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Dumpshock Forums _ Community Projects _ Shadowrun Programs - a call to arms

Posted by: Dispair Jan 18 2005, 07:03 PM

Okay, Not everyone uses M$ software and refuse to support Bill's Evil Empire. That said the only SRCG worth mentioning is written in Visual Basic - why? Well over 60% of this forum users are XP users, hardly 30 % make up Mac OS X and Linux, (I use Linux and have a ibook I run OS X and Gentoo on)

This is not why Mac OS X and Linux are superior post, or even a flame Microsoft post - not everyone can/will or desire to run non-Microsoft software.

This is a call to all those little developers out there to use a language like Python or Java. They are cross platform... they allow your code to be used by EVERYONE.

I have written a little program calculator in Python. It can run on any machine that has python installed. I will post the link as soon as it is finished (it part of a suite of utilities I am writing).

I urge anyone who wants to write SR programs use something cross platform.
If you want to program and don't know how check out
http://python.org
It has tutorials for non-programmers and programmers alike.
Peace!

Posted by: Lindt Jan 18 2005, 07:06 PM

Actually odds are a great deal more then 70% of forum goers are on Win based systems. McMackie uses VB cause its what he knows, and Java... well java kinda sucks after a certin point.

Posted by: KeyMasterOfGozer Jan 18 2005, 08:48 PM

This is Ridiculous, Dispair. If you are so gung-ho, then why don't you spend the hundreds or even thousands of hours that it would take to re-write mcmackie's code in another language.

I would personally love to see a web-based program to track my characters and build them. I do actually have to work for a living, however, so I know I can't realistically put in that many hours to make it work.

But no one is stopping YOU from putting that time in.

Why not just use your Windows Emulator software (WinE) on Linux? That software exists because Linux is used only by a tiny minority, so that minority must make concessions to use the software that the Vast Majority make for themselves.

Posted by: Johnson Jan 19 2005, 08:03 AM

I am a linux user at home. During work times I am a MS user.. winE is good. Just think of it this way if you are a linux user you should have no problems in find ways to get around Microsoft products. I don't use Office I use Star office, Linux product in Microsoft... Not as powerful as Office but I make it work for me... ITS FREE.

Posted by: Spookymonster Jan 19 2005, 02:17 PM

Here's the HTML for a simple die roller Javascript I wrote. Feel free to add it to your collection of xplat tools :

CODE

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body onload="document.dieform.resultList.value = 0;">
<script type="text/javascript">
function rollDie() {
var diePool = document.dieform.diePool.value - 0;
var resultArray = new Array(diePool);
for (var i = 0; i < resultArray.length; i++) {
resultArray[i] = 0;
var dieHold = 6;
while (dieHold == 6) {
dieHold = (Math.ceil(Math.random() * 6));
resultArray[i] += dieHold;
}
}
document.dieform.resultList.value = resultArray.sort(compareNum);
}
function compareNum(a,b) {
return a-b;
}

</script>
<form name="dieform">
# of Dice: <input type="text" name="diePool" value="1" size="4" maxlength="4" />
<button type="button" id="roll" onclick="rollDie()">Roll</button><p/>
Results: <textarea name="resultList" value="foo" rows="5" cols="25" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

Posted by: Solstice Jan 23 2005, 08:33 PM

as far as I'm concerned Mcmackies prog is more than we could ever ask for in terms of freeware.

Posted by: thepatriot Jan 29 2005, 01:06 PM

QUOTE (Solstice)

as far as I'm concerned Mcmackies prog is more than we could ever ask for in terms of freeware.

Huzah! Huzah! Huzah!

Posted by: Bombshell Jan 29 2005, 09:02 PM

QUOTE (Dispair)

I have written a little program calculator in Python. It can run on any machine that has python installed. I will post the link as soon as it is finished (it part of a suite of utilities I am writing).

I did the same in PHP. The result can be viewed here: http://www.stefan-ohrmann.de/prgcal/

It's more a proof of concept for porting an Excel-Spreadsheet of the same purpose.

regards

Stefan