Thanks, I have it working. The "invalid" error for ResearchField entry should be "Diplomacy". These are things I have not been able to pick up with any other method.

It is curious that your tool has picked these entries as errors. SoaSE doesn't seem to mind them being "Invalid",  I guess either or my mod wouldn't work. I will fix these things however.

This tool is really going to be helpful to a code ammeter like myself. Awesome job & thank you!

I'm glad to hear you got the tool working. In regards to the build directory, it contains a build.xml that I put together for your mod to deploy from your project folder to the mod installation directory.

If you update the properties to reflect the right directory structures. You can open the build.xml and right click deploy_mod in the Outline view, select Run As/Ant Build. This will generate the entity manifest and deploy the mod to the deployment directory (Note: only changed files will be copied).

Well, that means I do have it working correctly then which is good. I am not to worried about the deployment thing As I can just move the new cleaned up mod manually no problem.

The thing I have trying to track is an issue in the Distant Stars + A,ha's combo I have made. It for some reason has a Tech player portrait in the Vasari portrait window. Also the button to select what race you want to be before you start the game only cycles through in the reverse, right mouse button, direction. I have gone over and over the brush's to find an entry that is not right but to no avail. I guess the reason why the Validation tool can not pick it up either is because if the brush is just giving a wrong location, technically it is not an error in the code string.

Yes by all means. It is in (bin.) here is the link if you don't have it already;

http://www.filefactory.com/f/3907c9a54e193e91/

On my running of the tool over it I only found 1 error with brush's and that was for the planetbonus "BLACK" which just had the C in lower case. Also I have checked PlayerPhase, PlayerTech, PlayerPsi brush files and there are no wrong entries as far as I can see. It may be a problem with the brush's that relate to "BackDropFronteEnd" texture file but I can't locate the brush's or what have-you for that.

Sorry about the typo... I missed that when I was putting together an example buildout. Fortunately that line is only used in the ant validate task so it shouldn't cause any issues. I use the installation directories when building the entity and brush manifests.

Distant Stars also has a few other directories I haven't incorporated into the copy portion:

<echo message="Copying Galaxy folder"/>
<copy todir="${deployment.dir}/Galaxy" failonerror="false">
    <fileset dir="Galaxy"/>
</copy>

<echo message="Copying PipelineEffect"/>
<copy todir="${deployment.dir}/PipelineEffect" failonerror="false">
  <fileset dir="PipelineEffect"/>
</copy>

<echo message="Copying TextureAnimations folder..."/>
<copy todir="${deployment.dir}/TextureAnimations" failonerror="false">
  <fileset dir="TextureAnimations"/> 
</copy>

Yep, I got it working. It, as you said, missed the Galaxy, PiplineEffect, TextureAnimation & Sound Folders. (did an experiment before I read your post above). I will add the code you have posted and give it another whirl.

Another thing, I don't think this effects anything, but I did get some warnings about " couldn't find SoaSE install directory in C:/" or something. This to be precise;

[generatemanifest] Warning: C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Window not found.
[generatemanifest] Warning: C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Entrenchment\Window not found.
[generatemanifest] Warning: C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Diplomacy\Window not found.

This would be because I have it installed on a different drive. Does this matter?

Thanks for your help.

Sorry, was out mowing

Yes, the entity issue definately doesn't appear to be yours. Maybe there a double entries... I'm not really for sure yet.

Anyway, I get 1896 in the entity manifest file. And I am able to run both versions of the mod (yours and mine) so far without any crashes.

Here is the entity manifest that generates from your original files and is identical to my re-merge attempt.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5790092/Temp/entity.manifest

Yep! that entity manifest done the trick. Thanks this has been a great help

I have changed the "sins.installation. dir" value="G:\

and I still get the same 3 errors, only with a G instead of a C

Is the (x86) significant? that's the only thing that is different that I can see.

Yep that (x86) was the issue. Runs perfectly now and have got the 1896 files.

This an extremely helpful tool. You have done an awesome job. Well done!

I would recommend this tool to all. I think even experienced coders would find the speed & ease at finding errors that this tool gives would be well worth it.

To the mighty ZombiesRus5

Ok, lets try this first. If you can look at your system properties/environment variables. Do you have a JAVA_HOME defined and a Path that links in Java 1.6?

Yes, I would start there. Generally the java's bin directory is in the Path and the JAVA_HOME is set to the bin directory as well. This should allow Eclipse to locate Java and start successfully.

Ok, I got Eclipse working, and now I'm trying to install the plug-in, but it isn't working. I unzipped it and but it in the Dropins folder, but I don't have a "Add/Remove Entity Validator" like your screenshot.

Nope, I've restarted Eclipse about 15 times now , still nothing.