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(Message started by: gabriels on Jan 30^th, 2008, 7:04pm)

Title: Commenting out parts of a .txm file
Post by gabriels on Jan 30^th, 2008, 7:04pm

Hi,
I Hope I didn't post twice...had a problem in posting in General Midiox questions, so I tried again here....

i'd like to edit a .txm file (commenting out some entire lines and also inserting comments at the end of lines.
I think it works to use | (pipe) at the beginning of a line to make midiox ignore the line, though I do get an error message telling me that Midiox has a problem parsing the ASCII map. Though I get the error message, the txm file does load in successfully and the loaded file seems to be what I expect.

For comments, it seems I can just put in text at the end of the line, which Midiox ignores, presumably because it has read in the expected number of fields on a line and goes on to the next line.

Am I going to have any problems if I do this. I actually have a large number of .txm files I'd like to edit, and don't want to waste the time if this isn't acceptable practice.
Thanks,
Gabriel

Title: Re: Commenting out parts of a .txm file
Post by Peter L Jones on Jan 31^st, 2008, 3:59pm

If you look in the MIDI OX folder under Program Files, there's a folder called "Map" containing a file called "Example.txm". It appears that ";" is the intended line comment character.

Title: Re: Commenting out parts of a .txm file
Post by Jamie OConnell on Feb 1^st, 2008, 3:24pm

Yeah, use ';' to mark a comment line -- everything after that is ignored.