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Tool updates

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I’ve released updates to BFBTool, CancerTool, LymeTool, and the M&L Graded Utility. The Preferences dialogs for these tools did not validate the numerical values, so if you used a Max Hits count of “hello”, you would get an uncaught exception. These tools would write their configuration info in their application folder, but now they write their information into the AppData folder. Also, in the past, the Uninstall information did not include the version number or the application icon.

There really are not new features, just bug fixes. The user interface portion was written in C++, but now has been translated in the C#. The main logic was written in C, and remains in C.

Here are the versions of the tools:
BFBTool 1.6.660.0
CancerTool 1.4.660.0
LymeTool 1.3.660.0
M&L Graded 2.9.660.0

The MicroGen Importer has also been upgraded. Before It used .NET 4.5, which meant you couldn’t run it on XP. I’ve downgraded its dependency to .NET 2.0, meaning now it can run on XP, assuming you have .NET 2.0. For the newer platform. .NET 3.5 will contain .NET 2.0. Its version is 1.0.1.0.

The installer for DBEditor was updated to include the version number and the application icon. There are no functionality changes in the application. Unlike the other applications, DBEditor runs on Win 7 and newer. This is because it used the Electron/node.js platform.

DBEditor Update

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I’ve updated DBEditor to read and write the Spooky2 databases with the Windows-1252 character encoding. This means you can use accented characters, say like in the word frère, in your Comment or Name fields, and it will appear correctly in Spooky2. The version in the About dialog box is 1.0.4. You can download DBEditor from here: Installing DBEditor.

If you’ve previously installed DBEditor, uninstall it using the Window Settings app or in the Control Panel. Then download and install the new version of DBEditor.

DBEditor Guide

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DBEditor is a database editor for Spooky2 custom databases. It can create a database, edit an existing database, import databases (via a menu command or drag-and-drop), import presets into a database (via a menu command or drag-and-drop), search a built-in frequency database and add built-in programs to your database. While Spooky2 already provides much of this functionality via the CSVed application, CSVed is cumbersome and difficult to use as it has no specific knowledge of the Spooky2 database parameters.

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