Balshor's Demo Editor: v0.9.1 now available


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My quick weekend update on the editor turned into a fairly major rewrite of the program. Most of this is behind-the-scenes, but here are some of the more visible changes I've made to the editor:
<ul type="square">[*] Changed the look-and-feel to from cross-platform to system.[*] Made the save function default to the demo's current location.[*] Added Windows Vista recognition to the launcher. Should get rid of the "Windows version not recognized, using cmd.exe, blah blah blah" error message on Vista.[*] Allow edits directly on the center table.[*] Filled in some more of the help files[*] Display bad lines when they cannot be read from a demo file.[*] Made the resort process take command names into account.[*] Remember the launcher settings from session-to-session.[*] Added a rotation wizard.[*] Rewrote the smart cut wizard for better performance.[*] Switched to launch4j to wrap the jar for Windows.[/list]I still don't have a personal web space set up, so you can grab v0.9.1 off of mediafire at one of the following URL:

exe version for Windows
jar version for other systems or expert users

Most of you can just grab the exe version -- stick it anywhere, and it should work (provided you have a recent JRE installed...see below.) If you prefer configuring your JRE yourself or if you're running on a non-Windows platform, you should download and use the jar version. The exe version does have some memory limits, so if you plan to work with very large (ie, hundreds of megabytes) demo files, you may need to use the jar version and configure the JVM for more memory.

Either way, you'll need a recent version (6+) of the Java Runtime Environment available. If you don't have a copy, you can download one at www.java.com. The exe version *should* also point you to the correct download location if necessary.

If you're upgrading from a previous version, you can use the same config.xml file and keep all of your previous settings and saved filter lists.

As always, if you find any bugs or have any suggestions, please tell me by replying to this post, by PM, or by email. Thanks for using the program!