Sorry for the trouble everyone. I'll try to fix this as soon as possible.
I thought the problem arose from the way I was handling paths. In the first version I was mixing forward and backward slashes in the path names in some cases, so I changed it in order to use backward slashes only. It works fine on the two Windows 2000 machines I have tested it on, but I don't have any Windows XP/2003 installations, so I can't really test it there. Is everyone using Windows XP here?
I'll upload a new version later today which hopefully will give a better diagnostic of what is going wrong. It also fixes a few bugs I found today (race conditions due to the multithreaded nature of the app).
A couple of notes:
- You don't have to run the tool from the EQ2 directory. It should work fine from any directory you choose.
- I agree that a VPK extractor tool should open VPK files directly, but it doesn't at the moment
It will only open the VPK files that are referenced by the VPL file you choose.
- I'm afraid the non-user-friendly version wouldn't work either, because this is not a problem with the UI part of the app.