PitBossInfo

a Win32 tool for Sid Meyers Civilization 4 BtS PitBoss server administrators and their players. Generates an overview of

• all the players
• their points
• whether they did their turn
• finishing time of the actual round.

Specs:

• written in pure c++, no .NET or any fancy libs needed
• (more or less) lightweight win32 console app (~200k)
• Unicode compatible (but PitBoss itself isn't...)
• using winapi functions to read out infos from PitBoss window (even if it's minimized)
• generates .html and .txt
• expandable by (hard coded) plug ins to write your own output
• supports multiple servers (using multiple instances, with command line switches)

(Required) Command line Switches:

• -p output path and file name, without extension
• -t refresh timer in sec
• -l language of PitBoss (NOT yet supported, please set PitBoss to default English; in CivilisationIV.ini set Language = 0)
• -n name of the game (exactly as displayed in the PitBoss window)

###example: *PitBossInfo.exe -p "D:/htdocs/game1" -t 15 -l en -n "MyFirstGame"* this creates the output in D:/htdocs named game1.html and game1.txt for the game named "MyFirstGame" (the title of the pitboss window is "MyFirstGame successfully saved")

Version / History / Features

###v1.1:

• (main) removed hard coded settings and replaced by command line arguments [rafik]

###RC4:

• (html) added sortable table header [rafik]
• (main) bugfixes: "*MOD*"-issue; "defeated, "-issue

###RC3:

• (html) stylesheet for html output [bdurrer]
• (html) automatic update of html page every 2 min [rafik]
• (html) w3c valid html + css

###RC2:

• (main) added simple html output [bdurrer+rafik]
• (main) added time stamp of last update of stats [bdurrer+rafik]

###RC1:

• (main) made all the internal things working [rafik]
• (main) fixed memory leaks
• (main) creates simple txt output [rafik]

Planned features

The following features are planned and could be added some when

• (main) xmpp output to webapp by [bdurrer] for (mobile) apps
• (apps) android and iphone apps (or maybe not)
• (main) log state changes by events and output them (status_change [login, logout, claim_ai, become_ai, defeated], points_change, name_change)