Editing Triggers in Text

[Guest]

Is it possible to export the triggers of a .scm/.scx file to a .txt file and edit them in text? Is there any type of prog/hack out there to do this? Copying & pasting would be much easier in text...

 

[Ilendil]

I don't think there is, but I haven't searched for this kind of program... I don't really see the problem of making maps using the regular way.

 

[CmdrTydaeus]

The problem with making maps the regular way is that you can't use many of the commands that are possible, you can't modify all variables, you can't deal with all units, and you can't copy and paste conditions and actions between triggers but can only copy and paste entire triggers. Also, on slower machines, typing many of the actions and conditions would be faster.

As for a text editor for scm's I don't know of any, but I'll see how thoroughly encoded the trigger save files are. The real trick for writing one would be to figure out Blizzard's encoding scheme.

 

[scmaker]

trigger2text

You may want to give GUEdit a try
It has a save/load triggers to text-files feature

http://goldenurg.tripod.com/files.html


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