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Overies
07-20-2003, 11:32 AM
I'm not that experienced in programming but I did manage to make in a few hours today a very nice and useful (i think) program.

It's dos prompt and kind of .. mm .. unprofessional looking, but I think it's very useful.

It's a program that you basically type in one of each of the research components you have (new research), and it will come up with all the spells you can make with the components you have.

I'd appreciate any info / input you can give .. and also, i realize (and you should too!) that the file is an EXE and could potentially have nasty viruses / ETC that do crazy stuff to your computer.. You just have to take my assurance that it doesn't .. and its just a simple c++ dos prompt type exe file i put together today.. if anyone wants to test it out and vouch for me they can ..


Hope you like it, i sure do since im tired of weeding through all the spell info to see what i can make with the components i have hehe.

file can be found here:
files.themexp.org/~eatbab...ProgV1.zip (http://files.themexp.org/~eatbabies/OveronNewResearchProgV1.zip)

edit:

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it finds combinations of the items you have

so it wouldnt turn up anything for just dew clover, it would however find something if you did dew clover, and all the other items that were in a spell

(lets say you go hunting and get a bunch of research items, you can type them in the program to see if they can actually make anything)

the exe terminates afer one use, (well, you have to type something at the very end for it to actually terminate), this i could fix by having it ask if you wanted to continue or quit..

Overies
07-20-2003, 11:43 AM
whoops just realized i didnt add something at the end to keep the window open /program from terminating immediately after listing spells


fixed it heh, if your having that problem just redownload

Panamah
07-20-2003, 02:09 PM
I have a similar program available on the SpawnWeek web page, providing my database server is still at the other end. Ooops, looks like it's not responding any more. I should fix that.

Tubben
07-20-2003, 03:22 PM
I would like to use it but ;-).. no offense. But anyone here can check / prove this programm dont have a backdoor? :)

Tubby

FyyrLuStorm
07-20-2003, 03:37 PM
Weelll,

I gave Overon the benefit of the doubt(I know, I know). On a non EQ machine(so I can't really test the back door thingy anyways).

But it seems a little buggy to me.

First thing I typed in was 'dew clover'. It found nothing.
Typed 'quit', it says there are no spells.
Typed 'quit' again and it closed on me. No prompt.
Played with dew clover some more, no spells.

I typed in 'yeath' hit enter and it closed on me. With no prompt.

So I dunno. The exe thing is going to be a real big turn off. I would suggest webbing it, if you can.

Would be nice to have full wild carding too; type 'page 8' and it finds all with 'page 8' in it(whatever).

Overies
07-20-2003, 03:43 PM
oh,

it finds combinations of the items you have

so it wouldnt turn up anything for dew clover, it would however find something if you did dew clover, and all the other items that were in a spell

(lets say you go hunting and get a bunch of research items, you can type them in the program to see if they can actually make anything)

the exe terminates afer one use, (well, you have to type something at the very end for it to actually terminate), this i could fix by having it ask if you wanted to continue or quit..


i just put it together in a few hours heh, and i unfortunately dont have the knowledge to make it a web program =\

Overies
07-20-2003, 03:45 PM
oh also, the "quit" command quits the entering of components

so youd have to enter in all the components you had before typing quit, and then it would list the spells you can make


mm maybe the word "quit" is counterintuitive, i could change it to "done" or something

Pikallo
07-20-2003, 11:49 PM
one small thing to make it more user friendly would be to add a line after you input the string to simply convert the entire string to uppercase or lowercase, i can't remember the exact coding in c++ but it would be something like

input_line = strupr(input_line); or
input_line = strlwr(input_line);

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Overies
07-21-2003, 01:02 AM
i need to put an include file in and then do either a string.tolower() or a character.tolower() command .. i forget the include file though =\


ill have to take a look through some stuff to find it heh

Overies
07-21-2003, 11:13 AM
program updated to version 1.1

new features:

the program does not terminate after one use rather it asks if you want to input again

changed 'quit' to 'done' to make it less counterintuitive


still need to find the tolower stuff heh