Feature requests (one tiny, one kinda big, one I don't know)

Hi all. I'd like to request three additions to Cardvault

1) pleasepleaseplease tweak the vertical slide bar a bit. Currently,
I grab the sidebar with my mouse, and drag it up or down, but the
distance from the sidebar I can do this is really small. I almost
need to draw a perfect vertical line to use it as finetuned as I
want. Can the tolerance for horizontal movement be increased a bit?

2) Can we have a tool to, when we make a deck with our own cards, and
the inventory the card comes from is not the most recent printing,
allow the program to output the card info for the latest version?
This would allow us with older versions to go to a tournament and use
the latest text in a rules dispute.

3) I'd like some search parameters in inventory that allow me to say
"show me all versions of all cards in Imperial Edition" (that is, if
a card that existed in IE was reprinted 3 times in other editions,
I'd like to see all 4 versions)

Thanks

Abilio

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[rob]

At 03:05 AM 4/2/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi all. I'd like to request three additions to Cardvault
>
>1) pleasepleaseplease tweak the vertical slide bar a bit. Currently,
>I grab the sidebar with my mouse, and drag it up or down, but the
>distance from the sidebar I can do this is really small. I almost
>need to draw a perfect vertical line to use it as finetuned as I
>want. Can the tolerance for horizontal movement be increased a bit?

You currently have to have the mouse within the scroller for it to be
recognized. If you move the mouse outside of the scroller width, it is
ignored until it comes back into the scroller region.

We can look into allowing for more "slop" on either side of the scroller.
I'm not certain how much work would be involved until I investigate it.

>2) Can we have a tool to, when we make a deck with our own cards, and
>the inventory the card comes from is not the most recent printing,
>allow the program to output the card info for the latest version?
>This would allow us with older versions to go to a tournament and use
>the latest text in a rules dispute.

If you enable the "Merge Duplicates" setting, you can achieve this easily.
When enabled, only the most recent printing of the card is shown. However,
the inventory totals are merged for the card, so the totals shown are for
all instances of the card across all printings. This technique allows you
to build a deck based upon the MRP printing of all cards while drawing from
all cards in your collection.

>3) I'd like some search parameters in inventory that allow me to say
>"show me all versions of all cards in Imperial Edition" (that is, if
>a card that existed in IE was reprinted 3 times in other editions,
>I'd like to see all 4 versions)

You can already do this via a helpful tool we added for data file authors
within CV. First, go to the Settings menu and check "Enable Data File
Debugging". Once enabled, right-click on a card within the deck editor and
select "Show All MRP Links for Card". You'll see the card name and release
for each printing of the card. You can ignore the first two fields, which
are only of use to authors during testing and debugging of data files.

Hope this helps,
Rob

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[rob]

At 06:37 AM 4/2/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> > If you enable the "Merge Duplicates" setting, you can achieve this
> > easily.
> > When enabled, only the most recent printing of the card is shown.
> > However,
> > the inventory totals are merged for the card, so the totals shown
> > are for
> > all instances of the card across all printings. This technique
> > allows you
> > to build a deck based upon the MRP printing of all cards while
> > drawing from
> > all cards in your collection.
>
>I know this, but this is not what concerns me. My concern is, if we
>make a deck with CV, then we need to, erm, actually go to our
>collection and make it. So what we *take to the tournament* is a
>collection of old, out-of-date cards. What I'd like is for CV to
>*print* either the data for all cards in the deck, or the data for
>all cards for which it knows your version is outdated (but this is
>impossible because the deckbuilder doesn't know where it got the card
>from)

If you construct the deck with Merge Duplicates enabled, then the deck you
print out automatically includes the MRP data. So you CAN use the printed
deck as a reference during play.

>Or imagine I have merge duplicates *off*. But I only have old cards,
>so I build it and say "print the card info for all cards in my deck
>(when this feature is allowed, I don't know if it currently is). What
>I *want* is for it to print the *tournament valid* data, i.e the Most
>Recent Printing, and not the info on the card itself.

Card Vault relies entirely on the Merge Duplicates setting for this. If you
disable the setting, then you are effectively telling Card Vault that
you're taking control and to do exactly what you specify.

>I want this as a reference to consult at the tournament.

The Merge Duplicate setting was specifically designed for this purpose.

>A simple example of what I want: say I open inventory, and go to the
>filter window. I filter for a certain old expansion. I also want to
>press a button that says (include all MRPd cards in filter). The
>result would be:
>
>If I just filter for expansion Alpha, which is cards A, B, and C (but
>not D, the result of the filter would be:
>A
>B
>C
>
>If I filter for ONLY expansion Alpha, and I click the "include MRPs"
>button, and there is also an expansion Beta, which is cards A, B, C,
>and D, the result of the filter would be:
>
>A Alpha
>A Beta
>B Alpha
>B Beta
>C Alpha
>C Beta
>
>That make any sense?

Ugh. That's a fair bit of complexity to accomplish within the code. I'll
put this on the want list and we'll look at it in more detail for a future
release.

What if this was an "output only" option? The filter would select just the
cards you request. However, when you output the deck, the "only MRP"
setting (it needs a better name) would trigger CV to output the MRP version
of the card instead of the card selected. This would be a lot easier to
implement AND avoid all confusion for users who might otherwise get
confused when a filter returns a card it shouldn't have. Would this suffice???

Thanks, Rob

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