K-GFF (GFF Editing Utility) v1.3.0 - Page 2

Doc Valentine · 08-14-2005, 06:10 PM

Is it possible to select multiple structs already or is that not an option yet?

*REQUEST*: Could you make it so that when you hit ctrl + Delete, that it selects the next item down?

*tk102* · 08-15-2005, 03:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gsccc

Is it possible to select multiple structs already or is that not an option yet?

No multiple structs cannot be selected independently. If they are in the same List, however, they can all be affected by cut/copy/paste/delete.

Quote:

*REQUEST*: Could you make it so that when you hit ctrl + Delete, that it selects the next item down?

Done. v1.1.3 released.

Doc Valentine · 08-15-2005, 03:57 PM

THANKS TK!!!! This makes deleting 200 Waypints (literally) MUCH easier.

Viscerus · 08-26-2005, 03:11 PM

What is supposed to happen when a file is opened? Nothing happens when I open anything.

***Darth333*** · 08-26-2005, 04:35 PM

I am not sure I understand when you say Nothing happens when I open anything.

What do you mean nothing happens when you open a file? K-Gff opens but it stays blank? What file are you trying to open?

Viscerus · 08-26-2005, 09:07 PM

Everything does stay blank. I was trying to open utc and uti templates for items and characters.

Darkkender · 08-27-2005, 11:14 AM

I could be wrong here but I think the problem you are referring to is when you associate a GFF file to K-Gff and try to open the gff file. What it does is just open a new blank session of k-gff and not the file itself. Is this what you are referring to Viscerus.

If so all you should have to done is open the gff file from the drop down menu.

***Darth333*** · 09-26-2005, 04:17 PM

There's one thing that annoys me when making new areas: having to retype all the coordinates once I extracted them in a text file with the whereami armband. Would it be possible to add a copy/paste function so it's posssible to copy text from another application and then paste it in K-Gff?

*tk102* · 09-26-2005, 04:22 PM

It sort of has something like this via its XML copy/paste schemes...

One thing you could try doing is Copying a Position or Orientation Field and Paste it into Notepad. Then you could perform your edits and Paste it back into K-GFF.

But you're suggesting something a bit more specific with regards to the Whereami armband, yes?

Simbacca · 10-18-2005, 10:27 PM

i just download this and i am having the same exact problem as Viscerus.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Viscerus

Everything does stay blank. I was trying to open utc and uti templates for items and characters.

i start KGFF, the click file/open, then i browse to the character utc file i want to open and i click it, and KGFF stays just as it was when i started it, with no trace of my utc file displayed at all.

help!

clydeski · 10-24-2005, 04:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Simbacca

i just download this and i am having the same exact problem as Viscerus.

i start KGFF, the click file/open, then i browse to the character utc file i want to open and i click it, and KGFF stays just as it was when i started it, with no trace of my utc file displayed at all.

help!

Same problem as Simbacca and Viscerus. Execute kgff, select file/open, pick a gff file and nothing happens. All the display fields in kgff remain blank. title bar says the file is open but nothing happens. I have mainly tried opening someof redhawks light saber utis.

Fred Tetra · 10-25-2005, 12:36 AM

Did you try moving the left/right panel split point? Look on the lower left of the K-GFF window for a small box. I you mouse over the vertical line it sits on, you should see the horizontal resize cursor ( <---> ). Drag the split point to the right and you should see the treeview. I had the same problem...

clydeski · 10-25-2005, 04:41 PM

Thanks Fred and TK. Problem solved. Only have to do it once. Looks like a neat tool.

mjpb3 · 12-03-2005, 03:26 AM

KGFF stopped working for me

I used it fine for a couple of projects, but now when I try to use it

...the exact same way I was using it before...

opening a file, I get a tiny window that pops up for a split second then closes and I can't 'catch it' to resize it...

And if I open KGFF and use it to locate and open a file, I get a blank window somewhat like what was described above...

I am using version 224

anyone know what could be the problem?

clydeski · 12-03-2005, 07:39 AM

MJPB3 - Are we talking about KGFF? When I checked this morning at http://www.starwarsknights.com/tools.php , 1.1.5 is the most recent version.

If it is KGFF, try the following:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fred Tetra

Did you try moving the left/right panel split point? Look on the lower left of the K-GFF window for a small box. I you mouse over the vertical line it sits on, you should see the horizontal resize cursor ( <---> ). Drag the split point to the right and you should see the treeview. I had the same problem...

