[James Ross]

JeroenP, on 20 February 2018 - 06:05 AM, said:

I have a first version, attached as a patch. Obviously this is not yet complete. However, I want to share this so that we have something to discuss more concretely. I added it is a ContentChecker project (the name is open for change) with as command line for now ORfileXcheck.exe, even though at the moment there is no real cross-checking going on.
Some .dat files are not supported yet. And I guess some openrails sub-directories are also not yet supported. Feedback is appreciated.

Thanks! The executable name should match the project name, so it should make ContentChecker.exe. All the files are inside the Open Rails directory and will be set up with the appropriate metadata so it's clear they're part of OR, so that's not necessary in the filename. If there's any part of the metadata you're not sure about please ask - and I can easily fix anything that hasn't been filled in afterwards. :)

JeroenP, on 20 February 2018 - 06:05 AM, said:

For instance on how and where this needs to go into the Source directory. And of course whether it does what was intended.

I've been incredibly busy recently so haven't had a chance to look at the changes yet, but I would say that all the code goes in Source\ContentChecker and references the necessary other projects.

JeroenP, on 20 February 2018 - 06:05 AM, said:

I also added some initial documentation.

Brilliant!

JeroenP, on 24 February 2018 - 11:37 PM, said:

I had a look at the loading of various .dat files. And I am getting slowly convinced that files like speedpost.dat, spotter.dat, ssource.dat, and telepole.dat are not in fact used by ORTS. I could not find any code loading them. And I ran some routes through the debugger triggering on loading of .dat files and they did not pop up. So it seems to me that perhaps these files are needed in MSTS perhaps to do some initial loading or maybe even only for editing. But that they are not really needed in ORTS because ORTS can find the same information in for instance the world files.

I suspect most of these are only for the editor - although MSTS may still load them in-game.

JeroenP, on 20 February 2018 - 06:05 AM, said:

Currently in the command line tool I am flagging them as 'Not used by ORTS''.

This is perfect.

JeroenP, on 20 February 2018 - 06:05 AM, said:

So, does anyone know for a fact that these files are loaded? Otherwise we should perhaps correct the manual.

I've unfortunately not got time to double-check any of these specifically, but I would say that:

• If there's no mention of the file name in the OR source code
  
• And there's no mention of any variables pointing to the file name in other data files (for example, the way the level crossing sound file is loaded from DefaultCrossingSMS)

Then you can safely assume for now that we don't use it.

If anything does turn out to be used, we can correct the tool/manual/etc. at that time. Don't worry about being perfect right now!

[JeroenP]

I did a first SVN commit. Note the documentation is in Source/Documentation.