Donald,
Although I have not heard from Jim, you have answered the most
important questions in my last message (#2586). So, I am ready to
upload my "LaserTank High Scores / Levels Utility Suite". It should
be very useful for the recently reorganized temp.lvl, kids.lvl and
extra.lvl files.
I created a Zip file with the programs (.EXE's), the required
DLL's, and a ReadMe.TXT file. (Note, there are now 4 programs and 3
DLL's - see the ReadMe.TXT file.) I don't see any options to attach
a file to a Yahoo message. So, where/how do I upload the Zip file?
Regards,
Harvey
Although I have not heard from Jim, you have answered the most
important questions in my last message (#2586). So, I am ready to
upload my "LaserTank High Scores / Levels Utility Suite". It should
be very useful for the recently reorganized temp.lvl, kids.lvl and
extra.lvl files.
I created a Zip file with the programs (.EXE's), the required
DLL's, and a ReadMe.TXT file. (Note, there are now 4 programs and 3
DLL's - see the ReadMe.TXT file.) I don't see any options to attach
a file to a Yahoo message. So, where/how do I upload the Zip file?
Regards,
Harvey
--- In Lasertank@y..., hbsolom@s... wrote:
> 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