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Pokemon Decklist Completion Program

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I don't know if that is possible. I am pretty sure SteveP would need to collaborate with WPM or otherwise acquire the source code for Redshark to be able to convert to the .dek format. But indeed, a downloadable version would be lovely. I believe that is in the works right now anyway.
 
bonslypwns said:
Just thought i'd let you know, you don't have any wormadam from MD if you search in moderate speed one.
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To my knowledge, wormadam is not in MD. Are you looking for the POP Series one?

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EeveeLover said:
Will this link for the site automatically update the playable sets / formats? Or will it change as new stuff is released?
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I will do my best to update the sets for Modified. For example, I forgot about Victory Medal until someone reminded me. All the data for the sets and old-versions are contained in a single data file. Getting/updating that single data file is all that's needed. As long as I continue to host the software at the current location, I'll update the data. As other sites start to host, I'll make the data available to them. It will be up to them to update the files. Same goes for when the offline version becomes available. I'll provide the data file for download.

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Regarding exporting the decklist data from this program, I'm going to provide it in XML format. I'll let the authors of those other programs parse the XML into their respective formats if they wish.

I'm about half-way thru making a multiple-deck version. The first go-around will include very basic navigation of the deck lists, kind of like the [First] 1 2 3 4 [Last] navigation you see on Google/Yahoo when your search gets multiple-page hits. Maybe PokeGym will give me the code for their cool page navigation, that [Page X of Y < 1 2 3 4 v ] little box. :biggrin:

More to come...
 
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SteveP
That small box you speak of is a vBulletn coding.
Just make your own by using the source of this page for ideas or w/e.
 
The beta-test version of the next release is available at

www.nancyweb.com/pokemon-decklist/index.htm

I'll do some final testing over the next couple days before I release the final version.

This version supports multiple deck lists and viewing the deck list data in XML format (for export to other programs). Any single-deck html/data files saved in version 1.2 will be read by version 1.3, but not vise-versa.
 
How do you load the 1.2 lists into the 1.3? Cause when you open up the 1.2 they use the old engine still.
 
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How do you load the 1.2 lists into the 1.3? Cause when you open up the 1.2 they use the old engine still.
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Sorry about that. I'll fix that tonight when the new verion goes live. That's why they call this "beta-testing," so you guys can help me find the bugs.:redface::thumb:

UPDATE:

Try it now Ditto. Single-deck files saved in v1.2 should now open in v1.3. Although you can still use v1.2, once you save a single-deck file in that version, the next time you open it, it will open in v1.3. If you prefer to continue to use v1.2 instead, email me. I'll give you the "hack." Be warned though. I'm only going to offer support for v1.1 and the lastest version. v1.1 (no file-save feature) will always be available as a "lite" version of the software, and will be the "free" downloadable version. All latest versions will be primarily on the internet, though I might make a full-feature offline version if the demand is there.

I might wait another day before replacing v1.2 with v1.3 so I can do a bit more testing. Let me know if you find any bugs.

Thanks for your help testing. :)
 
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Sorry about that. I'll fix that tonight when the new verion goes live. That's why they call this "beta-testing," so you guys can help me find the bugs.:redface::thumb:
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That's cool. Just making sure I wasn't missing something. I could probably mess with the html to make it use the new version, but I wanted to see if I overlooked anything first.

Don't know how much harder this would be, but it would be nice to be able to "import" single decklists into an already made multi decklist page (so say I have 3 decks made in one 1.3 file and I just want to add another to the end from a 1.2 file).

Also, I don't know how you like doing the saving of data, but I know the Google Mashup Editor will let you create a feed based on the user that will always have their data in it. Don't know if that is in anyway helpful to this, but you might want to check it out.
 
Javascript is really lowsy at file system calls, so reading files and merging them into another file must be done manually. Those familiar with associative arrays in javascript could do it fairly easily. I thought about using XML, but once again, internet security issues stopped my. XML files must reside on the same server/computer as the HTML that calls it. In the offline version, I might try using XML to save/load the data.

The other possibility is to store the core code/data on a server, provide an HTML file that can run on home PCs/MACs that references the server code, but loads the XML data locally on the home computer. I'll try that.

Maybe if I find time, I'll do a JAVA version that can easily do all the file system access much easier, though that certainly wouldn't be anytime soon.

Anyway, version 1.3 beta that is available for testing looks pretty stable right now. I should have it fully tested by tomorrow night, at which time version 1.2 will disappear and be replaced by 1.3.

If anyone out there has any ideas about good ways to export to PDF or XDOC, please email me at [email protected] or PM me. I've not done that before, so anything would be helpful. My initial idea is to export the data to XML, then use VBA or some other scripting language to import the data and format the page.

Well, enough techie talk. Thanks for all your ideas. It's been fun doing this "little" project in my limited spare time. :O)
 
Great program thanks for making available for everyone :thumb:, but I have a question how can I save on a mac?
 
wac718 said:
Great program thanks for making available for everyone :thumb:, but I have a question how can I save on a mac?
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You should be able to. It works on Safari. I assume the mac has a basic text editor like Windows Notepad, right? Just cut-n-paste the html/data from the SAVE window into the mac text editor and save is as an html file (deleting the instructions of course). Then, open the html with Safari, or Firefox, or whatever browser you use on the mac.
 
