Infinity Engine Talk Table Viewer Options

[Baronius]

INFINITY ENGINE TALK TABLE VIEWER

WEBSITE: http://www.blackwyrmlair.net/Tools/tlkviewer.php
This tool is outdated. Please use Infinity Engine Talk Table Editor instead:
http://www.blackwyrmlair.net/Tools/tlkeditor.php

I made this program because the search functions of the existing IE file editors didn't suit my needs. I also added other functions (with less practical use) to this program (such as Statistics and Graphs).
Here is a summary of its features, followed by screenshots:

• Works with all of the IE games (BG1, PST, IWD, BG2, IWD2), including all of their official expansions and unofficial mods
• Can view, but cannot edit talk table (TLK) files
• 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 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)
• 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)

Here are some screenshots of its Advanced Search function. You can view 7 other screenshots as well on Talk Table Viewer's website.

The illusionist gnome took the Circus Tent in Waukeen's Promenade...
Also from BG2 tlk. Aerie romance seems to be going quite well...
The filter's type has been changed: displaying all results
Good old bandit stuff from BG1...
Iron Throne again, but with the second filter (all results are displayed)

Opinions, comments, suggestions, and... bug reports -- all of them are welcome!

This post has been edited by Baronius: Oct 3 2006, 09:38 PM

[igi]

A few suggestions:

+) When viewing in a "new window", disable the "Find next" button if the program is not in standard search mode (rather than showing a message about the button only working in standard search mode)

+) Option to only show 1 match per matching string, e.g. once a match is found in a string, the "find next" button will ignore any other matches later in that string, and just move onto the next matching string

+) Cancel option when searching (e.g. statistics, with the word 'a' takes a while, would be nice to be able to cancel)

Other than that, great work. Always nice to see new IE tools :-)

[Baronius]

Thanks for your feedback, igi.

I managed to implement two of your suggestions (the one regarding the Find Next button, and the cancel option for search processes)

V1.02 beta is downloadable (has the same URL as the earlier version), I hope the interrupt-by-user feature will work properly without generating new problems.

[Baronius]

Talk Table Viewer 1.1 has been released. Changes since v1.00:

• Faster file loading, statistics, search and export
• Processes such as search or statistics can be interrupted by the user
• Full TLK caching: now .tlk operations are faster, and more instances of Talk Table Viewer can be running at the same time
• After using Advanced Search, now you can also see the total matches of each term separately
• Minor bugfixes, and minor changes on the layout of the GUI

Bug reports and opinions are still welcome!