TESVGecko

The original plugin utility for Oblivion is making a return! We will be porting TES4Gecko to Skyrim, giving it a new modern design that will make it easier to use.

Features

• Mod Merging - Merge multiple plugins into a new plugin and merge to master.
  
• Compare Plugins - Compare the contents of two or more plugins, displayed side-by-side in a tree view.
  
• Display Contents of a Single Plugin - Display the contents of a plugin in a tree view.
  
• Edit Author and Description - set or change the author and description of a plugin
  
• Convert to Master - Convert a plugin to a master file
  
• Convert to Plugin - Convert a master to a regular plugin
  
• Edit Master List - Edit the master list of a plugin.
  
• Mod Cleaning - Will be added if TES5Edit isn't available.

We're working on porting the most-used functions of TES4Gecko to the new version. I don't plan on porting the mod cleaning feature at this time because that will be available in TES5Edit, which I understand Elminster is currently working on. I will add it if TES5Edit isn't available by the time Gecko is done.

Requirements

Requires Microsoft .NET 4. The setup program will install it if you don't have it already.

Progress

Preview Version
We have just released a preview version. This version showcases the new interface and will display the contents of one or more plugins in a tabbed tree view and in a side-by-side tree view. There are no editing functions available yet. At this point we're just showing the new interface to gain feedback on the feel. We still have a lot of work to do on the display of plugins. We're working on fixing up the side-by-side view and filling in the record descriptions.

http://www.darkcreations.org/forums/files/file/247-tesvgecko/.

Follow the http://www.darkcreations.org/forums/topic/1536-wipz-tesvgecko/ on Dark Creations for regular progress updates. I will also update this thread with major progress updates.

The betas will be exclusively hosted on Dark Creations. The full release will be hosted on Dark Creations, TES Alliance and Skyrim Nexus.

Credits

Credit goes to the original Gecko team of dev_akm (Aubrey K McAuley), ScripterRon (Ron Hoffman), KomodoDave (N David Brown) and Steve Carrow. Without the original Gecko to work from, I wouldn't know where to begin!
Thanks to my hubby who's helping me code up the new interface in C#.
Thanks Amadaun for Kinky-Tail the Winged Gecko!
Thanks to sandor for getting in touch with Steve Carrow and getting the source code for the most recent version for me. Having all the latest fixes really helps.

We've just released an early preview which means that it has no editing capabilities yet. You can open multiple plugins and view their contents. You can switch from a tabbed view to a side-by-side tree view. The side-by-side view allows you to compare plugins, but the side-by-side view isn't working very well yet. The synchronization isn't working as well as we'd like and the scroll bars aren't cooperating. But you can scroll through the whole tree view and when you expand a record, the corresponding record will expand in the other plugins.

Basic Usage

Open one or more plugins. Hold down the CTRL key to select multiple plugins at once. They will be loaded in the tabbed view. Click on the Side-by-side view icon to switch to the Side-by-Side view. Now you can select On Expansion or On Selection. On Expansion will expand the corresponding record in the other plugins. It might take a click or two to get the expansion working. We would like to have the scroll bars on each individual tree - that's something we're working on.

On Selection will expand the corresponding record and select it. The difference is that On Expansion will expand the top level records, whereas On Selection will match on sub-records.

Why are we Releasing this now?

Just to give you an idea of what it's going to look like. The ribbon bar will be expanded with the various functions you can perform. You will be able to save a plugin with the current name or use save as to save it under a new name. We're just looking for feedback on the feel at this point. I've also heard from a lot of people that would simply like to view the contents of a plugin and to compare plugins, so hopefully you'll find this useful. Unfortunately we need to fix up the record display so that it's easier to read. I'll be working on that over the next few days, but we've broken the side-by-side view again so we won't be able to provide an update until we get that fixed.

We plan to release updates as frequently as we can. Each update will fix various issues and add new functionality. Please let us know what you think in this thread or in the release thread on Dark Creations.

Finally
A good and usable tool for modding, thank you Andalay!

>>> Mod Merging - Merge multiple plugins into a new plugin and merge to master>


That would make it worth it all by itself. Actually, I'd love a simple program that does only that.

Thank you.

Huzzah, Thanks for the hard work Andalay