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<blockquote data-quote="DMFTodd" data-source="post: 88703" data-attributes="member: 1202">DM's Familiar has tables in Visual Foxpro format. Will Tablesmith be able to read that format any time soon? No? I don't blame you. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Actually, I think the Tablesmith format is very good - just a basic, straight-forward text file layout. It would be very easy for me to write a routine that converts my VFP data (spells, let's say) into a Tablesmith text file of available spells that could then be used to generate random scrolls or whatever. I will probably do that someday.Would I would really like to see from the folks writing &quot;utility&quot; programs (Tablesmith, Weathermaster, Jamis Generators, etc.) would be a way to let other programs (the &quot;server&quot; programs like DM's Familiar, RPM, etc.) call your program and return results without any user interface. For example, DM's Familiar has a place where you enter NPCs. It would be very cool to have a button on my NPC screen next to the name field that would call Tablesmith, tell it to generate a random result on the name table, and return that result to me so that I can put it on the NPC form. The user would never see Tablesmith in that process, they'd just be clicking my button. Initially, they'd use Tablesmith to build the name table and to modify the table, but that would be it.I haven't dug into Tablesmith to much yet, I assume that it can't that. That's my idea for you, Bruce.As for people wanting to interface *TO* DM's Familiar, I can't imagine what for so I haven't thought much about a standard exchange format. If someone has an idea of how they would want to interface to DMF, let me know.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DMFTodd, post: 88703, member: 1202"] DM's Familiar has tables in Visual Foxpro format. Will Tablesmith be able to read that format any time soon? No? I don't blame you. :) Actually, I think the Tablesmith format is very good - just a basic, straight-forward text file layout. It would be very easy for me to write a routine that converts my VFP data (spells, let's say) into a Tablesmith text file of available spells that could then be used to generate random scrolls or whatever. I will probably do that someday. Would I would really like to see from the folks writing "utility" programs (Tablesmith, Weathermaster, Jamis Generators, etc.) would be a way to let other programs (the "server" programs like DM's Familiar, RPM, etc.) call your program and return results without any user interface. For example, DM's Familiar has a place where you enter NPCs. It would be very cool to have a button on my NPC screen next to the name field that would call Tablesmith, tell it to generate a random result on the name table, and return that result to me so that I can put it on the NPC form. The user would never see Tablesmith in that process, they'd just be clicking my button. Initially, they'd use Tablesmith to build the name table and to modify the table, but that would be it. I haven't dug into Tablesmith to much yet, I assume that it can't that. That's my idea for you, Bruce. As for people wanting to interface *TO* DM's Familiar, I can't imagine what for so I haven't thought much about a standard exchange format. If someone has an idea of how they would want to interface to DMF, let me know. [/QUOTE]

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