 Dice Roller Applet Released |
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 Oct 16 2004, 03:14 AM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 34 Joined: 4-February 03 From: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Member No.: 4,010  |
Hi all.
After a little negotiation with WizKids, I've gotten permission to release my Shadowrun Dice Roller Applet to the world. Have a play. Drop me a line telling me what you like/dislike yadda yadda. Note that you'll need a relatively modern JRE for your web browser. 1.4+ at the very least. And finally, if you're using Internet Explorer, I can't guarantee that the pages will render very well. I'm using certain CSS standards that all current versions of IE implement poorly. I'm using Mozilla, but any standards compliant web browser should give you the page I intended. |
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Oct 16 2004, 04:35 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 179 Joined: 9-October 04 From: I'm in Hell! HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!! (A.K.A Alabama) Member No.: 6,739 |
Looks nice. And I'll have a chance to use it soon...
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Oct 16 2004, 09:32 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 611 Joined: 21-October 03 From: Yorkshire Toxic Zone Member No.: 5,752 |
I'm getting a page could not be found error - is it me, or have we used up the site's bandwidth already?
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Oct 16 2004, 10:01 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
Worked for me just now. However, at least on my Mozilla 1.6b, the boxes which should show the amount of dice and TN chosen and the Successes and Highest Roll are 1 pixel wide, so I had to trust the Results History to see what exactly happened.
It looks pretty good. The inclusion of Complementary dice is a nice touch. |
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Oct 16 2004, 05:12 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 179 Joined: 9-October 04 From: I'm in Hell! HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!! (A.K.A Alabama) Member No.: 6,739 |
Weird, I have Mozilla, and the boxes are about 1CM square.
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Oct 17 2004, 02:57 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 34 Joined: 4-February 03 From: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Member No.: 4,010 |
Ok.. I've pulled the applet out wider to try sorting out the compression of fields people are seeing. Does that do the trick?
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Oct 17 2004, 10:37 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: 6-October 04 Member No.: 6,731 |
well just one thing the page isnt Firefox friendly. it starts out okay, until the applets load, then you cant scroll down to where the Shadowrun applet is. If you try to use the top link to it, it only goes down to The Compounder.
EDIT - nevermind i had an add blocker installed, so it was blocking 90% of the page. i turned it off and now can view it. |
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Oct 17 2004, 10:44 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
The text boxes are still 1 pixel wide on my screen. No idea why, and it doesn't really bother me. The text's still there -- I can copy/paste the Skill Dice amount out of the box, for example. If the applet works for others, don't worry about what it looks like on my screen, since I'm not a likely user.
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Oct 17 2004, 06:51 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 179 Joined: 9-October 04 From: I'm in Hell! HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!! (A.K.A Alabama) Member No.: 6,739 |
Only complaint I have is nothing. Nice job.
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Oct 17 2004, 10:49 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 34 Joined: 4-February 03 From: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Member No.: 4,010 |
Now that I try it on my Windows machine here at Uni, I'm seeing the same thing (which means that I really NEED to fix it, it'll drive me batty OW). AE, out of curiosity, you're machine isn't a Windows box is it? What version JRE do you have installed? I'm beginning to suspect that there may be some difference in how screen layout is actually implemented between Linux (my test environment) and Windows in the JVM. |
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Oct 17 2004, 11:36 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 179 Joined: 9-October 04 From: I'm in Hell! HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!! (A.K.A Alabama) Member No.: 6,739 |
What version of windows? I'm using XP home and it seems to be fine.
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Oct 17 2004, 11:52 PM
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Mr. Quote-function Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,301 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Somewhere in Germany Member No.: 1,376 |
I seem to have te same problem with that 1 pxiel width
Technical details: - WinXP Pro, Service Pack 2 installed - JDK 1.4.1_01 - Opera 7.23 Browser And yes, there are good chances that it has to do with the Java-Installation .. And of course the classes you used (Swing, AWT?) |
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Oct 18 2004, 03:46 AM
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Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill. Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,545 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gloomy Boise Idaho Member No.: 2,006 |
It crashed my IE with a bunch of exception errors.
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Oct 18 2004, 04:17 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 34 Joined: 4-February 03 From: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Member No.: 4,010 |
I also noticed that it's squished vertically on my Windows browser. I'll try pulling the height of the applet out a bit too.
It's all Swing. And yes, this is not the first time that one of my Applets doesn't quite appear exactly the same across several patforms. Normally it needs just a bit of tweaking. Hopefully, that's all I need to do this time. 8/ |
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Oct 18 2004, 04:21 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 34 Joined: 4-February 03 From: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Member No.: 4,010 |
Interesting. All I can think of is that it might be an older JRE you have installed with your browser. I checked this morning with W2K, IE6 and the applet worked fine (besides that odd field compression). Email me the stack trace if you like. I'll take a squiz and see what the JRE is complaining about in your instance. |
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Oct 18 2004, 10:17 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 34 Joined: 4-February 03 From: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Member No.: 4,010 |
Ok... I've mashed the size of the Applet about a bit, and it's rendering correctiy under my wife's Win2K Mozilla.
FIngers crossed, it'll happily display the field widgets for everyone now. |
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Oct 18 2004, 10:21 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
Yup, works fine now for me now.
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Oct 18 2004, 04:44 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,754 Joined: 9-July 04 From: Modesto, CA Member No.: 6,465 |
So aside from the Logo (which I suppose is an optional item to include), why did you have to get permission from WizKid?
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Oct 18 2004, 04:50 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,328 Joined: 9-September 04 From: Alabama Member No.: 6,645 |
Hmm...any way to get a complete list of numbers, for when you don't know the target number you're shooting for?
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Oct 18 2004, 04:58 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 16,950 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Results are rather squished, though more than one pixel, on Safari under OSX 10.3.5 with the latest version of Java for the platform.
~J |
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Oct 19 2004, 12:07 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 34 Joined: 4-February 03 From: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Member No.: 4,010 |
The logo is the only thing that needed WizKids permission. I wanted a filler for the empty table. I had a couple of backup plans JIC they weren't happy for it to be used this way, but I liked this one the most so I figured I'd see it through before trying plan B. |
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Oct 19 2004, 12:27 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 34 Joined: 4-February 03 From: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Member No.: 4,010 |
Not quite sure what you're asking... If it's just a case of not knowing the target number, that's an open test, and only the highest roll matters anyway. If you're interested in seeing the actual results per die, that's something I'm naval gazing on. I'm guessing that you'd want the full list of numbers for "test" rolls to see how many dice roll to a certain value. It doesn't really fit with my vision of the dice roller (which is really a convenience toy for doing ACTUAL game dice rolls). I'll add this to a wish-list. If enough people want it, I'll put serious thought into adding it in. |
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Oct 19 2004, 12:34 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 34 Joined: 4-February 03 From: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Member No.: 4,010 |
Can you send me a screen shot of the applet running in your Environment please? |
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Oct 19 2004, 12:49 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
The thing is, some rolls in Shadowrun have variable TNs (besides Open tests), especially Detection Spells, which have a different TN for each person targeted. With your roller, there is no way to get variable results from the one spell. This could be fixed merely by showing the results of all dice rolled.
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Oct 19 2004, 01:26 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 34 Joined: 4-February 03 From: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Member No.: 4,010 |
Ahhh... point taken. Ok... It's a definite feature for v2. |
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