You aren't the only one that's had this happen, I've had it, as have others I've corped with. If you re-open the database (re-select the game) you can continue where you left off, otherwise sometimes the DB gets corrupted.



In TWXproxy you don't really need a sector data file or a port data file, most of the time. All of that is in the database. For other files I just use getInput, it's not perfect but it works. You can check if the file exists or not tho. Prome published his directory browser snippet, that is as close to what you want as you'll find, there is no way to access the file explorer dialog box from twxproxy.

This is what I was asking for, to see if there was a way to configure twx proxy to use a file explorer to load a file inside a script. If getInput is the best that can be configured so be it. I just posted to this threads title which is (Call for TWX Proxy bugs / wish list), and that was one thing that I wish was better about twx proxy. Most of the data I need isn't inside twx proxy, such as a list of unfigged sectors, sectors that are X amount of hops from Terra, dead end sectors that are X deep, or any combination of the above. I create most of my grid data by weeding out sectors to only the most likely areas someone would build and saving that data to a file. This way if I run out of turns, I can send that data file to a corpie.

No love yet Rev. I've been coding TWX a lot lately, but mostly looking for speed improvements. I'll see how hard the Port CIM will be.

Thanks for the additional info Sing, I'll keep digging.

BigD, I added the 'getFileList' command in 2.04 for just this sort of use. So let's say you wanted to select from a number of files in the TWX Proxy root folder, where the file names started with 'BD_' and ended in '.txt'. You could make it easy on the script user by coding something like this:Prom just posted a script that uses the basic idea here. While it's not a windows dialog, it does simplify things.

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