DOML to "Tabbed Text" converter

This utility is intended to generate a "tabbed text" file from the DOML file of your DoStudio project. The DOML file contains all the information about the buttons and backgrounds in your project including their size, position, and images used. Once created, the tabbed text file can be imported into a spread sheet application such as Microsoft Excel manifest of your project.

The primary purpose for this tool is to use DSA's Mosaic photoshop import tool as a means of slicing up all your elements when delivering assets to someone who will be hand coding BD-J. Usually an asset delivery for that scenario would contain all the cut up PNG files and a manifest of where on the screen each element goes so the programmer can stitch it all back together by hand.

If you have any questions or issues, please contact Scott.

Instructions:

  1. Prep your photoshop file for import to DoStudio (See DSA manual).
  2. Start a new DSA project. Import photoshop file with mosaic and then import into your new project
  3. Save.
  4. find your DSA porject on your hard drive, next to the project file is a folder named projectName.content --inside that folder is a files named DSAPane.doml
  5. Upload the DSAPane.doml file into this tool
  6. Save the resulting text file to your hard drive and import into Excel.
  7. Next to your DSA project file is also a folder named "images". provide this folder and the resulting Excel file to your BD-J programmer.
  8. note: in the output, if you see a file name preceded by '*****' that means that the image does not match the width or height of the other image states for that button and you may need to double check how it got sliced
  9. note: X and Y positions are relative to the position of their containing menu block. absX and absY should give you an absolute position given 0,0 in the top left.