Java 2 / Swing Counter-Strike Config Generator (WIP)

DeadBankClerk

here is a work in progress of my adventures in swing gui creation.

(btw does anyone know is it possible to put the JTabbedPanel format into an applet, without making an applet window?)

put all the CS options in, gwan, gwan , gwan. Put in sumink so as u can load and save yr settings seperate. Ooooh, Oooooh, ooooooh, and don't call it Toast.exe ;P

DeadBankClerk

saving is super easy... you just fiddle with one massive string

output = output + "net_graph "
if (net_graph.getState() == true)
output = output + "3";
else
output = output + "0";
output = output + " // Show hide the netgraph"


loading on the other hard is a super massive string parser and string buffer loader and mega stuff that i dont know how to do yet

but then again the reason i am writing the program is to learn

Enygma

Perhaps you should think about storing the config as XML, of course you'd have to write a .cfg to XML converter but once that's done it would be pretty sweet.

Games should be using XML for this kind of thing anyway. Suppose we'll see it in the next few years.

ButcherOfNog

Originally posted by Enygma

Games should be using XML for this kind of thing anyway. Suppose we'll see it in the next few years.

congrats, you've just invented 'XGML'.

Editor looks good dbc, saving the config as XML Enygma ... just to convert it to the correct .cfg format later ... plz explain the logic? Do you want to slow the saving & loading of the config for a particular reason or just for the hell of it. XML is cool technology when used correctly, sticking it in everything just for the sake of it is pointless, unless of course, DBC wants to learn some XML

bonkey

Originally posted by DeadBankClerk
saving is super easy... you just fiddle with one massive string

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loading on the other hard is a super massive string parser and string buffer loader and mega stuff that i dont know how to do yet

As a thought, I would do the following :

1) Allow it to "save" configurations, which are not saved as CS config files. The easiest way to do this is to have a serialisable object which contains your settings, serialise it and write to file. Later, you load from file and de-serialise. Wonderful.

2) Allow it to "set" configurations, which takes the loaded configuration and generates the CS files for you in the correct location

3) [Additional functionality for coolness and all that] write a CS-file-parser. You basically need to read in a CS file line-at-a-time and pattern-match it against known stuff.

This way, if you hve steps one and two, I can use it to set up a specific configuration from scratch, and get it to set that config to my CS system when I want.

Implementing option 3 simply allows me to read an existing CS config....which is most likely to be used by a user the first time they run the app, and never after!

Also, if you implement the "config-reader", you should also get it to report to the user any items which it cannot parse. These can then be reported to you as bugs, or the user can at least verify that they have magic gunk in there for some reason.

Looks good....best of luck with it.

jc

Enygma

saving the config as XML Enygma ... just to convert it to the correct .cfg format later ... plz explain the logic? Do you want to slow the saving & loading of the config for a particular reason or just for the hell of it.

Just a suggestion really, wasn't thinking about speed or performance or anything just thought it would be nice to have that type of thing stored as XML. Validation and editing would be easier, and the code would definetely be a lot cleaner and easier to maintain.
Writing to a .cfg would be simple with an XSL. Besides it'd be a good thing to learn.

But you're right, sticking XML into places it doesn't belong is pointless.

Very cool app BTW!

DeadBankClerk

i have been coding for the evening

i have the graphics and player tabs now full of boxes and sliders
adding sliders and buttons etc is easy
writing the actionlistener code and the string changer is easy.

but it takes so long to add *all* the buttons and strings....

atm i have the output going directly to a JTextArea with load / save buttons ghosted out.

so once my code is done for all the tick boxes/sliders i will implement save.

then i will add a button binding section
my idea is for a gui like any other game:

Jump [______]

and when the person clicks the textfield box beside jump it waits for a keyPressed event and puts the key name in the text field.

as for XML i think i will give it a miss.


out of interest, how many ppl have the java 2 plugin installed?

satchmo

most people I'd imagine, if not 1.3. (I've got 1.3.1)
Are you going to try signing it so you can do file IO, or are you just doing it as an application?

