Viewing maps outside of SEQ

[ThanosOfTitan]

Does anyone have a link to that utility that used to be on the Mapfiend site to read the MAP files and display graphically. Not the PHP script, at one point there was an actual program.

[LordCrush]

Hmm i am looking for this quite a time too - all i found is an very old vb-program without source that produces only a crash :(

[slartibartfast]

I reworked the code from drawmap.cpp a little to make a simple map viewer that I can use to view the showeq maps.

I'll tidy up the code a little then post it here...

[slartibartfast]

*dupe post* - was having problems uploading files...

[slartibartfast]

Ok here it is, feel free to distribute or modify the code as you wish.

[slartibartfast]

MapViewer Source

[LordCrush]

Thank You :) - nice proggy

[ThanosOfTitan]

Works great. I did have to install mscomct2.ocx which wasn't found on my Win2k system or in the VB support files.

Click here to download mscomct2.ocx (http://activex.microsoft.com/controls/vb6/MSCOMCT2.CAB)

[slartibartfast]

Cheers ThanosOfTitan, I thought that would have been in the run time files installer, heh guess I shouldnt have assumed :)

[ThanosOfTitan]

I honestly thought it would be there too.

[timchet]

Loaded both the vb6 runtime, and the additional mscomct2.ocx, and when running the map viewer I get:
Component 'COMDLG32.OCX' or one of it's dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid


Is this because I am running this on winXP, vs. win2k?

[ThanosOfTitan]

Try this link Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - Q161344 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q161344&) one of the support articles mentioned might actually help.

[slartibartfast]

Ok that VbRuntime installer obviously doesnt install the windows common controls like I thought it would...

There are only 3 external refernces in the project:

Common Dialog Control (COMDLG32.OCX) (http://activex.microsoft.com/controls/vb6/COMDLG32.CAB)

Windows Common Controls 2 (MSCOMCT2.OCX) (http://activex.microsoft.com/controls/vb6/MSCOMCT2.CAB)

The 3rd is Microsoft Windows Scripting - which is mentioned in the readme.


Hopefully this will fix it for those having trouble getting it to work. I was gonna make an installer - but the upload limit on this section is far too small...

[timchet]

That windows scripter wont work with winxp, but:

"Component 'COMDLG32.OCX' or one of its dependencies is not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid." when I try run the program.
- This error has been reported with all versions of Windows. To fix this error...
- First download COMDLG32.OCX and copy it into the \Windows\System32 directory.
- Then, open the run dialog box using "Start | Run..." and enter "Regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\comdlg32.ocx" to register the DLL.

http://www.a-fluffy.demon.co.uk/homeworld/hwse/comdlg32.ocx



pulled that from another site... worked for me

[mcswanbeck]

Feel free to use this (http://www.nexxus.dk/madmap) site to view the maps...

[Catt]

Originally posted by mcswanbeck
Feel free to use this (http://www.nexxus.dk/madmap) site to view the maps...

Too bad it's not a public site, it takes you to a guild login page.

[mcswanbeck]

Originally posted by Catt


Too bad it's not a public site, it takes you to a guild login page.

Yeah, the feature was public for a week or so, but then it was removed again because of the high cpu load all the picture generations caused :(

[chrisben]

would anyone be able to post php code to create the graphics ?
or what shis done through a system() command and jsut displayed on the page.

[LordCrush]

There are the scripts from mapfiend somewhere in the forum - look for mapfiend and scripts

[mcswanbeck]

As LordCrush said then there is already "published" PHP-scripts for creating the maps... The extra features added was nothing really big...