Source Code - Fable2 Mod

2008-11-05, 14:54 by Keshire

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Subject: Source Code

To help the progress of tools development for Fable 2 we are running a Subversion server with source code of currently developed tools. It is currently a very small codebase, but we're sure it will grow over time as more progress is made into the file formats.

Check out is anonymous. If you would like to commit, please talk to us about it.

Repository URL: svn://fable2mod.com:3690

Happy Coding ;-)

P.S. Since the currently major developer of the code (myself) uses Visual Studio 2008, the code is setup to be built with visual studio 2008 solution/project files. On another note, a great Subversion plugin for Visual Studio is AnkhSVN, pretty much a must have in my opinion.

LittleCodingFox 2008-11-13, 04:04 #2

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Is it okay if i make my own codebase?

I prefer to use my application support library (which is free, although not public at this moment since it's for personal projects, i can release it w/ source though).

I ask if it's okay since i'll be releasing the source of all my tools aswell, and it might be a good idea to submit their code to the SVN server.

EDIT: I noticed some minimal code issues with your code, apparently you allocate stuff with new[], but deallocate them with delete and not delete[], like in BNKArchive::OpenArchive. I think that windows does not care if you delete[] or delete, but it's stil a minimal code issue.

Also, i didnt read all the code, but you may have a memory leak at this line:

pBuffer = new char[pHeader->FileDataOffset-sizeof(*pHeader)]; (BNKArchive.cpp:224)

Because, at least in the code that follows, you dont seem to delete[] pBuffer like you do previously.

This post was edited on 2008-11-13, 04:30 by LittleCodingFox.

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You can use anything you like. In terms of getting it committed in subversion, as long as everything required to build and run it is checked in you should be ok. Alternatively if you're not planning on having multiple contributing developers you can just post the code in a thread or anywhere else to your liking.

Memory leaks are very possible as this code was written in a bit of a hurry just to get it working. As for delete vs delete [] they are identical in terms of memory deallocation (at least in all c++ implementations I'm aware of), the only difference is that delete [] calls destructors on the array items if they exist before releasing the memory. Long story short, I have a bad tendency to forget to use the [] when dealing with strings/raw data buffers since I don't really see them as objects.

LittleCodingFox 2008-11-14, 12:19 #4

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Should i make a new thread for each code release? I prefer not to use SVN since i've been unable to properly use SVN without ruining the whole thing. Badly done commits and such.

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I would suggest to just make a post in this thread with your code release and update that post with each new release. This should allow us to have one central place where all available code can be easily accessed. Then start a new thread for discussion of the code if necessary. I'd like to keep this thread limited to just source code releases, and as so I'll probably be splitting this thread pretty soon.

LittleCodingFox 2008-11-14, 16:15 #6

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Just to let you know that i've made 3 "tools" so far.

A BNK File Listing Utility, which lists whether an archive is compressed, and the files inside including byte count,
A BNK File Extracting Utility, similar to the one shown here, except that it doesnt replace /'s by .'s
A BNK File Extraction Merger Utility, which "mixes" two archives together. To be used with *_headers.bnk / *.bnk pairs.

About the last one, i noticed that the headers to certain files are kept someplace else than the archive they're in, so i thought it might be useful to make that "tool".

I'll release the source code tomorrow, hopefully.

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