Dropbox support

[ShadowChemosh]

Originally Posted by Jamz

I have this vision of you going around with snips cutting everyone's ethernet cables, "NO DATA FOR YOU!".

LOL me and written words do not always get along.

[Krothos]

Would someone mind explaining to me (in layman's terms) how I would transfer a .por file from my computer to my iPad, without using Dropbox? May as well as get used to it now. I have a game tomorrow night where I'm playing 2 characters, and prefer to run one character on my PC and the other on my iPad.

[Farling]

Originally Posted by Krothos

Would someone mind explaining to me (in layman's terms) how I would transfer a .por file from my computer to my iPad, without using Dropbox? May as well as get used to it now. I have a game tomorrow night where I'm playing 2 characters, and prefer to run one character on my PC and the other on my iPad.

I'm fairly sure that you will be able to find the file in the Dropbox app, and then do the "share" thing to load it into HeroLab, just like you can send a file to many other apps.

However, the file will then be stored locally in HeroLab, and any changes you make will NOT be updated within the DropBox copy.

[Mathias]

Originally Posted by Krothos

Would someone mind explaining to me (in layman's terms) how I would transfer a .por file from my computer to my iPad, without using Dropbox? May as well as get used to it now. I have a game tomorrow night where I'm playing 2 characters, and prefer to run one character on my PC and the other on my iPad.

In the iPad, on the screen where you're selecting characters, choose "Get Help" at the bottom, and then choose "How to Use Hero Lab", and then #3: "How do I move characters to my iPad?"

[Krothos]

Originally Posted by Mathias

In the iPad, on the screen where you're selecting characters, choose "Get Help" at the bottom, and then choose "How to Use Hero Lab", and then #3: "How do I move characters to my iPad?"

Thanks!

[Mystic Lemur]

I don't suppose this can be worked around on the client side by just not updating Dropbox?

[Farling]

Originally Posted by Mystic Lemur

I don't suppose this can be worked around on the client side by just not updating Dropbox?

I think the problem is Dropbox dropping support for the API on their servers, not just the local app.

[Kizan]

I would very much like to see support for another file sharing system either LW run, publicly run or private server (I run). I have a whole group (8 people) that use iPads and the current Dropbox implementation is OK. The current approach doesn't let me share the Hero Lab folder nor does it support sub-folders at all. This is kinda clunky as I have to manually move the file around when we switch GMs.

But, as I said, it's way better than nothing. The iPads will become very, very hard to use without some type of easy sync to the outside world. How about TFTP/FTP/SFTP-Sync?

Kizan

[Krothos]

Google Drive support?

[Zan Thrax]

Originally Posted by Colen

This only affects Hero Lab for iPad, and the built-in Dropbox syncing for that app. Hero Lab doesn't directly talk to Dropbox in any other way - it won't affect sharing your characters between your laptop and desktop using Dropbox, or updates files hosted by dropbox, or anything like that. All that stuff is built in to the Dropbox client you have installed and won't change.

This change means that there will no longer be a "Files in Dropbox" section on the "Select Portfolio" screen on HL for iPad. That's all.

The first I knew of this was the mention in the last email. Losing dropbox support on the ipad is hugely damaging to the way I use Hero Lab. Ever since I first saw the dropbox feature on the ipad, I started saving everything to my dropbox on my desktop and more recently on my laptop as well so that I always have all my files, without worrying about which device I started them on or last modified them on. If I have to manually move portfolios on and off the ipad, I'll probably just stop using my ipad for hero lab at all, despite how much better the iPad UI is for playing at the table. (Actually, I don't even know how to move portfolios on and off the ipad manually. I know that apple won't just let me plug a usb cable into it and copy files directly.)

If using the newer Dropbox API isn't practical, is there any chance of having google drive support instead? Our group already uses drive to keep notes, share character art, and provide our portfolios to our GM, so it'd be a nice upgrade for us.

(Better yet, is there any chance that there might be an android version of Hero Lab with the ipad-style UI at some point? Hero Lab is the only reason that my ipad isn't sitting in a drawer gathering dust. Everything else that I use it for could be done better and easier on an android tablet on which file management is simple instead of locked away from the user.)