Release [Explorer's Application] Captain's Log

Arnoldo

A
Dear Cmdr Lots O'Patience,

I've installed v.latest and find that it takes an age to load the star info, build stats etc after the damn quick initial sys info load.

I'd like to revert back to v.previous but the Thargoids have eaten my copy of the installer (or I've deleted it). Do you have a link for me to pick up 1.3 please?

Thanks in advance,
Cmdr A

Ps: current DB is about 14500 systems which is why load takes so long
 

Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
Arnoldo said:
Dear Cmdr Lots O'Patience,

I've installed v.latest and find that it takes an age to load the star info, build stats etc after the damn quick initial sys info load.

I'd like to revert back to v.previous but the Thargoids have eaten my copy of the installer (or I've deleted it). Do you have a link for me to pick up 1.3 please?

Thanks in advance,
Cmdr A

Ps: current DB is about 14500 systems which is why load takes so long
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The point of changing the way CL loads the DB was to get it up and running much faster than it did before.

So 1st stage is load the date, time, system name, and notes - that's all text and it's nice and quick.

At this point, you should now be able to click on any jump and see your data for that.

Meanwhile, in a background process, it generates whatever stars you entered for that system.

After that's completed, it'll then build the statistics, again in another background thread.

I think that is a FAR superior way to load the DB's.

And lastly, 1.3.x will no longer work with E: D, as FDEV changed the netlog format for 2.1/1.6, which CL 1.3.x will no longer understand. :)

In short - I will be keeping the new method of loading the databases.

Also, 14500 systems!! I'm actually impressed CL works with that! B)

Regards
 

Pnyx

Pnyx
Trying to configure the program but it doesn't want to cooperate for me. It asks for the Logs folder, then it tells me that it's not the right one. I do use SYMLINKS, but that should be transparent to an application. Besides... why even give the option to SELECT if it'll refuse the user input?

ED Toolbox and ED Discovery see the Logs folder fine though. Just a heads up in case the author wants to take a look at it.
 
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Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
Pnyx said:
It doesn't want to cooperate for me. It asks for the Logs folder, then it tells me that it's not the right one. I do use SYMLINKS, but that should be transparent to an application. Besides... why even give the option to SELECT if it'll refuse the user input?

ED Toolbox and ED Discovery see the Logs folder fine though. Just a heads up in case the author wants to take a look at it.
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You're going to have to give me way more information than just "symlinks"

Regards
 

Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
Arnoldo said:
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...ICyrCkNUQkSPJtn5C0s2mA&bvm=bv.123325700,d.d2s
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Thanks for your input - I know what symlinks are - however, I need to know exactly how Pnyx has set up their folders, rather than just generic info on what symlinks are.

Captain's Log doesn't just accept any old directory - it verifies the directory by looking one level up and seeing if AppConfig.xml exists - that way, it knows that it's been given a Log folder belonging to ED.

If this is a symlinked folder - what might be happening is CL looks one level up, which will be outside the symlink, and voila there's no AppConfig.xml file there.

Do I really need to code for every single combination of weird setups out there which might amount to 0.00001% of the userbase? I don't think so :)


Regards
 

Pnyx

Pnyx
Genar-Hofoen said:
Thanks for your input - I know what symlinks are - however, I need to know exactly how Pnyx has set up their folders, rather than just generic info on what symlinks are.

Captain's Log doesn't just accept any old directory - it verifies the directory by looking one level up and seeing if AppConfig.xml exists - that way, it knows that it's been given a Log folder belonging to ED.

If this is a symlinked folder - what might be happening is CL looks one level up, which will be outside the symlink, and voila there's no AppConfig.xml file there.

Do I really need to code for every single combination of weird setups out there which might amount to 0.00001% of the userbase? I don't think so :)


Regards
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Ah, thanks for explaining your method. That's exactly what is happening. One level up and things go south. It does seem a little strange doing it that way though, instead of just looking in the ED folder directly. It would seem to me that checking the base folder for AppConfig.xml would be more efficient than trying to find it working backward from another folder, at the cost of a few more lines of code, and perhaps even more helpful to users who aren't that familiar with ED's directory stucture. Imagine letting computers do the work of humans!
Please don't take that as a critisism of your project, I can't even see it in operation because changing my whole directory stucture for the odd misbehaving program out there would be kinda pointless.
 
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Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
Pnyx said:
Ah, thanks for explaining your method. That's exactly what is happening. One level up and things go south. It does seem a little strange doing it that way though, instead of just looking in the ED folder directly. It would seem to me that checking the base folder for AppConfig.xml would be more efficient than trying to find it working backward from another folder, at the cost of a few more lines of code, and perhaps even more helpful to users who aren't that familiar with ED's directory stucture. Imagine letting computers do the work of humans!
Please don't take that as a critisism of your project, I can't even see it in operation because changing my whole directory stucture for the odd misbehaving program out there would be kinda pointless.
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Heheh...

I'm trying to think back why I did it like that, but the reason escapes me, although I'm pretty sure it was for a good reason.

I think you're right and I should change the method more towards what you suggest.

In the meantime - you might be able to fool CL into going forward by bunging a copy of AppConfig.xml in a directory above your symlink - might work.

