Delevent question

BeBro · November 4, 2000, 11:27

Doesn´t the delevent.exe support wildcarts?

I try to make a batchfile for the eventschange in my Rome scn. A line like "delevent ca_b272.sav" works, but it works not with "????272.sav" (if a player uses another name for his ruler).

I´m not a great DOS programmer, but I thought its possible to use the "?" to replace single characters (like the "*" for all)?.

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Hendrik the Great · November 4, 2000, 11:38

Why don't you just tell the player through the ReadMe or an event to give the file only a certain name? That way you don't have to worry about the endless other possibilities.

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BeBro · November 4, 2000, 12:13

The file ca_b272 is normally created when the Player (as Romans) saves the scn (as prompted via events one turn before

) in this year without changing the leader in the beginning of the scn.
But I want to avoid problems and so it would be nicer when I can get the delevent line to work correctly with different leader names (some players may change the leader name despite a warning in the ReadMe or in the intro text)...
However, when there isn´t a better solution I´ll do what you suggest, Hendrik

edit: spelling
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[This message has been edited by BeBro (edited November 04, 2000).]

Hendrik the Great · November 4, 2000, 12:19

It's a pitty I cannot offer you any othert advice on this. But my programming skills are very bad. I'm already glad when I can get a very primitive Turbo Pascal Programm to work properly.

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St Leo · November 5, 2000, 18:33

Microprose was just lazy and didn't bother writing in wildcards.

My advice would be to ask the player to name the file save.sav.

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Shadowstrike · November 6, 2000, 22:27

Optionally something more creative.

Or you could tell the player nt to change the leader name, and switch back to the origninal one.

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