To the tool makers of this Site

Yeah I was just thinking while i tried to do some editing it got annyoing opening and closing different windows im just wondering if you guys ever thought of combining your programs somehow to an easy to use 1 program instead of 5 different ones?

Well what tools do you speak of? I only use 2 utilities from this site often DJBNJACKs GREAT image thing and my map protector which have 2 COMPLETELY DIFFERENT uses...which is kinda why they are seperate programs.

There's a chance some of the current programs might be packaged together, as for integration I think that's a bit more complicated than they can afford the time to do. Unfortunately, when you're working with a format this new, you have to deal with some inconvenience.

I'tll take time but I plan to add a "plug-in" feature to my map editor that will allow many things from custom map protections to 3D view of the map and its models... many many thing will be possible this way and easyer for programmers to do (especially map files access). But it'll not be done soon!

I'm in for integration ;)

But I still wonder what '5' programs you are running :P

Greetz,
DJBnJack

Ps. You can allways post the kinda program you want here, there are enough people that have nothin to do!

One tool to rule them all, one tool to find them, one tool to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Heh acually the tools im talking about are the skinning an modeling tools like the hex editor, Image Extractor, MPQ2K, Mpqview, and whenever the model converter comes out that also. It gets quite annoying with all the application on the minibar its hard to tell which ones which

http://www.myran.com/download/tbiman.exe (another useless program by me)

DL that program to some folder on your HD, in the same place create a file named tbiman.cfg and add the following to it:
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Hexeditor=[enter full path to hexeditor here]
Image Extractor=[enter full path to image extractor here]
MPQ2K=[enter full path to MPQ2K here]
Mpqview=[enter full path to Mpqview here]
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Then start the exe (look in your bottom right corner(taskbar) after an ugly circle with a strange T in it and click on it)

That way you can close the programs after you use them and then start them very quick again, I know this sounds kindov useless since all you have to do is make some icons on the desktop or something similar, but even when i do that i always start some explorer that blocks them or some other program like photoshop..

or you can do this. go to your Desktop (works anywhere actually) right click, make a new notepad file. Name it W3Start.bat or any other name. It should turn into a Batch file and not a .txt. Right click the Batch file and click edit. Type in

start mpq2k.exe
start mpqview.exe

just like that. You can add any files and have multiple ones for different purposes. You can add as many files as you want to. You can use the short name method for some files but others require the entire field like C:\Program Files etc.