Viewing the contents of a CDP

frogpipe

Yesterdayz Trainz Member
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?
 
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
 
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
 
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

:D
 
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. :D

John
 
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
 
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
 
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.
 
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