Re: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software
hi. i'm really interested in it! can you please create a installer for it and upload it to your web site, or to something like sendspace,or dropbox? or even if you don't wana create a installer, just zipping the files it's ok for me.. hmm, and and what link should i click in this site that you pasted www.runequest.com to play the game that will use these things(the dice,the cheet with the character management, etc)? thanks so much! -Mensagem original- De: Jacob Kruger jac...@mailzone.co.za Para: gamers@audyssey.org Data: Domingo, 8 de Novembro de 2009 02:09 Assunto: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software Have just sort of finished off putting together my small piece of software to manage a character sheet for a version of role playing called RuneQuest: http://www.runequest.za.org/ It's basically a different version of dungeons and dragons FWIW, and my app is only really made to let me do better than using my laptop to edit a text file, along with a small dice rolling app I made before, but it basically builds a sort of dynamic interface based on an XML character data sheet, and I suppose could also be used easily enough, without too much modification to just carry out a form of info management since it literally builds the user interface based on the data in the XML text file, but is a little focused on the role playing functionality in that, for example, the dice rolling functionality is hard coded into it, although the various dice rolling ranges/options are also populated from a separate XML file to allow editing when not in the development environment. Anyway, this bit of software lets you load new blank characters, edit the info including adding categories of information, editing these categories, and items and then lets you save the character sheets for future reference/reuse etc. It's done in newish microsoft technology - .Net framework 3.5 development environment, so might need an up to date computer to use it, but runs fine on both my XP home work machine as well as my windows 7 work machine, but they both have the development software installed on them, and I haven't gotten around to putting together any form of installation package as of yet since literally finished it off around 20 minutes ago - currently around 2AM Sunday morning this side, but thought might as well post a message here to find out if anyone would be interested in something like this at all. Also, while the interface is meant to also be usable/useful for sighted people, I haven't yet had a sighted person try it out for me to see how the dynamic interface generation affects the look/feel/layout of it, since didn't do too much general windows development in the old days either, but it works fine for me along with both jaws and NVDA, but suppose might not look too good for a sightie...LOL! (did try use things like window width percentages to try do what I think should look alright, but in the old days when could see mostly worked on webpages anyway) It also sort of implements a tiny bit of re-use of your screenreader/MS TTS voices to say things sometimes, but, the primary one you might notice is that when it's loaded it'll initially tell you the name of the character spoken even if you run a screen reader or not. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4582 (20091107) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software
Hi Jacob. would it be possible to make such applications for use with gamebooks? applications which would both hold a character's stats, and roll the necessary dice in combat? there are quite a few gamebooks online in which it's necessary to physically keep a status sheet and roll dice, and this process could be considderably sped up by use of an application. The most common system used in downloadable gamebooks is the Fighting fantasy system, a very functional but basic system the rules of which can be read on http://www.arborell.com/ a site which itself features html gamebooks with in built character sheet etc (though other ff adventures are downloadable which do not have the convenience of being on that site). There is also the slightly more complex system featured in the incredibly high quality gamebooks on www.arborell.com itself, and indeed a far more complex system stil, which runs over the many gamebooks in the Lonewolf series, found on www.projectaon.org which already has a couple of apps written for it, neither of which is sadly accessible as one features dodgy java, and the other uses microsoft silverlight. Something to help in any of these series would be welcomed by both Vi and sighted people I think, sinse accept for the lonewolf series on project aon, - none have any sort of application support in the way of stat keeping or dice rolling. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Jacob Kruger jac...@mailzone.co.za To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 12:09 AM Subject: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software Have just sort of finished off putting together my small piece of software to manage a character sheet for a version of role playing called RuneQuest: http://www.runequest.za.org/ It's basically a different version of dungeons and dragons FWIW, and my app is only really made to let me do better than using my laptop to edit a text file, along with a small dice rolling app I made before, but it basically builds a sort of dynamic interface based on an XML character data sheet, and I suppose could also be used easily enough, without too much modification to just carry out a form of info management since it literally builds the user interface based on the data in the XML text file, but is a little focused on the role playing functionality in that, for example, the