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Para Handy · May 16, 2018

There seems to be some issue with displaying EDSM info on the scan page. The EDSM info is not shown even with the EDSM Icon active. So maybe a bug in 10.0.2? An issue with EDSM data transfer to EDDiscovery? Certainly the Show/Hide Body Info from EDSM is not working for me at the moment.

iain666 · May 16, 2018

EDSM is being a bit sluggish for me, it may be timing out. If it's not fixed itself when EDSM is more responsive let us know and I can have a look.

Para Handy · May 17, 2018

iain666 said:
EDSM is being a bit sluggish for me, it may be timing out. If it's not fixed itself when EDSM is more responsive let us know and I can have a look.

Ah that explains it - it is now working properly. Thanks

iain666 · May 17, 2018

Para Handy said:
Ah that explains it - it is now working properly. Thanks

We should probably think about making EDSM time outs more visible in some fashion rather than leaving it looking like things just aren't working... One for the to do list.

Drazkul · May 17, 2018

So this morning I've tried starting up ED Discovery and been getting this error

An unhandled fatal exception has occurred.

==== BEGIN ====
Newtonsoft.Json.JsonReaderException: Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: <. Path '', line 0, position 0.
at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonTextReader.ParseValue()
at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject.Load(JsonReader reader, JsonLoadSettings settings)
at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject.Parse(String json, JsonLoadSettings settings)
at EliteDangerousCore.EDSM.EDSMClass.GetComments(Action`1 logout) in C:\Code\EDDiscovery\EliteDangerous\EDSM\EDSMClass.cs:line 302
at EliteDangerousCore.EDSM.EDSMLogFetcher.FetcherThreadProc() in C:\Code\EDDiscovery\EliteDangerous\EDSM\EDSMLogFetcher.cs:line 94
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()
===== END =====

At first I thought it may be because I hadn't updated to the newer version but I'm getting it on the new version as well

CMDR Eryn Liamson · May 17, 2018

Drazkul said:
So this morning I've tried starting up ED Discovery and been getting this error

At first I thought it may be because I hadn't updated to the newer version but I'm getting it on the new version as well

I'm getting the same error. No problems yesterday.

Edit: looks like it faults when downloading new system information from EDSM. Maybe a bad entry there that EDD doesn't know how to handle?

Drazkul · May 17, 2018

Hmm just tried opening it again now and it seems to be working correctly - i'm assuming something with EDSM was causing it

Spike K · May 20, 2018

I have collected a few previous versions of your wonderful app in the last year.. will they still work?
The current version (since 10.x) has been slow .. and slows my running ED64.exe down to unplayable levels.
i quit eddiscovery when i want it to play smooth.

Not all of us have awesome sauce pc's.

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Spike.K

Edit_
Ver 9.1.7.0 on deck and running smooth.

iain666 · May 20, 2018

Old versions will keep running until FDev change the journals enough to break them. Over time your history may show more and more Unrecognised Journals in it...

I haven't noticed any difference in the impact on system performance between 9.1 and 10.1 - are you seeing it generally or only with particular controls open/options enabled?

Alkibiades · May 21, 2018

Please for the love of god remove the (FD)* before the system name. This field was the only one where you could copy the system name without any other hassle and now there is one too.

Para Handy · May 23, 2018

Alkibiades said:
Please for the love of god remove the (FD)* before the system name. This field was the only one where you could copy the system name without any other hassle and now there is one too.

Yeah - what is this (FD)* anyway - can it be removed please?

iain666 · May 23, 2018

Para Handy said:
Yeah - what is this (FD)* anyway - can it be removed please?

Now I've looked, it means you're the First Discoverer of the system as far as EDSM is concerned.

I'll have a fiddle and see if I can either show that differently or provide an alternative system-name-to-clipboard option that just works.

Baton · May 23, 2018

iain666 said:
Now I've looked, it means you're the First Discoverer of the system as far as EDSM is concerned.

I'll have a fiddle and see if I can either show that differently or provide an alternative system-name-to-clipboard option that just works.

You could use a colour for example? I am using this box to copy stuff and don't like the additional letters as well.

robbyp · May 23, 2018

I was asked to make the FD visible.. this was my quick fix
we can improve it in 10.1.

Para Handy · May 23, 2018

iain666 said:
Now I've looked, it means you're the First Discoverer of the system as far as EDSM is concerned.

.......

robbyp said:
I was asked to make the FD visible.. this was my quick fix
........

Now we know - that explains it. Ta.

VerticalBlank · May 24, 2018

A well-intentioned change but in hindsight a very bad decision from a design and UI point of view.

Compare with EDSM, which adds a gold star icon for its notion of first discoveries.

It's a pretty good design rule not to change text fields to denote attributes. Not ever. The text is the text. Other attributes belong in their own icons, adornments, etc.

robbyp · May 24, 2018

Thanks for you input.

Ill rework it somehow in 10.1.

Changing anything normally upsets one person or another. That's the nature of the game. Normally I handle this by making things configurable. This one I did not due to time limitations on the 10 release.

On the bright side, the source code is open source, anyone is welcome to recompile it, and remove the FD* bit (one line) in one file before I get to redo it

Raino · Jun 1, 2018

robbyp said:
Thanks for you input.

Ill rework it somehow in 10.1.

Changing anything normally upsets one person or another. That's the nature of the game. Normally I handle this by making things configurable. This one I did not due to time limitations on the 10 release.

On the bright side, the source code is open source, anyone is welcome to recompile it, and remove the FD* bit (one line) in one file before I get to redo it

moinsen guys

first a big thank you for your work here, its just great

i was reading the "Around the Galaxy in 7.553 days" from Cmdr Hanekura Sxxxxx and i wondered if i ever would remember his name, his travel, when meet him in space? --- and immediately doubted it

so what about a commanders note tab which pop up notes if you meet(scan) someone?

wouldnt

robbyp · Jun 2, 2018

The latest 10.0.x release addresses the first discovery issue

Imperios · Jun 4, 2018

Hi,

is there a way to use EDDiscovery with obsv1 addon (and/or manual actions) to let it write certain scan infos into a textfile and then find some program that could display this infos as a popup / overlay ?
Thought it would be great to get some infos like habitable zone, terraformable, volcanic features, etc. displayed without switching out of the game.