Regards
 

Engadine

E
Hi All,

Have been meaning to ask for a while now to see if it's just on my PC...

When ever I load CL anything else running on my PC comes to a stand still for approximately 30 secs to 1 minute whilst CL loads and the Splash screen appears.

Does this happen to others as well?

PC Spec: -

i7 930 2.80GHz - Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R - Corsair XMS3 16GB
MSI GeForce GTX 970 - EVGA SupaNova G2 850W - F3 500GB
Samsung B2430H - Coolermaster CM-690 II - Windows 7 Pro (64bit)

Thanks & Regards
 

Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
Engadine said:
Hi All,

Have been meaning to ask for a while now to see if it's just on my PC...

When ever I load CL anything else running on my PC comes to a stand still for approximately 30 secs to 1 minute whilst CL loads and the Splash screen appears.

Does this happen to others as well?

PC Spec: -

i7 930 2.80GHz - Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R - Corsair XMS3 16GB
MSI GeForce GTX 970 - EVGA SupaNova G2 850W - F3 500GB
Samsung B2430H - Coolermaster CM-690 II - Windows 7 Pro (64bit)

Thanks & Regards
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Doesn't happen to me - and I test the CL builds rather than run from the raw source code :)

And my AMD Phenom II X4 PC is way lower spec than yours. ;)

Regards
 

foxpur

foxpur
Request:

When entering a bunch of same time objects could a array range be used? So say planet 3 has 6 rocky moons, can either use the prefix of 3 and entry field would be "a-e" and this would generate all 5 planets, or "3 a-e" would accomplish the same. Can also use for planets, was in one that had 7 icy and would be nice to just type "1-7". Would speed up entry and eliminate some data entry errors
 

Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
foxpur said:
Request:

When entering a bunch of same time objects could a array range be used? So say planet 3 has 6 rocky moons, can either use the prefix of 3 and entry field would be "a-e" and this would generate all 5 planets, or "3 a-e" would accomplish the same. Can also use for planets, was in one that had 7 icy and would be nice to just type "1-7". Would speed up entry and eliminate some data entry errors
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I'll see what I can do - nice idea!
 

Skyflyer

S
I just found a rocky planet that is terraformable but nothing happens when I click on the icon to add a Rocky (TC). It does not get added to my planet list nor does the statistics tab change. Is this a known bug or can it be something with my database that prevents me from adding Rocky (TC) planets?

I also have a separate issue: Sometimes when I jump to another system I get the OK and X buttons visible. It is the same buttons you get when you add a planet but I only get the buttons, not the full page where you enter the planet name etc.
See screenshot here:
IGpWhiG.png
 

Engadine

E
Skyflyer said:
I just found a rocky planet that is terraformable but nothing happens when I click on the icon to add a Rocky (TC). It does not get added to my planet list nor does the statistics tab change. Is this a known bug or can it be something with my database that prevents me from adding Rocky (TC) planets?
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Cant help you on your second problem/query but the first I did experience and somewhere in this thread I'm sure is how it was resolved. I'll see if I can dig it out.

Try this...

- Close CL
- Go to the CL database folder and delete the file called cl_values.db
- Start CL & the Planet Values DB should be recreated on Startup.

Regards
 
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Skyflyer

S
Engadine said:
Cant help you on your second problem/query but the first I did experience and somewhere in this thread I'm sure is how it was resolved. I'll see if I can dig it out.

Try this...

- Close CL
- Go to the CL database folder and delete the file called cl_values.db
- Start CL & the Planet Values DB should be recreated on Startup.

Regards
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Thanks! That fixed it for me.
 

Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
Skyflyer said:
I just found a rocky planet that is terraformable but nothing happens when I click on the icon to add a Rocky (TC). It does not get added to my planet list nor does the statistics tab change. Is this a known bug or can it be something with my database that prevents me from adding Rocky (TC) planets?

I also have a separate issue: Sometimes when I jump to another system I get the OK and X buttons visible. It is the same buttons you get when you add a planet but I only get the buttons, not the full page where you enter the planet name etc.
See screenshot here:
http://i.imgur.com/IGpWhiG.png
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Thanks Engadine for the first part - exactly the solution :)

The second part is a bug which I didn't get a chance to fix for the release 1.4.0 and will be zapped inan update.

Regards
 
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kjkb1980

kjkb1980
Help required: I am unable to maximise Captain's Log

Hello,
I've recently installed Captain's Log but I am unable to maximise the program full screen making it unusable.

I'm on Windows 10 with a 4K screen so I'm not sure if it's something to do with my display settings?

I have tried Googling a solution (as this isn't the only program that does this) and tried a few different things but to date haven't had any luck.

Any help/ guidance would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks Commanders,
CMDR kjkb1980.
 

Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
kjkb1980 said:
Hello,
I've recently installed Captain's Log but I am unable to maximise the program full screen making it unusable.

I'm on Windows 10 with a 4K screen so I'm not sure if it's something to do with my display settings?

I have tried Googling a solution (as this isn't the only program that does this) and tried a few different things but to date haven't had any luck.

Any help/ guidance would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks Commanders,
CMDR kjkb1980.
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Hi!

There is no re-sizeable window.

I'm poor and only have a standard display.

Regards
 
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