Changing path SDK uses for MUL files

[HellRazor]

I want to create a utility that will compare the contents between 2 sets of MUL files. The SDK gets the UO installation path from the registry,

Is it possible to dynamically change the directory the SDK uses to read the MUL files via code?

[Irian]

Didn't ever really use it, but the Mulpatcher has this feature already for the Art files :-)

[HellRazor]

I know, but that doesn't answer my question.

[Malaperth]

Well, if the SDK has the capability to read mul files, I would expect that the reading routines are separate from the path definition code (however, I could easily be wrong since I've never looked at it). It should be possible to simply specify a path in the code, then read the muls.

[HellRazor]

Currently the SDK gets the UO path from the registry and uses that for its MUL access.

What I'm not sure about is whether or not there is a way to change the path it reads from via code, or if its possible to read from 2 seperate paths.

[Malaperth]

Right, but does it do it all in one method? If not, you should be able to call the code that does things with the mul files directly instead of starting from the point where it finds the path.

[Jeff]

You'd have to code that all yourself

[Zippy]

In what universe would it *not* be possible to change what path it is reading by editing the code which reads the files?

[HellRazor]

I was hoping that it might be possible from within the program without making changes to the DLL itself.

[Malaperth]

It seems improbable to me that there are no methods to be able to specify a path from which to read files from.

[Jeff]

I modified them myself, for my project. All i had to change was the contructor. Where uofolder is, just make it whatever folder you want the idx and mul file to be in.

public FileIndex(string uoFolder, string idxFile, string mulFile, int length)
		{
			m_Index = new Entry3D[length];

			string idxPath = Path.Combine(uoFolder, idxFile);
			string mulPath = Path.Combine(uoFolder, mulFile);

			if( idxPath != null && mulPath != null )
			{
				using( FileStream index = new FileStream(idxPath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read) )
				{
					BinaryReader bin = new BinaryReader(index);
					m_Stream = new FileStream(mulPath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read);

					int count = (int)( index.Length / 12 );

					for( int i = 0; i < count && i < length; ++i )
					{
						m_Index[i].lookup = bin.ReadInt32();
						m_Index[i].length = bin.ReadInt32();
						m_Index[i].extra = bin.ReadInt32();
					}

					for( int i = count; i < length; ++i )
					{
						m_Index[i].lookup = -1;
						m_Index[i].length = -1;
						m_Index[i].extra = -1;
					}
				}
			}
		}

[HellRazor]

Awesome, I'll try this out. Thanks Jeff.