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agn2txt error

Horst18519

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Arno, not sure if I'm the first to actually make use of your nice autogen tools, I sure think they will make life easier for a lot of developers.
Trying to decompile my agn files I came across an issue though. If I run agn2txt via the control panel I get the following errors: (sorry, german Windows, I try to translate the important things)

Unbehandelte Ausnahme: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: File or Assembly "Autogen, Version=1.0.0.0, culture=neutral...." or ... could not be found
ASToFRA.agn2txt.DecodeAGN(String filename)
ASToFRA.agn2txt.Main(String()args)

WRN: Protocoling of Assembly is OFF
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Any ideas?
 
Hi Thorsten,

Sounds like the autogen.dll file can not be found. But it should be in the same folder as the exe.
 
Ok, if I copy the agn to the MCX folder I can drag+drop it and it seems to work. At least if I use the cmd box I see the list of rectVegetation entries on the screen (agn file consists of those only), but no txt file is created. Where is it stored? Maybe there are too many rectangles in the ann file, I use to use quite a lot of them.
 
Hi,

The tool is supposed to be in the ModelConverterX folder indeed. But your agn file can be anywhere.

Output is send to the screen by default. You can put it in a txt like this:

agn2txt myfile.agn > myfile.txt
 
Ok, that works. I tried *.agn *.txt or things like that, but now I know it's the > key, thanks!
Unfortunately it is quite a pita to write all those agn file names in the cmd line, and there seems to be no way of creating a batch job for it either. Could you implement a function that creates the txt automatically?

Sorry for bugging you, just trying to make the tool even cooler. :D

EDIT:

I just found out I can do it using this line in a batch job:

%windir%\system32\cmd.exe /K (MCXpath)\ModelConverterX_120\agn2txt.exe > .txt
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But I'm not able to tell the job to rename the file to the same name as the agn file, I'm sure it's possible though, isn't it?
 
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Hi Thorsten,

You can do a lot with batch files, but maybe I should add some gui for those less familiar with batch files.
 
Or just give a hint how to create a batch that enables drag+drop to compile to a txt file with the correct file name.
 
Ok, it worked now. I had to manually copy the file names from the original agn into the new txt files for all my files, but I was then able to replace the GUIDs and compile them back to agn files. Was a bit tricky as well as again I needed to enter the individual file names, which is always a lot of work with all those numbers (what are they good for anyway? some sort of lat/long values?).
Eventually I got the deal done and I see my new autogen in FSX - nice! :)

A simple option such as "agn2txt *.agn > *.txt" and vice versa would be great though - or just create the txt/agn files with their names if you drag+drop several files, that'd be cool.
 
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