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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: VPR, visual people randomizer!
« on: September 26, 2010, 11:59 PM »
Alright, version 2.0 is done!  (was going to say it was 1.1, but the save files are totally incompatible, so...)

Features:
     1. Scoring column enabled by checkbox
     2. Color saving
     3. Fixed the ugly save dialog (that was a bit of an oversight...  :-[)
     4. Double clicks now increment or decrement selections or score
     5. Load simple lists of names as just that - a list of names with no name for the list (defaulting to N/A for list name)

(left click to increment, right click to decrement, double-click on name or # of selections for selections, on the score to inc/dec selections)

With the new save files comes a few quirks in writing them, and because of those quirks for adding special data (color, name of the list) comes the ability to load lists of names.  Just open the example.vrs file in the zip for an example - it's self-explanatory through comments. 

One thing that was unintentional but could be a useful quirk with java graphics - if you write something like
Code: HTML [Select]
  1. <html><i>Italic</i><b> Bold <u>With</u></b><u> Underline</u></b></html>
it will show up as Italic Bold With Underline[/b].  So, names can include html markup.  It's a bit strange to think about, but it could come in useful. 

The html doesn't need to be well-formed. i.e.
Code: HTML [Select]
  1. <html><i>NAME
will still italicize the value NAME.

Apologies for the code boxes - couldn't make it ignore the html tags in the post, and using special variables (&lt;) doesn't seem to work

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: VPR, visual people randomizer!
« on: September 25, 2010, 01:25 AM »
A 3rd column should be fairly easy to do, I just forgot about it as I wrote the list.  For now, if you need to, you could clone the spinner by saving and loading it as a new one, then use the popup menu for scoring (in the cloned spinner).  I'll see if I can finish a third column along with double clicks and the better file loader tomorrow, then I'll work on the rest of the features.

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Post New Requests Here / First real release!!
« on: September 24, 2010, 11:55 PM »
   Alright, here's the first one I'd really call a release.  Saves/loads, has popup options to select/downselect names, add/delete, etc.  Colors are customizable, and the dialogs are calling the lists spinners now :P

You can also load lists of names, because the save files are really just lists of names.  There are a couple of quirks:
   A: The first line of the file is considered the name of the list.
   B: With all names of people, if there is an "===" after it, it expects a number after it with the number of selections.  So, don't use === in names.

   Unfortunately, the whole program is very list-name oriented - saving, color setting, and closing all need a name to be selected.  That's the price of not using a panel with tabs I guess.

A few things for the next version that I'll have:
   A: Move list/spinner to a new frame (helps with the name thing)
   B: Save colors.
   C: Clean up the file loader - right now it won't read lines with spaces after the ===
   D: Double-click to 'select' a name. (Increment the selections count)
   E: Even selections (don't select names until everyone has the same number of selections)
   F: Random selections
Bit of a long list, but most of these will take max 15 minutes, so I expect to have it done within a couple of days (bit busy for tomorrow...)

Let me know if there's anything else that you think it needs.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: VPR, visual people randomizer!
« on: September 20, 2010, 06:22 PM »
It's a good thing I read the DC newsletter when I did.  Apparently I wasn't being notified either, and it brought me back to the site...

Anyways, I'll see what I can do. Sound effects will certainly be a while, but I'll try to get that in eventually.

A couple of questions:  Are you looking for any specific actions available when you select a name?  (Edit the name, delete it, etc?)  Also, I need a bit of clarification on that extra column you want.

EDIT:  The original post referred to a NANY release.  Not actually going to do one though, so I had to edit.


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Forgot to put this in the other post...

Mouser, please let me know if I can use this as a NANY app :)  Would give me even more reasons to enjoy this little project!

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