Yet another Mix program

dube.g · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 12 Feb 2015

Hey guys.
I know ccmix exists and it's already really cool, but I also like graphical interfaces and I got annoyed by the usability of Xcc Mix Editor, so I'm working on replacing it.

It's a windows forms application targeting the .NET 3.5 framework.

Right now it's not really useful. You can navigate through mix files and extract their content by selecting and right-clicking rows.

I thought I'd prefer receiving feedback on its interface sooner than later.

Repository: github.com/dubeg/cnctools
Binaries: github.com/dubeg/cnctools/releases

As a side note, when this will be finished, I'll move to Phrohdoh's Shp editor to help development, so there's that :^)

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Mig Eater · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 11:38 am Post subject:

Looks ok but XCC Mixer fulfills practically every mix editing need, so there isn't much demand for another program.

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DaRTzO · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 3:13 pm Post subject:

Olaf's Mix Editor kinda sucks. If you have 40+ maps to add into a mix file then you have to add them 1 by 1... It's extremely frustrating and repetitive. If you could just click insert/add and CTRL+a (select all files) then click open and you'd be done. It would save 5-10 minutes. Depending on the amount of files.

Mig Eater · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 4:10 pm Post subject:

That's XCC Mix Editor (which has been redundant & unsupported for over 10 years), XCC Mixer can handle hundreds of files at a time without any problems.

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ApolloTD · Commander **Joined**: 19 Nov 2003

DaRTzO wrote:

Olaf's Mix Editor kinda sucks. If you have 40+ maps to add into a mix file then you have to add them 1 by 1... It's extremely frustrating and repetitive. If you could just click insert/add and CTRL+a (select all files) then click open and you'd be done. It would save 5-10 minutes. Depending on the amount of files.

What!? You realise you can just drag and drop all selected files into it instantly and hit save O_O ? Same as XCC Mixer... :/

Parasite03 · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 8:20 pm Post subject:

XCC Mixer is old and is already haveing issues while it might get unsupported by the operation systems in the future. It's buggy. This fine, but if it would have a preview + be as nice as Windows Explorer with its interface, it'd be good.

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Phrohdoh · Soldier **Joined**: 12 Feb 2015 **Location**: Texas, USA

Hi, I hope you'll consider using a cross-platform UI toolkit over winforms directly as not everyone here runs a version of Windows.

DaRTzO · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 3:33 am Post subject:

ApolloTD wrote:

What!? You realise you can just drag and drop all selected files into it instantly and hit save O_O ? Same as XCC Mixer... :/

Since when? :O

Parasite03 · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 5:31 am Post subject:

XCC Mix Editor is junk. Use XCC Mixer. Way better.

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ApolloTD · Commander **Joined**: 19 Nov 2003

DaRTzO wrote:

ApolloTD wrote:

What!? You realise you can just drag and drop all selected files into it instantly and hit save O_O ? Same as XCC Mixer... :/

Since when? :O

I have no idea, I've done it for YEARS, never in my whole modding time have I dragged files 1 by 1 into mix or I sure don't even remember it...

Unless yours is some ancient xcc mix editor that you need to update?

http://xhp.xwis.net/utilities/XCC_Utilities.exe

Try that and if not work explain the problem when you drag multiple files in, do they not appear or you just never tried dragging more than one at a time...

dube.g · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 12 Feb 2015

Damn, I was like DaRTzO, I didnt know we could do that with Mixer.

I'll have to rethink this. Maybe use GTK for multiplat instead, so that it still provides value.

Blade · Cyborg Commando **Joined**: 23 Dec 2003

If you plan to go multi-platform, I suggest you investigate either QT or wxWidgets.

dube.g · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 12 Feb 2015

I checked wxWidget, it is not in active dev anymore. Do you have experience with it? And Qt and csharp is not very popular :/

Im checking mono and gtk# atm.

DaRTzO · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 2:25 am Post subject:

I always used insert and tried to select all and open but that never worked in the first place so I never tried to drag and drop... LOL

I'm really feeling this "WAT" right now.

RP · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 7:17 am Post subject:

dube.g wrote:

I checked wxWidget, it is not in active dev anymore.
Im checking mono and gtk# atm.

Are you sure about that? Because from the looks of it, and its forums, this framework is alive and kicking.
I can know, because I'm using it at this very moment.

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dube.g · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 12 Feb 2015

Oh my mistake. I meant to say the csharp port of wxwidget is not in active dev. last release is in 2011 :v

Graion Dilach · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 11:32 am Post subject:

Abandon Mono. .NET is coming to Linux... Mono is destined to die.

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