It's been a while since I have worked on the tool.

I am now back from holiday and work should be returning to normal, so I can resume working on it.

The tool was originally just supposed to be a tech viewer, but I added editing to it because I thought it would be useful. This turned out to be a lot more complicated then I had bargained for, due to the way the xml's interact with each other.

So I have a few questions:

Does anyone find the editing side of the tool useful.

What features would you like to be implemented.

Or, do you just use it to view the tech trees.

Is this the area I should concentrate on.

Thanks.

Thanks, glad you like it.

You should be able to edit tech descriptions, rename techs and move them around with the current build.

Right click on the tech and select the menu option.

Deleting should be easy enough. 

Adding a tech is a little more difficult.

I have only played around with existing techs.

What are the steps you would take to add a new tech manualy.

Which xml's would you edit other than the *techdefs.xml to get the finished tech.

Can you post the logs after the CTD they may show the error.

Ok I created a new tech tree without changing anything. It seems to work except in order to edit tech you need to set this up which could be a problem if you didn't download notepad++, not because it's a good program, but; because, you might not be able to find the editor. Now it would be better to set this to notepad default, or offer your own editor by default having an option to change this in the menu. This way I can edit without setting this up.

What tech tree does it give me by default I would like to have an option to pick this. Don't get me wrong I like to be able to not have to write my own tech tree. Modifying is easier.

What would be nice if instead of using an editor which is fine if you don't want to do the work would be just having a list of techs. Which I can choose to select a tech, and then choose from a list of all the abilities I could modify from. Preferably just checking which ones I want. Now there should be a limit on how many I could check, so it doesn't become overpowered. If you don't have this there should probably be tips at the top of the page, or ia information page suggesting on how to do this when you select this option.

Now there should be an advanced option to tweak this.

Now lets you have a list of techs for each tree giving you an option to add,or remove techs. You should have a list of all the techs to choose from to add techs.

Now it would also be nice to have a branch editor.

This is just wishful thinking. Instead of having a html for editing it would be easier to have a list. Don't get me wrong I like the mod.

Delete a tech tree would be nice. As a menu option.

Would like to have an option to view not just the description, but also units, abilities, and what that does.

@  ladyarcueid,

glad you figured it out, will have to add error checking for this.

"Add new tech" will add the entries in the relevant xml's. When I can figure out a nice GUI approach.

@admiral , some nice ideas, most are on my TODO list.

You can choose your own text editor in file paths. Notepad is really not cut out for xml editing

You can select the tech tree you want to clone. Or create a new one based on the tech tree selected.

@Horemvore,

Do you have a mod that displays this issue.

Downloading your latest Star Trek mod to try.

Edit: Tool tip seem to be working with Star Trek mod, am I missing something

Got it, this will be fixed in the next release.

Any other bugs, let me know.

Check your paths are pointing to the correct locations.

You should, at the very least see all the original techs trees.

Updated OP with new version.

Downloaded the viewer.

I modified the ./config/Settings.xml to point to my install locations.

I also modified the location of my mods folder, 

When I run it, I can view existing tech trees.

But when I go Mods -> clone a tech tree it tells me to "check paths or create a mod folder".

I have tried pointing to the base mods folder, as well as created a sub mods folder to place tech trees in. but still giving me warning (and not duplicating tree).

Thanks

Np, one thing I will note is I did not install steam in default location, my steam install is under c:/games/steam/

Though user info is in default location.

The install folder shouldn't matter.

I have tested this and it works.

I will be adding full instructions when all features are implemented.

Here are some brief instructions to get you started.

On first run you should set file paths.  - if you don't have any mods already installed, leave the paths at default, otherwise point at the base of the mod folder.

To create a new tech tree.

Click Mods, create mod folder. Then click make new folder and type the folder name. Click ok.

Click mods, clone tech tree for editing.

Click tech tree and uncheck default tech trees only.

You should now have the newly cloned tree in the list highlighted in green. (green - can edit, red - cannot edit)

Same process applies to create new tech tree.

I will release a new version shortly that fixes a few bugs that crept into the last update.

Awesome update, cant wait to start working on tech tree again.