Jelly+OAW+Essentials




 * From Mr Jelly.**

= OAW Essentials! =

Files and folders

 * Essential files that should be in you EAW folder:**
 * 1) "OAWSelectV200OR1.exe" or a recent version of the OAWSelector (The program itself).
 * 2) "background" (a picture OAW uses for display)
 * 3) "kc" (The keyboard control settings that modify the degree of difficulty)

OAW also uses the "OAW" folder, and the EAW "Music" folder and "Savedata" folders, so these folders should all be in the EAW folder.


 * Essential files that should be in you OAW folder:**
 * 1) "oaw.ini" (a list of the folder "letters" used by OAW and the type of files that the folders should contain.
 * 2) "Linkscreen" (Another graphic that OAW uses)
 * 3) "Newpic" (Yet another graphic that OAW uses)
 * 4) "Links.txt" (A text file used by OAW to access links on the net)
 * 5) "Helpfile.txt" (which is basically redundant, but is referred to in links.txt).


 * Essential OAW folders that should be in you OAW folder:**
 * 1) "Autoscripts" (Where you store combinations that you have set up and really like).
 * 2) "Skinfolder" (Where all the A-00 xxxx to A-29 yyyy folders go, each containing an individual aircraft skin).

> Running eaw patched to V1.2 for a single mission will force EAW to generate an "eaw.ini" file and a "Savedata" folder. When it first runs, OAW will make back-up copies of the "eaw.ini" and "eaw.exe" files, and stores these copies in the "OAW" folder so that they can be recovered if they need to be.
 * Why you need to run EAW before installing OAW:**

> During the development of OAW it was suggested that a user might want to have more that one OAW folder, such as "OAW Europe", "OAW Pacific", and "OAW Desert". So I produced a version which accommodated this request. > This created a need for the selector to know which OAW folder it is currently working with. This is why when you first run OAW you are required to set the path to the OAW and EAW directories. These paths must be set correctly, it is done with a few easy mouse-clicks. They are saved in a file named "LastOAWDir" which is stored in your EAW directory. Next time you run OAW it will use the path that have been saved, so you should not need to reset it, especially if you only run the one OAW directory. Currently my LastOAWDir file reads as "c:\EAW\OAW". > If something goes wrong, and the path cannot be found, then if you delete the "LastOAWDir" file, and the next time OAW runs you will be required to set the paths again. > There has always been a need for OAW to keep track of what it has actually loaded. So, from the very first version onwards, a "FoldersLoaded.txt" file is saved in the OAW directory which tells OAW which folders have been loaded.
 * Files that OAW actually creates:**

> When you select "T-Euro Summer", OAW reads the files in the "T-Euro Summer" folder in your OAW directory, and makes a copy of every file in that folder. The copies are made in the EAW folder. > When you run EAW it uses these terrain files in preferece to the default ones stored in the "Terrain.cdf" file. The fact that this folder has been loaded is recorded in "FoldersLoaded.txt". > If you wish to switch to "T-Pacific" at a later stage, OAW will check and find that "T-Euro Summer" is currently loaded, so it reads the name of each file in the "T-Euro Summer" folder, and deletes any file with the same name that it finds in the EAW directory. So it deletes the copies it made in the first place. Then in the same way it copied the files in "T-Euro Summer" to the EAW directory, it now copies the files in "T-Pacific" to the EAW directory, and records that "T-Pacific" is now loaded.
 * How OAW manages files- just a simple outline:**