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Post any comments and suggestions in THIS thread. Also, all updates and news will be posted in this thread.

Just a warning, someone must have been having a bad day because one of the other threads I just read had some, uneeded stuff in it. Example
If anything like this happens again your(anyone who does this) posts will be deleted instantly. There is no need for this crap. :no: So keep this Thread Positive.
His software is very nice I like it. WinMPQ was not working for me gave me some bizarre error than died. So I looked around found his and it worked for me. I have not needed to import/export for awhile so I have not been able to play with it.

I wish you Luck Dude on your Program :infth:
DKSlayer

DKSlayer> As winmpq no longer uses MPQControl, you should be able to get it to work, try dling it and all of the required files

As for TechMPQ... it would not be that hard to make it decent. Take the list screen, and integrate all of the other functions into it. Theres a reason why all of the other archive editors with full guis do it that way. Also, stop bundling storm.dll, sfmpq.dll doesn't need it.

The GUI will be the next revision. Right now I'm porting the program to my DLL, which is actually increasing the speed of the program even more. Once I get done with more important things, I will work on the GUI. The program is extremely simple to use and is very easy for beginners to pick up on. That was the original idea of the GUI. I will play around with different ideas as I have time.

Also, knighking, the program is faster than WinMPQ and preforms MPQ file handling function faster as well because there is not file read/write screens from VB.

Edit: What I was meaning to say was that VB does not have direct access to Windows file handling functions.

It doesn't matter what VB has access to. All file writing is handled by sfmpq.dll, which a) is the same thing that you use, and b) written in C++. I'll agree that TechMPQ is faster than WinMPQ, but not that much.

Ummmmmm..... So this n00b just wants to learn how to use the dern thing! The tutorials on this website don't cover techMPQ, and are, if you ask me, not very noobish tutorials, if you know what i mean (i had no idea what the hell Zepir was talking about :( ). 3d guy's tutorial was easy enough to follow, should I use that as a guideline or is there a website that details (in an idiot-friendly way) how to use it? Thanks in advance...

Am I the only one who realizes how funny that is?

Shadow Flare's Library does NOT do file hadling functions, just MPQ reading/writing functions. YES it does matter, and YES I know; I programmed all the file handling functions for my program myself. It's funny hearing all this bullshit from someone that I can tell has never programmed at all, let alone something this complicated.

My only suggestion is to have a list of files in the MPQ and you can add file into the mpq with having to type in it and broswing through your computer. If you could do that i would quit WinMPQ and use TechMPQ more often

Actually, I have programmed many things, including a clone of mpq2k using sfmpqapi. Guess what? Its really easy. If its hard for you, you suck at programming, and TechMPQ does support that.

Just out of curiosity, what file handling functions would an mpq editor need other than mpq reading and writing?

Writing to disk after reading from the MPQ...

Unless you just store the whole thing in memory, which would be much faster.

I'm not sure if you are understanding the process correctly. You have to read the files that are inside the MPQ to a buffer(usually in pieces), and then write the buffer out to a file.

Or just store it in the buffer... Uses huge amount of ram, but actually writing the stuff isn't nessisary.