New Release version 1.4

SeeJay · Post by **SeeJay** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 8:17 am

From post: 101413, Topic: tid=7218, author=DaveK wrote:
btw: "Pices" is spelled "Pieces" in Pearl as in "Gate to Pieces" Appropriate since Pearl where I often get "blown to . . ."!

Thx for spotting. Spelling corrected;)

Post by **DaveK** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:52 am

I must admit that I spotted it because I misspelled it when using search!

:P

Siege · Post by **Siege** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 12:05 pm

I had some minor trouble installing btw, nothing big it just told me windows installer crashed but the app itself still managed to get onto my hard drive with no hassles. Being able to hide labels until a mouse over wouldn't hurt as the map looks kinda cluttered at first blush, imho. Other than that I think this is an amazing application. Though shouldn't it be Universal positioning system rather than Global positioning system

MapMan · Post by **MapMan** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 2:18 pm

@Siege
Sir.
I had the same problem on my PC. Its a virtual machine , so i didnt think much about it. Ill have a look at it. Are you running XP?

I hear you about the mouseover. I dont know how humongus resolutions you pilots have, but it sure looks cluttered. Would seeing the names in the table to the right be enough and then add a mouseover for labels? hmm.. and i guess this only applies to the first zoomlevel right?

I didnt quite get your comment about Universal vs Global. Could you elaborate on that.

[Edited on 2-1-2011 by MapMan]

MapMan · Post by **MapMan** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 2:23 pm

From post: 101423, Topic: tid=7218, author=DaveK wrote:I must admit that I spotted it because I misspelled it when using search! :P

Dnot ever mispsell. Missspel is no goood.

Post by **DaveK** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 3:49 pm

Isn't UPS a parcel delivery service? How much to deliver a package from Sapphire to Pearl, I wonder?

Siege · Post by **Siege** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 4:24 pm

From post: 101438, Topic: tid=7218, author=MapMan wrote:@Siege
Sir.
I had the same problem on my PC. Its a virtual machine , so i didnt think much about it. Ill have a look at it. Are you running XP?

I hear you about the mouseover. I dont know how humongus resolutions you pilots have, but it sure looks cluttered. Would seeing the names in the table to the right be enough and then add a mouseover for labels? hmm.. and i guess this only applies to the first zoomlevel right?

I didnt quite get your comment about Universal vs Global. Could you elaborate on that.

[Edited on 2-1-2011 by MapMan]

I'm running Vista, I think sp2. the universal/global was a joke, a gps stands for global positioning system and ofc that doesn't really apply in space.

Post by **DaveK** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 6:05 pm

sorry not one of my best attempts at humour! - I realised the point about GPS and the Universe and just extrapolated - Universal would become UPS which is a parcel delivery service in the UK at least

Siege · Post by **Siege** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 6:30 pm

From post: 101455, Topic: tid=7218, author=DaveK wrote:sorry not one of my best attempts at humour! - I realised the point about GPS and the Universe and just extrapolated - Universal would become UPS which is a parcel delivery service in the UK at least

I got it

was funny.

Sinbad · Post by **Sinbad** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 7:37 pm

Excellent application... nice work SeeJay/MapMan! You two really are doing a great job to increase the fun for other EM players.

A small thing I noticed is that sometimes it takes a while to zoom back to the complete map, for example I had to click 10 times and each time was 1 second to load, so it's like 10 seconds to zoom back out to the original map. Unless it's already there and I missed it, a button to zoom back out in a single click would be useful.

MapMan · Post by **MapMan** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 7:56 pm

From post: 101458, Topic: tid=7218, author=MCCON wrote:Excellent application... nice work SeeJay/MapMan! You two really are doing a great job to increase the fun for other EM players.

A small thing I noticed is that sometimes it takes a while to zoom back to the complete map, for example I had to click 10 times and each time was 1 second to load, so it's like 10 seconds to zoom back out to the original map. Unless it's already there and I missed it, a button to zoom back out in a single click would be useful.

Thanks for the kind words. About zoom out. Thats what the "reset" button will do when i get around to do it.

Post by **Marvin** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:45 pm

From post: 101425, Topic: tid=7218, author=Siege wrote:I had some minor trouble installing btw, nothing big it just told me windows installer crashed but the app itself still managed to get onto my hard drive with no hassles.

Same here. Windows wanted to report it but I nixed the idea and let the program finish its install.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:17 am

From post: 101446, Topic: tid=7218, author=DaveK wrote:Isn't UPS a parcel delivery service? How much to deliver a package from Sapphire to Pearl, I wonder?

LOL...relatively depends on size and content and who's Universe Parcel Service you are using the Rebbels, Guilds, Miners, Navy or the Energy's....

