An easy way to view _resdesc_ files.
Download the latest released .zip archive
and extract it into a directory of your choice. Make sure telltale-resdesc-viewer.exe and ttarchext.exe are
present in the same directory!
To open a _resdesc_ file, open the application and go to file > open, then select the desired _resdesc_ file.
Alternatively, right click on an existing _resdesc_ file, Open with > Choose another app > More apps >
(Scroll to bottom) Look for another app on this PC, then choose telltale-resdesc-viewer.exe. This will automatically
open up the application with the contents of the chosen _resdesc_ file.
Another method of opening _resdesc_ files is to drag the file onto the telltale-resdesc-viewer.exe file directly,
which will open up the viewer with the contents of the dragged file.
Before building, Rust, the Tauri framework and NodeJS must be installed:
To get started, clone the repository (git clone https://github.com/Telltale-Modding-Group/Telltale-Resdesc-Viewer)
and navigate to the cloned directory in a terminal.
Next, run npm i to install JavaScript dependencies. Once this completes, run npm run tauri:build, which will generate
a binary in ./src-tauri/target/release.
Follow the previous steps for building from source to install dependencies and clone the repository. Rather than
running npm run tauri:build, instead run npm run tauri:dev, which will automatically open a window with hot-reload
functionality built-in (i.e. making any code changes in Rust / JavaScript will refresh the application).
The majority of the logic lives in src-tauri/src/main.rs, which initialises the application, loads any initial args,
and handles decryption of _resdesc_ files via ttarchext.exe.
The frontend code is native JavaScript without any UI frameworks (doing so would probably be overkill!). On load,
main.js will call out to the get_initial_contents command in Rust, which will display the contents of the initial
path given to the application if present.
The menubar > file > open logic is handled in Rust, which will prompt the user with a filepicker to choose a .lua file.
If the chosen file is decrypted successfully, Rust will emit the contents of the file to the 'content' channel, which
main.js listens to. When this happens, the frontend will be updated with the new contents.
Contributions are welcome! If you see a typo or see a better approach to the shoddy Rust, please make a pull request.