Release [Explorer's Application] Captain's Log

Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
Juuruzu said:
I'm getting an Error 403 every time I access your site.
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Working 100% for me.

Where are you connecting from? (country)

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newman1702 said:
Great job on the new version, liking the new screenshots feature and overall it seems to work ok. My only nitpick would be to say that the new font used is a step back; while it might look a tad more "sci-fi", it's unsuitable for large lists and becomes fuzzy and less readable. In addition the wideness of the new font makes it problematic to see system and jump notes if more than a word or two have been entered. My one suggestion would be to revert to the old font (can we do this ourselves somehow?). Other than that, nice job!
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Cheers.

Might as well tell FDEV to stop using the fonts in the game then - they're the same fonts ;) (according to a forum article discussing the fonts here somewhere) :p

newman1702 said:
edit: also probably worth noting, revisiting a system with captain's log running will result in a duplicate on the list - not a bad feature, but it seems to add all the bodies to statistics (for example, find one ELW, revisit system, statistics now say you found 2 even though it's the same one). I also had an instance where restarting CL produced duplicates of the last two systems visited - is there any way to get rid of the duplicate entries on the list? Thank you in advance.
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If you visited Lave twice you'll see Lave on the jump table, as it's a time-based table which follows your every move of course.

I'll take a look at the counting of stats more than once as well - I thought I'd cured that (or a related bug) - seems I still have some naive code in there then.

Regards o7
 

newman1702

newman1702
Genar-Hofoen said:
Might as well tell FDEV to stop using the fonts in the game then - they're the same fonts ;) (according to a forum article discussing the fonts here somewhere) :p
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Sure, however - they use it in pure uppercase as far as I can recall (because quite frankly the font's readability is horrid in lower case) and they never need quite so much space / use tables that tight. At this point using jump and system notes features really needs to be very brief if you want them visible. The font is just too wide and not visible enough for this purpose. Then again I get a bit.. shall we say, retentive, on these subjects since typography was a big part of my education and a part of what I do :)

Anyway, it's not a huge deal, but your table readability did take a step back with this change.
 
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Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
newman1702 said:
Sure, however - they use it in pure uppercase as far as I can recall (because quite frankly the font's readability is horrid in lower case) and they never need quite so much space / use tables that tight. At this point using jump and system notes features really needs to be very brief if you want them visible. The font is just too wide and not visible enough for this purpose. Then again I get a bit.. shall we say, retentive, on these subjects since typography was a big part of my education and a part of what I do :)

Anyway, it's not a huge deal, but your table readability did take a step back with this change.
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Noted. I'll take a look at it with "fresh eyes". :)

Regards o7
 

T'Horup

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Really excited to start using Captain's log for my exploration trip!

However, I started my journey to NGC 6357 and beyond before I installed Captain's Log...

I have been trying to use the "Scan all netlogs and import..." to recreate my trip (i had verbose logging on already) but the import never goes beyond "Examining netlog 11 of 86". The app is not frozen, the main window works fine as does logging when Elite is running. The app uses 2-4% CPU time.

The 11th netlog is the first one where I had verbose logging on so it is 54kb compared to 2-3kb before verbose logging was turned on. If i delete that file then the import stops at the next netlog file.

What am I doing wrong?

Oh, and the fonts seem to be to big for the text to fit in some of the buttons and text boxes, is this just for me?
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Hope someone can help, I 'm probably being a dummy somehow!


Regards and o7 CMDR T'Horup
 

Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
T'Horup said:
Really excited to start using Captain's log for my exploration trip!

However, I started my journey to NGC 6357 and beyond before I installed Captain's Log...

I have been trying to use the "Scan all netlogs and import..." to recreate my trip (i had verbose logging on already) but the import never goes beyond "Examining netlog 11 of 86". The app is not frozen, the main window works fine as does logging when Elite is running. The app uses 2-4% CPU time.

The 11th netlog is the first one where I had verbose logging on so it is 54kb compared to 2-3kb before verbose logging was turned on. If i delete that file then the import stops at the next netlog file.

What am I doing wrong?
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(I'd typed out a nice long reply earlier - but lost it when the forum went into maintenance mode :( )

You're not doing anything wrong - my program might be though. I haven't touched/looked at that code since last year, when it was working fine.

It could be that I've done things to the surrounding code which is breaking that older import code. I will have to comb through it again to see what's going on. In the meantime I think you'll just have to not import anything and just use CL as-is. If I make any required fix to the code it'll be released in some new version, so keep tabs on new releases and keep an eye on the changelogs to see if I mention anything about the netlog scanner/importer.

