Tool Box Compilation Controller
THE BATCH MANAGER
COMPILE
Click on the COMPILE button to run the TBCC.bat file (in the \batch directory). Unlike our earlier Compilation Controllers, TBCC cannot run any .bat file - it only executes \batch\tbcc.bat. This file is created and saved when you open the Batch Manager, when you click on the BAT FILE tab, and when you click the COMPILE buttons on the Batch Manager and the Main Screen.
OPTIONS
These check boxes control various aspects of the compile:
LOGGING ON - Turns-on logging when checked. Will add two lines to the batch file. At the top it adds a line to delete all .log files in the directory where the TBCC program is located. At the end of the file it adds a line to launch the Log Viewer. Logging causes a "pipe" command to be appended to each tool command line. The tool program's screen output goes to the file rather than the DOS window. The Log Viewer simply collates all these individual files into a single text display. Logging is useful when a map is generating errors, but you can't read them because they've scrolled off the top of the DOS window.
COPY ON - Turns Copy on and off. If checked, it will use the settings on the Preferences dialog to add DOS copy instructions to the batch file.
BACK UP - Check this box to back up ALL the maps in the Map List just before the compile. The files are copied to the same directory the .map is in with a .bkp extension. This is handy if you do the compile, then go back into the map editor and screw things up. You can always get a copy of your map as it was at the time of the last compile.
This tab presents the batch file TBCC will use to compile your maps. You can save the file or copy text from the display. NOTE that it will do you NO GOOD to try to edit this display and then run the file by clicking the COMPILE buttons. COMPILE will always generate a fresh batch file.