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Modcraft community launcher

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Steff:
We need a launcher for all modded servers. To easy switch and update patches.
It shouel have the following functions.

- Look good ;) Its the importanst thing...
- Manage many server. You should download a textfile from the server provider and put it into a folder of the launcher. There should be all needed data included like realmlist url, baord and register url, download path for patches. Also link to a description of the server would be nice. Just a smale html template the server provider msut provide on his server ;) Nice sentence.
- Update all this patches.
- If you select a server it should change the realmlist, move the old patches out and the needed from the selected server in and start the game.

Stani:
Can do this ... Open Source? Cross-platform?

Steff:
I also think that QT and c++ would be the best way.

stoneharry:
Schlumpf said you can make use of the Blizzard patcher simply be making a modification to the wow.exe to accept the custom patches being sent by the server. With some investigation, wouldn't this be a much better solution?

The following file gives some concept of the processes that are taken in sending a patch through WoW:

https://github.com/arcemu/arcemu/blob/m ... atcher.cpp

Steff:
But the blizzard one can´t handle many servers, switch them and move the files/realmlist around. So i think a own patcher that just use stormlib to add new files to the current patch MPQ whould be the best way.

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