DeadBankClerk

i'm going to run it as an application at first, becasue it is easier for me, then when it is made, i will convert it to an applet. does it cost money to get it signed or anything?

satchmo

No it doesn't cost anything afaik- although I've never tried it myself so if you do it let us know how you get on - all the tools you need are in the JDK bin directory (v1.2+). As far as I can see it's just kind of niggly and takes a bit of setting up on both sides. This page has a good straightforward explanation on how to do it.

DeadBankClerk

mmm.. since the last pic i have made all the code nice and added actionlisteners for everything. tomorrow i will add the net settings, and maybe a few more graphics. then i will set up the file saving.

once it saves i will attempt to get it bind keys (easy but i want a nice interface) and load files (big string parser with a few hundred if/then/else's), then i will try and turn my application into a signed applet.

has anyone any idea how to make an interface similar to the quake3/half-life controls section?

basically i want a button that when u click it it grabs the mouse and waits for a key input, then gives you back the mouse and writes the keyname on the button. other programs that are simialr to mine have a drop down list for every button in cs, others have a picture of a keyboards, with a big imagemap over it.

tangent: if signing an aplet costs nothing, can anyone make a mega virus applet?

satchmo

Originally posted by DeadBankClerk
tangent: if signing an aplet costs nothing, can anyone make a mega virus applet?

Well you need to have a policy file set up on the client which specifies which applets can do what, and keys to recognise the signature need to be stored on the client too. So basically no, unless you get a really stupid person who will download any policy file and go to the bother of setting it up properly, without knowing where the applet came from or what it does. And that person almost deserves to get infected.

basically i want a button that when u click it it grabs the mouse and waits for a key input

I don't think that Java will let you control the postition of the mouse, but you could set the cursor to be invisible with

Toolkit toolkit=Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
byte blankBytes[]={};
Image blankImage=toolkit.createImage(blankBytes);
setCursor(toolkit.createCustomCursor(blankImage, new Point(0,0), ""));

and then use a combination of a KeyListener and MouseListener to get which keys/mouse buttons have been pressed. The cursor will only be invisible while inside the applet though.

DeadBankClerk

does anyone know why the "\n" character is appearing as the black boxes? (like a q3 cfg)

(my proggy now writes to disc
only things left is to create a key-binding interface and maybe a mega string parser to load a cfg.

satchmo

try \n\r or \r\n or something like that

Enygma

String newLine = System.getProperty("line.separator");
will get you the systems line separator.

Baz_

ooh oooh oooh thats a very nice tip enygma it will come in very handy in the future I'm sure, super tip, and I'm not being sarcy even though it sounds uncannily similar.

Baz_

Evil Phil

The black box is cos java uses unicode, notepad uses ascii. I think. V. nice app, when it's finished can I download it? please? (+1 karma for cool java app)

Question for everybody. Can you use Button arrays in java like you can in vb?

bonkey

Originally posted by Evil Phil
The black box is cos java uses unicode, notepad uses ascii. I think.

Not the problem. If it was unicode problems, then every second character would be misinterpreted.

The problem is that "\n" will put a unif LF (or does unix use CR) in place, instead of a CR/LF pair, and most pc editors are too stupid to auto-convert.

Enygma's code is a neat solution to that

V. nice app, when it's finished can I download it? please? (+1 karma for cool java app)

Does karma still exist? How can people see their karma (I dont think I have any, but I used to, and I thought it had been dropped from the system).

Question for everybody. Can you use Button arrays in java like you can in vb?

What do you mean by "button" - command button?

In java you can hook the same "event listener" to multiple controls, and identify the control which fired the event through the event object passed in. Which means that its actually more powerful than VB cause you dont need to specifically set up control arrays (which destory naming conventions IMHO), nor are you bound to only having an event handler for controls of the same type.

jc

DeadBankClerk

Originally posted by bonkey
What do you mean by "button" - command button?

i assume he means
javax.swing.JButton[]