Release Trade Computer Extension Mk.II

not sure if this is suppose to be,,,
but my summary tab is upside down ,,, compared to waypoints and credits
so i have to have it up top of screen , as when it opens it drops downwards , which is a bit of a pain
where creditrs and waypoints when open moves upwards


You can change the orientation by moving the summary panel to the bottom of your screen.
Open the panel, click and hold at the panel name and move it down till it touches the bottom of your display. Then close the panel and now it opens from the bottom up.
 
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Summary tab is behaving wonky in 1.0.1. I have it set to auto hide and when I bring up the UI, the top of the frame is sitting where it would be if I had the panel opened.

Additionally, view/scan prices isn't working for me. I click either button and nothing happens.

Also, when is EDMC run? EliteOCR is redundant as EDMC transmits commodity data, so I'm not seeing why it's still used.. unless it's for those random industrial stations that don't work with EDMC.
 
Summary tab is behaving wonky in 1.0.1. I have it set to auto hide and when I bring up the UI, the top of the frame is sitting where it would be if I had the panel opened.

Additionally, view/scan prices isn't working for me. I click either button and nothing happens.

Also, when is EDMC run? EliteOCR is redundant as EDMC transmits commodity data, so I'm not seeing why it's still used.. unless it's for those random industrial stations that don't work with EDMC.

Yes, it is reported earlier. Will be fixed with the next update.
You can open the commodities, when at a registered station.
EDMC is run in the back, when clicking onto the CONNECT button. This button appears, when you are at a registered station. When reaching a new station, please register it first.
EliteOCR is far from redundant, because EDMC can't provide sometimes the data for a station, the API could be offline or unreachable, etc. See it as a backup system.
 
Thanks for reporting,
is the error reproducable or it is gone with a restart of TCE?
A look into your database could be helpful too. Send it to eventure(at).ki.tng.de, if you like. Also the EDMC_data folder, if the error is reproducable.

It keeps happening after every few market saves, but I haven't been able to figure out what triggers it. When it happens, EDMC connect status gets stuck on "Storing" and many functions of the app remain disabled. At that point I have to kill the process by hand. When I start TCE again, I can't use the Connect feature until I dock at a new port and input a new market. (Before that, "Connect" doesn't appear after modifying any market data). I've started a new DB from scratch once but the error started occuring again. I've sent you my current DB by email.
 
Update (1.0.2) released:



Changelog:
- Replaced the filter button for notes with a text box to search through the stored notes at the Navigation panel.
- Changed the ship type name for Cobra Mk.III for EDMC imports.
- Changed planetary outpost padsize from medium to large.
- Fixed hotkeys not displayed/recognized correctly at the Configuration window of the launcher.
- Removed ALT+F4 hotkey.
- Removed the update of the Credit panel session display by using EDMC, so it is no longer reseted every use.
- Fixed an issue at the Credit and Summary panel not showing properly, if used by a hotkey or by hiding the UI.
- Fixed an error at the netlog reader in case of a different delimiter setting.
- Fixed an issue at all panels preventing cutoffs when using a low resolution.
- Fixed an error when a stored location is selected as your destination.
- Fixed an issue with the overall credit balance view at the Credit panel.
- Fixed an issue adding earned credit from activities not correctly stored.
- Fixed an issue that the panel buttons not highlighted, when using a hotkey at the Main panel.
- Fixed an issue not removing former waypoints, when the destination lies within the actual star system.
- Fixed an issue with the an empty search button at the Trade Overview panel.
- Fixed an issue with the search types buttons not clearing the result list at the Trade Overview panel.
- Added an info to the Scan/View Prices buttons, if no market is present.
- Fixed an issue by setting up the reference stars at the Star System Database panel.

Note:
Copy the content into your TCE folder to update your version.

Request:

Following ship types hangar pictures are missing currently:
Eagle Mk.II
Ocra
Imperial Courier
Vulture
Federal Gunship
Federal Assault Ship
Keelback
Imperial Cutter
Imperial Eagle

If you own one of these ship types, please make a hangar picture of it and send it to eventure(at)ki.tng.de to complete the picture list.
Thank you very much in advance.
 
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This is as high as I can get it, the blue MAIN UI Box appears which allows you to move it, but only as high as the blue box.
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I had the same problem as it won't let you drag it any higher.

If you have a SQL browser you can adjust it manually (as I did) by changing the 'Y' value of the 'Main' row in the Panel table to -12 and then restarting TCE. :)
 
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It keeps happening after every few market saves, but I haven't been able to figure out what triggers it. When it happens, EDMC connect status gets stuck on "Storing" and many functions of the app remain disabled. At that point I have to kill the process by hand. When I start TCE again, I can't use the Connect feature until I dock at a new port and input a new market. (Before that, "Connect" doesn't appear after modifying any market data). I've started a new DB from scratch once but the error started occuring again. I've sent you my current DB by email.

Please update to the lastest version and make a screenshot of the new error report. It will hold more info's about, whats wrong.

I had the same problem as it won't let you drag it any higher.

If you have a SQL browser you can adjust it manually (as I did) by changing the 'Y' value of the 'Main' row in the Panel table to -12 and then restarting TCE.
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Then you will not see/cutoff the active trade route information, but it is up to you.
 
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I had the same problem as it won't let you drag it any higher.

