Note: DipChief is a useful software tool, but due to a lack of available time, it is no longer being maintained or supported by its author, Gary Pennington. A copy of the software is available here at The Pouch with Gary's permission. However, The Pouch is not maintaining or supporting the software either, so please don't email us with questions, problems, bug reports, etc. We are simply providing access to the software for people who are interested in using it.

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Links to sites that have additional DipChief maps can be found under the DipChief listing on the Diplomatic Pouch Mapping Software page.

Description

DipChief is a tool used to display the output of a Judge in a user friendly graphical format. The tool is implemented using the Win 32 API and the currently supported platforms are Windows 95 and Windows NT.

The tool supports the following list of features :

• Support for all diplomacy variants
• Display multiple games simultaneously
• Split view mode, text orders and maps can be viewed side by side
• Scrolling views with full access to the map
• Zooms map to fit available window space
• Print preview with zoom
• Color printing of positions
• Simple MAPI interface to automatically create an order template for mailing
• Accepts unaltered Judge results for processing
• Accepts Start, Move, Retreat and Build Data
• Hilights Dislodged units when appropriate
• Supports Windows 95/NT Long File Names
• Floating toolbar
• Windows 95/NT compliant help system
• InstallShield installation program
• Supports Windows 95/NT Long File Names
• Support for palette management
• Import results directly from the Clipboard
• Option to display country ownership on units
• Option to display supply centre ownership

Important Note for release 1.3

Version 1.3 of DipChief adds a number of significant new features which mean that .dip files created with older versions of DipChief cannot be opened in this release. You will receive an "Unexpected File Format" error message if you do try to open them. I have included functionality in this release which means that this won't happen in any future releases, unfortunately I did not have the foresight to do this at the start of development. Still, better late than never!

The new functionality for supply centres is only supported if you are using an updated map. The new standard.map file which ships with 1.3.x contains the extra information. If you are using a variant map and cannot see supply centre information (ensure that menu option View->Supply Centres is checked) then you should contact the map creator and get an updated map. If your .map file does not include any lines beginning with SUPPLY then it is an old .map file.

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