DTbl tool & library released [update 11.10.07]

[DarthDevilous]

DTbl is a .tbl manipulation library written in C++, a .tbl command-line tool, and maybe a graphical tool sometime in the future.
For the moment you can get the command line tool here:
Zip (157K) 7-Zip (130K)
The readme can be found here and in the downloads above.
EDIT: updated 05.10.2007
EDIT: another update 10.10.2007, mostly to the library, still need to upload the actual program. Added some more info the the library docs, see link further down.
EDIT: program updated 11.10.2007

For the moment I highly recommend you make backups of any files you edit with this. I've tested it, but chances are I've missed something.

Features include

• adding, removing and printing individual entries
• exporting .tbl files to .txt files
• importing from .txt files back to .tbl files (see the ".tbl Editing With DTbl" section of the readme for more info)
• general .tbl stats

Source downloads can be found here, including a package using GNU Autotools, a packet with just the source files, and a packet with just the library component. Documentation for the library component is available here.

Also the package compiles under Linux and might compile under Mac OS X, if you have Boost C++ installed.

[XiaN]

Hi DarthDevilous

Definetly a nice release. I've searched the net for hours for a structure or hints for the structure of diablo's .tbl-files.

Think with your source i'll have what i need now

Havn't looked into the source yet, but does your library contain a function, that returns the tbl in a "array of array of string" datastructure? Whould be suitable, because if you have to convert a tbl into a txt and then read the txt into your own program you wasted time.

An example : My unreleased D2-Parser needs around 3 seconds to load all tbl-entries ( extract the tbls from the mpq, convert them via ShellExecuteExAndWait with Joels command line tool to txt's then load them ), but it just takes ~2 seconds to extract and parse all the other files needed to create the Sets, SetItems, Uniques, BasicItems, Runewords, Socketitems and present them to the user.

( Testet on AthlonXP 2000+, 512MB Ram, Median2008 1.56 )

So you see, such a function would be very suitable here

A screenshot for the audience
http://db.runeforge.net/gallery/Project ... tation.PNG

[DarthDevilous]

If you want to go through all table entries, you can iterate through the IDs. IDs go from 0 to tbl.size()-1, and you can use the getKey() and getValue() functions to get the appropriate key/values.

Code: Select all

dtbl::TblStringFile tbl;
tbl.load("some.tbl");
for (size_t i = 0; i < tbl.size(); ++i)
    std::cout << tbl.getKey(i) << ': ' << tbl.getValue(i) << '\n';

PS: uploading update.

PPS:

I've searched the net for hours for a structure or hints for the structure of diablo's .tbl-files.

You realise that the best source for that information is right under your nose? This site, this forum even !

[Nefarius]

You realise that the best source for that information is right under your nose? This site, this forum even!

Yep, Enquettar being a perl script is in plain text, its all in there

[XiaN]

Yeah Yeah ... earlier this morning, with a cup of coffee in my hand, i looked into a sticky topic where all the internal structures of the most common used filetypes are mentioned.

Shame on my head

PS: Because of the of extremly slow and broken pagecreation on the keep, it doesn't really fit for extensive researching -.-

[Danjib]

The link is now broken.

DarthDevilous, are you able to reupload this somewhere, or alternatively, are you happy for me to host it?

This tool is required by my Unique Item Editor:
https://github.com/Danjb1/d2-unique-item-editor

[Necrolis]

The link is now broken.

DarthDevilous, are you able to reupload this somewhere, or alternatively, are you happy for me to host it?

This tool is required by my Unique Item Editor:
https://github.com/Danjb1/d2-unique-item-editor

This post is almost 14 years old...

Regardless, the loader is available in our file center: downloadsystemcat?id=15

[==DJ==[ZLO]]

are you able to reupload this somewhere, or alternatively, are you happy for me to host it?

You may need this viewtopic.php?f=7&t=57015

[Danjib]

Regardless, the loader is available in our file center: downloadsystemcat?id=15

I'm afraid I'm not sure what you mean by the loader. I'm looking for DTbl.

You may need this viewtopic.php?f=7&t=57015

Thanks, this may come in handy. It's unclear from that thread whether it can be run from the command line, but worst case scenario I can dig into the source.