Author Topic: UBox System Editor - Work In Progress (Read 15360 times)

Chaotic Cow · « **on:** January 19, 2011, 09:21:00 PM »

DELAYED UNTIL I GET MORE C# KNOWLEDGE UNDER MY BELT!

So I thought about helping out the US community by making it somewhat easier to create/edit their systems with XML.

So I am slowly working in C# to make a editor for Universe Sandbox.

I'll gladly take suggestions and whatnot.

Right now I am trying to figure out how I should sort tags in my buttons.

So what do you think?

Also I wasn't sure if I should post this in US2 forum or Anything Forum.

I'm sure Dan will move it if need be.

deoxy99 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 19, 2011, 09:27:13 PM »

Quote from: Chaotic Cow on January 19, 2011, 09:21:00 PM

So I thought about helping out the US community by making it somewhat easier to create/edit their systems with XML.

So I am slowly working in C# to make a editor for Universe Sandbox.

I'll gladly take suggestions and whatnot.

Right now I am trying to figure out how I should sort tags in my buttons.

So what do you think?

Also I wasn't sure if I should post this in US2 forum or Anything Forum.

I'm sure Dan will move it if need be.

Put Velocity and Position under Body. Same thing with Object and Name.

og1250 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 19, 2011, 09:45:19 PM »

Yes Yes Brilliant Idea man now we can edit the ubox files instead of converting them back to xml

deoxy99 · « **Reply #3 on:** January 19, 2011, 09:53:50 PM »

Quote from: og1250 on January 19, 2011, 09:45:19 PM

Yes Yes Brilliant Idea man now we can edit the ubox files instead of converting them back to xml

Do you not know this is an XML Maker? You can make XML files, but not edit UBOX.

UBox System Editor means it is an editor for Universe Sandbox.

atomic7732 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 19, 2011, 09:56:05 PM »

oh my god, that's such a problem! I can download 7-zip or simply use "File Tools" in US.

Chaotic Cow · « **Reply #5 on:** January 19, 2011, 09:57:59 PM »

Quote from: deoxy99 on January 19, 2011, 09:53:50 PM

Quote from: og1250 on January 19, 2011, 09:45:19 PM
Yes Yes Brilliant Idea man now we can edit the ubox files instead of converting them back to xml
Do you not know this is an XML Maker? You can make XML files, but not edit UBOX.

UBox System Editor means it is an editor for Universe Sandbox.

Correct. Unless I can figure out a way for this to also save them as a .ubox

Also...been trying to find a WinForms code editor...but atlas...I have not.
At least nothing that wasn't so confusing. I just gave up looking.

So I can't figure out how to get line counting. :[

Naru523 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 19, 2011, 11:12:16 PM »

Looks good. Maybe it'll be official sometime.

ufufu~

kevin94 · « **Reply #7 on:** January 20, 2011, 05:14:31 AM »

that would be great to help out Dan in Universe Sandbox

atomic7732 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 20, 2011, 07:36:37 AM »

Quote from: Chaotic Cow on January 19, 2011, 09:57:59 PM

Quote from: deoxy99 on January 19, 2011, 09:53:50 PM
Quote from: og1250 on January 19, 2011, 09:45:19 PM
Yes Yes Brilliant Idea man now we can edit the ubox files instead of converting them back to xml
Do you not know this is an XML Maker? You can make XML files, but not edit UBOX.

UBox System Editor means it is an editor for Universe Sandbox.

Correct. Unless I can figure out a way for this to also save them as a .ubox

Also...been trying to find a WinForms code editor...but atlas...I have not.
At least nothing that wasn't so confusing. I just gave up looking.

So I can't figure out how to get line counting. :[

implement a 7zip thingy...

deoxy99 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 20, 2011, 11:21:07 AM »

Quote from: NeutronStar on January 20, 2011, 07:36:37 AM

implement a 7zip thingy...

I know how that should work.
Load a UBOX file (add a checker to ensure it is a .ubox), then change the extension to zip (change the name of the file only at the end (after the period)). Extract it, load the .xml, and place its data into the field.

Dan Dixon · « **Reply #10 on:** January 20, 2011, 12:59:31 PM »

This project looks a fun way to learn C#.

Here's the library that I use to create and extract the zipped UBOX files:
http://dotnetzip.codeplex.com/

(and just realized I hadn't added this project to the credits page (in Universe Sandbox), this link will be in the next update)

Darvince · « **Reply #11 on:** January 20, 2011, 11:34:07 PM »

Quote from: Chaotic Cow on January 19, 2011, 09:21:00 PM

So I thought about helping out the US community by making it somewhat easier to create/edit their systems with XML.

So I am slowly working in C# to make a editor for Universe Sandbox.

I'll gladly take suggestions and whatnot.

