Edit tk102 9/29/06: This application has been officially retired from service. Please refer instead to stoffe -mkb-'s TalkEd utility (
http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=152546)
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KotORTLK v2.3 (11/14/05)
http://www.starwarsknights.com/tools.php)
v2.3 - TLK->TXT and TXT->TLK functions added.
v2.2 - Added 'Add Entry' and 'Delete Entry' to the File menu. Added a label that shows the number of entries in the current TLK file.
v2.1 - Added better support for extended ASCII character set (0x7F through 0xFF). This allows characters such as й to be saved in the TLK file correctly (instead some weird 2-char sequence).
KotORTLK is a utility for browsing, searching, and editing the dialog.tlk file in KotOR.
Make a backup of your TLK file before you do any editing!
I also suggest using the Page Up and Page Down buttons for scrolling, cuz it's just easier.
Thanks! This tool will be very useful!
And good choice for the icon :cool: you scared me with this earlier today :D
Another very nice tool TK! Thanks! :D
Not sure if it's because of the patched Dialog.tlk file, but KotOR TLK won't save changes for TSL.
Yes, I'm clicking Apply and yes I get the prompt telling me that the app has finished saving my changes :)
Your just making tools like crazy tk! Nice work! I have a feeling I will be using this sooner or later.
EDIT: Heh heh oops didn't look on the time stamp... I'm just not having a good day:nut:. Anyways just ignore this post. Achilles has a problem he needs help with.
Originally posted by Shadow Blaze
Your just making tools like crazy tk! Nice work! I have a feeling I will be using this sooner or later. He released this five months ago (not to take away from his hard work).
I hope that Tk102 reads back far enough to see that someone posted a legitimate issue instead of seeing your post and assuming that someone bumped the thread for a +1 to their post count.
Hmm, works for me. Just remember to make sure you're opening and saving in the SWKOTOR2 directory, not the SWKOTOR directory (which is what the Open As... and Save As... dialogs will default to). [I should fix that. :p ]
Has it been 5 months?
Oh and if you happened to have overwritten your dialog.tlk for SWKOTOR by mistake, there's another copy here (
http://www.pcgamemods.com/6428/).
Yeah, I was doing that and it still wouldn't save changes. V.2.0 is the only one in existence, correct?
Originally posted by Achilles
Yeah, I was doing that and it still wouldn't save changes. V.2.0 is the only one in existence, correct?
v2.1.4 over at:
http://www.starwarsknights.com/tools.php)
Wrong tool (unless I'm missing something) :D
Thanks for the reply though.
Originally posted by Achilles
Wrong tool (unless I'm missing something) :D
Thanks for the reply though.
err... DOH! :headbump:
* double-checks the coffee pot and makes sure he's not using De-caf *
Sorry 'bout that.. I saw "tlk" and my mind jumped to "dialog" instead... :nut:
Originally posted by Achilles
Yeah, I was doing that and it still wouldn't save changes. V.2.0 is the only one in existence, correct? Yes it is. Very strange. What are you attempting to edit exactly? -- I'll try to replicate your situation.
I was trying to edit entries 75351-75355. I eventually just threw my hands up and used dlgeditor to change the specific dlg entries, but I have many similar changes to make and I'd rather edit one .tlk file than multiple .dlg files.
Still works for me... at least insofar as KotORTLK shows the changes when closed and re-opened. (Haven't tried to check in-game.)
:giveup:
Are you trying to add strange characters?
No just text. Would copy/paste from Notepad cause the changes not to take hold? They appear to take before I save, however when I reopen the app, the old entries are still there (again, I am clicking apply after each change).
Good question. Have you tried typing something directly to see if there's a difference? I would think Notepad would be fine to paste from (unlike Word), but maybe that's what's going on.
Doesn't appear to make a difference. Changes aren't saved regardless of copy/paste or keyed entry :(
Is the dialog.tlk file modification date/time changing?
Then double-check where you're saving the dialog.tlk file. (It defaults to SWKOTOR directory, not the SWKOTOR2 directory.)
I have been extremely careful about where I've been saving it to. :)
Try saving it with a different name then, like dialog2.tlk or something. It should save it for sure that way. Then later try renaming it back.
Yes it did work that time. When I went to rename dialog.tlk, I got a prompt asking me if I wanted to make changes to the read-only file. I wonder if something in KotORTLK is not overriding the file's read-only status?
Ah, that must be it. Hey thanks for going through all that with me. Now I know what I can do to improve KotORTLK. :p
Glad I could contribute. I was seriously starting to feel stupid for a while there :D
v2.1 - Added better support for extended ASCII character set (0x7F through 0xFF). This allows characters such as й and с to be saved in the TLK file correctly (instead some weird 2-char sequence).
This is the same fix that was made to DLGEditor v2.1.7. The target audience for this fix are non-English modders.
v2.2 released
Added Add Entry and Delete Entry to the File menu.
Added a label that shows the number of entries in the current TLK file.
Cool, thanks :) Now we have a complete .tlk editor for Kotor!
The menubar has disappeared.
:o I aplogize. :o
Version 2.2 re-uploaded.
This tool works perfectly, great thanks. :thumbsup:
Sorry to dig up an old thread, but the download link on starwarsknights seems to have disappeared? Did I miss something somewhere?
Sorry to dig up an old thread, but the download link on starwarsknights seems to have disappeared? Did I miss something somewhere?
http://www.starwarsknights.com/tools.php#de)
Look closely, the "Download Here" link is right under the black description :)
No matter what I do with KOTORTlk, I get a BadStrRef.
Example:
I tried turning the blank entry 42504 into "Hoth". Instead of listing "Hoth" in the planet select screen like it should, I get "Bad ".
What am I doing wrong?
I wanted to know if there is any way to extract the tlk file iunto a txt file so i can edit the file with a text editor and later reinsert the txt into the tlk file. Is it possible?
I wanted to know if there is any way to extract the tlk file iunto a txt file so i can edit the file with a text editor and later reinsert the txt into the tlk file. Is it possible?
I am not aware of such a feature in KotORTLK, but Kotor Tool has the ability to export a TLK file as XML, which you can open in any text editor. It does not yet import the files, however. If there is some actual demand for this, I can add it.
Well the thing was, I want to have all the entries of the tlk file in a txt file or similar so i can have several people working on them (we're working on a revising of the translation). And when its done be able to put them back again to the tlk file.