New Race Viewer/Profiler (ESP) Utility Released

[ColdSteel]

I've released ESP v.1.0, which is a race profile viewer that generates HTML pages over in the mod forum: http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...&f=50&t=000002
-CS

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I haven't really done anything serious with SE4 modding since Raynor and I built the component viewer that's on the Gold CD and so I thought I'd build a similar utility that allows viewing of all SE4 races on a PC through generated HTML pages.

This was my "learn Python, learn Tkinter, learn HTMLgen, learn installer" project and I've had a bLast doing it all. Python is an awesome tool and (as open source) completely free. So are the other Python tools mentioned above.

So, here is the initial ESP 1.0 release. I'd appreciate any comments.
1019915131.zip
Download file size is 1.6 MB

-CS

Contents of the readme.txt follow:

SPACE EMPIRES IV GOLD EMPIRE SPECIES PROFILER
ESP VERSION 1.0

ESP is a small utility that builds HTML pages from the SE4 text header files
in the race sub directories. The resulting HTML page generated by ESP
provide an overview of each race, their characteristics and their race styles.

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

1. Create a new directory somewhere on your SE4 install hard drive.
2. Extract the 3 files to the new directory.
3. That's it.

** PLEASE NOTE: **
** This utility creates a index HTML page called "main.html" in your **
** ESP directory which allows access to all the other HTML generated **

The first time you start ESP, it searches the hard drive for your SE4 directory
so it may be a little slow to start up on the initial load. It saves the path
in a file and subsequent loads should be much quicker.

If ESP cannot find a SE4 directory or you wish to set a path to another drive
or folder where you have SE4 Race file directories, use the Change Path command
and select any file in the directory path you want the search to start from.

When the Generate HTML command button is selected, ESP will search for all
the SE4 Race directories on the path and generate HTML pages for each race it
finds. It will also generate an Index page containing a list of all the races
it generated HTML pages.

Links from the "main.html' index page will allow you to view Race's Empire
Profile pages and Race Style Pages.

I hope you find ESP useful and enjoyable.

For comments, suggestions for improvements or bug reports please contact:
[email protected]"

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[ 27 April 2002: Message edited by: ColdSteel ]

[ 27 April 2002: Message edited by: ColdSteel ]

[ 27 April 2002: Message edited by: ColdSteel ]