Add Filename Tooltips to Recolors, Automatically! Windows or Mac! - TESTERS WANTED

[CatOfEvilGenius]

While MTS2 downloads are down, you can get the Mar 11th beta version from links in this post!

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Filename Tooltips - Add Them Automatically!

This program adds BodyShop tooltips to those mystery recolor packages.
(Clothing tooltips may not show up in CAS if you have later EPs.)

http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img/6/8/5/1/2/7/MTS2_CatOfEvilGenius_887247_img0.jpg http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img/6/8/5/1/2/7/MTS2_CatOfEvilGenius_887242_img1.jpg

Installation

This program is Windows or Mac, get the appropriate version.
Download the zip file, unzip it. On Windows, don't delete dll's or manifest.

Usage

Double click filenameTooltip.exe (Windows) or filenameTooltip (Mac).
Press the Choose Files button, then select your files. Repeat if you want to add more files.
Choose whether you want to change existing tool tips or only add tooltips if they’re missing.
Choose whether tooltips should be filenames, user specified text, or both. - new in Mar 11 version
Press the Add Filename Tooltips button.
This program will CAS packages (clothing, hair, skins, makeup, eyes, etc.),
while ignoring other packages (objects, sims, walls, floors, houses, lots, neighborhoods).
Press Clear List if you want to process some more files and start again.
edit: Mar 10 - New version should affect only BodyShop files (clothing, skin, eyes, makeup, beards).
Should ignore other files (meshes, walls, floors, fences, terrain, neighborhoods, lots, sims, etc.)
Please check this. Program reports files are "ignored" or "CHANGED".

http://stonegod.org/sims2/software/filenameTooltip/tutorial0311_.jpg

TESTERS WANTED
version 20090311 beta

:!: Please back up your files before testing this program on them. :!:
If you have a bug to report, please save the debug text that the program prints to a text file and upload it with your bug report. Please tell me what error messages you got, if any. If you want me to look at a certain input file, please give me a link to the file or upload it.

==> :!: DOWNLOAD HERE, not from box below :!: <==
* filenameTooltip for Windows (http://stonegod.org/sims2/software/filenameTooltip/filenameTooltip_20090311_beta_Win.zip) version 20090311 beta
* filenameTooltip for Mac (http://stonegod.org/sims2/software/filenameTooltip/filenameTooltip_20090311_beta_Mac.zip) version 20090311 beta

Planned Features for Future Versions

- Select all files in a directory just by clicking the directory.
- Select all files in subdirectories (recursive).

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Related Software

You may also like Delphy's Download Organizer (http://www.modthesims2.com/download.php?t=227925).
It tells you what types of files are in your Downloads.
It can put your files in subfolders, if you haven't already done so yourself.
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[yetyak]

You rock!! I had approximately 800 files fixed with the filename in less than 15 minutes. That included the time I needed to get to where the files were on a different drive than where I put this program. I opened and closed it three times, one time it wouldn't let me select more than one file at a time, but reopening did the trick on that. This program ranks right up there with chocolate cake.

[CatOfEvilGenius]

yetyak, thank you for trying this out, but did you back up your files beforehand? This program is still in testing. I've been testing it and found out you should not use it on certain kinds of packages, for example mesh files, certain objects, definitely not lamps, etc. It is meant for clothing recolors, hair, and makeup, not all packages.

[CatOfEvilGenius]

Mar 10 - New version
edit: mar 10 is no longer the newest version, for the latest version, see post #1

New version should affect only BodyShop files (clothing, skin, eyes, makeup, beards).
Should ignore other files (walls, floors, fences, terrain, neighborhoods, lots, sims, etc.)
Please check this. Program reports files are "ignored" or "CHANGED".

edit: It should also ignore meshes.

[yetyak]

I tried it on just hair and clothes, they are the only things I really want the file name to show on. I omitted the meshes, figuring it wasn't intended for those.

[leesester]

This looks really rather good - will come back after March 12th....

[CatOfEvilGenius]

yetyak - Good to hear! Thank goodness for smart and prudent testers. :)

leesester - Great, it would be good to have more testers. You don't have to wait for downloads to come back. You can get the current version from post #1 Mar 10th version from the next post.

[CatOfEvilGenius]

old new version - 20090310 beta

New in this version
- runs on Windows AND Mac too
- should ignore non-CAS files (please double check this)
- checkbox: change existing tooltips or not
- tooltips can be either filenames or user specified text

edit: downloads removed because this is no longer the current version, see post #1

http://stonegod.org/sims2/software/filenameTooltip/tutorial0311.jpg

[Solowren]

Oooh, very nice. I'll be giving this a go.

