FMod - All the Sound

It has come to my attention that there is actually a demand for the ability to import and export all the Keen:Galaxy sounds, not just the music. In fact, the final episode of the unofficial TUIT trilogy has all-new AdLib sounds.

So, I made a good effort today to add that functionality to Abiathar. Now, Abiathar isn't intended (at this stage) to be an amazing sound editor; just dumping the sound files out and sucking them back is all I need to do. The UI is, therefore, simple. The Audio Files menu item is now a submenu with items of its own: Resources, Export, and Import. (Resources produces the Audio Files dialog.) Those new entries simply create the save-file and open-file dialogs, respectively. Those dialogs set the list file, which binds all the sound files together (holds references to their filenames and chunk IDs). The individual sound files are spewed out in the directory of the sound list file, which can be placed anywhere.

It works well: I successfully round-tripped the Keen 4 audio resources. All the metadata of the sounds (e.g. priority, OPL instrument settings) are stored in the list file on the line representing the appropriate sound. It turns out that this is not how KeenWave did it - KeenWave just takes the chunks and dumps them out without any processing, header and all. I will add a config option to produce this behavior, probably making it the default.

Since Abiathar's patch generator is becoming increasingly important, serious modders might start using it. Therefore, there should be a convenient way to add user-defined patches that Abiathar doesn't have to understand. For that, I created the Patches dialog, which presents a text box bound to a string array in the project file, integrated by the patch generator into the outputted patch file. There is a notice above the field informing the user the Abiathar handles the header/footer, map header, tileinfo, graphics files, audio files, and music mappings.