The kgff.ini file is in c:\windows, you may be able to manually change some of the parameters in it to solve your problem to.

***Darth333*** · 12-03-2005, 08:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mjpb3

And if I open KGFF and use it to locate and open a file, I get a blank window somewhat like what was described above...

For some reason, in the latest version of K-Gff i have to go to the view menu and click refresh once I loaded a file in order to view it.

mjpb3 · 12-03-2005, 10:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by clydeski

MJPB3 - Are we talking about KGFF? When I checked this morning at http://www.starwarsknights.com/tools.php , 1.1.5 is the most recent version.

Oh CRAP! Sorry about that, I was looking at dlgeditor_224.exe...

That's what I get for making posts at 2 in the morning... sheesh...

Anyway, what I meant was that I have KGFF version 1.1.5.0

mjpb3 · 12-03-2005, 11:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Darth333

For some reason, in the latest version of K-Gff i have to go to the view menu and click refresh once I loaded a file in order to view it.

Oh my word...

Darth333, that worked...

Well, now isn't that weird, it worked fine before...

huh...

Anyway, thanks! That did the trick

The Source · 03-06-2006, 06:08 PM

Hey TK,

I was wondering what the differences are between the original GFFEiditer and the K-GFF Editer.

*tk102* · 03-06-2006, 06:59 PM

There are a couple things.

- KGFF supports Field Type Orientation (value: 16) and Field Type Vector (value: 17) which were not part of the GFF specification at the time GFFEditor was created but were used in KotOR. GFFEditor would corrupt these fields, most notably, the CameraList in the .git files. This was the primary reason KGFF was made.
- KGFF displays CExoLocStrings as having child nodes for each localized string. This allows there to be more than one string per CExoLocString.
- KGFF supports the importing and exporting of Binary data.
- KGFF can read TLK files to interpret the resrefs of CExoLocStrings.
- KGFF's Copy/Paste functions use XML and the Windows Clipboard to do the transferring, allowing you copy and paste between two instances of KGFF or even pasting to notepad and back again.
- KGFF has a couple other features like the Search functions, Revert, Fold/Expand Tree

The Source · 03-06-2006, 07:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tk102

There are a couple things.

- KGFF supports Field Type Orientation (value: 16) and Field Type Vector (value: 17) which were not part of the GFF specification at the time GFFEditor was created but were used in KotOR. GFFEditor would corrupt these fields, most notably, the CameraList in the .git files. This was the primary reason KGFF was made.
- KGFF displays CExoLocStrings as having child nodes for each localized string. This allows there to be more than one string per CExoLocString.
- KGFF supports the importing and exporting of Binary data.
- KGFF can read TLK files to interpret the resrefs of CExoLocStrings.
- KGFF's Copy/Paste functions use XML and the Windows Clipboard to do the transferring, allowing you copy and paste between two instances of KGFF or even pasting to notepad and back again.
- KGFF has a couple other features like the Search functions, Revert, Fold/Expand Tree

Intresting. It sounds like it is time to upgrade.

Thanks TK!

*tk102* · 03-07-2006, 12:02 PM

Small tweak to K-GFF to make it more KotOR Tool friendly.

If you'd like to have KotOR Tool launch K-GFF instead of GFFEditor for editing of non-KT GFF files directly (eg: .are, .ifo, .git) you can do the following with v1.1.6.

Extract KGFF.exe to your KotOR Tool folder.
Rename KGFF.exe to GFFEditor.exe.

brwarner · 05-07-2006, 11:55 AM

For people editing gif files a good feature would be templates. Like lets say you wanted to add a new creature you could go Insert Struct template - Creature. This way there isnt a problem with not knowing all the parameters a struct should have, especially for ones with many parameters.

*tk102* · 05-08-2006, 03:59 PM

Hmm, I like this idea. What makes it especially easy to do is the fact that K-GFF's Copy function actually stores the entire structure as XML. This could easily be pasted into a text document. All I would have to do is create something like Import Template to the File menu to make it easier to retrieve the template.

Currently, KGFF doesn't allow you to Copy the Main node, or Paste a struct to the Main node. Thanks for the suggestion brwarner.

