Infinity Engine Talk Table Editor Options

[Baronius]

INFINITY ENGINE TALK TABLE EDITOR

WEBSITE: http://www.blackwyrmlair.net/Tools/tlkeditor.php

I finished its development a few months ago, but could not release it so far. Now I have made the documentation, so TLKEditor is ready to work with your dialog.tlk-s.
Please inform me if you encounter any problem/bug while using this program.

• This program is based on BWL's Talk Table Viewer. It contains all of TLKViewer's functions, but also offers services related to talk table editing.
  Works with all of the IE games (BG1, PST, IWD, BG2, IWD2), including all of their official expansions and unofficial mods
• Can view and edit talk table (TLK) files. You can edit already existing strings and create new ones. You can edit the sound resource references as well.
• TLKAssistant gives access to the editor functions. Every function can also be activated by using hotkeys. You can undo your changes on each string separately. You can also truncate the TLK file.
• Customisable browser window to display the string (font, font color & size, background color), displays the offset, length, type, sound reference, volume variance and pitch variance of the string
• Fast and powerful search engine with several settings (complex search with multiple search terms, highlight results, case sensitivity, whole words, length-oriented and absolute search method, search from a certain string, theoretically unlimited number of results, search is interruptable by user)
• Technical statistics of your TLK file (average string length, longest string, number of strings by type, number of strings by their size, size map and string size graphs)
• Text statistics of your TLK file (occurances of user-defined words/expressions)
• TLK to TXT export (instant raw export, guided export with various settings)
• Configuration (your last used settings are stored and remembered when the program is run next time, auto-load last opened file when the program starts, button to load last opened file)

[Baronius]

Glad to read you're satisfied with this small tool!

There's one slight problem that I've noticed, however. Whenever I edit a block of text that contains "<CHARNAME>", the game seems to get confused and - instead of displaying my character's name - it will actually display "<CHARNAME>" in the in-game text. Is there any way around this? Am I just being an idiot?

If it happens, it has a reason which isn't your mistake. Hopefully, we will find the source of the problem.

First of all, I suppose you meant it displays "<CHARNAME>" in the game but without the quotes (i.e. you used quotes in your post to enclose <CHARNAME> but they don't actually appear in the game).

Did you copy & paste text from somewhere, e.g. from another editor (such as Microsoft Word) into the text box of IE Talk Table Editor? Did the pasted text contain <CHARNAME> (if the question makes sense)? Did the entry include <CHARNAME> in advance and you edited other parts of it, or did you type CHARNAME manually, i.e. added it to an entry that didn't contain it?

Could you tell the exact scenario? For example, "I open the TLK file, edit the string with <CHARNAME>, and then I press F5". What other steps do you do meanwhile? I guess you can easily reproduce the bug (does it happen always when you edit such an entry)?

[Ulicus]

Thanks for the quick response.

Glad to read you're satisfied with this small tool!

Most satisfied.

I'm pleased I've finally been able to rewrite Jaheira's biography, for one thing. The one BioWare wrote (with her birth placed during the Tethyrian civil war) meant she was in her early twenties... which was odd.

First of all, I suppose you meant it displays "<CHARNAME>" in the game but without the quotes (i.e. you used quotes in your post to enclose <CHARNAME> but they don't actually appear in the game).

Aye, that's what I meant.

Did you copy & paste text from somewhere, e.g. from another editor (such as Microsoft Word) into the text box of IE Talk Table Editor? Did the pasted text contain <CHARNAME> (if the question makes sense)?

Nope, no copying and pasting.

Did the entry include <CHARNAME> in advance and you edited other parts of it, or did you type CHARNAME manually, i.e. added it to an entry that didn't contain it?

The problem occurs in either situation.

I first noticed it when I edited other parts of an entry that already included CHARNAME, however. Then started to experiment. (Inserting my own CHARNAME, etc)

Could you tell the exact scenario? For example, "I open the TLK file, edit the string with <CHARNAME>, and then I press F5". What other steps do you do meanwhile? I guess you can easily reproduce the bug (does it happen always when you edit such an entry)?

Yeah, it has happened every time so far.

Here's exactly what I do in the format you requested:

"I open the TLK file, edit a string that contains <CHARNAME>, and then I press F5. From this point foward, the game displays that string's instance of <CHARNAME> as '<CHARNAME>', instead of 'John Doe/Whoever' "