.sm to .dwi converter

**Fission** · 08-4-2013, 01:44 PM

Re: .sm to .dwi converter

updated op with standalone executable. i haven't ran this through a very extensive battery of tests, but please let me know right away if it doesn't convert a file with no holds, mines, etc. properly.

**Fission** · 08-4-2013, 03:03 PM

Re: .sm to .dwi converter

discovered a bug thanks to tosh

"—" in filenames will cause the converter to crash on certain language locales. i suspect there are more characters that will cause this behavior. i will look for a solution later.

**Choofers** · 08-5-2013, 12:21 AM

Re: .sm to .dwi converter

I can't think of why that would cause a crash... is that a standard ascii character?

**Fission** · 08-5-2013, 12:38 AM

Re: .sm to .dwi converter

you raise a good point. it is a standard ascii character, so i'm confused as to why it's even an issue if that's the case.

maybe all of the appropriate windows updates aren't applied? not sure right now. will think on it some more.

**Choofers** · 08-5-2013, 03:57 PM

Re: .sm to .dwi converter

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII

tosh, try converting an sm file with any character above 127 on this table

ASCII table - Table of ASCII codes, characters and symbols

http://www.ascii-code.com/

A complete list of all ASCII codes, characters, symbols and signs included in the 7-bit ASCII table and the extended ASCII table according to the Windows-1252 character set, which is a superset of ISO 8859-1 in terms of printable characters.

**tosh** · 08-9-2013, 01:20 AM

Re: .sm to .dwi converter

Originally posted by Choofers

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII

tosh, try converting an sm file with any character above 127 on this table
http://www.ascii-code.com/

Just noticed this.

I've only tried a few, but most of them didn't work. Some of the ones that worked were �, �, and �. I'm running on a Japanese locale, so I'm kinda surprised � didn't work.

**Fission** · 08-9-2013, 10:06 AM

Re: .sm to .dwi converter

i am not 100% certain, but i think i discovered the cause of this.

lua doesn't support UTF by default. on a japanese locale, for instance, the characters you are having trouble with aren't in the ascii set of characters, so they need to use UTF. i found a fix for this, and will work on it tonight.

**rCaliberGX** · 08-19-2013, 09:17 PM

Re: .sm to .dwi converter

yeah sorry for putting it in the batch thread

so when i put it in the same folder and run, the converter opens and closes in an instant but there's no output.

edit: nvm i found why it didn't show. my sm installation is in program files, and output is in the compatibility files section. it has to be run in administrator mode for output to be in the song folder.

**Fission** · 08-19-2013, 09:20 PM

Re: .sm to .dwi converter

phew. glad you figured it out :D.

i'll add a note about that to the OP in case anybody else runs into that pitfall. thanks for discovering that. guess that's something else i should investigate; i don't think i'll be able to find a work-around for that though.

**Fission** · 08-26-2013, 11:03 AM

Re: .sm to .dwi converter

i'm planning on completely writing the entire script using the penlight lua libraries. in particular, most of the .sm file parsing will be done in the method described in http://stevedonovan.github.io/Penlig...guration_Files. i have spent a lot of time writing my own file parsing when most of the work was already done for me, so i'm just going to use it.

this is going to allow me to convert between .dwi and .sm formats a lot easier so i can write a converter that goes the other direction (.dwi -> .sm) and will allow the converter to be configurable with a configuration file.

also, i created a gist for this script that i'll update the op with when i'm at home so i can give real-time updates as to what i'm doing.

.sm to .dwi converter

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