WHAT the hell is going on?

[Bobingabout]

the main beaf with the compatibility isn't with removing obsolete features, its changing tags when replacing code(sometimes even when not replacing code, such as adding the UISettings header, when most people already added them to the top of [General] section, where they were easy to spot. and the needless change of the tag ShowThirdButton) when the old tags worked just fine, and woud have worked with the new code.

1 thing that has been bugging me that i want to ask about (because the documentation sux.):
what is [HotSpotX],[HotSpotY]? what do they do? why do they exist?

HotSpotX and HotSpotY can be "0", "12345", "54321".

yer, like that explains a lot... it doesn't say what they are there for, nor what they do. and it doesn't tell you what the numbers mean. Why only 0, 54321 and 12345? what difference does it make in each situation??

there is absolutly no explanation to why these values have been added, nor what they do, only that the section header has been changed (needlessly) and 2 values added to the end of each action.

[Rambling]ok, adding these 2 new values might justify changing the header to cause IEs on everyones new superweapons to force modders to look back at the code. however, if CnCVK made the default for these missing values 0, (or better yet 12345 if you read what i typed further down), and kept the header name as it was before, then some superweapons(such as Type=Fire) would have still worked in RPCE, maintaining atleast some compatibility(well, it would have if he didn't also change the AITargetingType to zero based instead of 1 based. IMO its too late to change it back now, atleast for CE revisions)[/Rambling]

however, going by the differences between RP versions, i am GUESSING that it has something to do with curser animation (although, how the word hotspot relates to animation is beyond me), where 0= no animation, 12345= forward animation and 54321= backwards animation.

but what are X and Y? is 1 main curser, and the other minimap? is X what happens first, then Y what happens next? X could be normal, and Y when mouse pressed?

I'm GUESSING AGAIN that 12345,12345 means play forwards in an infinite loop, 12345,0 means play forwards once then stop, and 12345,54321 means play in ping pong style, forwards then backwards then forwards, ect.

the documentation explains nothing, this was all guessing (and i havn't tested it yet).

all it requires is an extra line or 2 in the help.