[BlueSoup]

Gonna test it out, I like the prospects :)

[Gwenke33]

I downloaded the windows 20090310 beta version from the main post.
I got no error messages, but it refused to change most tooltips for me (I tried rings, hair and clothes). Sorry I cannot be more specific, as I did manage to change a hair and a clothing tooltip (out of about 15 tries), and could not detect any pattern. It got "Ignored" reports for those it did not change.
A feature request: would it be possible to view the existing tooltips, and to have an option like "Add file name/new text to end of existing tooltip"?

[CatOfEvilGenius]

solowren, BlueSoup Thanks for popping in, if you do find time to test this, that would be great.

Gwenke33

You had the "Change Existing Tooltips" checkbox checked, right? If you did, and it was not changing files that you know had tooltips, can you please give me a link to those files? Or post a few of them here in a zip or rar file? I will try to replicate your results and find out what the problem is, and fix it.

The feature you asked for could be added, no problem. I'll just have a third radio button that says "filename + user text" or some such.

[eletrodj]

*Noob* This will change if the package already has description?
I mean, my dowloads folders are a mess, so, I can't separate those files which has description.

[CatOfEvilGenius]

eletrodj If you leave the "Change Existing Tooltips" box unchecked, then existing tooltips will NOT be changed. If you check the checkbox, existing tooltips will be changed. Up to you. You can sort your Downloads folder with Delphy's Downloads Organizer. Link in first post.

[Gwenke33]

I think I figured it out: the tool ignores files whose tooltip was changed with the WardrobeWrangler. Or it may simply ignore those which were saved with WW. I tested the first option on one of Liana's male outfits, but I did not test the second. Since most of my accessories and a lot of my clothes have been processed with WW, no wonder I got failures.
I will do some more testing later if needed, but not earlier than Sunday.

[CatOfEvilGenius]

Gwenke33 Thanks for that report. I'll take a look at what WW does. I didn't know it let you change tooltips, will check that out. I thought that was a feature that jfade was going to add in the next version.

edit: WW lets you add a tooltip to one file at a time. The current version of WW does not automatically set the tooltip to the filename, although it does show you what the filename is, so you could type it in yourself.

If you are telling my tooltip program to change *existing* tooltips, and it's not doing it on files processed by WW, I have a theory why. Will investigate...

-- begin gory technical details --
I check the DBPF STR# resource where tooltips are stored to see if it's a tooltip or something else. Tooltip STR#s made by BodyShop have a blank description field, blank filename (of the STR#, not the package), and text only in the STR# value field. If WW is altering the STR# filename or STR# description, then my program would ignore that STR#.
-- end gory technical details --

If you are seeing *blank* tooltips, and they're NOT being changed to filenames or user text, that's a problem. If that's happening, have a theory about that too...

-- begin gory technical details --
Currently, I check for tooltips that are an empty string, just "". I do not check for tooltips that might be only whitespace, ie " ". Perhaps I need to look into that...
-- end gory technical details --

[Gwenke33]

Sorry, forgot to mention that all files I tried had some substantial tooltips (that's one of the main things I use WW for). I made sure that 'change tooltips' was always ticked.
I also made sure that one or more files in the window were always selected, but the programme seemed to ignore that: I either received "changed" for all files in the list, or "ignored", whether one, more, or none of the files were selected.

[Solowren]

I had the same issue with the program ignoring certain files as other people did, but other than that it worked like a charm. :)

[CatOfEvilGenius]

Figured out why my program isn't playing nice with Wardrobe Wrangler. WW changes the STR# description field from nothing to "File Edited with the Wardrobe Wrangler, version ..." I can have my program take that into account, no problem.

[yetyak]

It won't let me attach that file you wanted.

One thing I noticed while playing tonight, some of the hairs that I had changed with the original version that were being worn by sims had been changed to a different hair. A quick trip to the mirror solved it, and I don't know if it is relevant or not, but figured I'd mention it just in case.

[CatOfEvilGenius]

yetyak That's pretty darn relevant. I'll see if this occurs with clothing, makeup, etc. too. Should be mentioned in the manual. Did it happen just the one time, after the file was changed, or does it happen each time the lot is loaded? I assume just the one time?

What do you mean by "quick trip to the mirror"? Did you just have them "change appearance" without actually changing anything, and it got fixed by itself, or did you have to change the hair they were wearing yourself?


edit: I tried to reproduce this behavior. Made a sim with a custom shirt and custom hair. Exited game. Fired up filenameTooltip, changed the tooltips of the shirt and hair. Ran the game, sim still had her shirt and hair. No change except for the tooltip. Made the tooltip shorter. Made the tooltip longer. Hair and shirt never changed to a different hair and shirt. Perhaps this only occurs with some files or only the older version of the program, not sure yet.

