Newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction
Subject: Re: Existing mapping tool questions from a gamer
From: gdighton@geocities.com (Garth Dighton)
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davidpkd@earthlink.net (David Keller) wrote in
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>
>I'm using a desk top PC with Windows Me.  Don't know what other
>information I should give of this nature.
>
>Information about any of the existing mapping tools is welcome.  Ease of
>installation and use, places containing reviews or descriptions of the
>tools, potential conflicts or problems with the computer system,
>capabilities and limits...

About the only one I've used is GUEmap (1.02):
http://members.tripod.com/~c_madsen/GUEmap/

Not sure if it's been tested on Win ME, but I use it on both '98 and '95.

It's mild crippleware -- you can't save a map larger than 10 rooms unless
you pay the $10 fee. I registered mine, and I've found it very useful.


>
>I've downloaded 2 or 3 from the ifarchive but the only one I've tried to
>install so far is ifm41.  It sounds like it has the potential to be a
>very good mapping tool if I can get it to work and so far I've had no
>apparent problems from unzipping it plus installing ActiveState Tcl/Tk.
>I don't know if it would be technically correct to say I've installed
>ifm41 yet.  It's unzipped and I extracted it to C: (C:\ifm is the path,
>if I'm not mangling the language already).  I don't understand what the
>creator means by "run it from the console" and need that explained.
>
>*Perhaps the most important thing I need to know is how to open the ifm
>application.*  The documents that come with it don't say (or don't say
>in terms that I understand), the computer doesn't "know" as it
>automatically does with so many applications which either install
>themselves automatically or I'm informed somehow what to do to open and
>use them.  For all I know this requires something roughly equivalent to
>an interpreter but I haven't been told that is the case or what the
>"interpreter" is.

It sounds like this tool is written in Tcl/Tk, a multi-platform scripting
language. This means that it's _not_ written specifically for Windows,
which is why Windows doesn't automatically "figure it out." (The
interpreter is the Tcl/Tk interpreter, which it sounds like you've already
installed.) When the docs say "run it from the console", they mean that you
need to run it from the DOS command prompt.

>
>Very likely this post isn't clear enough to establish much except that I
>have a problem with a mapping tool and don't know what questions to ask.
>I'll do my best to answer any questions that might be asked to better
>understand what problems I am having and how to deal with them.
>
>Information about any of the mapping tools that might be suitable for me
>would be welcomed including recommendations and warnings.

As mentioned above, GUEMap is my preferred mapping tool -- it does install
automatically (just unzip it, and double-click on the executable).

--
Garth Dighton


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