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Dispair View Member Profile	Jan 18 2005, 07:03 PM Post #1
Target Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 18-January 05 Member No.: 6,999	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 Python Programming Language It has tutorials for non-programmers and programmers alike. Peace! :cyber:

Lindt View Member Profile	Jan 18 2005, 07:06 PM Post #2
Man In The Machine Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,264 Joined: 26-February 02 From: I-495 S Member No.: 1,105	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.

KeyMasterOfGozer View Member Profile	Jan 18 2005, 08:48 PM Post #3
Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 239 Joined: 10-February 04 Member No.: 6,068	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.

Johnson View Member Profile	Jan 19 2005, 08:03 AM Post #4
Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 541 Joined: 2-August 04 From: South Africa Member No.: 6,531	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.

Spookymonster

Jan 19 2005, 02:17 PM

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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>

Solstice View Member Profile	Jan 23 2005, 08:33 PM Post #6
Moving Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 870 Joined: 6-January 04 From: Idaho Member No.: 5,960	as far as I'm concerned Mcmackies prog is more than we could ever ask for in terms of freeware.

thepatriot

Jan 29 2005, 01:06 PM

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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!

Bombshell

Jan 29 2005, 09:02 PM

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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

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