MoonWell DBC Editor
A VS Code Custom Editor for World of Warcraft 3.3.5a WDBC files, targeting client
build 12340.
Features
- Opens
.dbcfiles as a paged table instead of loading the whole grid into the Webview. - Includes 246 build-specific schemas with named and typed columns.
- Edits signed/unsigned integers, floats, UTF-8 strings, arrays and localized strings.
- Supports add, duplicate and delete row operations.
- Integrates with VS Code undo/redo, Save, Save As, Revert and hot-exit backups.
- Rebuilds and deduplicates the WDBC string block when saving.
- Creates
<file>.dbc.bakbefore an in-place save by default. - Falls back to raw 32-bit columns when a schema is missing or its record size differs.
The editor intentionally supports WDBC only. Later DB2, WDB and cache formats are
outside the current build-12340 scope.
Development
cd vscode-dbc-editor
npm install
npm run check
Open this directory in VS Code and press F5 to launch an Extension Development Host.
Open any .dbc file there; the custom editor is registered as the default editor.
To produce an installable VSIX:
npm run package
code --install-extension .\moonwell-dbc-editor-0.1.0.vsix
Editing notes
- Click a row number to select it for duplicate/delete operations.
- Cell values can be edited inline. The lower text area is useful for long strings;
press
Ctrl+Enteror click Apply cell. - Search is performed on the ID plus ordinary,
enUS, andruRUstring columns. - An unknown or structurally different table opens in raw mode to avoid applying the wrong string offsets or field types.
- ID edits are rejected when they would create a duplicate key.
Schema provenance
The schema bundle is derived from WoWDBDefs under CC BY-SA 4.0. See
THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md and schemas/README.md.
WDBXEditor was used as a behavioral reference only. Its source and XML definitions are not redistributed here.