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      Hello again. I spent a good 7 hours today coding in RealBASIC, and made quite a lot of progress. For one, I've managed to fix several bugs in SpacePort, but more on that to come, I'm still working out a few more. More importantly, however, I've pretty much finished a utility I've promised for a while, dubbed BitFinder. Launch this application, and choose a Nova file, and it will list all NCBs in the file, as well as give a brief description of how the bit is used.

      Please give it a try, and tell me what to improve. It's still a beta, and will expire in roughly one week. No icon yet, and it still gives some debug output, but the resulting file comes out clean. You can get it from (url="http://"http://evula.org/infernostudios/downloads/")my downloads section(/url). Requires Mac OS 8.6 or later, with carbonlib 1.2 or greater.

      Thanks,
      SpacePirate

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      (This message has been edited by SpacePirate (edited 07-30-2004).)

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      Did the secret RalphTool "Mission BitMap" ever get released, or is that one of the internal ATMOS development tools that never escaped into the wild?

      Dave @ ATMOS

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      Originally posted by pipeline:
      **Did the secret RalphTool "Mission BitMap" ever get released, or is that one of the internal ATMOS development tools that never escaped into the wild?

      Dave @ ATMOS

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      I think it was Cookie who released it about two years ago on this board, although it very well might have been you. A search should turn up the link. I know I have a copy.

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      Here is the link to where you re-released it, pipeline, though the links don't work anymore.

      (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/webboard/Forum9/HTML/004193.html")Nova Control Bits question(/url)

      Weird how you forgot 😉

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      ...wow. I seem to have missed that post. And so have several other members, or I'm sure I would have heard it mentioned after all of those "where can I find a list of all the NCBs?" posts. If anyone has that app, would you post a link to it, or email it to me? I'd like to do a comparison, to see how mine holds up.

      For those who care, it scans through all resources, and looks for a test or set expression. In there, it hunts out all cases of "b" or "^", and copies that bit into a text file, along with the resource type, resource id, and its location. Next, it sorts the file lexicographically, and compiles each repeated bit entry into one line.

      I'll get it to hunt through dësc's later on, unfortunately I'm going to PA, with no Internet access, for the weekend, so it will be monday/sunday night at earliest. I'm dragging my laptop with me, so it will get done. 😉

      Please, tell me what you think of the app.
      ~ SP

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      I like the app, but I have one question. Is it possible to make the bits appear in order (0, 10, 11, 1000 ,1100), and not "0, 1000, 10, 1100, 11", or is that a lot harder? (sorry for that question, but you see, I'm not at all a programmer)

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      I could do that. As I said, I used the built in lexicographic sort, which sorts like this:

      1
      10
      234
      3

      And so forth. I'll write up a quick sort algorithm and fix it up.

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      Fear the SpacePirate,
      He made a (url="http://"http://www.evula.org/infernostudios/search.html")plug-in search page(/url)...
      And he'll board your ship!       -mrxak
      *** (url="http://"http://www.evula.org/infernostudios/")InfernoStudios(/url) was last updated 06 June, 2004. ***

      (This message has been edited by SpacePirate (edited 07-30-2004).)

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