MPQ Input Manual. |
Table of Contents |
Setting up MPQ Input. |
Once you've selected the game you want to write review for you need to enter where some details into the Reviewer, Save Directory and File Extension boxes.
How to create a new review. |
Then its simply a matter of taking the details from an email and pasting them in. Some boxes do require a certain type of input.
To create the HTML file hit the Create Review button. It also saves
all the reviews you've done that session to a DAT file (text file). Depending
on the type of review you are creating depends on what file the session
is saved to. For Quake its Quake.DAT and for Quake 2 its Quake2.DAT.
If a DAT file exists the program will automatically load it up when it loads up. This means you can save the reviews you're working on and come back to them later.
NOTE : When starting a new batch of reviews I recommend you delete (or backup somewhere else) the DAT file because this way it will be easier to keep track of what you've done. Also this will stop potential problems when creating Review Indexes.
After creating this initial review the button will become active and clicking
the New Review button will start the process of making a review
again.
Viewing a created review. |
NOTE : If
the review is already loaded up in a HTML browser, you'll have to Refresh/Reload
the review in your browser.
Checking what reviews you've done. |
To
check what reviews you've done click the Reviews Done button. This
will bring up the screen shown below.
From here you can see what reviews you done and swop between them. To swop
to another review you can double click on it on the list, or select it
then click the button.
NOTE : Please make sure you've saved your work before swopping to another review, otherwise you will lose the review you currently have entered.
First select a review from the list. Then hit this button and review will
be deleted. A backup of the reviews is made just incase (File name will
be either Quake.DAT or Quake2.DAT).
NOTE : The
backup is of just before you deleted your work. Say if you delete another
record the backup will be over written.
Creating a Review Index. |
Where to get the program from. |
Version Info. |
0.601 (1st
August 1999)
Bug fix for
something really dumb.
0.600 (28th
July 1999)
Now with support
for Inspection Reviews. Read this file for
details on how to create an Inspection Review.
0.501 (23rd
June 1999)
Review indexes
should now work. I'd messed up how it gets the directory you're running
the program in (missed out a '\').
Made it so
it saves the state of the Your Review Checkbox to the ini file.
0.500 (22nd
June 1999)
You can now
delete reviews from Reviews Done screen.
Added Your
Review checkbox. If this is clicked it will make a review in the Your Review
format.
Can now work
on both Quake and Quake 2 reviews at once. I fixed it!!!
Tidied up
layout. Moved large/small text picture boxes.
Changed caption
on Save button from Create Review to Save Review.
0.401 (2nd
May 1999)
Added option
so you can create either normal all HTML reviews or CSS reviews.
Fixed 'Review
Index' button on Quake 2 reviews. It actually helps when you put some code
in...
0.400 (27th
April 1999)
Program can
now create CSS reviews.
0.303 (25th
April 1999)
Added code
to stop you from having captions of over 31 characters. Longer than that
and formatting screws up.
Got rid of
all those <br>'s which caused Quake and Quake 2 (mostly Q2) reviews
to look screwed up.
Slightly tidied
up code for creating HTML files.
Fixed title
bar of review so it shows properly in Netscape (scummy browser).
Also fixed
something else which I just can't remember right now...
0.302 (22nd
April 1999)
Reviewers
name now stored, also printed on reviews.
0.301 (21st
April 1999)
Fixed a really
stupid bug which caused reviews to just disappear...
0.300 (19th
April 1999)
Added picture
caption boxes. Monsto!!!
Added Map
Author website box.
Sorted out
saving of HTML files (again).
Added saving
for reviews to DAT files.
Made interface
a little tidier.
Added code
to make review indexes.
0.100 (15th
April 1999)
Adding Reviews
done list.
Sorted out
problems with saving HTML files.
Sorted out
tab orders.
0.001 (4th
April 1999)
Creates very
messy HTML Files.
Credits. |
All Logos by
Kable.
email: kable@softhome.net
Testing and
Bug info : Monsto Brukes.
email: monsto@planetquake.com
Extra info from Agent Orange and Christian Katsch.