http://code.google.com/p/mlox/downloads/list
(Windows exe version is standalone, the Python version requires http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=OblivionUtilities.Detail&id=52560&id=44
(Note that if you have wxPython for Wrye Mash, it might not be the version mlox needs)
(Please download both the mlox application and mlox-data distribution archives from the download page)
(read all about mlox on the http://code.google.com/p/mlox/wiki/Mlox)

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/997293-relz-mlox-a-tool-for-anolyzing-and-sorting-your-load-order/

mlox is a tool for anolyzing and sorting your plugin load order.

It runs on a simple little rule-based engine with a small set of rules that specify the order, conflict and pre-requisite relationships between your plugins.

mlox tidbit: did you know that the "Morrowind Patch Project" (MPP) obsoletes at least 74 older plugins for various bugfixes? mlox knows, and it can tell you if you've loaded an obsolete plugin.

Features

* runs on Windows or Linux smile.gif
* optimally reorders your load order to avoid known problems, where "optimally" is relative to the quality and coverage of the rule-base. (Currently the rule-base still needs some work, of course, but it continues to improve, thanks to the help of others).
* warns about missing pre-requisites
* warns about plugin conflicts
* prints notes for things you might want to know about a mod, but were too lazy to read the Readme, or even find the info in some post somewhere in the Internets smile.gif
* user customizable via a rules file. Just create an mlox_user.txt in your mlox directory, and start adding your own rules.
* can also check someone else's load list from a file: "mlox.py -wf Morrowind.ini" (or just paste the list of plugins into the Active plugins pane of the GUI. mlox understands the format of the [Game Files] section of Morrowind.ini, as well as the output of Wrye Mash and Reorder Mods++)

Here are links to the current documentation (they're just text files):
http://code.google.com/p/mlox/source/browse/trunk/mlox/mlox_readme.txt - introduction, installation and usage
http://code.google.com/p/mlox/source/browse/trunk/mlox/mlox_rules_guide.txt - how to write rules for the rule-base, if you want to customize
http://code.google.com/p/mlox/source/browse/trunk/mlox/mlox_guts.txt - technical details, for the curious

If mlox appeals to you and if you can help contribute to the rule-base, please send your contributions to me, and I'll post a new rule-base as soon as I can.

There seems to be some issues with plugin names with the "?" character in. Running http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1083665-interior-lag-companion-lagctd-issue/page__view__findpost__p__15789533 plugin list through mlox. I received this error::o
That's a straight copy and paste from the forum post. Pasting into Notepad and then into mlox gives a stdout/stderror:The plugin is http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=7346.

Removing "GameFile8=?exa's Dwemer Alchemy V2 (EN).esm" from the plugin list means mlox processes the mod list fine.

I understand you're a bit tied up with things at the mo and might not have a chance to look at it in a while.

Yes, non-ascii characters still cause problems in some parts of mlox. It's on my todo list. Not sure when I'll be able to get to it. Apologies.

A couple of things about the rule-base...

First thing: It seems the MGE internal MWSE info is incorrect. My teleport mod has been tried with MGE 3.8 and it doesn't work, but rev-118 does. I'm not aware of any other versions having been tried though. See the thread http://www.fliggerty.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=2717&p=49472#p49472 (Fliggerty's).

One thing I'm pretty sure of is that the MWSE 0.9.4 functions weren't add all in one go - according to the docs the MGE internal version supported everything except strings, so string support must have been added in one of the more recent releases.

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About the specific rules for my teleport mod (seems my readme is still missing some important info - sorry!)...

These rules are *not* needed, in fact the order doesn't matter here:


Also - in case anyone notices this too and gets bothered by it - load order doesn't matter regarding my Comes-By-Road companion either.

Yes the scripts are "changed" - but they're present in the patch only so that I can stop them if they run, so the content (original or dummy) isn't important.


Just to be clear - the following one *is* correct, the order *does* matter with TU:


I missed that in the readme - again, sorry about that!

I just wanted to comment: this mod is six on wheels. Thank you so much!

Feature request: a button to click in the mlox user interface to update to the current mlox_base.txt.

