by Arcuate » November 20th, 2016, 5:54 am
As I understand it, to build a mod I need to put the class files and the buildfile together. If I have modified the mod using the standard interface, and save it as a vmod, I need to get the buildfile out of it if I want to do any more programming on the custom classes. Given that I am working on both the custom code and the mod together, I often need to combine the latest buidlfile with the latest Java classes.
It would be okay if I knew exactly what changes I needed to make to the mod in the standard mod editor, finished that entirely, and then worked on the code, but the two processes are concurrent. I am writing code and then testing it in the mod, and that testing makes it apparent that changes are needed in the mod. I change the mod, and that makes it apparent I need code changes. Going in either direction, I have to move a lot of files and do a lot of zipping or extracting.
I can probably configure Eclipse to write the class files into the correct building location, which should help, but there is no way that I know of to get Vassal to write the buildfile into the correct location.