Csabo
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Sorry guys, I was very busy last week, and still I'm still currently very busy. I was surprised to see a locked thread (the first one in our humble little forum I think).
Anyway, the issue is playing music and sound files that cannot be played by the built in media player. This includes MP3, OGG, S3M, IT, XM, etc. Not sure how common each of those are, but I do remember seeing them in various WADs. To actually implement players for these formats is definitely outside of the scope of XWE. It would be very complex and time consuming, and it would be re-inventing the wheel. However, I would like to add support for these through "external editors". This particular issue (i.e. external editors) came up lots of times already, and it is definitely on the to-do list: what XWE needs is for the user to be able to assign an executable to different lump types. I think XMPlay plays all of the above, or I'm sure you guys have your own preferred players for these. XWE would extract the given lump to a temporary location and launch the given program. This will also allow the user to edit images in PhotoShop or some other graphics editor.
I'll work on it when I have time. I really think this is the proper solution for the issue. Thanks for bringing it up, now I know it's a priority.
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03-22-07 03:43 