Right now I am trying to figure out how I should sort tags in my buttons.

So what do you think?

Also I wasn't sure if I should post this in US2 forum or Anything Forum.

I'm sure Dan will move it if need be.

Anything? Heck no!
It's about US isn't it?

yay 7zip and winrar in yo face. jk.

Chaotic Cow · « **Reply #12 on:** January 21, 2011, 08:06:38 AM »

Still working on it. Still sorting out how I should group tags in my buttons.

Right now the most annoying things is, after I use a button to add tags it places the tags and resets the text cursor(?) back to the beginning. So you have to go click back to where you want it after everyone tag click.

Chaotic Cow · « **Reply #13 on:** January 25, 2011, 10:39:34 AM »

Just an update. I dropped the first idea and thought about "ease of use".

Making most things GUI controlled. I'll post some pictures once I get a good layout of everything.

Darvince · « **Reply #14 on:** January 26, 2011, 06:53:08 PM »

Hrm... Interesting and cool.

Chaotic Cow · « **Reply #15 on:** January 26, 2011, 07:28:26 PM »

Driving me crazy though. Trying to figure out to get one from to send text to another form.

triclops200 · « **Reply #16 on:** February 06, 2011, 02:03:54 AM »

Look up asynchronous sockets

Chaotic Cow · « **Reply #17 on:** February 06, 2011, 02:54:29 PM »

I'm not trying to connect to a server?

Chaotic Cow · « **Reply #18 on:** February 06, 2011, 04:47:34 PM »

Yeah I figured some of that out.

Seems a Rich Text Box will not allow me to save as a XML file.

What I got so far...

Chaotic Cow · « **Reply #19 on:** February 07, 2011, 09:34:20 AM »

Well I am using StreamReader/Writer

Is there an XML Text Reader?

Naru523 · « **Reply #20 on:** February 07, 2011, 10:13:13 AM »

I'm guessing molun means this.

Chaotic Cow · « **Reply #21 on:** February 07, 2011, 10:48:31 AM »

Yeah, can't seem to figure out this. Like how to get it to send to textbox.

Chaotic Cow · « **Reply #22 on:** February 07, 2011, 11:17:26 AM »

http://i455.photobucket.com/albums/qq280/MooMooUdder/uboxeditor2.png

This is nice.

What is driving me nuts is I cannot figure out how to get a seperate Class file to get data from a textbox.

I could do it all Form1.cs but I want to try to stay organized.

Chaotic Cow · « **Reply #23 on:** February 07, 2011, 12:48:46 PM »

I have Form1.cs and theClass.cs

Note that theClass.cs is not a form but just a class file.

I need theClass.cs to look at a textbox on the Form1.

Chaotic Cow · « **Reply #24 on:** February 07, 2011, 05:58:53 PM »

I figured I would let you guys play around with what I have and tell me what you think about it.

http://anyhub.net/file/1KyY-ubox-editor.zip

I included copies of Earth and Moon and Our Solar System - All Known Moons,
so you guys don't have to edit your normal files.
You can also create copies of your own and use those!

This only saves as .XML for now.
Only what you edit in Text View will be saved.

Features:

Text View: View the file as Text
Grid View: View each object in it's own cell
Reference Search: Search a tag name and get a description.
..probably more

To uninstall: Go to Add/Remove programs in your Control Panel.

Chaotic Cow · « **Reply #25 on:** February 08, 2011, 10:27:13 AM »

Nice.

I'm trying to figure out how to update the grid / text view when one or the other is edited.

Chaotic Cow · « **Reply #26 on:** February 09, 2011, 05:58:38 PM »

I'm having a problem in saving in UBOX.

When I save Earth & Moon as XML and drag the file into US it works fine.

But, when I save it as a UBOX and drag that into US the Moon isn't included.

Never mind....seems to work fine now.

Weird.

Now I can't seem to get .UBOX working in US.

I save it with exact name as the xml file in the zip and it doesn't load anything in US.

Darvince · « **Reply #27 on:** February 09, 2011, 06:40:59 PM »

Wait what? I thought US native file format was .ubox. >

also heres a sentence so this isnt a one word post

Chaotic Cow · « **Reply #28 on:** February 09, 2011, 07:17:03 PM »

I save the .ubox file and it doesn't load the system even though the .xml inside the .ubox works fine alone.

Chaotic Cow · « **Reply #29 on:** February 10, 2011, 12:47:44 PM »

I added view features and cleaned up my search code. Added the ability to save as a .ubox but it doesn't seem to work when you try to load it into Universe Sandbox.

Try it out if you guys want to.

DON'T FORGET TO REMOVE PREVIOUS VERSION IF YOU HAVE IT.

http://anyhub.net/file/1MNT-ubox-editor-002.zip