I'd also like to comment on this mod. I'm not an expert on using mods and understanding why they need to be in certain orders, but this always does the trick for me. Great job.


Edit: I also think a button to update the text file would be a great idea.

It's a good idea, and it has been suggested in the past. I'll see what I can do, but I can't give a deadline yet (since I'm always wrong when I do ).

For some reason, my anti-virus program (Avast!) is declaring this to be harmful mal-ware and refuses to let me use the program. ?____?'

That's kind of weird. But not being a Windows user, I'm not sure what to do about it. Does it give any more detail or describe what it has found?

I'm assuming you're just having trouble with the standalone windows executable version, so you might be able to run the python script version if you get the proper prerequisites installed (Python and wxPython).

The malware name it gives me is Win32:Rootkit-gen [Rtk], a Rootkit malware. It is the standalone that is giving me this problem; it also prevents me from downloading the zip file as well. The python version didn't give me any errors, but my computer just doesn't want to run that version for some reason, despite Wrye Mash working just fine on it.

The Python version of mlox requires a slightly more recent version of wxPython than what Mash requires. This often seems to be the source of problems for most people trying to get it running.

Okey dokey, well, I looked into it a little and found a nice place called http://virusscan.jotti.org/ which runs 20 different virus scanners on uploaded files. The http://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanresult/6f24f3ed313e6149b7da478d8dcdd0786d8ed316 only shows 2 positive results out of all the scans. I'm thinking it's a false positive. Does that sound like a reasonable conclusion?

i have used your mlox and find it rather interesting though for my mod load i found a few errors well not errors but some mods not covered. i forgot to bring my list of mods with me but i will next time i'm online if you like and point out some of the changes i had to make to correct errors that weren't covered by it so you could further develop it. i must say it helps a bunch when running 100+ mods it's working it's way to being a must have if it hasn't already! also i use the windows standalone

Sure, it would be great if you could help contribute to the mlox database. We've tried to cover most of the more popular mods, but it takes work to teach mlox about all the mods out there, so any help is appreciated.

Taken from Morrowind Crafting 2.1 readme:



Taken from Resources Enhanced:



So it seems that these mods conflict as both of them attach a script to ore rocks (the simple mode Resources Enhanced talks about is simply activating the rocks, so the scripts are still there). There was nothing about this in mlox so I thought I should let you know.

Forgive me if this has been asked before, but I am having trouble getting mlox to recognize my morrowind.ini installed plugins. When I initially setup mlox, it pulled my correct installed plugins (only had about 10 plugins install at this point). I then followed a web-based install and installed around 40 more plugins. When I run mlox, it still has the initial list. I checked my Morrowind.ini and it has the other plugins listed in it.

I installed both the manual and the exe version of mlox and the problem persisted. Mlox is currently installed in a mlox folder located in the Morrowind directory. Any help as to what this issue might by would be appreciated.

Thanks,
YuMMz

If mlox found your original set of plugins, I wonder why it wouldn't find any subsequently installed plugins. It sounds like mlox is installed correctly.

Are you by any chance running Windows 7? I wonder if the compatibility stuff is confusing things.

You might search your filesystem to see if there is more than one "Data Files" directory or more than one Morrowind.ini.

It was Windows 7. I disable the User Account Control and when I ran mlox, it updated. UAC must have been denying access to the ini file.

Thanks for your quick reply.

Hi!

I'm using the Knights of Tamriel mod, and mlox warns me that



However, the line already reads



Is there something wrong or did I miss the necessary change?

I believe the "already reads" part looks unchanged, and still need to be changed like the advice says. Or was that a typo?

But the problem is that I couldn't understand what should I change

Should I add " ' " (as in george's) to the beginning and the end of " AddTopic, "divine items" "? So that the line exactly reads



I thought those 's were meant only to be quotation marks.

The single quotes are not part of the text, they are there to delimit the before and after text. I would change:
to .

That's something I added in and john.moonsugar's got it right. Maybe that text should be re-jigged to make it clearer...

OK, thank you guys. I will edit the line it as you describe.