tws file format

[Keith Weatherby II]

Firstly am I allowed to read and use .tws files into my programs (assuming it's free, maybe this is alright as well?)  Also is there a document anywhere explaining the tws format?

I'm thinking maybe I could use twine to generate files for my framework, so I don't have to A) write my own tool, or B) generate scene files by hand (which is what I'm doing now).

It just occurred to me, that I could store anything I wanted into a passage, including commands for my framework.  (In the future I plan to have some sort of scripting for my framework).

So those are the questions, allowed to use tws file unconditionally and is there anything that describes the file format?

[Scott Beeh]

there are three file formats that Twine recognizes, .twee / .tws / .txt (this one is used only for importing into Twine)

tws is the GUI overlay for the command line that twee uses.

Here are some references sites that I have bookmarked.

Twine 1.3.5 Built-In Macros

Writing with Twee: Story Files

Writing With Twee: Writing Your Own Macros

L's blog | Glorious Trainwrecks

HOW TO MAKE GAMES WITH TWINE

You might find what you're looking for on one of these sites. 

[Keith Weatherby II]

Doesn't really help me much, but thanks any way.

[sylvain charzat]

If I'm not mistaken (it's been some time since I poked around Twine's source code) .tws files are python objects serialized using the standard python serialization protocol (pickle). The pickle format is described here: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0307/ and the python module that does the serializing/unserializing is described here: http://docs.python.org/2/library/pickle.html

You'll need to look at twine's source code to figure out exactly what gets serialized (most likely text box coordinates and content and some metadata), looking at a tws file might help too (it's plain text).

As to whether or not you're allowed to do so, I don't see why not.

Good luck!

2013/11/2 Keith Weatherby II <uhf...@gmail.com>

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