[CatOfEvilGenius]

New Version - 20090311 beta

* plays nice with Wardrobe Wrangler, will change files modified by WW
* tooltip can be filename, user text, or both (feature requested by Gwenke)

Testers!

If you think some files were ignored when they should not have been, please take a look at the file "filenameTooltip_log.txt". Zip that file and post it here, or just copy and paste the text in your post.


DOWNLOAD
* filenameTooltip for Windows (http://stonegod.org/sims2/software/filenameTooltip/filenameTooltip_20090311_beta_Win.zip) version 20090311 beta
* filenameTooltip for Mac (http://stonegod.org/sims2/software/filenameTooltip/filenameTooltip_20090311_beta_Mac.zip) version 20090311 beta

http://stonegod.org/sims2/software/filenameTooltip/tutorial0311_.jpg

[yetyak]

The two sims that I remember having noticed that they had different hair were walkbys. One of them, I had a lot member change their appearance (dizzy's hack), then went to that house next and that sim had the right hair. I will try the other sim today, and see if she has the right or wrong hair on her home lot. You know, hers might have been because I changed a bunch of grays to one gray, but didn't get them familied yet. That sounds more plausible, since you didn't have the wrong hair thing happen.

[CatOfEvilGenius]

yetyak The grays / family theory sounds more plausible to me. Thanks for checking that out and letting me know. I try to change just one thing at a time when testing. If you run into any more odd stuff that you think might be due to filenameTooltip, please report it.

Gwenke It would be easy to view existing tooltips, I just need to figure out where to put them so I don't make things look cluttered. They'll probably be in the next version.

[yetyak]

I agree that it was probably the gray/family thing, that will teach me to get all excited about the right tooltips so I can be sure I fix the right hairs. I know I should have checked them out better before I started the second part of the project. The few lots I did check had no problems, I should have checked them all instead of figuring I was ok.

I promise I will do better with the next batch!!

[Solowren]

It changed all of them this time without ignoring any. :)

[CatOfEvilGenius]

Solowren Thanks for reporting. So the filenameTooltip_log.txt file had no filenames in it then? If it had no filenames, that's good.

[Gwenke33]

New Version - 20090311 beta

* plays nice with Wardrobe Wrangler, will change files modified by WW
* tooltip can be filename, user text, or both (feature requested by Gwenke)


I can't test now, but it sounds wonderful. As for my request, may I clarify a little better? I would like the ability to add the filename to the existing tooltip, rather than set the tooltip to custom text + filename. At least that's how I understand it would currently work.
(I already have descriptive tooltips for most things, and adding filenames to that would be great, but replacing the existing tooltips with anything I have to type anew + the filename would not really be of benefit.)

[CatOfEvilGenius]

Gwenke33 Your request is quite doable. I'll see about putting it in the next version, probably sometime next week. How about this for the UI? I could add two radio buttons below the "existing" checkbox.

checkbox: change existing tooltip
..radio button: replace
..radio button: append

The filename + user text is useful for me when filenames don't have the creator name in them. I label those filename + creatorName.

[Gwenke33]

Gwenke33 Your request is quite doable. I'll see about putting it in the next version, probably sometime next week. How about this for the UI? I could add two radio buttons below the "existing" checkbox.

checkbox: change existing tooltip
..radio button: replace
..radio button: append

The filename + user text is useful for me when filenames don't have the creator name in them. I label those filename + creatorName.

Wow, that was quick. Thank you, the radio buttons will be perfect.
As for the next version: have you looked into the ability to actually select from the final file list which files you want to process, rather than the program looking at all of them?

[CatOfEvilGenius]

As for the next version: have you looked into the ability to actually select from the final file list which files you want to process, rather than the program looking at all of them?
That feature is planned, just not sure when I'll have it. The file browser I use does support selection and removal, I just haven't put that in yet.

I also plan to have directory selection (all files in selected directory) and recursive directory selection (all files, all subdirectories, all files in subdirectories, etc.). That may be a bit harder because I'm using FLTK and FLTK may or may not let me do that, we'll see. May need to use a different UI library.

For right now though, I'm focusing on changing tooltips correctly, and only in the appropriate files. Will iron out the UI details once I'm sure tooltips are 100% correct.

[Jalynna]

I have been trying to organize my downloads recently. I was using Wardrobe Wrangler to modify my tool tips, but was not having great luck with that. I saw your new tool and decided to try it. I am not getting the correct tool tips in Body Shop.

