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ThanosOfTitan
10-28-2002, 01:04 PM
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
10-28-2002, 01:16 PM
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
10-29-2002, 05:04 AM
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
10-29-2002, 06:31 AM
*dupe post* - was having problems uploading files...

slartibartfast
10-29-2002, 06:51 AM
Ok here it is, feel free to distribute or modify the code as you wish.

slartibartfast
10-29-2002, 06:57 AM
MapViewer Source

LordCrush
10-29-2002, 07:09 AM
Thank You :) - nice proggy

ThanosOfTitan
10-29-2002, 08:41 AM
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
10-29-2002, 09:00 AM
Cheers ThanosOfTitan, I thought that would have been in the run time files installer, heh guess I shouldnt have assumed :)

ThanosOfTitan
10-29-2002, 09:25 AM
I honestly thought it would be there too.

timchet
10-29-2002, 11:54 AM
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
10-29-2002, 12:04 PM
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
10-29-2002, 12:48 PM
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
10-29-2002, 01:01 PM
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
11-05-2002, 08:13 AM
Feel free to use this (http://www.nexxus.dk/madmap) site to view the maps...

Catt
11-07-2002, 12:07 AM
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
11-07-2002, 02:09 AM
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
11-08-2002, 11:56 AM
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
11-08-2002, 01:13 PM
There are the scripts from mapfiend somewhere in the forum - look for mapfiend and scripts

mcswanbeck
11-11-2002, 02:56 AM
As LordCrush said then there is already "published" PHP-scripts for creating the maps... The extra features added was nothing really big...