ConEditPlus

An attempt to recreate Deus Ex conversation editor (ConEdit/ConvEdit) in Delphi Language (Pascal).

ToDo list:

• Full support for dark mode/customizable colors
• Fix bugs and exceptions, write error handling for all possible cases
• ~AutoSave~
• ~Only unique event labels~
• ~Insert event~
• ~Cut/Copy/Paste~ ~events~/~conversations~ ~to~/~from clipboard~
• ~text wrap~ ~also make it dynamic~ ~for other events?~
• ~search functions~
• ~label checking~
• ~deletion of unused tables entries~
• ~Remove Speech Generator.~
• Implement ConversationPlayer.

Known bugs I have not fixed yet:

• ~Duplication of Choice leads to "sync" editing of both events. This is because the copy contains pointers to nested objects from an original event.~
• For unknown reason (at least at the moment), the original ConEdit refuses to load some files, saved or created in ConEditPlus. These files, however, do work just fine in-game, and can be decompiled with DEED. I suppose this due to some "unknown" fields in the .con files.

• Uses FreeEsVCLComponents: https://github.com/errorcalc/FreeEsVclComponents
• Uses Xml.VerySimple: https://github.com/Dennis1000/verysimplexml

Built with Delphi 11.3

Compatible with [Windows XP .. Windows 11]

Enhancements over OG ConEdit:

• Portable -- only single .exe file and all configuration data stored in .ini file. Does not uses System Registry. No more messing with .ocx files!
• Customizable -- you can use dark mode or/and change some colors.
• Supports scrolling with mouse wheel!
• Extended search. DblClick one of items in the list to jump to it.
• Label verification. DblClick on item to jump to event which refers to invalid label
• Tables. Added presets, and you can add own presets. Check the 'ActorsPawns_Custom.txt' file for details.
• Playing audio file now really works.
• Supports XML files generated by ConEditExport tool. You can load .XML and save as .CON and vice versa.
• AutoSave. From 1 to 20 minutes. Can be disabled if you don't need it.
• "AI Tools". A set of command to simplify creation of voiceover using AI, such as ElevenLabs.
• ...and other enhancements and improvements...

How to get the "play audio" function to work:

Open the program options and point to the path where your audio files are. For example, I'm working with the GameConversations package located in C:\Games\DeusEx_RTX\

So the correct path will look like C:\Games\DeusEx_RTX\GameConversations\Audio.