Here are the steps I followed.
1. Open some hair files with your program - I had previous changed these files tool tips with WW, but they weren't displaying correctly in Body Shop.
2. Changed the tooltips with your program, used filename plus my own string and the Change Existing box was checked.
3. Received Changed message on all files.
4. Checked out the file's tool tip in SimPE and it was correct. The WW message was in the Str Desc field.
5. Opened Body Shop and still have the incorrect tool tip.
6. Checked my filenameTooltip_log.txt and there were no ignored files.

I have attached my files from before and after using the filenameTooltip.


Thanks for your help. I would love to use your program when I start sorting out all my clothes.

[CatOfEvilGenius]

Jalynna Thank you for the detailed report. I'll take a look at the files, but first, can you please double check that you don't have two copies of that hair? Not saying that you do, but if you did, the problem you're seeing would occur. Easy way to check is temporarily remove that hair from Downloads, and see if it still shows up in BodyShop. If it does, then you have another copy of it floating around somewhere.

edit: Does this hair need a mesh, or is it a Maxis recolor? I'm going to check which tooltip I see in my BodyShop, but if the hair needs a mesh, I would like that please.

[Jalynna]

There were no other copies of the hair - my downloads folder was clean except for those 4 files. It is a Maxis recolor.

Thanks for the quick response.

[CatOfEvilGenius]

Jalynna I put your "after" files in Downloads, did not make any changes to them. Here's the tooltip I see in BodyShop. Same as the STR# in the package file, has the filename of the package. Are you sure you don't have another copy of this hair, maybe in SavedSims? If you're sure you have no other copy of the hair, which EPs do you have?

[Jalynna]

I am not certain but there could have been a copy of the file in one of my organizing folders, all of those are outside of My Documents/EAGames/. I didn't realize that those files would affect the tooltip information, but I bet that was my problem. Thanks for your help and I love your program.

[CatOfEvilGenius]

Jalynna To be sure, you can do a Windows file search, see if it turns up multiple copies. If you run into any more issues, feel free to report them.

[yetyak]

I downloaded a bunch of new hairs so I could test out the newer version. No hardship, there... Anyway, all the hairs have the right tooltips; and there were no weirdnesses of any kind. Now I will go fix the grays and do the other stuff so there won't be any problems. Thanks again for this wonderful tool!

[HugeLunatic]

The Mac program doesn't work, it opens terminal and gives me this error message:

Bad CPU type in executable

Using an iMac PPC with OS X 10.5

[CatOfEvilGenius]

HugeLunatic Thanks for that report. The Mac app was built and runs on an Intel Mac, not a PowerPC Mac. I'll see if I can find a cross-compiler that will make a PPC version. No promises though, I'm not a Mac expert.

[Jalynna]

Since my previous issue a few days ago(really a non-issue - just losing track of a few duplicate files) I have been testing this quite thoroughly. I have re-tooltipped several hundred clothing files and haven't had a single problem. Great work.

[Gwenke33]

CatOfEvilGenius, are you planning a next version still (with the ability to add filename to existing toltip), or do you consider the project finished? I'm not nagging, just would like to know.

[CatOfEvilGenius]

Gwenke33 No, go ahead nag, or I'll forget! ;) I am planning another version with the features that were requested: display existing tooltips, etc. I also need to find tools that will cross-compile for a non-Intel Mac. Next version maybe next week?

Jalynna Thank you for the report.

[Gwenke33]

I'll be looking forward to it, and keep nagging you then if needed :)

[Phaenoh]

Is it possible to only add to the existing tool tip? I'd love to have my tool tips be what the original creator wrote in AND what the file name is. That way between the two I will hopefully know who the creator was.

[CatOfEvilGenius]

Phaenoh I can add that feature in the next version. However, the problem is many creators don't put anything useful in the tooltip. I'm going to add a feature that shows you the existing tooltip, so you can decide if you want to add on to it or just make a new one.

[Phaenoh]

That sounds great! I find that sometimes creators leave their name in the tool tip (I do) or sometimes they only put their name in the file name. Unfortunately, sometimes they do neither, can't be helped then!

[GeneralOperationsDirector]

Will this be available for download from MTS2? I don`t like to go off-site for things.

[CatOfEvilGenius]

Gen.O.D I don't understand your question. The link is right here on MTS2. When I finish testing this program, I'll upload the finished version to the tools section of Downloads on MTS2. Right now, the file is on a non-MTS2 server, one where I pay for web and storage space. I don't see how that's a problem.