dice rolling functionality is hard coded into it, although the various dice rolling ranges/options are also populated from a separate XML file to allow editing when not in the development environment. Anyway, this bit of software lets you load new blank characters, edit the info including adding categories of information, editing these categories, and items and then lets you save the character sheets for future reference/reuse etc. It's done in newish microsoft technology - .Net framework 3.5 development environment, so might need an up to date computer to use it, but runs fine on both my XP home work machine as well as my windows 7 work machine, but they both have the development software installed on them, and I haven't gotten around to putting together any form of installation package as of yet since literally finished it off around 20 minutes ago - currently around 2AM Sunday morning this side, but thought might as well post a message here to find out if anyone would be interested in something like this at all. Also, while the interface is meant to also be usable/useful for sighted people, I haven't yet had a sighted person try it out for me to see how the dynamic interface generation affects the look/feel/layout of it, since didn't do too much general windows development in the old days either, but it works fine for me along with both jaws and NVDA, but suppose might not look too good for a sightie...LOL! (did try use things like window width percentages to try do what I think should look alright, but in the old days when could see mostly worked on webpages anyway) It also sort of implements a tiny bit of re-use of your screenreader/MS TTS voices to say things sometimes, but, the primary one you might notice is that when it's loaded it'll initially tell you the name of the character spoken even if you run a screen reader or not. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4582 (20091107) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software
Sorry, but rune quest is literally a real life version of dungeons and dragons, so you play it along with other human players, and a real dungeon master etc. etc., and we generally also socialise a bit while doing it - my character is called Bork! The Boar Slayer. Anyway, if you just want to try it to see if it'll run, here's a download link for the program files, but the one other thing am using is SayTools: http://www.empowermentzone.com/saysetup.exe and you might need to install it first as well. Anyway, here's the link to the small zip file, and this isn't finished off yet, but let me know if it works at all: http://www.blindza.co.za/RQ/RQStripped.zip (it's small - around 97kb) The actual program file is RQCharacterWindows.exe Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: matheus an...@bol.com.br To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 3:28 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software hi. i'm really interested in it! can you please create a installer for it and upload it to your web site, or to something like sendspace,or dropbox? or even if you don't wana create a installer, just zipping the files it's ok for me.. hmm, and and what link should i click in this site that you pasted www.runequest.com to play the game that will use these things(the dice,the cheet with the character management, etc)? thanks so much! -Mensagem original- De: Jacob Kruger jac...@mailzone.co.za Para: gamers@audyssey.org Data: Domingo, 8 de Novembro de 2009 02:09 Assunto: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software Have just sort of finished off putting together my small piece of software to manage a character sheet for a version of role playing called RuneQuest: http://www.runequest.za.org/ It's basically a different version of dungeons and dragons FWIW, and my app is only really made to let me do better than using my laptop to edit a text file, along with a small dice rolling app I made before, but it basically builds a sort of dynamic interface based on an XML character data sheet, and I suppose could also be used easily enough, without too much modification to just carry out a form of info management since it literally builds the user interface based on the data in the XML text file, but is a little focused on the role playing functionality in that, for example, the dice rolling functionality is hard coded into it, although the various dice rolling ranges/options are also populated from a separate XML file to allow editing when not in the development environment. Anyway, this bit of software lets you load new blank characters, edit the info including adding categories of information, editing these categories, and items and then lets you save the character sheets for future reference/reuse etc. It's done in newish microsoft technology - .Net framework 3.5 development environment, so might need an up to date computer to use it, but runs fine on both my XP home work machine as well as my windows 7 work machine, but they both have the development software installed on them, and I haven't gotten around to putting together any form of installation package as of yet since literally finished it off around 20 minutes ago - currently around 2AM Sunday morning this side, but thought might as well post a message here to find out if anyone would be interested in something like this at all. Also, while the interface is meant to also be usable/useful for sighted people, I haven't yet had a sighted person try it out for me to see how the dynamic interface generation affects the look/feel/layout of it, since didn't do too much general windows development in the old days either, but it works fine for me along with both jaws and NVDA, but suppose might not look too good for a sightie...LOL! (did try use things like window width percentages to try do what I think should look alright, but in the old days when could see mostly worked on webpages anyway) It also sort of implements a tiny bit of re-use of your screenreader/MS TTS voices to say things sometimes, but, the primary one you might notice is that when it's loaded it'll initially tell you the name of the character spoken even if you run a screen reader or not. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4582 (20091107) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org
