01-03-2003 03:13									#31
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

As a further taster, here's a screenshot of the setup management screen (the bit you didn't see before).

It's rather boring at the moment since all mods are incompatible, none have descriptions and all setups contain exactly one mod which has the same name as the setup...

Attachment: image3.png
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	04-03-2003 15:10									#32
	Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

Any comments?

	04-03-2003 15:25									#33
	Full PM-box? Change here!

Looks great.........

No we just have to agree to a 'standard'

	04-03-2003 16:51									#34
	Put an end to popups!

How do setups work?

	04-03-2003 17:51									#35
	Increase Your PM Length

The idea is that each setup contains zero or more mods, which will be applied in sequence when the setup is applied. For example you might have one setup which contains the Apolyton Tile File, then Cradle (with visible wonders), and then a mod which just changes your Colours00.txt. Mods can specify prerequisites, which must be included in a setup before they can be - like Cradle could specify the Apolyton Tile File and so it would be made slightly more obvious that it requires it for users who don't read the readme, and the same tile file could be used in many mods, or they could specify their own.

Of course, at present the tile file is not a mod, but it could be in this new system, and then it would only be applied when necessary.

	22-03-2003 20:23									#36
	Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

well, that seems terrific

	23-03-2003 02:53									#37
	Tired of ads?

I'm glad someone thinks so .

	24-05-2003 01:15									#38
	Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

The setup thing looks great.

	24-05-2003 01:45									#39
	Remove this text

As I said, if you wish me to alter it for GalCiv, I'll be happy to try .

	09-06-2003 20:17									#40
	Got spare money?

This needs COMDLG32.OCX, right? I get an error about my version of this being outdated. Could someone please attach a current one.

Thanks,

Peter

	09-06-2003 20:34									#41
	Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

Try this one. It's from 2000/05/22, so I'm guessing Win95/98 would have an older version.

Attachment: comdlg32.zip
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	10-06-2003 19:53									#42
	Increase the size of your Attachments

John,

I haven't had a chance to try out the ModDef functionality, but this is very impressive indeed. It's a big step forward from ModSwapper. Well done

More comments to follow.

To All: I'm running Windows98 and the only other OCX I needed (YMMV) was MSCOMCT2. It wasn't even on my computer and it's too big to attach to Poly but here's a link to where I found one (it's near the bottom of the page)

http://members.tripod.com/~minzy/softwares.html.

Once you get ModMan installed, it's really easy to use: Click the 'Manage' button to bring up the Manage Setups screen and then the 'Seek ModSwapper mods' button and you're away.

If we'd had this from the beginning, we'd have much better organized and streamlined mods. Check out the MOD_ModDef_sample.txt to get an idea of what can be done.

Again, thanks, John.

	10-06-2003 23:19									#43
	Get a bigger avatar today!

I'm glad to have some serious feedback at last , and thanks for the kind words. I'm in a programming mood at the moment so now is the time to ask for improvements (I really should be working on CTPEd... but I'm writing a scripting language instead).

I'll zip up both those .ocx files and put them on the ctpmodmakers server...

	10-06-2003 23:30									#44
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Files uploaded and link added to post with attachment above.

	13-07-2003 21:38									#45
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Since there's been no reports of dire bugs, I'll put this in the directory now.

	13-07-2003 21:55									#46
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Or try to... I'm somewhat confused as to how to put something in the directory? Are you supposed to use the 'Add link' page, and if so, does that mean the file must already be uploaded somewhere, and you set the URL field to the URL of the file to download?

	14-07-2003 20:14									#47
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

quote: Originally posted by J Bytheway Or try to... I'm somewhat confused as to how to put something in the directory? Are you supposed to use the 'Add link' page, and if so, does that mean the file must already be uploaded somewhere, and you set the URL field to the URL of the file to download?

Yes you are supposed to use the "Add Link" page. If the file is uploaded somewhere already, you can enter the URL into the according field. If you don't have a web space somewhere you can also leave these fileds empty and email the files to Locutus in both cases he will put the files onto the server of Apolyton.

-Martin

	15-07-2003 01:40									#48
	Increase Your PM Length

Right - thanks.

	01-11-2003 18:52									#49
	Update v1.0.1 Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

Unfortunately I never got around to trying again to upload to the directory. However, I'm now releasing a new version. The only change here is that it supports the altered directory structure resulting from you compiling your own versions of CTP with the source code.

Disclaimers, warnings, etc. are as before. I've been using the original version for quite some time with no problems, but this new version is minimally tested.

More things to note
This version will check under ctp2_program\ctp first, and then ctp2_code\ctp, and will presume itself successful when it locates userprofile.txt. Mod switching should work fine so long as userprofile.txt and civpaths.txt are both to be found there. However, if you try to launch CTP then it will only try ctp2.exe, not all the other variant executable names that you can produce. If you wish to run debug versions etc., you will have to execute them yourself.

[Edit: this version removed (obsolete). New version here]

Last edited by J Bytheway on 23-05-2004 at 15:46

	07-03-2004 18:43									#50
	Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

Well, 8 months after I said I would, I have just tried to submit it to the directory. I hope I did everything right...

	07-03-2004 19:08									#51
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

You did perfect Didn't have to do anything but hit Approve

I'll probably write a news item later, too busy now.

	27-03-2004 17:59									#52
	MSCOMCT2.OCX Support Apolyton

This might help some of you (it's cut and paste from http://www.digitalborneo.com/downloads.html):
Your computer does not has the required mscomct2.ocx. You can download it from our main website at:

http://www.digitalborneo.com/downloads/mscomct2.ocx

Once downloaded, copy the file to the SYSTEM32 folder or SYSTEM folder if you are using Windows 98. If an old version currently exists, temporarily rename it or move it to another folder for safe keeping. Now you'll need to register the control. Click on Start > Run and type:

regsvr32 mscomct2.ocx

into the box, then click OK. The text entered must be exact. It may help to copy from this page to the clipboard and paste it into the run box so there are no mistakes. Click OK. Windows will tell you if it's registered correctly.

	23-05-2004 15:45									#53
	Update v1.0.2 Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

I started getting crashes on startup with the old version, so here's a new one with the bug that was causing the crash fixed and some other improvements too.

Changes:

- Added '-executable' command line parameter to allow running different builds from ctp2.exe, e.g. the debug build.
- Fixed a bug which caused a crash on execution if MaxPlayers was greater than 29 in UserProfile.txt.
- Changed the logging to append to instead of replacing ModMan.log.
- Added a little more info to the readme.

Attachment: modman.zip
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	23-05-2004 15:49									#54
	Inflate your Upload Space

I would update the directory entry, but I don't seem to be able to modify it. I think that might be because the last modification I submitted hasn't been processed yet...

	23-05-2004 20:12									#55
	Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

There was something odd with the entry, but I think it should be okay now: it now points to the last attachment you posted in this thread. Let me know if anything else needs to be updated.

http://apolyton.net/dir/index.php?i...its=4711&cat=29

	24-05-2004 00:45									#56
	Remove this text

quote: Originally posted by Locutus There was something odd with the entry, but I think it should be okay now: it now points to the last attachment you posted in this thread. Let me know if anything else needs to be updated.

Thanks - I've removed the attachment which it currently points to now, so it should instead point to the newest version now (i.e. the attachment 3 posts ago).

Edit: It already does... Either you've changed it already (in which case thanks ) or else I was just confused, in which case never mind.