If you have a SQL browser you can adjust it manually (as I did) by changing the 'Y' value of the 'Main' row in the Panel table to -12 and then restarting TCE. :)

Thank you for that information, I will bare that in mind.
 
Please update to the lastest version and make a screenshot of the new error report. It will hold more info's about, whats wrong.



Then you will not see/cutoff the active trade route information, but it is up to you.

Eventure,
This might be a bit selfish of me asking and I apologize if it appears so, would this kind of work for you. Or something similar if you know what I'm trying to get at.

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Hi Eventure,

I have a question about the 'Trade Overview' panel. When I'm at a station, it shows that station (A) and the destination station (B) prices vs the galactic avg on the bottom right and left, respectively. At the top middle, it shows commodities I should take from A to B and what the profit would be.

But how do I know what I could bring back to A for the most profit? Do I have to go there, or is there another way?

May I suggest a 'swap' button that, within the 'Trade Overview' panel, swaps the current station with the destination station so i can see the updated info in the top middle? Or would it be easier to split the top middle into A to B and B to A? I would use this info to set up a route in the route planner.

I think I'm missing the easy way to do this without travelling to the other station, so I thought I'd ask.

Thanks,
Abil

P.S. FYI, I tried to figure this out with the route planner. I saw that after I added the first station A, the list of stations at the bottom is cut down to those stations buying/selling the commodities I had input for station A. This is smart for an A>B>A route, and I figured this was because "loop route" was ticked, but clicking on the 'loop route' doesn't do anything. Shouldn't deselecting 'loop route' allow you to pick any station in your db, say, if you want to go from A to B to C, then back to A without buying anything at C? Maybe the 'loop route' button isn't working (or I don't understand what it's for)?

edit* Dang it, the 'loop route' button is working fine. As the manual says, you have to select/deselect BEFORE you start adding stations. Sorry!

edit2* I am exploring the 'Route Planner' for the first time. WHHHHYYYYYYY is this the first time I'm exploring/using it. :( It is super useful.
 
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Incidentally, I am getting an error when trying to save a route that I put into the route planner. This is the first time I have tried to do so. The error says:

Error while inserting record on table RouteData: SQL logic error or missing database unrecognized token: ""@colBalance,@colProfit".

All I can do is click ok. It does seem to save the route though. When I restart TCE and open the route planner, the route is still there and shows up as the route name I put in when saving it.
 
Incidentally, I am getting an error when trying to save a route that I put into the route planner. This is the first time I have tried to do so. The error says:

Error while inserting record on table RouteData: SQL logic error or missing database unrecognized token: ""@colBalance,@colProfit".

All I can do is click ok. It does seem to save the route though. When I restart TCE and open the route planner, the route is still there and shows up as the route name I put in when saving it.

Found the issue, will be fixed with the next update tomorrow.
The file is saved, but is empty. Please note your route down, so you will be able to recreate it.
 
If you have a SQL browser you can adjust it manually (as I did) by changing the 'Y' value of the 'Main' row in the Panel table to -12 and then restarting TCE.
This has probably been answered before, but.. 100 pages.

What SQL is the DB? MySQL or SQLite?

I tried to do a SQLite comparison thingy to pull over the starter database things into the one I was building, but it didn't seem to work since the it still has zero registered markets, and then my personal log was reset to the starter one. I read about trying to use the attach feature of SQLite, but am too stupid to figure out how to run it, even with a GUI tool like DB Browser.

Any tools you could recommend?

Edit: Well, I said screw it and restarted over with a fresh install of the program with the 1.0.2 update.

Seems that despite the database that comes with the full installer being byte identical to the one that contains the starter database, it's actually lacking the information in the starter database. I don't understand how this is possible. Surely 150 rows of data would've increased the filesize?

The database I had was totally out of whack to the one that comes with the program & the starter DB. Listings for markets started at 10,000 instead of 1. Combining them basically doubled the data erroneously.

I gave up trying to do a full merge and used sqlite compare to copy over a few star systems that weren't in the DB (probably what I discovered), my personal data and my flight log. Seems to be working just fine now.

Understanding SQL databases is a nightmare. I could read coding languages better.

registered station.
Right, just skimmed through the manual to find out what this is.

I use EDMC out of convenience for updating prices with one click. I never used EliteOCR (knew about it a year ago) until I ran into a station I couldn't update with EMDC. I only learned to use it because it was Hutton.. and barely anybody goes there (for good reason). Data on EDDN was 36 days out of date and I didn't want to waste my trip.

Manually entering data to 'register' a station is not something I really want spend my time doing. This program seems to rely a lot on registered stations, as I couldn't seem to do much with any of the data I had.

I haven't really looked into things, so I have a question: Can't you just pull data from the EDDN to populate everything instead of having us fill all the information in? As of right now, I've switched from using Slopey's BPC tool to http://eddn.io due to SQLite freezing horribly when it gets to a large size (full db for BPC is around 350MB; freezes program for 10+ seconds when parsing). I thought TCE would be a better solution as it has a great UI and offered a lot of automated features.. but then seeing this registered market thing and not having a full EDDN database has kinda put me off from using it.

As of right now, I'm pretty clueless on what tool(s) everyone's using for trade routes and rares data and stuff. It seems like we need to use websites like eddn.io now for searching for trade routes.. but even then I don't see where rares are.

Overall, I'm still pretty confused with things.
 
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