Re: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software
It should be perfectly doable. Another silly/stupid thing already have put on my site is a dice rolling webpage: http://www.blindza.co.za/dice/ I would just need to incorporate the dice results with the character sheet data, but that wouldn't really be an issue. Will maybe try check out gamebooks as well, since it would really depend on how their interface actually works. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 2:39 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software Hi Jacob. would it be possible to make such applications for use with gamebooks? applications which would both hold a character's stats, and roll the necessary dice in combat? there are quite a few gamebooks online in which it's necessary to physically keep a status sheet and roll dice, and this process could be considderably sped up by use of an application. The most common system used in downloadable gamebooks is the Fighting fantasy system, a very functional but basic system the rules of which can be read on http://www.arborell.com/ a site which itself features html gamebooks with in built character sheet etc (though other ff adventures are downloadable which do not have the convenience of being on that site). There is also the slightly more complex system featured in the incredibly high quality gamebooks on www.arborell.com itself, and indeed a far more complex system stil, which runs over the many gamebooks in the Lonewolf series, found on www.projectaon.org which already has a couple of apps written for it, neither of which is sadly accessible as one features dodgy java, and the other uses microsoft silverlight. Something to help in any of these series would be welcomed by both Vi and sighted people I think, sinse accept for the lonewolf series on project aon, - none have any sort of application support in the way of stat keeping or dice rolling. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Jacob Kruger jac...@mailzone.co.za To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 12:09 AM Subject: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software Have just sort of finished off putting together my small piece of software to manage a character sheet for a version of role playing called RuneQuest: http://www.runequest.za.org/ It's basically a different version of dungeons and dragons FWIW, and my app is only really made to let me do better than using my laptop to edit a text file, along with a small dice rolling app I made before, but it basically builds a sort of dynamic interface based on an XML character data sheet, and I suppose could also be used easily enough, without too much modification to just carry out a form of info management since it literally builds the user interface based on the data in the XML text file, but is a little focused on the role playing functionality in that, for example, the dice rolling functionality is hard coded into it, although the various dice rolling ranges/options are also populated from a separate XML file to allow editing when not in the development environment. Anyway, this bit of software lets you load new blank characters, edit the info including adding categories of information, editing these categories, and items and then lets you save the character sheets for future reference/reuse etc. It's done in newish microsoft technology - .Net framework 3.5 development environment, so might need an up to date computer to use it, but runs fine on both my XP home work machine as well as my windows 7 work machine, but they both have the development software installed on them, and I haven't gotten around to putting together any form of installation package as of yet since literally finished it off around 20 minutes ago - currently around 2AM Sunday morning this side, but thought might as well post a message here to find out if anyone would be interested in something like this at all. Also, while the interface is meant to also be usable/useful for sighted people, I haven't yet had a sighted person try it out for me to see how the dynamic interface generation affects the look/feel/layout of it, since didn't do too much general windows development in the old days either, but it works fine for me along with both jaws and NVDA, but suppose might not look too good for a sightie...LOL! (did try use things like window width percentages to try do what I think should look alright, but in the old days when could see mostly worked on webpages anyway) It also sort of implements a tiny bit of re-use of your screenreader/MS TTS voices to say things sometimes, but, the primary one you might notice is that when it's loaded it'll initially tell you the name of the character
Re: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software
