Problem with my custom DLL

Sat Apr 12, 2003 12:57 pm by CW

I was trying to add the entries for my new ship. The name was added to DLL 7 (my custom DLL) table 1 entry 6 (supposed to be 458758), and the four infocards to the next four slots (resource type 23, resource name 7-10, language 1033, which are supposed to be 458759-458762). In shiparch.ini I put in this:

ids_name = 458758
ids_info = 458759
ids_info1 = 458760
ids_info2 = 458761
ids_info3 = 458762

But in the game I got "IDS?" for the ship name and none of the infocards appeared. I need some advise please.

By the way, what's resource type 23? If I manage to use up the first table and need to go to the second should I create type 24?

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War does not decide who is right, only who is left.

Edited by - CW on 12-04-2003 13:58:21

Sat Apr 12, 2003 1:55 pm by CW

Oh shiit... just discovered that all of my existing custom records are broken!

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War does not decide who is right, only who is left.

Edited by - CW on 12-04-2003 14:55:49

Sat Apr 12, 2003 2:40 pm by Dixi

Type 23 = HTML resources and they don't use the concept of "tables", that's just for the strings.

Sat Apr 12, 2003 5:05 pm by CW

How come you can have a string AND an infocard for the same IDS number?

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War does not decide who is right, only who is left.

Sun Apr 13, 2003 4:29 am by Stryfe

okies CW from what ive read in Zen-Eryu's threads on this, the game handles the XML resources differently to the normal Text Strings
and thats the reason you can have resources with the same name...
the XML sheets in the resource are all stored under the resource type 23, and use hex references, dont quote me on this, cos ihavent actually played around with them much as yet

I suggest reading Zen's posts

- All we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. -

Sun Apr 13, 2003 10:25 am by CW

Just got my problem solved... somehow my custom DLL got corrupted (how did that happen?!?) and I rebuilt it from the ground up. Luckily I had backup copies for all the custom infocard entries.

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War does not decide who is right, only who is left.

Sun Apr 13, 2003 10:53 am by Zen Eryu

Its surprisingly easy to corrupt the dll, 1 false entry and the whole thing can go belly up on ya

Glad ya got it sorted though

Zen,
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Mon Apr 14, 2003 8:28 am by carl

I had the same problem, now I back up my dll regularly. I'm using the dll you have for download zen! now it's all working again...

but what exactly causes a corrupting entry? invalid xml? certain characters?

thanks

Edited by - carl on 14-04-2003 09:34:09

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