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• The main mod list has been redesigned to a tree-like interface. Normal mods are shown at the top level, and metamods are displayed under their parents in the hierarchy.
• The new interface allows you to reorder mods by dragging and dropping. The position of the two mods in the drag and drop operation will be swapped. You can also double click mods to toggle them as before.
• The main window now displays "(Uninstalled changes)" in its title if any mods have been added, deleted, edited, reordered, toggled, etc since the last install. This "dirty flag" persists even after DFMM is closed. It is fairly intelligent, reverting if the change is undone, not triggering if a disabled mod is edited until it is enabled, etc.
• Added an experimental "Import metamod" command. This command will import a directory of raw files, examine the difference between them and the raw files with the selected mod installed, and generate a metamod with the computed changes. This is useful if you have, for example, the Genesis files and the Genesis files with some of your own changes, and want to make your changes into a metamod. Some notes: if you delete an entire file in your changes make sure to keep the empty shell or DFMM will assume you want it unmodified. The import also sometimes picks up phantom changes. I'm looking into why this happens and how to fix it, but consider it experimental for now.
• Added several keyboard shortcuts to the main window.

• Added find and replace functionality to the editor through a new Edit menu. Note that although normal functions like Copy, Paste, Undo, etc are not present in the Edit menu, they are accessible through their default keyboard shortcuts or the text box's right click menu.
• Added keyboard shortcuts Delete to delete an object and Alt+Delete to revert.

also, a feature request that might be a little too much... you know creature variations and material templates, etc? i mean objects that are defined in their own  raw entries, it'd be awesome if you could make it so these would hiperlink to their raw entries when used as tokens, and possibly display red when the link was broken, and in the raw entries of these defined objects one could select an option in the menu to search and display every entry referring to that object

I've been fiddling around with this and it's a great little tool, helps a BUNCH for modding. Would it be possible for multiple selections when editing tokens, though? I've been wanting to do a total conversion mod but it takes a while to delete everything except dwarves in the creature file.

Edit: Right, let's get this reported properly. Reimporting the objects folder with the last installed version of the mod before the crash does work. Anything involving the .dfmod file that crashed does not. Attempting to install it does not redelete anything added after the crash, but it does delete enough of the raws to result in a 265KB error file upon selecting arena mode.

I have a feature suggestion: raw comparer by objects. Right now I'm using examdiff to check for new features but that program doesnt understand DF's raw architect and might cause some strange comparison if let's say the list in my file is creature:elf, creature:human, creature:dwarf instead of creature:dwarf, creature:elf, creature:human. I'm looking for a program that recognize different objects and compare raw of objects of the same name and point out the difference in those objects and the difference in the existence of objects.

Can the program parse bodyglosses? At the moment they're in with the UPPERBODY_PINCERS entry by default, so I've made a null body part to get them in a category of their own.

Also requesting some way of displaying whether any changes have been made to mods since the last save. Often I save the mod and go straight to opening DF, and it can be really frustrating to not realise immediately why a change hasn't taken effect.

And also requesting a search function. That's the only thing stopping me from abandoning Notepad entirely.

can i ask for a keyboard shortcut to delete entries in the raws? either ctl+something or simply the delete key

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• Metamods
  
  • Metamods are mods that use an existing mod as their core data. They are useful for deleting part of a mod or tweaking an object it added without affecting the original.
  • Create a metamod from the right click menu of a mod. Alternately, check the "Meta" box in the splitter to make the second mod of the split into a metamod of the first.
  • The suggested naming convention for metamods is <Name of parent>: <Name of meta>. This makes it more clear what modifies what, since the UI currently does not indicate this.
  • When editing a metamod, changes made by the parent mod will appear to be the core data. No +, *, or [D] will appear except on the actual changes made by the metamod; this is intentional.
  • There is no UI to make an existing mod into a metamod. If you want to do this, add the "!DFMM|META|<filename of parent>.dfmod" command to the file in the mods folder, before any ADD/DELETE/MODIFY commands.
• DFMM can now import and export .zip files of multiple .dfmod files. This is primarily intended for distributing a mod and its metamods, but a manually packaged zip file of an arbitrary combination of mods can also be imported. The export option on a mod will export only it and its metamods.
• Templates for new objects in the editor are now available. There are none by default, but you can create a "templates" folder and place files of the form "<object type>.txt" in it, and the editor will set the data of new objects to the contents of the file. (re Max White)

• The editor panel now auto-sizes vertically as well as horizontally (re Sutremaine)
• Fixed a crash when deleting the last object of a certain type (re Max White)
• Fixed export to directory to properly output unchanged objects to core files

• The decoder will now deal properly with raw files with no objects in them. (re Deon)
• When an error occurs when importing a file, only the import process will be aborted now instead of the entire program closing.

Alright, the whole time it has flashed text on screen before disappearing. Now, after trying to get a picture of the words (and wishing I had better reflexes), I finally got a picture of it. What does it mean?

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Valdemar, can you make it to read non-token info too (and tabulations)? I have some problems with it because it removes indentation, tabulation and comments which I placed in RAW files.

• Mod merging: File -> Merge mods will merge together all of the currently selected mods just like installation, but save the result as a new mod instead.
• Mod splitting: Right click mod -> Split mod will bring up an interface where you can split the mod into two new mods. All the object changes will be shown on the left side. Double click a change to transfer it to the other side. Double click a folder to transfer all changes to that object type. You can also transfer multiple changes with Shift or Control, as long as you keep the modifier held down as you double click. Give the new mods names at the top of each tree. (re Deon, this should help you split Genesis)

• DFMM will no longer silently overwrite any mods with the same name when importing or creating a new mod.

wasnt there something like this a while back?

No, he's asking when it is charged to the dwarf.

Quote from: Dictionary

to impose a tax or other charge on.

Also because I'm pretty sure it is recalculated constantly (or at least whenever it changes).

tr.v., -sessed, -sess·ing, -sess·es.

   1. To estimate the value of (property) for taxation.
   2. To set or determine the amount of (a payment, such as a tax or fine).
   3. To charge (a person or property) with a special payment, such as a tax or fine.
   4. Sports. To charge a player, coach, or team with (a foul or penalty).
   5. To determine the value, significance, or extent of; appraise. See synonyms at estimate.