[WOTC] Biographies: Copy Load and Paste

Fed up with writing biographies in that little awkward box?
Want to use simple text editor functions like cut/copy/paste?
Well this is the mod for you …. almost!

This mod adds a few buttons to the biography input screen that allows you to load a biography from a config entry, copy the current text to the window clipboard or paste text in from the windows clipboard.

YES You did read that correctly, you can PASTE FROM WINDOWS into the biography with this mod. !!

Not quite keyboard shortcut cut/copy/paste in game, but you can write the biography entries in your text editor of choice (like Notepad++) and paste them to to the game.
It’s a few extra clicks, but writing biographies in an external program and pasting them in feels so much better in my opinion!

BEWARE – Paste From replaces the entire input box’s text !

The config method still exists from the v1 version, but in my opinion largely overshadowed by the v2 copy/paste buttons.
The config method should be easy to understand and I’ve included some examples. Please see the XComAutoBiography.ini config for more details.

Make sure you put entries in the config!!! … or you will have nothing to load when in game.
When in the game, just navigate to the characters biography input screen, if the mod detects a character with a matching name, click the button to load the bio. Easy right? Magic!

It also works from in the armoury OR in the character pool…

If the names don’t match the button will be greyed out and disabled. Check your entries!

It can’t export/save biographies from the game out to the config, it can only load. (so far)
You can now click the Copy To Clipboard button to copy the current input text to the windows clipboard.

BEWARE – Paste From replaces the entire input box’s text !

You still need to make sure you click accept. The final text in the box before clicking accept is what the game will use, meaning you could do final adjustments in-game if needed.

It still has the 3000 character max limit. 3000 is the max in-game dialog limit, but this tool allows you to effectively import any length bio you want, if importing text longer than the in-game cap, you will not be able to add text into the box via typing, but it will import ALL text correctly
Config Method formatting is still a little off, you need to use n for carriage returns and nn for line breaks.

If it is enabled, pressing the buttons loads the text from the config/clipboard, this may override any in-game last minute changes you have made.
To help avoid this I placed the buttons at the top of the box, away from the cancel/confirm buttons.

Make sure to backup your config file, if using that method!! In the event I need to update this mod, any updates will erase your config entries.
Take this as a warning, I will not be held accountable for "your update wiped my 300 entry lines of Bios" issues, because you failed to back up your config.

Many thanks to PowerGirl from ChristopherOdd‘s discord for helping with the BETA test 🙂
Thanks to the great people of the xcom2 modders and MEME discord for support!

~ Enjoy !! and please buy me a Cuppa Tea[www.buymeacoffee.com]