X-Wing Mission Reporter Utility

About

For those of us playing LucasArts' X-Wing game in an on-line community setting such as the Rebel Squadrons, narrative mission reports are a requirement. Some solitary players like to keep track of mission results and statistics for posterity. In either case, the X-Wing Mission Reporter (XMR) automates the process of generating mission reports for LucasArts' X-Wing game. It handles the statistics gathering and reporting process, and provides a rudimentary editor for composing mission narratives.  It supports multiple supplied and customizable scoring templates that allow the user to change the point values, and even the names of the different kinds of ships from the game.  It also supports emailing reports with the plt file attached through most MAPI compliant email programs.

Download

Okay, here are the different versions of the files that are available.

1. Full Installation:
   Includes the VB6 runtime libraries.
2. Medium Installation:
   No VB runtimes, just the program installation
3. Minimum Installation:
   This is just the program itself, no installation program at all.
   Use this only if you have a previous version installed on your system already.

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Version History

12/04/01 v2.0 Final

• "Import" button moved next to "Paste" button
• Added ability to send email through MAPI client.

10/11/01 v2.0 Release Candidate 2

• "Open"ing a plt file auto-generates a report.
• Opening multiple files fixed.
• Application logging turned off by default.

10/05/01 v2.0 Release Candidate 1

• Added external scoring table support
• Reworked report format

v1.0.0:

• Added multiple verbosity settings.
• Files now saved as plain text.
• Fixed formatting issues.

02/07/01 v0.9.12: Initial beta release.

Future Plans

At this point, most everything I've wanted to do with the reporter is done.  I have no desire to write a full-blown word processor or WYSIWYG HTML editor, and the editor is pretty functional as it is.  I'm always open to suggestions, though.

Last updated 12/04/01 Site contents Copyright © 1999-2001 Mel Grubb II