GUI control panel for building and editing Freelancer (2003) / Lizerium infocard DLL resources

CompilerInfocardsUI is a universal Windows GUI panel that I built for centralized work with Freelancer infocards:

• object names
• item descriptions
• text resources
• HTML representations of infocards
• game DLL libraries

In essence, this is a HUB interface on top of my internal utilities and build pipeline, allowing you to quickly open required files, edit them, and compile final DLLs using the external tool frc.exe.

While developing and maintaining content for Lizerium / Freelancer, I accumulated a large file structure with:

• hundreds of text card variations
• multiple versions of names and descriptions
• duplicated files across different folders
• multiple DLL targets for different game scenarios

Over time, manual work with this became inefficient.

So I created a dedicated control panel that:

• brings all entry points into a single place
• opens required files without manual searching
• allows fast compilation of specific DLLs
• removes chaos from the file structure

The application can execute build commands for various game libraries:

• SBM2
• RESOURCES
• NAMERESOURCES
• EQUIPRESOURCES
• OFFERBRIBERESOURCES

• SBM2
• MISCTEXT
• MISCTEXTINFO2
• EQUIPRESOURCES
• INFOCARDS

• SBM
• SBM3

• build all DLL libraries at once

The application allows you to:

• open source files of a specific DLL library
• open the DLL folder
• open the project in VS Code
• edit specific files
• run compilation for selected libraries
• execute full batch compilation
• log all actions directly in the application UI

• All logic is driven by the configuration file:
  configs.json

  Example:

  {
  	"SBM2_STRINGS": {
  		"ExePath": "frc.exe",
  		"Arguments": "SBM2\\STRINGS\\input.txt"
  	},
  	"VSCODE": {
  		"ExePath": "code",
  		"Arguments": "."
  	},
  	"RootDLLS": {
  		"ExePath": "explorer.exe",
  		"Arguments": "DLLS"
  	}
  }

* Configure your own paths to `frc.exe` (Adoxa) and generation files.

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## Thx

> Thanks for the source code which helped me understand the infocard system.

* [http://adoxa.altervista.org/freelancer/tools.html#frc](http://adoxa.altervista.org/freelancer/tools.html#frc) — Adoxa