Interested into a GUI App?

[Ravo92]

Hello Maxpetul,

i made myself a small GUI in C# for your excellent C3X mod and wondered, if you're interested in using it too?
I, of course, would upload the whole code on github and maintain and update its contents.

Thanks for your feedback and have a happy new year!

Best Regards,
Ravo92

[maxpetul]

Hello and a happy new year to you too,

I'm somewhat interested in a GUI config editor. It's something I've thought about creating myself before but I never made it a priority and never got around to it. My ideas back then were either to write it in C, so it could be launched through a batch script like other things in the mod, or to make it a little web app on a github.io page. Now, I would like to make it possible to edit the config from in game, although that's a lot more difficult to make happen as I'd have to figure out how the game's UI works in detail, and I won't have time for that any time soon. Anyway, I don't mean to dissuade you from the C# approach, just sharing my thoughts on this.

Another complication are all the config options that have special formats. There are some really awkward ones like the leader aliases. Have you added support for any of those yet? Are you planning to? If I'd thought of this sort of thing before, I might have made the config file JSON and saved a lot of trouble here. Oh well.

[Ravo92]

Yea, I want to add support for every format there is available.

Also the entries you see in that grid are already parsed from the ini files (nothing is hardcoded here!!).

Also if a custom ini exists, he is reading the key value pairs from this one, if not, he reads them from the default.

Saving happens to the custom one.

On my Roadmap:

• Extending explanations to each option with gifs or screenshots.
• Read installfolder from registry for Easy install
• Auto Update for mod and gui files
• Call the bat file via gui for launch and install