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Tue, 08 July 2003 08:35  |
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 Nexus One |
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Registered: December 2002
Location: Szczecin, Poland | |
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Greetings,
I am pleased to announce that my new brainchild has been just delivered and is ready for testing.
The program which you can download from autohost ftp server (ftp://library.southern.edu/starsreportsprocessor.zip) is a subject of further development and I need your help on testing it
No question asked yet, but here comes FAQ to Stars! Reports Processor (S!RP) v. 0.9 beta:
What the program can be used for:
- Visualizing fleets reports (F##, no FLE please!) from allies along with your own fleet report,
- Checking possibility of fleet movement (own and foreign) at selected warp speed,
- Drawing possible fleet routes (past and future),
- Showing ranges of scanners of particular fleet or planet (also calculates ranges),
- Calculating distance between fleets and planets,
What the program does not:
- Pretend to be another Notebook clone - it is mainly for fleet visualization and reports it feeds on are fleet report(s) and universe definition (MAP files). No planetary report (Pxx , either PLE) is needed for updating, but limitation are obvious: planetary scanners range are drawn in neutral (white) color as the program cannot simply distinguish to whom they belong,
- Pretend to be another StarsCalc - OK you can find some calculations (e.g. compound scanners range) which are in StarCalc - I was just tempted to check if I get same results  . But unlike in StarsCalc (v 3.0.6) you can find Tachyon Detector clocking reduction calculation.
- Pretend to be nice-looking - I do not care about esthetic aspects too much I admit.
Planned development and enhancements:
Next version should be fitted with:
- Possibility to get fleet particulars (like in fleet report i.e. number of bombers utilities, warships, etc) by clicking fleet symbol on the map
- Race fleet statistics: like overall number of bombers, scouts, etc per race
- Recently used MAP files list,
- Own and ally fleets routes drawing (now only foreign fleet routes are drawn);
- A sort of help file,
- Possibly, optional adding an own planetary report (Pxx) to provide color scanner range circles, all-race-scanners-on function, etc.
- Maybe graphic icons instead of dull 'Off' and 'On' buttons - if somebody is willing voluntarily to create such icons and they are nice, can count on his/her name put in credits,
- Any new interesting ideas which are always welcome 
Known limitations:
- Program may have a problem to properly process fleets which names contain '#' and '*' symbols.
- Try to avoid naming ship designs or fleets containing these symbols. Of course, Stars! uses "#" for auto-naming fleet to distinguish its ID, but this is natural. Program will have no problem with names like "Scout #20" or even "#Scout# #20", but may give improper respond when fleet is renamed for "#Scout#??".
- '*" symbol should be avoid to use at the end of design or fleet name (like "Freighter - take pop*") - S!RP uses "*" to mark fleets retrieved from ally's reports and put it exactly at the end of fleet name,
- S!RP presumes that first report is own report while next reports comes from allies. No harm will be done if reports are loaded in different order or if only ally's report or reports are loaded, but in such cases you may get confused by terminology used in the program and in some cases same fleets may be entered more then once. S!RP provides a sort of automation (autoloading) to enforce a "proper" order of reports loading,
- Program may give confusing results if there are fleets of the very same name, try to avoid it (in Stars!)- use number for example: "Scout go W 1", Scout go W 2",
- FLE files are not accepted, if your Stars! creates FLE reports you can add the following line to stars.ini in Windows folder, under [MISC] section:
NewReports=1
hmm... I am tempted to add a procedure to S!RP for automating this process... maybe in v.2.0
- Min. recommended resolution is 1024x768, the program itself will work normally in lower resolutions, but worki
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Check out my new program S!RP (test version)!
ftp://library.southern.edu/starsreportsprocessor.zip
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