Oh, yes, should also have said, that if you want to know how to edit data etc., hit F1 key after program is loaded and it'll bring up a message box telling you all the relevant shortcut keys. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: matheus an...@bol.com.br To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 3:28 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software hi. i'm really interested in it! can you please create a installer for it and upload it to your web site, or to something like sendspace,or dropbox? or even if you don't wana create a installer, just zipping the files it's ok for me.. hmm, and and what link should i click in this site that you pasted www.runequest.com to play the game that will use these things(the dice,the cheet with the character management, etc)? thanks so much! -Mensagem original- De: Jacob Kruger jac...@mailzone.co.za Para: gamers@audyssey.org Data: Domingo, 8 de Novembro de 2009 02:09 Assunto: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software Have just sort of finished off putting together my small piece of software to manage a character sheet for a version of role playing called RuneQuest: http://www.runequest.za.org/ It's basically a different version of dungeons and dragons FWIW, and my app is only really made to let me do better than using my laptop to edit a text file, along with a small dice rolling app I made before, but it basically builds a sort of dynamic interface based on an XML character data sheet, and I suppose could also be used easily enough, without too much modification to just carry out a form of info management since it literally builds the user interface based on the data in the XML text file, but is a little focused on the role playing functionality in that, for example, the dice rolling functionality is hard coded into it, although the various dice rolling ranges/options are also populated from a separate XML file to allow editing when not in the development environment. Anyway, this bit of software lets you load new blank characters, edit the info including adding categories of information, editing these categories, and items and then lets you save the character sheets for future reference/reuse etc. It's done in newish microsoft technology - .Net framework 3.5 development environment, so might need an up to date computer to use it, but runs fine on both my XP home work machine as well as my windows 7 work machine, but they both have the development software installed on them, and I haven't gotten around to putting together any form of installation package as of yet since literally finished it off around 20 minutes ago - currently around 2AM Sunday morning this side, but thought might as well post a message here to find out if anyone would be interested in something like this at all. Also, while the interface is meant to also be usable/useful for sighted people, I haven't yet had a sighted person try it out for me to see how the dynamic interface generation affects the look/feel/layout of it, since didn't do too much general windows development in the old days either, but it works fine for me along with both jaws and NVDA, but suppose might not look too good for a sightie...LOL! (did try use things like window width percentages to try do what I think should look alright, but in the old days when could see mostly worked on webpages anyway) It also sort of implements a tiny bit of re-use of your screenreader/MS TTS voices to say things sometimes, but, the primary one you might notice is that when it's loaded it'll initially tell you the name of the character spoken even if you run a screen reader or not. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4582 (20091107) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management
Re: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software
wow. great work in this app! it will certain help peoples with gamebooks! infact, i'm going to search for gamebooks to play now! i'm really interested in getting started with that. i already was, but the idea of having always to create a text file, open another program to roll the dice, etc made me want to think again and didn't even start. the only suggestion that i have, is to put in the dice selection combo box more options, actualy there are only 3 options from what i see. 1-6, 1-20 and 1-100. is there a way to add more options to that? and congratulations again for creating this awesome program.. -Mensagem original- De: Jacob Kruger jac...@mailzone.co.za Para: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Data: Domingo, 8 de Novembro de 2009 02:53 Assunto: Re: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software Oh, yes, should also have said, that if you want to know how to edit data etc., hit F1 key after program is loaded and it'll bring up a message box telling you all the relevant shortcut keys. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: matheus an...@bol.com.br To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 3:28 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software hi. i'm really interested in it! can you please create a installer for it and upload it to your web site, or to something like sendspace,or dropbox? or even if you don't wana create a installer, just zipping the files it's ok for me.. hmm, and and what link should i click in this site that you pasted www.runequest.com to play the game that will use these things(the dice,the cheet with the character management, etc)? thanks so much! -Mensagem original- De: Jacob Kruger jac...