Just FYI, everyone, I'm still working on this project but need to catch up on some RL work, so don't expect updates for a few days this week.

[GeneralOperationsDirector]

The link is here, but the file isn`t. I`ll keep an eye on this project; it looks interestsing.

[aqualectrix]

A hopefully-easy feature request: would it be possible to have the filename not include the ".package" part? Either as an option or as the default if no-one else cares about including .package?

Thanks a lot for this little app -- it's made my download-organizing-workflow a lot less full of copy-and-paste.

[CatOfEvilGenius]

aqualectirx Yes, that could be easily done, when I get back to this project.

[Miss-SKH]

Is it possible to use the 'Tooltip: Filename' option without it including the .package in the tooltip?

[CatOfEvilGenius]

Miss-SKH Not right now, but I'll change it in the future.

[Miss-SKH]

Sorry, I just realized that was requested in a post above mine. My internet connection has been a little iffy, it doesn't always load the full page. My apologies.
This tool is fantastic though, it definitely helps with organizing. Thanks.

[Equation]

Thank heaven the lack of tooltip drove someone more sim-talented than me absolutely batcrazy enough to take offensive action. You save many of us from further wallowing in clueless frustration. A much needed mod, at least in my part. thank you.

[sushigal007]

I just discovered this program today and love it and have been trying out with mostly successful results. One thing I have noticed is that the program does not change tooltips of files that have Asian characters in the name. I don't know if it has problems with Greek or Cyrillic characters too, but is there any way support for other character sets could be added?

[CatOfEvilGenius]

I just discovered this program today and love it and have been trying out with mostly successful results. One thing I have noticed is that the program does not change tooltips of files that have Asian characters in the name. I don't know if it has problems with Greek or Cyrillic characters too, but is there any way support for other character sets could be added?

Could you please give me a link to a free file with Asian characters, and/or tell me which font the filename uses? I'll see what I can do, but not anytime soon, currently busy with work. Thank you for the report!

[sushigal007]

Ah, silly me went and deleted the Rose hairs that were giving me trouble and now I can't find them or replicate the problem. XD I know I've got several accessories with Asian names though, so I'll go through them now and edit this post if they're still not correctly tooltipped.

ETA: OK, here's two makeups that were left untooltipped: http://www.mediafire.com/?02w6w6dcvirb664

Another ETA: I've got a new issue with files being ignored. They're definitely clothing recolours, the filenames are in English, I even redownloaded some of them onto my laptop in case I'd somehow borked the ones my PC, but the tooltip tool is just skipping them. It's also not showing these files in the log. These Brony t-shirts (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=24962.msg613997#msg613997) are the one's I've tested twice, there are others that are being ignored but these were the easiest to find again.

[CatOfEvilGenius]

Ah, silly me went and deleted the Rose hairs that were giving me trouble and now I can't find them or replicate the problem. XD I know I've got several accessories with Asian names though, so I'll go through them now and edit this post if they're still not correctly tooltipped.

ETA: OK, here's two makeups that were left untooltipped: http://www.mediafire.com/?02w6w6dcvirb664

Another ETA: I've got a new issue with files being ignored. They're definitely clothing recolours, the filenames are in English, I even redownloaded some of them onto my laptop in case I'd somehow borked the ones my PC, but the tooltip tool is just skipping them. It's also not showing these files in the log. These Brony t-shirts (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=24962.msg613997#msg613997) are the one's I've tested twice, there are others that are being ignored but these were the easiest to find again.

Thank you for the report, I will take a look. Can't say when, computer still in the shop, being deborked, and got RL work. But definitely need to check this out.

[sushigal007]

No problem, I've got pretty much everything all sorted and tidied now so I'm no rush. Also I had a peep at the recolour files that were giving me problems and it seems they don't actually have a text resource, which could be why they were skipped.

[Liv Lukas]

This program is fantastic. The only request I have is that we could search recursively in subfolders...My downloads are sorted in CAS, Buy Mode, Build Mode, etc..and if I could just set it to search all my CAS folders that would be golden.

Even if you do not get around to that, this program is still AMAZING and should be better known in the community. THANK YOU.

[sushigal007]

After putting all my hair into about 300 separate folders, I have to agree that the ability to scan recursivly would be magic. This is still my number one favourite CC organisation tool though!

[Josepina]

ignored ignored ignored how frustrating

[sushigal007]

I haven't had that happen yet, but if I needed to find the files on the internet, I think would take a screencap of the item in question and post it as a WCIF. Or put the outfit on a sim, package them in Bodyshop to find the mesh, and see if the mesh filename is more informative than the recolour one.