Post about TechMPQ here...

Then what would be the point? If you wanted to extract a skin to edit it, or if you wanted to edit a <race>abilitydata.txt file, why the hell would you want in in the memory instead of a file?

Have in a built in editor, which edits in entirly in ram, then reimports it into the mpq. Possible, and would work.

My program is not an editor, it's an MPQ archiving utility. Also, I'd love to see how your mpq2k clone actually works because of:


Which is not true. If you have programmed using ShadowFlare's library, you would have known that.

which one? That mpq file writing is handled by sfmpq.dll? Yes, I didn't write the mpq part, but I assumed that you were intelligent. And if you're saying I'm wrong about the language it was written in.. why does it matter? Oh, and how the hell is a mpq editor different from a mpq archiving utility? Your's has less features?

No you said the SFmpqapi handles file handling functions, so I'd love to see your program work if they didn't have any in them.

Also, I'm not making a built in editor because there are so many different file types that blizzard uses. The best that you could get would be a text editor which wouldn't even allow you to reasonably edit most files, such as ".mdx" files.

No, I said file writing. Do you see the writing part? Also, I never said that it would be a good idea to incorperate everything, just that it is possible.

File handling is reading/writing files to a disk. SFmpqapi, does not write files to a disk, it merely read from a buffer. It does, however, have the ability to read files from a disk to put them in an MPQ.

All MPQ writing is done by sfmpq.dll. Does the presense of the word "handled" confuse your low iq?

I don't care who's right, but there's no need to be total dick.

Yes, there is.

You just don't get it knightking. Here, let me try to explain this to you very simply.


Writing files to hard disk:

Hard Disk <--------- TechMPQ <---------- SFmpqapi
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nb sp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&n bsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;|
MPQ file------->------------->--------------+

Reading files from hard disk:

Hard Disk-------->SFmpqapi------------->TechMPQ
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nb sp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&n bsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;|
MPQ file-------<-------------<--------------+

Well.. it appears you use sfmpq.dll to read files not in MPQs and write files to MPQs without it. Congrats, you're a ****ing moron.
A more intelligent method...

File to add-------->CrappyMPQEditor------------->Magic File Add function in SFMPQ.dll---------->MPQ

You are posting crap. :gfu: Can't you shut up? It appears that you don't like TechMPQ. That is a fact. Then use WinMPQ (I also do so). But you can't insult/flame Technetium all the time just because you don't like his tool (leave him alone). Anyway, it seems, that you've got no sense of programming (I understand some things of it), so shut up if someone is talking about programming stuff. Sorry knightking, but you have to understand that you can't flame someone just because you don't like his/her tool. I also programmed tools, which are not very popular. But like someone else said here: It always makes fun to program a tool that works.
I hope, knightking, you've understood what I mean. Otherwise you can get serious problems with moderators.

You guys draw weird diagrams. More correct:

Extracting:
MPQ -> SFMPQAPI -> MPQ editor (insert other adjectives as needed) -> Disk file

Adding:
Disk file -> SFMPQAPI -> MPQ (note the absense of MPQ editor)

By the way, I love how TechMPQ crashes when you try to delete a file. Did TechMPQ begin as a frontend for MPQ2K? Because from the way the interface is designed, it sure looks that way.

Starcraftfreak, I didn't start flaming him until he started posting junk and trying to pass it off as knowledge. Look at quantum's diagram. Now look at Technetium's. Notice a rather important difference?