Cockswitch

A script to switch between different custom formats in Cockatrice on mac (and linux)

On windows, you can have a separate portable install of Cockatrice for each format. However, portable clients don't work on mac, since Cockatrice always reads from the same folder.

Installation

Just copy or link cockswitch to your $PATH.

If you are using Linux, go into the cockswitch script and comment out the Mac default location, and uncomment the Linux one. If on either OS you've put Cockatrice somewhere else, you'll also need to change the trice_path variable in the script.

Usage

Setup

For each format you want to setup, do the following:

Set Cockatrice up to have the settings you want for the format. Then run:

cockswitch -n FORMAT	# Creates a backup folder for the format
cockswitch -u FORMAT	# Copies the current card files to the folder
cockswitch -t FORMAT	# Copies the current settings files to the folder

Or you can do it all at once.

cockswitch -nut FORMAT

Now, whenever you want to play that format:

cockswitch FORMAT	# Overwrites the currently active files with the ones from the folder
cockatrice	# Or you can just open the Cockatrice app normally

(You could use the above two lines as a very tiny script to run cockswitch and cockatrice in a single command. I have these linked off my application menu for a seamless experience.)

The tool will set:

• -u: Cards, tokens, custom images, card image urls
• -t: Oracle download links, filters on a server, default game creation settings.

Note: The current version of cockswitch only fully supports Cockatrice 3.0 and above. In previous Cockatrice versions, the oracle download links were stored in global.ini instead of oracle.ini. However, everything else should still work.

Updating a format

Oracle

Oracle stores your most recent download url in oracle.ini, so if you stored the settings files correctly, all you have to do is switch over to the format and run Oracle; the correct download urls will already be filled in for you! Don't forget to cockswitch -u afterwards.

If you haven't set up things correctly, then you'll have to manually paste in the download urls when you run Oracle. You can cockswitch -t afterwards to save the settings files (which should contain the download url you just used).

Manual

If you're manually replacing the cards.xml and tokens.xml files inside your cockatrice folder, then you can keep doing that. Just remember to cockswitch -u afterwards.

Or, you can just go inside the formats folder and directly replace the relevant files. Files for each format are saved to formats/<FORMAT> inside the Cockatrice app support folder.

Local Custom Card Images

Cockswitch supports the switching of local custom card images, for formats that use local card images located in the pics/CUSTOM folder (instead of downloading images from an external source on-the-fly).

Create a folder named CUSTOM inside the format's folder (located in formats/<FORMAT> inside the Cockatrice app support folder), then put all card image folders that you would put inside Cockatrice's pics/CUSTOM folder inside that CUSTOM folder.

When you switch to that format, cockswitch will symlink all folders in formats/<FORMAT>/CUSTOM to Cockatrice's pics/CUSTOM. When you switch to another format, cockswitch will delete all those symlinks from pics/CUSTOM.