Pavlos · 05-27-2006, 07:42 AM

tk, I don't know why - I really can't explain it - but if I have the load file window open for long enough, the application seems to time out. It just closes; which can be annoying. It is not a big problem because I save my work after every change, I just thought I would point it out.

Oh, and I'm using the latest version of your program.

*tk102* · 02-01-2007, 01:06 PM

K-GFF v1.1.7 released
Added support for copying and pasting the Main Struct of a GFF file. This can be helpful if you want to do your GFF editing in a text editor.

To do this:
Select the main struct of the GFF (the node labeled "[STRUCT ID: -1]" ) and choose Edit: Copy Node or right-click and choose Copy STRUCT or simply press Ctrl+C.

Next you can paste into a WordPad or other text editor and perform your edits using the text editor's functions. Be careful not to corrupt the XML tags. When you're done copy the entire text into your clipboard (Ctrl+A followed by Ctrl+C usually does the trick). Open up K-GFF and choose File: New. Select the root node labeled "New GFF File" and right-click, choose Paste MAIN STRUCT or choose Edit: Paste Node, or simply press Ctrl+V.

Mikon Orod · 03-03-2007, 11:14 AM

TK, the guys at swknights.com has to change the download link to your utility: now it points to a file called "http://www.starwarsknights.com/mtools/kgff_115.zip", and it does not exist anymore. If your try to force the same path to "kgff_117.zip", you can actually download the latest version of the editor.

***stoffe*** · 03-03-2007, 11:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mikon Orod

TK, the guys at swknights.com has to change the download link to your utility: now it points to a file called "http://www.starwarsknights.com/mtools/kgff_115.zip", and it does not exist anymore.

This should be fixed and working properly now. Thanks for pointing it out.

glovemaster · 04-06-2007, 12:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Darth333

For some reason, in the latest version of K-Gff i have to go to the view menu and click refresh once I loaded a file in order to view it.

Has this been solved? I am having the same problems which is stopping me from applying "open with kgff" to files.

*tk102* · 04-06-2007, 05:00 PM

^^ I haven't been able to replicate this issue on my machine which makes it hard to troubleshoot. It's a peculiarity due to populating the treeview before the window is displayed. It's not a showstopper though, since you can press F5 to refresh the tree.

I'm looking into workarounds right now, but it's difficult to know when I've found one since I'm not having the problem to begin with.

glovemaster · 04-08-2007, 07:44 AM

Well, i have an idea

When you press right on a struct it expands it and when you press left it folds?

*tk102* · 04-08-2007, 10:21 AM

But then I wouldn't be able to use the context menu that's currently used with right-click.

glovemaster · 04-11-2007, 01:31 PM

i meant right and left keys on the keyboard

*tk102* · 04-12-2007, 05:13 PM

v1.1.8 released

- Added better support for up/down and left/right keystrokes. Up/down will now keep the selection cursor and the selection anchor together and will not navigate into folded branches. Left/right will not move the selection cursor but will fold/expand the current branch. Thanks go to glovemaster for the suggestion.

glovemaster · 04-12-2007, 07:25 PM

Wow, this has also fixed the bug which forced me to press F5 when i open a file, for me anyway. Thanks

*tk102* · 04-23-2007, 06:24 PM

KGFF v1.1.9 Released

-v1.1.9: Added support for StrRef Fields (Field Type: 18) as used in Jade Empire (thread)

*tk102* · 05-30-2007, 02:02 AM

Version 1.2.0 released

- Added support for TLK V4.0 string translations (Jade Empire)

- Eliminated a bug where the file in the most recently used list that no longer exists caused KGFF to croak. This would often occur when trying to launch K-GFF by double-clicking a K-GFF assoicated file.

*tk102* · 06-07-2007, 12:16 AM

v1.2.1 released
- Fixed bug that was causing weird problems with copying and pasting empty Lists and empty Structs (thanks stoffe!)

***stoffe*** · 06-07-2007, 06:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tk102

v1.2.1 released
- Fixed bug that was causing weird problems with copying and pasting empty Lists and empty Structs (thanks stoffe!)

That was quick, thanks for the fix.

Do you have any plans to release a version of nwn2-gff with this fix as well?

*tk102* · 06-07-2007, 09:07 AM

Yes I do. It appears I left the NWN::GFF module on my work PC otherwise I would have released that as well. Also need to fix XML2GFF/GFF2XML utilities for the same bug.