What is it about: since I was willing to exercise my elementary Java skills a bit further, I decided to start a small project and make a new, Java-based, implementation of RPLInfo. While the relevance of coding yet another replay checker is debatable (especially a console based one, as learning how to design decent user interfaces is not on my short-term plans...), what I am really interested in is to use my implementation as back-end for batch file processing, thus creating helper functions useful to competition managers and replay archive organizers. For instance, the first utility I'm working on is a .HIG generator: the program parses the .RPL files, sorts them according to replay times and then print the data into binary .HIG format, using the file name for the pipsqueak name field. I think that would be a cool addition in future replay packs, as well as helping to keep record of race results for the posterity. Other possibilities that can be envisioned include an offline management system for competitions without php sites, which would get aptly-named replay files from a new replays folder, do the proper validity checks (track, car, lap completion), add the new laps to the scoreboard (eventually replacing older laps from the same pipsqueak) and print the updated scoreboard to a .txt . If you can think of other useful stuff that could be added, please do make the suggestions!
I will publish a preliminary version of the code for you to test as soon as it gets a bit more clean and usable.
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