The Sims 1 Html Webpages Files

francot514

francot514

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Im trying to figure out how The Sims 1 Html worked out, right now i will try to understand how the game generate the Html files, and how to parse Javascript code inside it, my main objective is be able to recreate this into TSO, so when you create character and house, a html webpage file is generated with all related info.

You can find files here if you want to check for it and help me completing this
http://simsvilleroleplay.bugs3.com/public_html/
 
-Html file format basics:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en">
Custom meta with HTTP data connection / cache?
Using iso-8859-1 charset.
<LINK REL=StyleSheet HREF='thesims.css' TYPE='text/css'>
Basic usage CSS style to decorate the page.

<script language='Javascript'>
Uses Javascript
 
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You could just hardcode most of the stuff and just put your data in the right places.
 
Uhm. Nope.
As you've probably noticed, all these generated websites look exactly the same. Obviously, because they're based on the same template. So, you could create your own template and every time you export something to html, fill it out with data with some dead-simple scripts.
 
pisarz1958 said:
Uhm. Nope.
As you've probably noticed, all these generated websites look exactly the same. Obviously, because they're based on the same template. So, you could create your own template and every time you export something to html, fill it out with data with some dead-simple scripts.
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Yes, thats the problem, which scripts are used, and how the game handle it, do you know something about generating premade html pages??
 
You basically don't need to care about anything else than generating html files. The easiest solution would be using custom tags and replacing them in your C# code.

This is going to be not-the-best-example-ever, but you might just understand what I mean.
So let's say you have a file called index.html and there is something like:
<html>
<h1>{{ FAMILY_NAME }}</h1>
<p>blah blah blah</p>
</html>

And you want to generate a HTML file with the family name which is in the game, for example. So what's stopping you from just loading the html file, replacing "{{ FAMILY_NAME }}" string with your variable and saving as a new one?
 
pisarz1958 said:
You basically don't need to care about anything else than generating html files. The easiest solution would be using custom tags and replacing them in your C# code.

This is going to be not-the-best-example-ever, but you might just understand what I mean.
So let's say you have a file called index.html and there is something like:
<html>
<h1>{{ FAMILY_NAME }}</h1>
<p>blah blah blah</p>
</html>

And you want to generate a HTML file with the family name which is in the game, for example. So what's stopping you from just loading the html file, replacing "{{ FAMILY_NAME }}" string with your variable and saving as a new one?
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Yes i get it, but not just about HTML, i will need to understand and parse Javascript to generate other functions inside pages.
 
Why? It's just a part of the template. Just make sure that data is in the right places, formatted in the right way.
 
pisarz1958 said:
Why? It's just a part of the template. Just make sure that data is in the right places, formatted in the right way.
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Yes, im trying to achieve it, using html tags in C# is not that easy, right now trying to modify person edit screen to allow export html files..
 
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