Damn, I cant stand html.

[jacmoe]

No, XML is better suited for this type of thing due to tags. The data is not a simple list of property name and property value.

You can have hierarchical ini-files:
http://ndevilla.free.fr/iniparser/ini2/html/index.html

But I would switch to a text protobuf file if that's possible. Is it?

Would be cool. The format is very similar to Ogre scripts.

But, then again: How hard would it be to use Ogres script parser for your own custom scripts?

[jacmoe]

After some quick Google-foo: Yes, I am certain that you can use textual protobufs for parsing.
But, beware: Textual protobufs are 500% slower than binary protobufs.
But a lot friendlier than XML.

[nullsquared]

No, XML is better suited for this type of thing due to tags. The data is not a simple list of property name and property value.

You can have hierarchical ini-files:
http://ndevilla.free.fr/iniparser/ini2/html/index.html

You still can't do things like lists, etc. that you can easily in XML.

[nullsquared]

After some quick Google-foo: Yes, I am certain that you can use textual protobufs for parsing.
But, beware: Textual protobufs are 500% slower than binary protobufs.
But a lot friendlier than XML.

Link? I know text protobufs are slower, it's kind of obvious. But I'm 99% sure you can't parse them, they're only for debug output.

Edit:
Actually, it does seem possible: http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuf ... ormat.html

[Kojack]

Coloured rectangle, you called?

Cool, now make one exactly 14 x 348 pixels.
(Over a background image with lines to indicate different grades too)

This is what my current one looks like:

[jacmoe]

Link? I know text protobufs are slower, it's kind of obvious. But I'm 99% sure you can't parse them, they're only for debug output.

Edit:
Actually, it does seem possible: http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuf ... ormat.html

That's pretty cool!
And, yeah: I meant memory usage, not speed. But that's kinda obvious too, isn't it?
Looks like I am going to say good-bye to my ini-files.