:P:P:P:P

Post by **DaveK** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 9:11 am

Awesome - my second monitor is now full of extra goodies - universe map - nav/log system - ship status readouts. I love it!:D:D:D

Post by **DaveK** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 9:24 am

A couple of observations

On the downloaded version of the prog, in the Pearl System the naming is "Pearl Station" on the zoomed in map but "Pear" on the list. It's "Pear" for the System, the four "Gates to . ." and for the "Blackhole to Unknown" on the data list as well. Perhaps the system is based on agriculture! On the Internet prog everything is labelled as "Pearl"

Zooming Out is virtually instantaneous - Zoom out to whole Universe from max zoom in on Sapphire took 6 seconds

MapMan · Post by **MapMan** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:25 am

From post: 101506, Topic: tid=7218, author=DaveK wrote:A couple of observations

On the downloaded version of the prog, in the Pearl System the naming is "Pearl Station" on the zoomed in map but "Pear" on the list. It's "Pear" for the System, the four "Gates to . ." and for the "Blackhole to Unknown" on the data list as well. Perhaps the system is based on agriculture! On the Internet prog everything is labelled as "Pearl"

Zooming Out is virtually instantaneous - Zoom out to whole Universe from max zoom in on Sapphire took 6 seconds

although the map IS infact based on agriculture code, its not supposed to be racist against space objects, or for that fact inject humour in the map canvas itself.

Do you have a screenshot of this?. I cant reproduce that. Might have somthing todo with different fonts used in the WIndows version.

MapMan · Post by **MapMan** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:29 am

!!TEASER!!

I can infact read the savedata.txt into the Windows and Mac versions of the Map. This opens up for everything we can imagine.

Stay tuned. Keep the testing going

Reset-button will soon zoom out completely

Post by **DaveK** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:31 am

Hi

I think that you can ignore the reply I made about mispelled Pearl (being Pear). I've had a closer look (literally) because the last letter off any text appeared to look cut off a bit.

In the PC based programme only, on my monitors at least, the text shown has a quirk. The last little bit of the last letter looks clipped but looking very closely the last vertical column of pixels of the text is very pale golden yellow. This means that narrow letters (i and l) dont seem to appear when they are typed but then appear when the next letter or a space is typed. If I type in Pearl, it appears as Pear but on peering closely (very closely!) at the screen I can see a pale version of the final "l". If I type another "l" thinking that I mistyped the first one then it looks like "Pearl" but on a close look is "Pearll" - last letter very pale. Obviously doing that search gives no finds!

All the text in the search results has this clipping, as do the button labels. Cancel at the bottom appears as "Cance"

The main screen has the same issue: Sol seems to be So - Pearl =Pear - Al's Quay II looks like Al's Quay I and Thunderbird discovered a System called S51'

Is it just me or is it a formatting issue?

Edit: Hi I've just seen your reply - I can take a screenshot - how can I get it to you? I am going away for a few days, starting this lunchtime - if this reply doesn't help, then I will get back to you as soon as I get back

[Edited on 2-2-2011 by DaveK]

[Edited on 2-2-2011 by DaveK]

MapMan · Post by **MapMan** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 11:57 am

Ok.. ill look into that. I think the webUI i used have some bugs regarding fonts in SVG then. Ill just try to make it work.

Thanks for the input DaveK .. appriciate it.

SeeJay · Post by **SeeJay** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:04 pm

Hi Dave.

you can email it to [email protected]

MapMan · Post by **MapMan** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:35 am

New version released. version is now 1.1.1 and is available online or as downloadable binaries for:

Since the Map is perfect to run on a laptop next to your Game monitor i have compiled it into various binaries.

Windows 32 bit (works on 64 bit)
MacOsX (bring out your old white one)
Linux Intel 32 bit (Bring out your even older laptop)
Linux Intel 64 bit (for you geeks)

All Binaries are available at the first page of this thread.

/MapMan (please sponsor me with a joystick. I wanna play)

Siege · Post by **Siege** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:40 am

I was thinking that perhaps Stellar Cartography might be a better term for what you're up to here?

Just downloaded the new update, looking cool, still had the error installing it though.

[Edited on 3-2-2011 by Siege]

MapMan · Post by **MapMan** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 6:30 am

Stellar Cartography sounds really nice.
Any otherr suggestions from anyone? SeeJay? What are your words?

SeeJay · Post by **SeeJay** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 6:57 am

From post: 101564, Topic: tid=7218, author=MapMan wrote:Stellar Cartography sounds really nice.
Any otherr suggestions from anyone? SeeJay? What are your words?

Stellar Cartography works for me. Any name works for me:P. The important
thing is that it's user friendly and contains the features that we want/need.

MapMan · Post by **MapMan** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 10:27 am

hmm.. That name does not sound like a system where you would find GPS features. Tracking . Weapon status..cash status..

We need to find something else. ill start:

The Map
S.E.M.U.S (Starwraith Evochron Mercenary Utility Software)
EM-SAT
EM-UC (Evochron Mercenary Universe Cartography)

You go on SeeJay