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Hi all.

This is my first post, so big thanks for making DM and CSB live after so many years.

I'm having a look at CSBuild_2019070101 and it seems that the import character data function actually only imports the first three characters.
Be warned, my programming memories go back to when I was playing the game, late 80's
But I had a look at an older source code available (from CSBuild3_20src.zip) and in CCSBuildView::OnImportCharacterData it does:
Should'nt that 3 be 4?

BTW, is there some tool to edit the CharacterData.bin file nicely, working on a current Windows 10? I had a look at ADGE, CSBhedit and others, but they all seem to be for older windows versions. For my experiments I can use an hex editor and the CHARDESC struct in types.h, but if there is something friendly, it would be nice imho.

Anyway, thank you again very much.

Welcome to our dusty basement of nostalgia

Yeah, that's a good spot, the test should either be i<=3 or i<4, but I'll let more knowledgeable people reply to this just to be sure...

You appear to be right. We read four characters from the file but
process only three of them. Hmmmm....can't get everything right the
first time.

I have completely forgotten where I keep my official source code and
what sort of method I use to update and distribute it so that fixes
do not get lost due to disk crashes and such. I will work on rediscovering
all of this. If it is critical to your efforts, I can make a quick, unofficial
binary of a patched CSBuild for you.

I think this fixes the Import Character bug:

https://dianneandpaul.net/CSBwin/CSBuild_2021112101.7z

Hi Paul, I only had time now to look at it. It works, thank you.
Merry Xmax and hope it's going to be happy year:)