Bringing the POX cross-platform

- or a few things on the extended RTTI and new inline variables presented in 10.3.

Having figured out the internals of the POX file format used in the game Siege of Avalon, and it's sibling from the modding community: Ashes of Avalon, Pillars of Avalon and Days of Ahoul to name the larger ones - enables to revise the tooling used for the engine - most of it closed source or requiring jumping through hoops while juggling.

So the first thing I brewed together is a POX file viewer/player with an export function. A preliminary test was done in the previous post, but I redid it using the FMX multi-device UI framework that comes with RAD Studio/Delphi/C++Builder - so that modders using for instance macOS, do not need to run in a virtual OS - and it all comes for "free" when using FMX.

The Game is On - in one line of code

- or how to play around with the Steam Web API and a honorable mentioning of a nice new game on Steam build using Delphi.

The title of this post could indicate that this is about the BBC series "Sherlock" - which I would highly recommend - but this is not what this is about.

Almost 4 years back I did a small client for myself that did consume various APIs to get a unified client and overview of the various games I had acquired over the years on various platforms like - Battle.net, Desura (now OnePlay it seems), Uplay, GOG, OriginEA, PSN and Steam - combined with data from TheGameDB and others.