Espeonchris14 said:
hey steve i like this. =] is pretty cool.
java and actionscript are always confusing to me =[
Gj tho.. did this take a while?
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yeah, a bit of spare time, quite a bit. Mostly testing now. I don't like bugs.

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I thought I could easily make single-deck files automatically importable into multi-deck files, but things didn't work out that way due to a minor bug in v1.2 that I fixed in v1.3.

If you have any single-deck files created from version v1.2 and want to read them in v1.3, you'll need to do the following: Open the file in a text editor (ie., Notepad), remove all text that says "images/cards/", then save the file.

I highly recommend you start using version 1.3 tonight when it becomes available. It's the more stable, bug-free version.

Sorry about this.

My next project will be to build the downloadable, offline, "lite" version.

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Version 1.3 has been tested (a bit) and is live. I've included some sample theme decks as well. See www.nancyweb.com/pokemon-decklist/index.htm

Anyone with v1.2 saved files, see above post.

No more enhancements for a few days. I'm going to let this version "stabilize" so the downloadable version will be solid (probably sometime next week or so).

Email or PM me if you uncover any bugs.

Enjoy.
 
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yeah, a bit of spare time, quite a bit. Mostly testing now. I don't like bugs.

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I thought I could easily make single-deck files automatically importable into multi-deck files, but things didn't work out that way due to a minor bug in v1.2 that I fixed in v1.3.

If you have any single-deck files created from version v1.2 and want to read them in v1.3, you'll need to do the following: Open the file in a text editor (ie., Notepad), remove all text that says "images/cards/", then save the file.

I highly recommend you start using version 1.3 tonight when it becomes available. It's the more stable, bug-free version.

Sorry about this.

My next project will be to build the downloadable, offline, "lite" version.

Back to back posts merged. The following information has been added:

UPDATE:

Version 1.3 has been tested (a bit) and is live. I've included some sample theme decks as well. See www.nancyweb.com/pokemon-decklist/index.htm

Anyone with v1.2 saved files, see above post.

No more enhancements for a few days. I'm going to let this version "stabilize" so the downloadable version will be solid (probably sometime next week or so).

Email or PM me if you uncover any bugs.

Enjoy.
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I'm glad that you are working to make this program better. I suggest putting in work now to make updating it when new sets come out easier. It's a great tool, and it needs to last over time.
 
I've uploaded an enhancement to decklist navigation. If you're editing and saving multiple decks, you can now jump directly to the deck you want, by deck name.

PokeGym has graciously accepted my request to have them host my program. I'm working with their admins to get that done, so stay tuned. I'll continue to keep the program on my wife's website for a while. Additionally, I'm working with one other website to host my program. Keep an eye out for that.

Finally, the downloadable, offline version will be available sometime this week. I'll provide that on my wife's website, including updates when new sets/cards are released. PokeGym will also host the download/updates for the offline version. The offline version will basically mimic the online version, minus some "bells and whistles" and online-unique items.

stay tuned...
 
This is a great system for writing up decklists, instead of having that last minute rush to write one down.
I do have one question though. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to load a file back into the decklist editor. In the decklist editor itself, my only options are: Clear All, Veiw Deck, Print Preveiw, Text Veiw, XML Veiw, Save, Help.

I have read all the way through the "Help" options many times, and can only decipher that Loading has something to do with Saving, but I cannot figure out what:tongue:

I hope to use this alot, and cannot wait for the planned improvements. Thanks in advance for your help.
 
shinygyarados said:
I do have one question though. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to load a file back into the decklist editor.
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Sorry about that. To reload a file you've saved, you have a couple options.

1) From your browser's own FILE menu, click on OPEN..., then browse to where you saved the file and open it. If you forget to include the .html file extension on the file you saved, you'll need to view ALL FILES instead of just HTML files while browsing for the saved file.

2) If you saved the decklist file with the .html file extension, you can just open a Windows Explorer window (right click on the START menu and click on EXPLORER), browse to the folder where you saved it, then double-click on the file.

This program was written in Javascript, which has really lowsy or non-existance file system support, thus the round-about way of saving and re-loading decklist files. Saving decklists was an after-thought to the original development of this program. Originally, the program was just developed to fill-out and print, which javascript/html support very well. It still does that, but some users wanted the ability to save, so I developed the work-around to accomodate.

I created this program with the idea in mind that most players don't want others knowing about their decks, so no files are saved on internet servers (which all support file system calls very nicely).

Also, if you use the SAVE/RELOAD feature, you'll definately need to do one or both of the following to make it work (until I provide the offline version in a few days):

1) add the host site of the program to your Trusted Sites list.
2) lower your internet security settings.

Personally, I like the first option best. PokeGym will be hosting soon, and they're pretty trustworthy. :biggrin:

Hope that helps...
 
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