2009-11-12, 03:51 AM
(2009-11-12, 02:51 AM)kilroyfx link Wrote: Hmmm....wow you extracted the ASCII from a binary file.? Why would you do that?? And you concatenated the text....so you got part of a word like "Douche" and found another string like "bag" and your dos prompt spit out "DoucheBag". That's huge.? You didn't extract anything but the text....those are not EVENTS thats just user strings like the name of the EVENT and a few sentences of dialogue.....
But I'm interested in something more edifying....How can you even begin to give me advice on producing Valid .evt files when you don't know the memory layout of the file...I mean how long is the header and what does it contain??? How many bytes long are the Event Headers, and the command body...How do the Events index themselves into the .map files??? Is the file interpreted as little endian or big endian or what?? Come on I know the answers to all these questions...but I figured that out after looking at the file for about an hour.
Should I really do rigorous tests?? I thought I would hack my way through and if it worked once, well then good-enough I will release it. How much time should something like this take...??? An hour for me and 6 months for you??? Since you believe this to be complicated that tells me already where you stand, your a phoney....If you can't understand this simple file format and parse it according to ascii,hex,decimal and manipulate it then spit it back out as a working .evt file in a day then you need to back to school.?
Proficiently skilled?? Do you know how offensive you are....if you know so much why don't you produce some decent code and an interface instead of an excel spreadsheet that my girlfriend can do in 5 minutes....
Your ruining my TOPIC......I think some people will agree that your offensive and not helpful at all.? I regret even making this post now....
I'm not going to dignify this by reading it from beginning to end. I'm glad I was able to respond in a helpful way before noticing this antagonizing nonsense. I'm a worldclass software engineer amongst other things. Let's be more civil and considerate of each others time. I will ask Todd to digest it for me later.