Circle World Creator Documentation Circle World Creator or CWC is the first real program that I have ever written entirely from scratch. I taught myself Visual Basic, so I am sure there are a lot of things that I did wrong... but the program works as far as I can tell. With CWC you can create Mobiles, Rooms and Objects. There are some limitations to the program however and I consider this program to be in ALPHA/BETA mode. First is that the way Visual Basic reads files in by default is in PC format. That means that any area saved in UNIX format needs to be converted to PC format before CWC can read in the files properly. This has to do with the different OS's line termination characters. I use TextPad (www.textpad.com) for file conversion purposes. Secondly, CWC can only read files written in EXACTLY the format prescribed by "building.txt" in the CircleMUD 3.0 documentation. The file I used came out of the beta level 17 archive. If a file format has been messed with, the program will crash when trying to read it in. I do not currently know how to fix either of these problems, but I will be looking into them. Any suggestions would be welcome. What you CAN do with this editor is create new files in the standard format, then edit them by hand to add any format changes your MUD has or you can use it to edit the stock areas. Another small quirk is that CWC is only compatible with the CircleMUD 3.0 lettered bitvectors. I did not write support for numbered bitvectors (ie. the old way). If you read in a file with old-style bitvectors it will not detect the bits properly. I may fix this at a later date, but it was easiest right now to just do the lettered ones. A few other things... the HQSoftware link doesn't work yet in the About screen because I haven't gotten around to making that site (as of 10/28/00). Also, in a later version I will hopefully add support for creating Zone files and Shop files, but that was just too much work for the time being. As with any homemade software, this thing is probably riddled with bugs :( I will be updating it as much as I can. ANY comments or bugs or anything would be welcome. Send them to: . Well, enjoy. * Temporary Alternate Download Location: * http://www.crosswinds.net/~alankmiles/hqsoftware/cwczip.exe Installation: I'd recommend just making a folder called CWC or something in C:\My Documents\ and sticking CWC.exe in it. I've included COMDLG32.DLL which you will have to put in your C:\Windows\System\ directory if you don't already have it. This program runs on Win 98/98SE/Me/2000 and probably also all versions of Win 95 but I haven't tested it on Win 95. If it doesn't run on 95, you probably need to get the updated versions of the VBRUNx.dll files. That should be it for installation. Alan Miles alankmiles@crosswinds.net www.crosswinds.net/~alankmiles/ Revision History: 0.3.1 "Fixed" some form loading bugs. Changed more Input boxes. 0.3.0 Input boxes that recieve only integers now do so. 0.2.2a Replaced COMDLG32.OCX with COMDLG32.DLL 0.2.2 Fixed some typos and a bug related to storing recent Object Files. 0.2.1 Fixed a minor bug with reseting internal data. 0.2.0 Revamped how files are loaded and fixed some more bugs. 0.1.1 Fixed some serious bugs... Note: I messed up the Release Number when I first released the program... Fixed in 0.1.1 1.0.0 Initial Release.