Catgod pretender viewer now for Windows!

[Evil Dave]

PvK has generously taken the time to port catgod, everybody's favorite pretender file viewer, to Windows. Three cheers for PvK!

Download catgod.zip. Yup, still command-line only... but Arralen is working on a GUI.

Mac OS and Linux binaries are still available too.

Once you've downloaded it, change to your pretender directory (usually dominions3/savedgames/newlords), and start looking at files.
catgod *.2h
will show them all.

[Gandalf Parker]

Someone could probably whip off a batch file.
Or even a shortcut link to do it as an *.2h
You could include that with the zip until a gui menu is available.

[lch]

IIRC Windows supports drag&drop of files on any executable: Grab a *.2h file (or a bunch of them) and drop them on the catgod.exe - or a batch file like this:
Code:

---

@echo off

catgod %*

pause

---

because otherwise you won't be able to see the output. Haven't been able to test it, but it should work.

[Eressil3]

Thanx a lot ! It works fine and is very usefull.

[Arralen]

Just want to let you know that I'm still working on the GUI wrapper, but I'm busy with real life issues. Even worse, I ran into a bug -as it seems- in the library I planned to use to write the apps settings to an INI file both in Linux and Windoze version, what complicates things slightly. :/

[Arralen]

catgodGUI 0.1.2

the graphical wrapper for catgod

You can download catgodGUI 0.1.2 build 170607 (includes catgod) HERE .

Here's the readme :

________ SETUP ______________________

There's no need to install anything:
Simply unzip the ZIP anywhere you like and run "catgodGUI.exe" .
Choose "Dominions" and configure your Dominions 3 main directory - most likely something like "c:\programs\dominions3". The newlords subdirectory where the pretender files are stored will be set automatically.


________ USAGE ______________________

Choose "Files", "Re-scan .." and the newlords directory will be scanned for pretender files and the contents thereof displayed. You can cut&paste from the main app windows using "CTRL+C".


________ TROUBLESHOOTING ____________

>>> On startup, the app exits with a "can't read key"-error and tells me something cryptic about the INI file.

Solution:
edit: Delete the contents of the file "application.ini". NOT the file itself.
If you accidently deleted the file, or it got lost somehow, simply create an empty file "application.ini" next to catgodGUI.exe.

Comment:
The error means the INI has become corrupt and the program cannot retreive a
key that is used to store one of the user settings. After deleting the INI file, your setting will o.c. be gone , but at least you'll be able to start up the program again.

If you didn't have an app or the whole machine crash _while_ exiting catgodGUI the last time, I would start looking for troubles with the file system, bad blocks on the HDD etc.


>>> I've set the newlords directory correctly, and catgodGUI says it reads from there, but I don't get any output, and maybe a strange error message.

Make sure there are no non-pretender files in your newlords directory. catgod does not like those ...

edit: application.ini problems

[Gandalf Parker]

Excellent program. (sorry I coudnt help outmore on that)

Excellent intstructions.

Thank you very much.

[Caduceus]

Thanks! I'll load it up tonight!

[Arralen]

______ MORE TROUBLESHOOTING ____________

As it seems, catgod.exe does not like being fed folders pathes with spaces in them, like e.g. :
"\program files\dominions3\

I'll have a chat with Dave 'bout this, and will try to implement some kind of workaround maybe.

Meanwhile, simply rename/move your dominions folder (or copy the newlords folder) in such a way that there isn't a space in the path names, e.g.:
"d:\programs\dominions3"
Dominions doesn't really care from where it is run - I have multiple versions installed at the same time by copying the folders.
You can only deinstall from within windows software tab where you installed - but you can simply delete the other dominions directories if you don't need them any more.

[Gandalf Parker]

If it wont accept the newer windows workaround of putting it in quotes..
"program files\dominions3\"
(btw cant lead with a slash)

will it accept the older windows workaround of using a tilde?
progra~1\dominions3\