T'Horup said:
Oh, and the fonts seem to be to big for the text to fit in some of the buttons and text boxes, is this just for me?

Hope someone can help, I 'm probably being a dummy somehow!


Regards and o7 CMDR T'Horup
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Unfortunately, the GUI toolkit I'm using (Qt4) isn't very helpful when it comes to font scaling. Qt5 seems to eb better, but for the time being I'm stuck with using Qt4 until another layer in between that and the Python language I'm programming CL in, gets fully ported to Qt5.

You could try altering your DPI or font size settings in Windows (Windows 10 seems limited in this respect), but I don't know if it'll be effective in solving that problem.

What screen resolution are you using?
Also which graphics card?
And WIndows version might be helpful.

Regards o7
 

T'Horup

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Genar-Hofoen said:
(I'd typed out a nice long reply earlier - but lost it when the forum went into maintenance mode :( )

You're not doing anything wrong - my program might be though. I haven't touched/looked at that code since last year, when it was working fine.

It could be that I've done things to the surrounding code which is breaking that older import code. I will have to comb through it again to see what's going on. In the meantime I think you'll just have to not import anything and just use CL as-is. If I make any required fix to the code it'll be released in some new version, so keep tabs on new releases and keep an eye on the changelogs to see if I mention anything about the netlog scanner/importer.
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I appreciate your reply, long or short... :)

I will keep tabs on your changelog, I could not find anyone else mentioning having problems, so I was assuming that I was an operator fault. :)

Unfortunately, the GUI toolkit I'm using (Qt4) isn't very helpful when it comes to font scaling. Qt5 seems to eb better, but for the time being I'm stuck with using Qt4 until another layer in between that and the Python language I'm programming CL in, gets fully ported to Qt5.

You could try altering your DPI or font size settings in Windows (Windows 10 seems limited in this respect), but I don't know if it'll be effective in solving that problem.

What screen resolution are you using?
Also which graphics card?
And WIndows version might be helpful.

Regards o7
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I run at 1920 x 1080 on an ASUS laptop with nVidia GTX 850M on Windows 10. Will jiggle the font scaling and see if it helps.

Thanks for you fast reply!

o7 T'Horup
 

Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
New version released : 1.3.1 – the “Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall” release

This is a BUGFIX release and incorporates the changes made in 1.3.0.

Changelog:

– BUGFIX : Make sure Bookmarks window can be viewable when Captain’s Log is in Overlay mode.


– BUGFIX : Forget about making an AppConfigLocal.xml file, and just add the verbose logging option to the AppConfig.xml file instead. The whole function was complete rubbish and whoever coded it must have been high or drunk – or both – and they should never touch a keyboard ever again ;)


– BUGFIX : Revert the jump, planet tables etc. to use Helvetica and reduce the font size a little bit.

Regards o7
 

newman1702

newman1702
Genar-Hofoen said:
This is a BUGFIX release and incorporates the changes made in 1.3.0.

Changelog:

– BUGFIX : Make sure Bookmarks window can be viewable when Captain’s Log is in Overlay mode.


– BUGFIX : Forget about making an AppConfigLocal.xml file, and just add the verbose logging option to the AppConfig.xml file instead. The whole function was complete rubbish and whoever coded it must have been high or drunk – or both – and they should never touch a keyboard ever again ;)


– BUGFIX : Revert the jump, planet tables etc. to use Helvetica and reduce the font size a little bit.

Regards o7
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Great, and thanks! Installed, running, loving it :) BTW is there any way to remove duplicate systems from an existing database? No big deal if not, just wondering if I'm either not seeing it or if there's some way to edit the database manually to get rid of the duplicate entries?
 

Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
newman1702 said:
Great, and thanks! Installed, running, loving it :) BTW is there any way to remove duplicate systems from an existing database? No big deal if not, just wondering if I'm either not seeing it or if there's some way to edit the database manually to get rid of the duplicate entries?
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I answered that last bit here : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=155545&p=3461577&viewfull=1#post3461577

Last paragraph in my reply :)

You've missed that bit I think ;)

Regards o7
 

Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
UPDATE : New version released : 1.3.2 – the “Still Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall” release

Changelog:


1.3.2 “Still Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall“


– BUGFIX : Fixed the broken Scan All Netlogs and Import to Database function

Regards o7
 

Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
Mungler said:
is there a risk associated with doing that for the currently selected/active database?
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It stands to reason that you would only rename said DB when the program that uses it is not running!

That goes for ANY program which loads a database file - not just Captain's Log - and I'm surprised this is not obvious! :)

Another tip - duplicate the DB file then rename the duplicate and load that one in. :)

Regards o7
 
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