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MC-PlotMapper (MC-PM)

Discussion in 'Kingdoms General' started by Majora_Unmasked, August 22, 2013.

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Does this sound like a good program?

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  1. Majora_Unmasked

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    Overview
    I'm making an application to go alongside Minecraft. As of right now it is called MC-PlotMapper, though I'm still not quite sure if that's what it should be named. It basically lets you create town plot maps with relative ease.

    What does it do?
    Well as I said before, it lets you create town plot maps with relative ease.

    When is the next version released?
    Here's the release date(s); I'll keep editing this and adding onto it if the idea catches on.
    EDIT: Due to a migration from VB.NET to Java, this won't be released until 10/7.

    What platform is it for?
    Anything that runs Java
     
    Majora_Unmasked, August 22, 2013
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    Great idea, will probably help the newbies on the server very much. Are you planning it on allowing them to buy, reserve, or sell plots or to view which plots are open and their description?
     
    AbdulEUS, August 22, 2013
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  3. Majora_Unmasked

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    This doesn't interact with the plots ingame. :p This allows you to create efficient maps for your towns/large scale builds
     
    Majora_Unmasked, August 22, 2013
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    Oh sorry, I see. Well I guess now we have 2 ideas for different mods :p
     
    AbdulEUS, August 22, 2013
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    Yeah, although you could use this and update often to keep newbies aware of which plots are available.
     
    Majora_Unmasked, August 22, 2013
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    I've tried to map caldera and failed a few times. If you want me to try it and see how it stacks up against excel I'll give you some feedback. It sounds like a great idea.
     
    squeezal, August 22, 2013
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    Thanks, it should be ready soon. I'm almost done with the interface, now I need to allow it to create and save files.
    Quick question, should I make the files it creates have the same extension as Excel (*.xls) or something else?
     
    Majora_Unmasked, August 22, 2013
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    I would enjoy it to be on Excel format, although I dont have Office on dis vista, so would it still be able to open?
     
    melvin484, August 22, 2013
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    I actually don't know, we'd have to find out :p
     
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    I dont want to find out, you be finding a another extension to put it as. Cant you make your own? Is that possible?
     
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    If it was impossible, how are there so many others? :p
    I'll try, but tbh I think it's fine.
     
    Majora_Unmasked, August 22, 2013
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    Saving into xls isn't going to be easy. I recommend csv or tsv. Every spreadsheet reader will be able to interpret them and they're easy to construct and also deserialize back into your own data structure.
     
    btarb24, August 22, 2013
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    Thanks, do you know how to do that? ;)
     
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    They stand for Comma Separated Values and Tab Separated Values. They're really simple. The first line of your document is the column titles. All lines after that are data. Here's an example of a Comma Separated (csv) one:

    X,Y,Z,Player Name,Item Name,Shop Name,Buy Price,Sell Price
    -490,63,158,smexycweeper,stone,null,0.062500,-0.003125
    -490,63,166,bigjohn44,white wool,null,3.125000,-0.015625
    -490,63,168,bigjohn44,diamond axe,null,14.000000,-1.000000
    -490,63,191,pierzynski,diamond hoe,null,2.000000,1.000000

    The commas are all separates between the columns. If you were to save that as a .csv file you'd be able to open it as a spreadsheet in excel, google docs, or whatever spreadsheet app you want. And they're so easy to create. The only catch with CSV is that you can't use commas in your data. If you do need to use commas then you should use Tab Separators instead (and save your file as a .tsv file).
     
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    That looks kinda scary :p Do you know how to format that in VB?
     
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    I don't know Visual Basic, but if you stored a value for each plot in a 2 dimensional array you could loop through each item in the array and concatenate them together into a string with commas separating them, then write that string to a new line in the csv file

    OpenOffice is free, can open xls files, and I believe it works on vista.

    If you do use .xls here is a documentation of the file format
     
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    Updates on Progress:
    -Datagrid Established
    -6 base colors for marking
    -Background updated
    -Given a launcher
     
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    And NeoOffice is the mac equiv to open office. http://www.neooffice.org
     
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    Thanks guys.
    Right now I'm just working on the UI and functionality, I haven't really delved into that yet. :/
     
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    Great idea majora, really ties in with a little project of mine
     
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