That is precisely why He demanded such an example in this post:
http://www.donitzeliteflotilla.com/forum/index.php?msg=684
And if I do not read the logfile wrong, this is software in ALPHA state - I.e. for being tested,
so isnt that self-evident? And he did say BACKUPS FIRST, too !!
So I have no idea what needs to be fixed because of the tool. Don't you make backups?
Again: can my questions please be considered, too?
I was basically stating the following: If I ask Honda to design a new engine for my racing car,
and when they deliver the engine it doesn't start at all, then there was no point, was there?
They can say "but hey, you asked for the engine and we delivered, here it is, it's beautiful and chrome and has lots of valves."
The bottomline is, the engine doesn't start. It's paperweight.
Now, regarding the software and why it's not working.
I'll try to explain this as best as I can, with my understanding of the problem.
The file contains an ID. This ID is linked to many other things and sometimes even have children IDs.
When you change this ID in S3D, it randomly generates another ID to replaced it, and automatically updates
all the indexes and children IDs so they all work properly with the new ID.
It's like if we replaced Blitz with another guy from China, but never told anybody else in the team. You don't know what's going on.
All of the sudden Blitz is talking Chinese to you and you don't know why.
By changing the IDs using Blitz software, everything else in the dat/dsd/sim/zon files are
not being informed of this change, index is not being updated.
By changing the IDs using S3D software, everything else in the dat/dsd/sim/zon files are being informed of this change, index is updated. Therefore it works.
Now, I'm in no way trying to say Blitz and Proz codded a bad piece of software.
For all intents and purposes it does what Blitz and Proz wanted the software to do.
It just doesn't solve our problem. Maybe I should have explained this better before.
But then again, we only discovered the index problem AFTER trying to use Blitz/Proz tool.
I'm thinking that maybe this is a bit too complex to code in such a short time.
But maybe I'm wrong, I'm no codder.