ForumTrader 3.0 - Adria (Beta)

[Kijya]

I went through the cab, but without them being removed/installed I can't figure out their version and check it against mine/Microsoft's website. There are over a dozen in there, and right-clicking properties on a CABbed file doesn't give that information.

I'm not sure what Zip program you're using, but you should be able to extract the CAB file into a new folder, then check the version numbers of the files inside in the property page for each file.

If you zip program doesn't support extracting CAB files here's a free one up for the task: http://peazip.sourceforge.net/index.html

Since I don't know if those are the files the program is talking about, I might be wasting my time, anyway.

To compound this, I don't know of a .dll comparison program/project anywhere, so a lot of my files may be out of date in that sense. If I find one, then I run the set up, and it still says out-of-date, I'll have to start over, so it's just easier to be told which.

If I can do point "8)" it should all work out I'd guess ...

[Dave M]

Mind letting me hear about the initial problems? In case I should include better installation instructions or similar.

Sorry about the delay replying, the probs I had at first were mainly due to rushing through the operation, since I have slowed myself down everything appears to be working as intended

The only prob I am left with now ( not sure if this is fixable or not ) is the OCR being able to tell the difference between 3 and 5, this is almost solely occuring in the lines that have White writing, all other colours seem to read fine
I'm not in any way a programmer, so unfortunately have no suggestions or comments to remedy this
All in all though I am loving this
Well done and thanks

[Kijya]

Sorry about the delay replying, the probs I had at first were mainly due to rushing through the operation, since I have slowed myself down everything appears to be working as intended

The only prob I am left with now ( not sure if this is fixable or not ) is the OCR being able to tell the difference between 3 and 5, this is almost solely occuring in the lines that have White writing, all other colours seem to read fine
I'm not in any way a programmer, so unfortunately have no suggestions or comments to remedy this
All in all though I am loving this
Well done and thanks

Fixing OCR translation mixups is easy, I only need to hear of one and I'll be able to fix it for the next version

9) OCR: White 3 or 5 doesn't translate correctly.


Think we've gathered a bunch of things to do now, however, I'm currently at my parents place and don't have access to my main computer, so I'll have to wait with the updating until I'm back at my apartment.

[Dave M]

If I find anymore I'll report back

[NoisemakerArrow]

What exactly does this program do? Keep track of your items? Can you explain how it works before I download it?

[Kijya]

What exactly does this program do? Keep track of your items? Can you explain how it works before I download it?

Basically it's an item manager. Instead of writing down what stuff you have in an excel sheet, or similar, this program can help keeping track of them.

So why would it be better then excel? Or plain pen and paper?
It uses OCR to scan for the item description, so cataloging an item into this program only take a few seconds. All you need to do it hold your mouse over the item while in the game and press a button to add it to the selected character.

Once accounts, characters and items are added you can explore your stuff without having to switch from mule to mule. It'll be much like how you explore folders and files in the windows "explorer", since the same type of controls are used for this program. While exploring you'll be seeing the full item description including the colors (one color per line) of each line of text.

It has inbuilt search that lets you find your items in the database by typing a few words they contain.

To the above we add the functionality quickly print out sorted and categorized tradelists.





That being said, it's really hard to get a good idea of what it can do without a video. I intend to make one, but not for a BETA version that may still be changed quite a bit before I consider it finished.



here I used it to type out all the items on my enchanter:
http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/s...=708199&page=2

here I used it to find and then display all rare rings I had that had certain mods (on 3 accounts, had not added all yet at that time):
http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/s...d.php?t=707776

A couple tryouts on the tradelist printing routine:
http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/s...681424&page=13


That kind of stuff becomes super easy


If you're using Glide graphics mode you can also use the program while you play in fullscreen mode, allowing you to search your database for items without having to close down D2. It also has a small info section you can access ingame, to look up runeword orders or cube recipes etc.



If you're asking for how it "actually works", programmically, you'll have to rephrase the question to concern a more specific part of the program before I can answer.

[NoisemakerArrow]

No, you've answered my question. Cool, I will definitely get this when I return home. When's the non-beta version coming out? And it works on Bnet too, right?

At last, no more fiddling around with pieces of paper!

[Kijya]

No, you've answered my question. Cool, I will definitely get this when I return home. When's the non-beta version coming out? And it works on Bnet too, right?

At last, no more fiddling around with pieces of paper!

I should probably not refer to the next version as a beta, so once I've gotten that version up ... maybe 1-4 weeks? Hard to tell how much time I'll be spending on it since I don't quite know how much work it'll be right now. All I know for sure is that I can start working on it, part-time, around/after new year.

Yeah, it works for bnet as well as sp (though for sp you've got atma after all ...).

[NoisemakerArrow]

Does ATMA find items for you and catalogue them? I use it but I still have to write down what items are on what mule on paper.

[Kijya]

Does ATMA find items for you and catalogue them? I use it but I still have to write down what items are on what mule on paper.

Guess my knowledge of ATMA is lacking

I've really only used it for its dropcalc :embarassed: