Resources for beginners II : Using dropbox and H2HH

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Ok,now that you are familiar with dropbox and with it's features let's go ahead with H2HH. H2HH is a pbem manager which will spare you the trouble of having to manually copy the incoming/outgoing turns.

You can grab it from here: (v 1.62)

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jvh9sx2zla2k0eq/S6LZaVAw_7

After you download and install it,the first thing you'll need to do is configure it.

First of all, set the dropbox root folder H2HH will use, from the File->Settings menu.



Next, we're going to setup the CMx2 installations H2H will keep track of. In the 'Your CM Installations tab' you should see listed all the released CMx2 games to date. If H2HH doesn't by default detect the right paths, you can manually do it by clicking on the name of the game and choosing Installs->Edit Installs from the menu.



In the resulting modal, you must let H2HH where the game can actually be found on the disk. The 'Installation Executable' is the path to the game's exe file. For example: c:\Games\CMBN\CM Normandy.exe . The 'Installation Root Directory' is NOT the path where the game is installed, but the path where the "Game Files" folder can be found. For CMFI and newer it's located in c:\Users\<Your Name>\Documents\Battlefront\Combat Mission\Red Thunder for example. For CMBN - the Games Files is in the folder where the game is installed.



If everything goes well,you should see listed the on going games. Right click on the name of a turn and choose 'Edit Game' from the popup menu.



Doing so will display a dialog box from where you'll be able to specify the dropbox shared folder where your opponent will copy the turns corresponding to that game. If there are any new turns for you,the files will be automatically be copied to your 'Incoming Email' folder.
Likewise,you can specify a second folder (optional) where your outgoing turns will be copied. If you don't specify the second folder the same dropbox folder is used for both incoming and outgoing turns.



Another feature you should be aware of is the ability to send messages to your opponent via h2hh. Be advised,this works only if your opponent uses dropbox and H2HH too!
Double click on a game in the list and send your message...