FEIDIAN v0.8b

posted in Utility Release by narvick on Feb 4th, 2004

D-BOY has released another version of the graphic editing utility, FEIDAN, has been released. Apparently, a lot of new bugs were thrown in v0.8 and insufficient testing was made. This version and the last one (v0.8a) should now have all bugs fixed. The author apologizes. New in this version:

Copyright.php has been renamed to settings.php (since it now has more settings than just the default font copyright)
BCR improved to allow you to comapre tiles by MD5sum and SHA1 hashes, as well as gzipping the data. Options for this are in settings.php. Please read the notes in settings.php before attempting any kind of BCR
European characters at ASCII 0xa0-0xef can be used in tile definitions, IF you enable them. Since Asian language systems cannot process these characters, it is disabled by default. If you create a tile definition dependant on these characters, please include a note that it requres EXTEND_LETTERS==TRUE
A new value, FORCE_PROPER_WIDTH, has been added to the settings. This addresses an issue MadMalkav discovered where color graphics corrupt if (columns*tile_width)%8!=0. This only affects tile widths that are not a multiple of 8. If you are using such a tile width, consider dumping in a multiple of 8 columns (8, 16, 24, 32, etc). If you forget, FEIDIAN will print a notice and terminate. You can disable this in settings.php
Custom insert and extract broken into two separate files to cut down on the size and make it easier to edit (less to load, too)
Fixed a glitch that was breaking monochrome custom definitions since color had been added. I don't know how this slipped by testing

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