SH2: conflict between Fletcher's Enhancement mod and Jiim's Revised Interface mod

[Smecty]

Hi all,

Need some advice from y'all concerning a conflict I've got adding a couple of SH2 mods: Fletcher's Enhancement mod v.2.3 <http://www.freewebs.com/navalsims/downloads.htm> and jiim's Revised Interface for SubSim's HiRes Pack mod v.1 <http://dod.xrea.jp/_silent/sh.htm>.

Both of these mods have a file, called "Tooltips.dsm" that gets place in the Sim/Dsf subdir. Unfortunately, they are not the same, and that great mod manager jsgme points that out if you try to use it to load both of these mods.

Here's what Fletcher's Tooltips.dsm looks like:

;;; TOOLTIPS.DSM

[TOOLTIPS]
Font = CIC
Timeout = 5000
TextColor = 255,0,0,255
BackgroundColor = 240,240,240,192
Delay = 750

And here is the Tooltips.dsm replacement file in jiim's Revised Interface:

;;; TOOLTIPS.DSM

[TOOLTIPS]
Font = CIC
Timeout = 5000
TextColor = 255,255,255,255
BackgroundColor = 0,0,0,192
Delay = 500

;[TOOLTIPS]
;Font = CIC
;Timeout = 5000
;TextColor = 255,0,0,255
;BackgroundColor = 240,240,240,192
;Delay = 750

It looks to me like the semicolons in front of the old Tooltips in jimm's version is commenting them out.

Question is - if you've followed all this so far :D - will jimm's version, intended for the "HiRes" 1024 subsim enhancement (which I've already loaded), ruin the effects of Fletcher's mod, since the latter won't be finding the correct TextColor, BackgroundColor and Delay values.

If the answer is "yes" then I'll just have to ditch Fletcher, as jiim's revised interface is really gorgeous.

Smecty

[Hitman]

I think the change just is cosmetic, modifying colours of the tooltips in the CIC.

IMO you should be safe keeping any of both, though probably Jiims interface should take precedence :up:

[Smecty]

I think the change just is cosmetic, modifying colours of the tooltips in the CIC.

IMO you should be safe keeping any of both, though probably Jiims interface should take precedence :up:

Thanks, Hitman, your observation turned out to be dead on. I overwrote Fletcher's Tooltips.dsm with the one that came in jiim's Revised Interface v.1 and it works perfectly! I now have a subsim that looks fabulous and runs great ... the subsim I was looking for to scratch that itch that started lo those many years ago with AoD. It's a shame that UbiSoft didn't do up this game plus Destroyer Command the way it should have been done ... that is the way it was enhanced by all the talented modders out there.

I'm now using Fletcher's Enhancement v.2.3, Vicker's Oil Slicks and Fireball Addon, Bergen Menus 1 & 2, the HiRes Ocean, U-Boat's wake and Jimm's Revised Interface v.1. To all of you gentlemen out there who have given of your time to make this game what it should have been all the long, from Smecty a b-i-g salute! :up: