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[Welverin]

Is it possible to add a new row to a 2da file (which contains reference to a new string, which is supposed to be installed) in a way less destructive than this:

APPEND ~tooltip.2da~ ~SW1H16 -1 13138 13139~
APPEND ~tooltip.2da~ ~SW1H16A -1 13138 13088~
APPEND ~tooltip.2da~ ~SW1H16B -1 13087 13088~
APPEND ~tooltip.2da~ ~SW1H16C -1 13088 13089~
APPEND ~tooltip.2da~ ~SW1H16D -1 13139 13140~
APPEND ~tooltip.2da~ ~SW1H16E -1 13139 13089~

STRING_SET 13087 @20 //string orginally containing name of book11
STRING_SET 13138 @21 //string orginally containing description of book11
STRING_SET 13088 @22 //string orginally containing name of book12
STRING_SET 13139 @23 //string orginally containing description of book11
STRING_SET 13089 @24 //string orginally containing name of book13
STRING_SET 13140 @25 //string orginally containing description of book11

COPY_EXISTING ~book11.itm~ ~override/book11.itm~
  SAY NAME2 @26
  SAY DESC @27
COPY_EXISTING ~book12.itm~ ~override/book12.itm~
  SAY NAME2 @28
  SAY DESC @29
COPY_EXISTING ~book13.itm~ ~override/book13.itm~
  SAY NAME2 @30
  SAY DESC @31

[Rastor]

Yeah.

Do your APPENDS to the .2da as you do,

Don't use the STRING_SET command, but instead do COPY_EXISTING and then SAY NAME & SAY DESC for each of the books.

Sorry I can't post more, but I'm on my way out the door.

[Welverin]

Yes, well, there is one problem however... books are completly irrelevant in this case. To say the truth I've used them only becouse I think that not too many mods are adding items which are using orginal descriptions of history books, such as Hystory of Sembia or Cormyr Anyway, logic behind above code is quite simple:
Since I cannot just use something like this: APPEND ~tooltip.2da~ ~SW1H16 -1 @25 @26~ I was forced to use some of existing strings (in this case: 13138, 13139, 13088, 13087, 13089, 13140) to put their strref into the APPEND code, and then to have correct info in strings I've used STRING_SET to switch book descriptions to short descriptions of abilities, and since it would be quite lame to leave books without correct descriptions I've used COPY_EXISTING with SAY actions to bring back correct descriptions.

I just hope this makes any sense.

[Idobek]

You want to APPEND with some (hopefully) unique placeholder numbers and then reload the APPENDed file and REPLACE the numbers with string refs:

COPY_EXISTING ~tooltip.2da~ ~override/tooltip.2da~

   APPEND ~tooltip.2da~ ~NEWITEM 99990 99991 99992~

COPY_EXISTING ~tooltip.2da~ ~override/tooltip.2da~

   REPLACE ~99990~ @0

   REPLACE ~99991~ @1

   REPLACE ~99992~ @2

You might be able to use text as the placeholders but I have never tried.

[Welverin]

Thank you very much Idobek That will save me lots of hair loss

Text placeholders work fine as well