DIP <=> XLS for Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos

Author: metamaker

This application enables user to write .DIP files content from game's STARTUP.PAK to .XLS file and write changes back from .XLS to that .DIP files.

How to use the application

This is console application. The syntax is next:

Usage: loldipxls <command> <filename.xls>

Available commands:

• toxls -- extract all .DIPs' strings to <filename.xls>
• fromxls -- update all .DIPs with strings from <filename.xls>

Building the application

You need CMake (http://www.cmake.org/) to build this application. The below example of how to build it is for Visual Studio's nmake but you can use pretty same sequence for any other generator. Building steps are next:

1. Open command line and change current directory with cd command to the directory where you unpacked loldipxls source code.
2. Create new empty directory build and change your working directory to it by running mkdir build, cd build.
3. Run cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" .. to create Makefile.
4. Run nmake to build the library.

Dependencies

The application depends on:

• lollibs (https://github.com/metamaker/lollibs)
• ExcelFormat (http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/42504/ExcelFormat-Library)

Copies of these libraries are provided in vendor/ folder.

License agreement

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

Release history

03.03.2015:

• Initial release