AvocaDOOM, a simple doom engine launcher

[Hydren]

Hey guys, I just finished a simple launcher for doom engines: AvocaDOOM!

I've created this little app because I wanted to run several different mods without messing up my folders: windows requires that all files be in the same folder so you can drag and drop them all together, and it's specially annoying on linux distributions if you don't have a file manager with drag-n-drop support.

Anyway, this is just a beta, so it may have some bugs - but it seems to be running seamlessly, so far. It supports "presets", which are nothing more than a bunch of wads grouped under a config to be launched together. You can also choose a neat pic for your preset.

You can set up the executable path of several engines and choose which one one to use in the main window. This app does nothing besides running the selected wads with the chosen engine.

You also can run a single wad directly - WITHOUT having to create a preset for it beforehand.

Cross platform - coded with Java.

Edit:
AvocaDOOM blog: http://avocadoom-launcher.blogspot.com.br/
Google Code project (svn and stuff): https://code.google.com/p/avocadoom/

[Ænima]

Sweet! I'll try it out.

[Eonfge]

He, sounds interesting. Zandronum would do wisely putting some extra effort into usability.

I was wondering though: I do not intend to run a program I find on a forum, uploaded and shared by a new user I have no previous knowledge from. Could you provide the source to prove that I'm not downloading a Stuxnet controller. You might even want to make it open source ;)

Edit:

Dumb, dumb me. Being curious, I downloaded it and saw it's in java with a GPL license, so forget my previous comment. I'll try it later, but it certainly seems promising.

[Hydren]

Now that you've said, I'll provide the source as soon as possible (I'm not home :I)

[one_Two]

Just tried and it and am quite impressed. A few small points I would say, offer different views for the wad/mod selection - like icons so they're easier to find. And maybe make the preset thing a bit more on the fly so it's quicker to start a game with a few mods, not sure if it's included but cl parameters would be good. Most of this can be done in IDE or whatnot but it's good to have a non online orientated way of doing it, thanks for making.

[someoneelse]

Unfortunately I get bugs everywhere. Menu only shows up as radio buttons (working as normal buttons though), settings won't save (acces denied, (I checked file attributes, it's writeable).
Pics:
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Oracle's Java 7 update 9 (build 1.7.0_09-b05), Windows 7

I would love it to work on my PC, it looks really sweet!

[Hydren]

Whoa, what the...
I'll take a look at it - I'm using Java 6, though - heard Java 7 is still quite buggy.
Are you sure you didn't delete the settings.ini file or the image folder? Forgot to extract the whole folder, perhaps?
You should extract all the files, not just the .jar executable.

[someoneelse]

Ha! That's weird... when I ran it using cmd, from it's folder, it worked. (all were extracted). It may be because default action for jars for me is winrar (because mods) and I run jars using rightclick -> open using. I'll just make a bat or a shortcut and it'll be fine.

[Ijon Tichy]

when I ran it using cmd

wait
then why aren't you just using the -file parameter for zandronum :V

[Hydren]

Here's the source code. It's an Eclipse project.

http://www.mediafire.com/?cvc4g360nc1g38g

It's kinda messy, though

Also updated the first post.

[Empyre]

Back in the DOS days, I used batch files to simplify launching doom2.exe. If you use cmd anyway, you might as well go that route. I can help you make a batch file to suit your needs.

[someoneelse]

Haha, I have IDE always opened anyway, I just want to check out EVERY engine, launcher, browser, everything :) I dream most of a launcher like ZDL, but with library of wads and setting things for each wad like:
gamemode type: (for example, "dm" "survival", "dm + duel")
preffered iWAD:
preffered engine:
required other wads:
description:

because I have more then 5GB wads and no idea which one to play in a long winter evening.

[DevilHunter]

I don't know whats up with this Program. It for some reason, will NOT detect doom2.wad but will Detect FreeDoom's Doom2.wad. Also, when I try to launch brutaldoom with this, it will not load the wads at all.. If anything, its a nice start, but needs alot of improvment.. The whole preset thing throws me off, not like the simple config files that you can whip up on zdl.

However, it runs like a charm on my WinXP Pro machine, with java ofc. (and trust me, it was hard getting java with a weak router signal)

[Hydren]

Damn, I forgot this detail, you can't detect doom2.wad probably because when the app is checking the file extension, it is case-sensitive, which is the default behavior on java. A quick turn is rename your doom2.WAD or DOOM2.WAD to doom2.WAD or DOOM2.wad. I'll fix this soon, it should be simple.

[DevilHunter]

Right, and well.. I have yet to even try this, as I had a busy week.. end? I dunno, lots of stuff in RL, but I will try it tonight, that if I can remember. My Computer keeps acting up now because my E Drive (portable) went wack.

[Hydren]

For everyone with the same issue as DevilHunter, I managed to fix the issue in my (very small) spare time.
And one_Two, the cl parameters you were talking about, you mean cl parameters per mod? Because it is possible to include some cl parameters when editing a engine, the same way as you would do with a windows shortcut. Just append the cl parameters in the executable path, ;) Not sure if it's a good way to do this when you need a lot of different combinations, though...

Updated the first post with new links.

[Cruduxy]

I like this launcher but will have to tweak a bit with it (thanks for source I can mod mine :P)

Offtopic : Why is the program using vectors instead of Collections.synchronizedList or other data structures am just curious :P

[Hydren]

I had to use vectors because the JList would only accept old vectors ([]) or Vectors. Anyway, it worked for me...

[DevilHunter]

Welp, thanks to that quick fix, It works. Only that, I'm so used to zdl, that I keep wanting to include doom2.wad into the list, only to see that the QueryIWad window still comes up heh. Anyhow, I like this... HOWEVER... There is a small bug.. It seems that the List of Pwads does not load in order, rather, the order is always random.

Thus, it makes it to where brutaldoom can't load, because of the order I use. So.. That is the only thing thats keeping me from using this. But hey its great I love it.

Have some free links lol

Avocadoom_v0931Beta.zip
Avocadoom_v093Beta.zip
Avocadoom_v0931Beta_Source.zip

[Hydren]

Hey guys, after a (very VERY) long time, I decided to create a google code project for avocadoom. Again, my spare time is still limited, but I'll try to improve it.

Here's the google code page:
https://code.google.com/p/avocadoom/

It's still new to me, all this SVN thing, though.