
; corresponding to InFile.hs, InFile.lvl, must exist in the same
; folder as InFile.hs. CAUTION 1: This program assumes that files
; with .hs and .lvl extensions are valid LaserTank High Scores and
; Levels files, respectively. CAUTION 2: To be completely safe, ;
; backup the input High Scores file (InFile.hs) when prompted to do
; so, or before running this program.
; LaserTank Copy High Scores Utility (LTCopyHS).
; This (program) copies the "better" High Scores (see below) of a
; user selected input LaserTank Levels file, e.g., InFile.lvl, to a
; user selected output LaserTank Levels file, e.g., OutFile.lvl. The
; High Scores data for these files are in the InFile.hs and
; OutFile.hs files, respectively. The InFile.hs file must exist in
; the same folder as the InFile.lvl file. If the OutFile.hs file
; doesn't exist in the folder containing the OutFile.lvl file, it
; will be created (if necessary).
; For InFile.lvl and OutFile.lvl levels with matching "playfield"
; definitions, the InFile.lvl High Score is "better" (and optionally
; copied to OutFile.hs) if it has fewer moves, or, if the moves are
;;equal, it has fewer shots. The InFile.lvl High Score is always
; "better" than a matching OutFile.lvl level that is not completed
; (i.e, its number of moves is 0 or 'null'). If two or more levels
; of OutFile.lvl match an InFile.lvl level, only the first (lowest
; numbered) one is considered.
; CAUTION 1: This program assumes that files with .hs and .lvl
; extensions are valid LaserTank High Scores and Levels files,
; respectively. CAUTION 2: To be completely safe, backup the output
; High Scores file (e.g., OutFile.hs) when prompted to do so, or
; before running this program.
As I said (ref. Message #2116) these programs were written in
WinBatch (ref. www.WindowWare.com). Good News: I now have access to
a WinBatch compiler so these programs are stand-alone Windows (any
32-bit version) applications (.EXE files). Hence, they can be
uploaded (alone with 2 required DLLs) for use by anyone in the Group.
However, before I upload them, I have a few questions.
Q1 (for Jim/Donald): Do you think anyone would be interested in
these programs? (If not the other questions are moot.)
Q2 (for Donald): The LTLCStat and LTDelHS programs recognize a
'deleted' level iff (if & only if); (1) it is Not Rated (i.e., the
574-th byte in its .lvl fileentry is a 0 or 'null'), AND (2) its name
is "Deleted Level <n>" (w/o the quotes, but case sensitive) where <n>
is the level's number. Is this the 'standard' way to define deleted
levels? If not, what other methods are/will be used?
Q3 (for Jim): I consider these programs to be freeware as long as
LaserTank is freeware. However, if LaserTank ever becomes a
commercial/shareware product (e.g., do you have any idea how much its
going to cost you to send 2 kids to college?), I would
expect fair compensation for their use. Is this OK with you?
Q4 (for Jim): As I said in Message #2116, the WinBatch source code
files for these programs are only usefull if you have WinBatch (ver.
2000B or later). Do you want me to upload them (along with the EXEs)
anyway?
Regards,
Harvey