@mailzone.co.za Para: gamers@audyssey.org Data: Domingo, 8 de Novembro de 2009 02:09 Assunto: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software Have just sort of finished off putting together my small piece of software to manage a character sheet for a version of role playing called RuneQuest: http://www.runequest.za.org/ It's basically a different version of dungeons and dragons FWIW, and my app is only really made to let me do better than using my laptop to edit a text file, along with a small dice rolling app I made before, but it basically builds a sort of dynamic interface based on an XML character data sheet, and I suppose could also be used easily enough, without too much modification to just carry out a form of info management since it literally builds the user interface based on the data in the XML text file, but is a little focused on the role playing functionality in that, for example, the dice rolling functionality is hard coded into it, although the various dice rolling ranges/options are also populated from a separate XML file to allow editing when not in the development environment. Anyway, this bit of software lets you load new blank characters, edit the info including adding categories of information, editing these categories, and items and then lets you save the character sheets for future reference/reuse etc. It's done in newish microsoft technology - .Net framework 3.5 development environment, so might need an up to date computer to use it, but runs fine on both my XP home work machine as well as my windows 7 work machine, but they both have the development software installed on them, and I haven't gotten around to putting together any form of installation package as of yet since literally finished it off around 20 minutes ago - currently around 2AM Sunday morning this side, but thought might as well post a message here to find out if anyone would be interested in something like this at all. Also, while the interface is meant to also be usable/useful for sighted people, I haven't yet had a sighted person try it out for me to see how the dynamic interface generation affects the look/feel/layout of it, since didn't do too much general windows development in the old days either, but it works fine for me along with both jaws and NVDA, but suppose might not look too good for a sightie...LOL! (did try use things like window width percentages to try do what I think should look alright, but in the old days when could see mostly worked on webpages anyway) It also sort of implements a tiny bit of re-use of your screenreader/MS TTS voices to say things sometimes, but, the primary one you might notice is that when it's loaded it'll initially tell you the name of the character spoken even if you run a screen reader or not. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4582 (20091107) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list
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I'm also going to see if I can persuade the publishers of the new fighting fantasy series to publish accessible pdf version of their books, as they're already making versions which can be viewed on the I phone, --- -so this would help there too. As to progress, I've E-mailed their site, but got no response. their forum requires a capture to register, but I'll se if I can get their Uk office by phone next week. beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Jacob Kruger jac...@mailzone.co.za To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 12:47 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software It should be perfectly doable. Another silly/stupid thing already have put on my site is a dice rolling webpage: http://www.blindza.co.za/dice/ I would just need to incorporate the dice results with the character sheet data, but that wouldn't really be an issue. Will maybe try check out gamebooks as well, since it would really depend on how their interface actually works. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 2:39 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software Hi Jacob. would it be possible to make such applications for use with gamebooks? applications which would both hold a character's stats, and roll the necessary dice in combat? there are quite a few gamebooks online in which it's necessary to physically keep a status sheet and roll dice, and this process could be considderably sped up by use of an application. The most common system used in downloadable gamebooks is the Fighting fantasy system, a very functional but basic system the rules of which can be read on http://www.arborell.com/ a site which itself features html gamebooks with in built character sheet etc (though other ff adventures are downloadable which do not have the convenience of being on that site). There is also the slightly more complex system featured in the incredibly high quality gamebooks on www.arborell.com itself, and indeed a far more complex system stil, which runs over the many gamebooks in the Lonewolf series, found on www.projectaon.org which already has a couple of apps written for it, neither of which is sadly accessible as one features dodgy java, and the other uses microsoft silverlight. Something to help in any of these series would be welcomed by both Vi and sighted people I think, sinse accept for the lonewolf series on project aon, - none have any sort of application support in the way of stat keeping or dice rolling. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Jacob Kruger jac...@mailzone.co.za To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 12:09 AM Subject: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software Have just sort of finished off putting together my small piece of software to manage a character sheet for a version of role playing called RuneQuest: http://www.runequest.za.org/ It's basically a different version of dungeons and dragons FWIW, and my app is only really made to let me do better than using my laptop to edit a text file, along with a small dice rolling app I made before, but it basically builds a sort of dynamic interface based on an XML character data sheet, and I suppose could also be used easily enough, without too much modification to just carry out a form of info management since it literally builds the user interface based on the data in the XML text file, but is a little focused on the role playing functionality in that, for example, the dice rolling functionality is hard coded into it, although the various dice rolling ranges/options are also populated from a separate XML file to allow editing