Viewing the contents of a CDP

[frogpipe]

Is there a way to see what's inside a CDP *without* installing it? Somewhat like viewing the contents of a ZIP or RAR file?

 

[GP30Fan]

Yes indeed there is... it's called CDP Browser2

I have no clue when or where I got it from and it has no 'About' file for info.
Under details in the .EXE file, there is nothing.

I did find some info on 'Google'. Just search for 'CDP Browser2'.

-AL

 

[JCitron]

Hi Ted,

There's a utility on source forge www.sourceforge.net called ScanCDP

http://sourceforge.net/projects/trainz-scancdp/?source=directory

This runs from a command prompt and lists the contents of a CDP file. You can't extract a single item from it though as the data extraction is still done through Content Manager, but at least you can view the contents.

If you want to save a listing, you could always pip the output from the screen to a text file using the > character after the file name and point that to a text file.

Like this:

scancdp THIS.CDP > Mylist.txt

John

 

[frogpipe]

Yes indeed there is... it's called CDP Browser2

I have no clue when or where I got it from and it has no 'About' file for info.
Under details in the .EXE file, there is nothing.

I did find some info on 'Google'. Just search for 'CDP Browser2'.

-AL

Found it over at TrainzProRoutes. http://www.trainzproroutes.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4192 (have to be a member of their forums to DL it)

Hi Ted,

There's a utility on source forge www.sourceforge.net called ScanCDP

http://sourceforge.net/projects/trainz-scancdp/?source=directory

This runs from a command prompt and lists the contents of a CDP file. You can't extract a single item from it though as the data extraction is still done through Content Manager, but at least you can view the contents.

If you want to save a listing, you could always pip the output from the screen to a text file using the > character after the file name and point that to a text file.

Like this:

scancdp THIS.CDP > Mylist.txt

John

Also good. Takes me back to my DOS days. scancdp THIS.CDP | more

 

[JCitron]

Ted,

You'll like this even better... The output is column delimited so you can import the .txt file perfectly into MS Excel or Open Office Calc. I just tried it and it works perfectly.

John

 

[shaneturner12]

Another option is actually part of PEV/andi06's AssetX tool, and that's the Archive Index program that's included. Whilst it states archives, it will read .cdp files.

Shane

 

[VinnyBarb]

That begs the question why one would want to do all the above when simply installing the CDP does just that. To examine what is in it.

My opinion.

VinnyBarb

 

[frogpipe]

Well, I don't want to install things I don't need, but the BIG reason is to check and verify what I've put in the various CDPs I've made a backups of my work.

As far as AssetX goes, I've never gotten it to work right for me (TS12) it's something related to it's handling of the game folders. I couldn't get it to work but once when I set the base folder of Traniz to "userdata" instead of userdata/editing which the directions tell you to do. Then it kept looking for things in userdata/bin that it obviously should have been looking at /bin for...

I gave up on it, hoping that a later beta would correct these issues.

 

[xcrossi]

Ive had it for years.

Ill send CDP Browser2v5 to U if you want

Gerry

 

[frogpipe]

Already got it from TPR (see post #4)