nfo-modifier

nfo-modifier is a Java application that allows the modification of .nfo files (i.e. encoded in cp437 ) and provides several tools to ease the creation and manipulation of nfo.

You can have a look at the documentation : doc/index.html.

For the record I have nothing to do with the exemple.nfo file, I just picked it with google.

Usage

The source might not be stable, so I recommend to download a stable release here, then simply launch nfo-modifier.jar with a Java Runtime Environment > 1.7

If you prefer building from the sources, you will need to use ant.

$ ant run

Compiles the sources and run the application in graphical mode

$ ant jar

Creates a .jar of the application named build/nfo-modifier.jar, after that the rest of the folder can be deleted. All the necessery files are included in the jar archive.

$ ant -p

Displays all the available tasks.

$ ant help

Displays the help.

$ java -jar nfo-modifier.jar

Launch the application with an empty text area.

$ java -jar nfo-modifier.jar -f file.nfo

Launch the application and display the file : file.nfo.

Command line interface

I'm currently working on making available all the features via the command line interface.

The main purpose is to make something like that possible :

$ java -jar nfo-modifier.jar --no-gui --load-profile profiles.data --profile Wii --content content.txt --output-file coolNFO.nfo

And a short version with the same effect :

$ java -jar nfo-modifier.jar -ng -lp profiles.data -p Wii -c content.txt -o coolNFO.nfo

For now these are the supported argument :

--no-gui         : do not use the graphical user interface
--create-data    : create a new empty data profile file
--load-data      : load a previously created profiles data file
--list           : List all the profile stored in the loaded profiles data file
--profile        : specify the profile to use
--content        : specify the content of the nfo, it will be placed in the profile
--output-file    : output file to save the nfo, so cp437 coded, if not specified the standard output will be used, in utf8
--help           : just say you use the argument --help, will display actual help soon
--silent         : don't print any messages
--create-profile : create a new profile with 5 options, like --create-profile MyProfile header.txt border.txt body.txt footer.txt
--delete-profile : delete an existing profile

And the following arguments are going to be supported in the next updates :

--verbose

Features list

• Read and write nfo files,
• Create profiles to manage templates,

TODO list

• Sort of status bar with : current longest line, number of lines,
• Tools for text manipulation, move a text of a column towards the right/left,

Special Thanks

Thanks to tips4java for the text line number under a really permissive license.