wesleyjohnson
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I don't know what issue those last two reply posts have wandered off into, so I will restate what I said, and make it more obvious.
I do not like tools that slip advertising into their output. I have encountered them before, and I will abandon such tools given any chance to use another tool that does not do such things.
I have had to strip off such labeling by hand to use the output.
I have encountered tools that had an option to leave off the labeling
(someone else must have complained too).
I say this loudly so that any tool developer that might read this forum, that thinks it is cute to label the output with such advertising, might be warned off from doing such a thing.
Please stop reading other interpretations into this.
My patch to Yadex, that detects this odd sized lump, was included because there were other tests doing the same thing for other lumps and I included similar code in my patch for handling colormaps.
It correctly detects an odd sized colormap lump, and prints one line of warning that the lump is odd sized. It in no way prevents the user from proceeding. I have been using Yadex with this patch to create FreeDoom MAP13 and MAP09 over many months. It prints one warning line each time that FADEMAP is odd sized for a colormap lump.
The other colormaps must have been made with a different tool.
I believe that it is wrong to change the test of correct lump size in order to give into one badly behaved tool. The tool that that did it right should be credited for not invoking warning messages.
It is YADEX, the wad editor, that is detecting this.
It is possible that such advertising could break ZDoom, Legacy, or Eternity engines, if it was used on other lumps. I wish to discourage such ideas.
Last edited by wesleyjohnson on 04-30-10 at 22:32
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