when not in the development environment. Anyway, this bit of software lets you load new blank characters, edit the info including adding categories of information, editing these categories, and items and then lets you save the character sheets for future reference/reuse etc. It's done in newish microsoft technology - .Net framework 3.5 development environment, so might need an up to date computer to use it, but runs fine on both my XP home work machine as well as my windows 7 work machine, but they both have the development software installed on them, and I haven't gotten around to putting together any form of installation package as of yet since literally finished it off around 20 minutes ago - currently around 2AM Sunday morning this side, but thought might as well post a message here to find out if anyone would be interested in something like this at all. Also, while the interface is meant to also be usable/useful for sighted people, I haven't yet had a sighted person try
Re: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software
If you look at dice.xml, it's a structured text file with those 3 options in, and you can just copy the current item elements and add new ones in like this: item name=1-100 value=1-100 / That's just the item for 1-100, so changing it to something like this would add in an option for 1-10: item name=1-10 value=1-10 / The name and the value just happen to be the same for structure purposes, and while the name/value content get's used as a description, I'm also splitting it based on the -/dash in the middle for max/minimum values, and so while sometimes you might want a few more options like only certain values, this is a simplified version. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: matheus an...@bol.com.br To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 4:11 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software wow. great work in this app! it will certain help peoples with gamebooks! infact, i'm going to search for gamebooks to play now! i'm really interested in getting started with that. i already was, but the idea of having always to create a text file, open another program to roll the dice, etc made me want to think again and didn't even start. the only suggestion that i have, is to put in the dice selection combo box more options, actualy there are only 3 options from what i see. 1-6, 1-20 and 1-100. is there a way to add more options to that? and congratulations again for creating this awesome program.. -Mensagem original- De: Jacob Kruger jac...@mailzone.co.za Para: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Data: Domingo, 8 de Novembro de 2009 02:53 Assunto: Re: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software Oh, yes, should also have said, that if you want to know how to edit data etc., hit F1 key after program is loaded and it'll bring up a message box telling you all the relevant shortcut keys. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: matheus an...@bol.com.br To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 3:28 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software hi. i'm really interested in it! can you please create a installer for it and upload it to your web site, or to something like sendspace,or dropbox? or even if you don't wana create a installer, just zipping the files it's ok for me.. hmm, and and what link should i click in this site that you pasted www.runequest.com to play the game that will use these things(the dice,the cheet with the character management, etc)? thanks so much! -Mensagem original- De: Jacob Kruger jac...@mailzone.co.za Para: gamers@audyssey.org Data: Domingo, 8 de Novembro de 2009 02:09 Assunto: [Audyssey] RPG Character sheet management software Have just sort of finished off putting together my small piece of software to manage a character sheet for a version of role playing called RuneQuest: http://www.runequest.za.org/ It's basically a different version of dungeons and dragons FWIW, and my app is only really made to let me do better than using my laptop to edit a text file, along with a small dice rolling app I made before, but it basically builds a sort of dynamic interface based on an XML character data sheet, and I suppose could also be used easily enough, without too much modification to just carry out a form of info management since it literally builds the user interface based on the data in the XML text file, but is a little focused on the role playing functionality in that, for example, the dice rolling functionality is hard coded into it, although the various dice rolling ranges/options are also populated from a separate XML file to allow editing when not in the development environment. Anyway, this bit of software lets you load new blank characters, edit the info including adding categories of information, editing these categories, and items and then lets you save the character sheets for future reference/reuse etc. It's done in newish microsoft technology - .Net framework 3.5 development environment, so might need an up to date computer to use it, but runs fine on both my XP home work machine as well as my windows 7 work machine, but they both have the development software installed on them, and I haven't gotten around to putting together any form of installation package as of yet since literally finished it off around 20 minutes ago - currently around 2AM Sunday morning this side, but thought might as well post a message here to find out if anyone would be interested in something like this at all. Also, while the interface is meant to also be usable/useful for sighted people, I haven't yet had a sighted person try it out for me to see how the dynamic interface generation affects the look/feel/layout of it, since didn't do too much general windows development
