Community Event / Creation TDGUI: lightweight GUI for TradeDangerous

[dbeachy1]

That error indicates that TradeDangerous has never been run yet and so it has not created its databases yet -- that happens if you run TDGUI in a brand-new TradeDangerous folder before invoking any TradeDangerous commands first. The upcoming TDGUI patch release already has code to work around this by invoking TradeDangerous to auto-create its databases on first-time startup, but in the meantime the workaround is to either run a TradeDangerous command from the command line (so it auto-creates its initial databases) or just run this command once in the TradeDangerous folder:

buildcache -f -i

I plan to post the next TDGUI patch release shortly, which already has a fix for this. Stand by.

 

[dbeachy1]

OK, the new TDGUI patch release is up on my site's download page. Changes are:

Version 1.5.3, 10-Apr-2015  
  - Added Insurance, Max LS Distance, and LS Penalty options to 'Trade Route' and 'Trade To' tabs.
  - Added code to automatically invoke TD to create its database ("trade.py buildcache -f -i") if the database does not exist yet (i.e., on a brand-new install of TD).

 

[Pizz001]

cheers for the new release

 

[Bam]

Hi,
I found your TD Gui a couple of weeks ago, and its so much better than my batch file ;-)
Would it be possible to add a option to add the -MD flag for maximum price data age?

Thanks fo rthe work you have done on this, might get a few more people using TD ;-)

 

[dbeachy1]

Would it be possible to add a option to add the -MD flag for maximum price data age?

Sure, I'll add that to the next patch release.

 

[dbeachy1]

TDGUI 2.0.1 Released

Just a quick note to say that I've updated TDGUI to support Elite Dangerous: Horizons, and I just released version 2.0.1. Changes include:

• Added support for the latest Trade Dangerous version supporting Elite Dangerous: Horizons data, such as planetary bases and new items. Also shows some additional fields for each station and outpost.
• Added code to ignore duplicate (i.e., buggy) item names being imported from maddavo (fixed a crash on import).
• Updated 'Import Prices' functionality to invoke "trade.py import --plug=maddavo --opt=csvs -i" so it updates everything instead of just prices, which also makes it work on a clean install of the updated TradeDangerous.
• Changed default for Elite program directory to match a Steam Elite Dangerous: Horizons installation.
• Implemented new '--toward' switch support in the 'Trade To' tab (there is a new checkbox on that page).

Note that I've updated this version for the latest TradeDangerous Horizons version from this TradeDangerous fork, so that is the version I recommend for use with TDGUI. Installation instructions are included in the readme file in the TDGUI zip. You can download the new 2.0.1 version on the downloads page of my Web site.

Happy flying!