My answers are interspersed below. Since your comments are focused on
relatively small details within the product, I'm going to assume you were
happy with the major changes in V1.1 and are just pointing out refinements
you'd like to see. If this is an invalid assumption, please let me know
otherwise. :-)
At 11:10 PM 3/5/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>1. I still want to see named output formats.
It's on the todo list. Unfortunately, we can't do EVERYTHING all at the
same time. I sure wish we could, but.... :-)
>2. Cardvault needs to remember what folder your decks are in by a game
>by game basis.
You can easily do this by specifying what folder to save the decks into. Or
am I not understanding you correctly?
>3. A nitpick issue, but when I was playing around with saving an
>inventory XML, it used the title of my current deck in the default
>name. Didn't seem to make much sense to me.
That sounds like an oops.
>4. I want like be be able to set Cardvault to use the target value for
>all versions of the same card
You can do this with batch editing. Select the "no constraints" values for
language and style.
Or do you have something else in mind?
>5. Don't know how exactly when card vault saves the inventory or if it
>periodicalyl checkpoints the data automatically, but I would like to
>be able to force a save.
CV saves the inventory IMMEDIATELY when you make a change. Well, actually
it saves changes the moment to leave a record to do something else (go to
another record, change the filter, etc.). So the worst case you'll run into
is that CV doesn't save the LAST change that you made.
CV automatically checkpoints the inventory data every time you load a game
system, maintaining a backup of the last two successfully loaded inventory
databases. Just in case you need to go back and restore.
>6. For selection required tags in a group, I would like an invert option.
It's in there. Click on the little triangle button next to "Required Tags".
Select "Exclude Selected Tags".
>7. The what's new list indicates the card view has arrows to navigate
>to next/previous card. Don't see 'em.
Currently, the arrows only allow you to cycle within the deck construction
lists - not the inventory - so they aren't visible within inventory. If you
want to see complete inventory data, you can use the Accessory Window for
showing card info. See the Settings menu.
We'll add this to the inventory window in the future.
>In any case, I would like to
>see two sets, one as it supposedly supposed to work, and another to
>cycle to different version of the current card.
I'll put this on the todo list.
>8. i would like to specify information to appear both in the grid and
>the card detail box.
Please explain. I think I understand what you're asking for, but I don't
want to make rash assumptions.
>9. I would like to specify an indepent sort order for data in the card
>view box in the inventory (since this one shows everything).
Do you mean "sort" order or do you mean sequence of fields? If the former,
I don't understand. If the latter, then I believe this uses the order
specified in the view (but I'm not sure of this). I'll add the latter to
the todo, since I'm pretty sure that's what you mean.
>10. It would be nice if the grids emphasized every three 3 lines in
>some fashion. Would help in reading data across a row.
Duly noted.
>11. Would like to see the documentation in a single PDF file.
Our plan is to get that put together as a separate download.
>12. This isn't a cardvault problem, but a plea to the various db
>authors. In situations where the are multiple versions of the same
>card, have an identification field that shows how to recognize which
>version (a quick description of card art, copyright date, etc.)
In defense of the data file authors, this information is unfortunately very
hard to come by. And I've yet to see this information available anywhere as
part of electronic versions of complete card information. Consequently,
getting this info into the data files will be a very time-intensive
process. As the data files become more mature, I expect you'll see this
info starting to appear. But my guess is that this info is going to be one
of the last things you see appearing due to its nature. The authors are
going to focus first on adding the most information to the files as
possible in the shortest timeframe.
Thanks, Rob
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Rob Bowes (rob@wolflair.com) (559) 658-6995
Lone Wolf Development
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