BioSearcher 1.69

Title   BioSearcher 1.69

Author   The Krit

Submitted / Updated   01-13-2012 / 01-14-2012

Category   Utility

Format   Exe File

Description

Search through the standard BioWare scripts in your NWN installation (or the scripts in a hak pak) with this utility. This is a modification of Lilac Soul's BioSearcher v2.0 to make the search aware of patch 1.69 scripts. 

 

The script editor in the Aurora Toolset does not allow you to search through default BioWare scripts unless you open them first. The same is true for scripts in hak paks. You can search through the module's scripts without opening them, but not other scripts. Hence the original motivation for this utility. 

 

Using the program is fairly straight-forward. Enter the text you want to search for, then hit "Search". Click a script name to display the script; right-click to copy script name(s) to the clipboard. The "find in script" button will go to the next occurrence of the current search phrase (which you can change from the one used to locate the script). There is a check box to indicate if you want to search a hak pak instead, but you will have to select a hak pak first. 

 

One change from Lilac Soul's functionality is that the scripts are now read-only. You can still save a script to a text file, but you cannot edit the script from within this version of BioSearcher. I think this reduces confusion (you never could save the changes back to where the script came from), and text editors -- some with syntax highlighting -- are fairly easy to come by. 

 

A few minor features: 

If the list of scripts has the keyboard focus, SHIFT-ENTER will display the script, but leave the keyboard focus in the list. When selecting a hak pak to search, you can select a module (or .erf) instead; searching a module will search the module and all its hak paks. If BioSearcher has trouble finding NWN, try running it from the directory where nwn.exe is located. 

 

The program is released under the GNU General Public License, which is included in the download section. The download section also includes the Lazarus (Pascal) source code for the program.