Handy tools I've found useful for EQEmu-related tasks

[devlor]

I thought I'd share some links to various utilities (all free) that I've found useful for various management tasks of EQEmu & assorted databases:

Open Command Window Here (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp) (MS Windows PowerToy)
ExamDiff (http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff)
InfoRapid Search & Replace (http://www.inforapid.de/html/searchreplace.htm)
PropertiesPlus (http://www.ne.jp/asahi/cool/kish/)

These are all fairly small downloads, have a minimal system footprint (tech speak for saying they don't screw with your registry, etc. too much, if at all), are easy to use, & as mentioned already, are completely free (no spyware/adware either).

Just to give a handy example of how one of these are useful is how, when I read that in the .QST (quest) files that "EVENT_SAY {" should be replaced by "EVENT_SAY{", I fired up Inforapid & had it do an automatic replace of all instances of the former with the latter. Took a whole of about 1.5 minutes to process all 1067 files. :)

The one I use most often with EQEmu is the Windows Powertoy called "Open Command Window Here". It adds a handy right-click context command to automatically open a command prompt in the directory you choose without having to type all the cd... commands. :D

[Monrezz]

Wow, I've downlaoded all these now. Seem like they're gonna be useful for doing Quests :)

[Lurker_005]

Yea, the tools you use Greatly effect how easy/hard it is to work on the files!

I love Examdiff pro, think it was $15 to get the non freeware version that adds a few things but mostly for me, per character compares instead of just per word.

Another addition is Ultraedit (www.ultraedit.com), and get or setup color highlighting. Or I have heard Textpad (www.textpad.com) is also pretty good. Both are shareware.

[ste]

here are some equivalents for linux fans :

examdiff: gvimdiff (http://www.vim.org) (or just vimdiff for text version)
InfoRapid Search & Replace : sed (http://www.gnu.org/manual/sed/html_mono/sed.html) or perl (http://www.perl.org) (command line tools)

probably less userfriendly, but very powerfull
of course, they are not only free, but also freesoftware.

[devlor]

As far as text editors go, the two alternatives (to Windows Notepad) I frequently use are:

EditPad Lite (http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html)
NoteTab Light (http://www.notetab.com/ntl.htm)

Both represented there are the free versions, though you can pay to upgrade to more powerful versions. The free versions are quite nice for my purposes though. Very powerful with lots of features (check out NoteTab's library of scripts).

[Jeggred]

And another wonderful notepad replacement

ConTEXT (http://fixedsys.com/context)

[Bardboy]

Add this to the list. An easy to use File Parser. http://sbutton.tripod.com/deadpig/

[Trumpcard]

That looks smooth !

[Eglin]

I love Examdiff pro, think it was $15 to get the non freeware version that adds a few things but mostly for me, per character compares instead of just per word.

lol... dos still comes with fc, right? fc -b "save $15!" There is a winmerge on sourceforge that is supasweet, too.

[Xandyr]

Just my two-bits

Editplus (http://www.editplus.com)
And
MySQLFront (http://mysqlfront.sstienemann.de/) (Stick with version 2.5 though discontinued I'm not at all impressed yet with ver 3.0)

Xandyr