Re: Re: Beta: 2.5 beta 2

Hello, Oskar.
 
> Only Beta 2 Windows integrates the active grfids in screenshots, the
> next version will provide this feature as well for the DOS version of 
> TTDPatch.
> George wrote about grfidextractor:
>> Nice. Would be useful to improve the tool to search the TTD-patch's
>> newgrf.cfg and display also the GRF's name and description. The other
>> useful improvement would be to display IDs one per line and do not ask
>> for any-key input.
> The tool is designed to be used later to find the active grfids in 
> screenshots (from other players).
 Yes, I understand it, but I do not like drag and drop, and when I
start it from command-line, then It would be nice not to press
anything. Suggestion - just to add -s param to skip any-key request

> So there is no additional info about a certain grfid.
 So when I see someone's screen shot, I have to make a search for
GRFIDs.

> The tool is designed to be easy to use, this means it doesn't close
> the window when you drop a file on it. The output can be used via
> the next update of grfcrawler to find all grfs it knows. A good
> reason to add all grfs with proper grfids in it. ;-)
 That is useful, but can we hope for the off-line version of grf
crawler then?

> However grfidextractor isn't a tool to create a file grfid list of the 
> your own savegames, this is a different story, but a solution for that 
> kind of "problem" is already on my idea list and will not need an 
> external tool.
 Yes, when someone sends a screen, you need to understand, what GRFs
he uses. And displaying them with names would be nice

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