Well, another one or two guys asked me why we don't use this app and not do multiple connections because his internet-modem was nearly falling asleep. The reason is simple:
1) It works as it is. And you always get told: Never touch a running system, and that's not false if you don't need extra work.
2) There are various tools and I don't bother to check them all, syntax, portability (OS wise) and all that stuff. And I do not know if the checks are done like I expect them to be done (like changed filenames behind php-downloads).
3) The tools that are used are free.
4) All the stuff you see in the console-window are actually ripped from a hidden cmd-window and the BWS can act "as intelligent as possible".
5) As I said, you are free to hack my code to your needs. Or tell me how to create a suitable file to import into your app. Since you will not download all the files every second day and you only download new or "problemchild"-downloads that do not return the required data, the guys that said they'd do it did not bother to do it or post the additional function.
Why should I mention these functions? The help says that you can do it, so try it. After the first internal tests with a helpfile and the app, I dumped the old skinned GUI and changed a few concepts. That of the help on the right side was to help people who don't like reading manuals. So we'd integrate it and see if we can force them.
It just exports the mod-selection to a file via a filesavedialog. Import goes via FileOpenDialog. Very simple and it does the job.
Making this possible was the reason for me to start this BWS. Well, I started it as MMI (MegaModInstaller), but after I had created the stuff, people with more experience told me that the GUI was crappy, gave me some advice, I contacted the
BWP Team since I made some common errors and we decided to give it a try.
We learned and tested and failed a lot since then. You can see in the docs\changelog.txt that it took us some time. You would not believe how many mails, ideas and work has gone down the drain since then.
I hope that I'll accomplish that goal in the near future, since I have some holidays left that I have to take. And to tease you: we had a version that was able to show you all the stuff you know from the manual one year ago. But the concept behind that went down the drain again, we needed to improve the download- and extraction-parts and so the data was left out at first. Now I have some additional idea and thoughts and the old installation routine, so I hope that there's light at the end of the tunnel and it is not no train.