While it has taken me longer to get this prototype working than I would have liked, here it is. From the read me:

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The What and Why: For years plug in developers have run into a serious impediment in making plugins; namely, there was a limitation on what përs resources the plugin maker could use if they did not want the player to have to create a new pilot file. If the plugin maker attempted to use a përs resource not present when the player's pilot file was first made, the përs added by the new plugin would never appear.

BitChanger allows plugin makers to provide a tool to help players activate përs resources in their already made pilot files. This allows the plugin makers to make chapters to an ongoing story without forcing the player to start a new pilot file and lose the ship and weapons they had previously worked so hard for.

It is not feature complete (won't activate spob defense fleets, allow drag-n-drop of pilot files, etc), but I am hoping for input before I proceed.
(url="http://"http://phair.csh.rit.edu/~seant/EV/bitChanger/")http://phair.csh.rit.../EV/bitChanger/(/url)

-STH

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Excellent. I've been looking forward to this.

I'll download it and tell you what I think.

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seant: I think your metadata tags are a bit screwy. The application appears with a blank sheet of paper icon and outputs the error message "There is no default application specified to open the document "Bit Changer" on the double click. This is on Mac OS 10.3.3 (Build 7F44).

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(This message has been edited by Chuckles (edited 04-29-2004).)

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Originally posted by Chuckles:
**seant: I think your metadata tags are a bit screwy. The application appears with a blank sheet of paper icon and outputs the error message "There is no default application specified to open the document "Bit Changer" on the double click. This is on Mac OS 10.3.3 (Build 7F44).
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Weird. You are correct. All of the resource data was stripped from it. My stupid mistake. I have reuploaded the material compressed with stuffit

<blush>

-STH

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(This message has been edited by seant (edited 04-30-2004).)

They say that no news is good news.

I'll continue with development and get spob defense fleets working.

-STH

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(This message has been edited by seant (edited 05-03-2004).)

Down the road a ways, I can see that this utility is going to be very useful to me.

On to glory, Seant! Best of luck; thanks for your work.

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Sweet, I've been looking forward to you making this. Keep up the excellent work!

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