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Re: Turn files documentation

Thu, 07 July 2011 09:45

Daniel

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Why XML? Because I found the binary serialized data impossible to debug and I was interested in learning about XML. Rolling Eyes

I could have written it as a flat file format or used a database but interest in learning a different approach was my driver for doing the work. Laughing

The advantage of XML is that it is very forgiving of layout and order for 3rd party tools, but that was not the reason it was chosen. Very Happy

As far as documenting the format goes - don't hold your breath. The files are gziped XML and are fairly human readable (after uncompressing). For further documentation you will have to read the code or look at the default AI. Work at computer

My expectation is that once the file formats are fairly stable (I expect by version 0.6 they should be), then someone interested in developing 3rd party stuff may do some documentation of them. As we are at 0.4 and 0.5 has been more than 12 months in the works you have a bit of time to wait, unless you want to code AIs in C# using Nova .dlls.

Have fun.

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		Turn files documentation By: paul_ik on Thu, 07 July 2011 06:28
		Re: Turn files documentation By: Aeglos on Thu, 07 July 2011 06:37
		Re: Turn files documentation By: m.a@stars on Thu, 07 July 2011 07:16
		Re: Turn files documentation By: paul_ik on Thu, 07 July 2011 07:25
		Re: Turn files documentation By: m.a@stars on Thu, 07 July 2011 07:54
		Re: Turn files documentation By: Musmuris on Thu, 07 July 2011 06:56
		Re: Turn files documentation By: paul_ik on Thu, 07 July 2011 07:18
		Re: Turn files documentation By: Aeglos on Thu, 07 July 2011 07:22
		Re: Turn files documentation By: m.a@stars on Thu, 07 July 2011 07:37
		Re: Turn files documentation By: paul_ik on Thu, 07 July 2011 07:41
		Re: Turn files documentation By: m.a@stars on Thu, 07 July 2011 07:57
		Re: Turn files documentation By: Aeglos on Thu, 07 July 2011 07:19
		Re: Turn files documentation By: m.a@stars on Thu, 07 July 2011 07:36
		Re: Turn files documentation By: Aeglos on Thu, 07 July 2011 08:02
		Re: Turn files documentation By: paul_ik on Thu, 07 July 2011 09:11
		Re: Turn files documentation By: m.a@stars on Thu, 07 July 2011 09:38
		Re: Turn files documentation By: Musmuris on Thu, 07 July 2011 08:14
		Re: Turn files documentation By: paul_ik on Thu, 07 July 2011 09:25
		Re: Turn files documentation By: m.a@stars on Thu, 07 July 2011 09:50
		Re: Turn files documentation By: Musmuris on Thu, 07 July 2011 09:53
		Re: Turn files documentation By: m.a@stars on Thu, 07 July 2011 10:09
		Re: Turn files documentation By: Musmuris on Thu, 07 July 2011 10:18
		Re: Turn files documentation By: m.a@stars on Thu, 07 July 2011 13:20
		Re: Turn files documentation By: Aeglos on Thu, 07 July 2011 14:47
		Re: Turn files documentation By: m.a@stars on Thu, 07 July 2011 17:29
		Re: Turn files documentation By: Musmuris on Thu, 07 July 2011 09:39
		Re: Turn files documentation By: m.a@stars on Thu, 07 July 2011 09:52
		Re: Turn files documentation By: Musmuris on Thu, 07 July 2011 09:56
		Re: Turn files documentation By: m.a@stars on Thu, 07 July 2011 10:08
		Re: Turn files documentation By: Musmuris on Thu, 07 July 2011 09:43
		Re: Turn files documentation By: Daniel on Thu, 07 July 2011 09:45
		Re: Turn files documentation By: Musmuris on Thu, 07 July 2011 09:50
		Re: Turn files documentation By: m.a@stars on Thu, 07 July 2011 10:01
		Re: Turn files documentation By: paul_ik on Thu, 07 July 2011 10:28
		Re: Turn files documentation By: Musmuris on Thu, 07 July 2011 10:32
		Re: Turn files documentation By: paul_ik on Thu, 07 July 2011 10:53
		Re: Turn files documentation By: Musmuris on Thu, 07 July 2011 09:47

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