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Karagin
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 Posted: 01-May-2019 22:44 Post subject: How do I put Manufacture and such in for mechs? |
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Okay so when using the mech editor here, how do I fill in the fluff for Manufacturer and the rest?
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Mordel
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| Posted: 04-May-2019 11:01 Post subject: Re: How do I put Manufacture and such in for mechs? |
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| Karagin wrote: | | Okay so when using the mech editor here, how do I fill in the fluff for Manufacturer and the rest? |
At the moment, you can't. I have an enhancement request in for that (www.mordel.net/ers.php?a=v&r=495), but there has never been a big push for it. On the surface it's simple enough to add. But collecting all the possible manufacturers of the various pieces of equipment, that's a big task.
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Rudel Gurken
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| Posted: 05-May-2019 10:05 Post subject: How do I put Manufacture and such in for mechs? |
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Maybe you can implement a blank space and let it in the responsibility of the designer of the mech to enter the equipment as they wish. That would free you from entering vast lists of manufacturers.
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Karagin
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| Posted: 05-May-2019 11:59 Post subject: How do I put Manufacture and such in for mechs? |
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Taking the above idea and maybe setting up a way to capture the info we enter for the weapon makers and the rest...that way you get a continuous list that is a good mix of things.
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Mordel
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| Posted: 05-May-2019 18:00 Post subject: Re: How do I put Manufacture and such in for mechs? |
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| Karagin wrote: | | Taking the above idea and maybe setting up a way to capture the info we enter for the weapon makers and the rest...that way you get a continuous list that is a good mix of things. |
Not a bad idea. Can have a textbox that auto-populates suggestions based on what you type. But it will also accept new entries. Then as new entries are added, it populates into a lookup table which feeds back into the suggestion cox.
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| Posted: 14-Jun-2019 09:34 Post subject: How do I put Manufacture and such in for mechs? |
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Hey all. So I made all the updates for this and they are on the Sandbox site (same username/password as the main site as it's just a DB copy). I won't be around much this weekend, so will wait for Monday to push everything live as I like being around in case my update breaks something.
I made some major improvements to the auto-suggest boxes that appear (UI is nicer, Prev/Next links, shows total # results, better event handling).
I also moved the various pages for unit design into tabs along the top.
And finally, manufacturer information. Everything is auto-suggest with the ability to enter your own values. So you can use what is already present, or you can enter your own if it doesn't exist yet. If entering your own, it saves your values to the DB and they'll be available for future searches on other designs. It saves the values based on "type" of component. So if I entered 'Type VI' for a Streak SRM-6, then that suggestion will only appear on lookups related to Streak SRM-6s.
Anyways, if anyone is available and wants to have a play with it, the sandbox URL is sandbox.mordel.net/index.php. Let me know if there's any feedback. If I hear nothing, I'll push all these live on Monday.
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Rudel Gurken
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| Posted: 14-Jun-2019 17:59 Post subject: How do I put Manufacture and such in for mechs? |
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Thank you for all the work and dedication you put into this site!
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Rudel Gurken
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| Posted: 16-Jun-2019 04:23 Post subject: How do I put Manufacture and such in for mechs? |
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I sent a site message to you but it does not appear in my „sent“ folder.
Did you get it?
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| Posted: 16-Jun-2019 14:57 Post subject: Re: How do I put Manufacture and such in for mechs? |
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| Rudel Gurken wrote: | I sent a site message to you but it does not appear in my „sent“ folder.
Did you get it? |
I did, and will reply shortly. Just got back home. 
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