oopsilon

Damn do I feel stupid or what! After puzzling over this "bug" for a while, I suddenly discovered the --automate-min command. My fault for not RTFM.

A little more info so you (Wes) can try this locally. It works on ar5505.are but not ar0603.are. The ar0603 file is from the tactics mod, while the ar5505 file I'm assuming is from one of the many Wei-mods I've installed -- I've installed practically all of them except for selected chunks of Ease of Use and Spell50.

Okay, just grabbed Weidu 89 and gave --automate a spin. To test it out, I put a bunch of .are files converted from icewind dale to test directory, then ran "weidu --automate test --textout test.tp2". It didn't put any patch offsets in the .tp2 file, instead just having a bunch of COPY statements. Next, I put all of the .are files from my override directory into the test directory, deleted the old .tp2 file, and ran weidu again. This time it sorta worked. Maybe I'm missing something, but for now --automate seems to be really selective about which area files it could extract the information pointers from. From a cursory glance at the pointers in NI and the patched offsets in the .tp2 it looks like when it works it does a grand job of it.

Wes, a bit THANK YOU for adding in some area support! You rock! Now to go play with --automate some...

I suppose Max would like a feature (option) which outputs his original source file with ~#~ included in his source (or another copy) whenever one got allocated the first time.

Don't know if this is what you're looking for, but the "weidu --text (dialogue).dlg" command will emit a .d file that includes the string ref number of each line in comments next to the dialogue itself.