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Hi Richard, I know I mentioned this before, but it keeps driving me crazy, so I thought I'd ask about something I just thought of.

In quite a few decks 0 the fool is numbered 78, is there any way to make the numbering in the edit area number the 0.pix file 78, so the rest of the numbers match the number they are in the notes area?

That way only one card wouldn't match. I know it can't start at 0, as zero isn't real as far as counting goes, but just thought I throw this out there.

Also I know you won't be working on any of this until after the summer (yay nice weather!), but you mentioned you have a list of wants, and wondered if you'd share that with us, and maybe we can all peek and vote on the ones we want the most .-) LOL

Thanks again for being so there with us,
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Solution is much easier than that, Shari: just use Irfanview Batch File Rename for that. Quick and easy! Best
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Sorry I wasn't very clear on what I was talking about. Card 1 (The Magician) is numbered 1 in Tarot, and the file is named 01.jpg, one everywhere. However when your in the F6 Edit area, it's numbered 2. Sometimes I find it a bit disconcerting to my numbering self. I thought maybe there was a way to make the program number from the 01 file, and then make the 00 file the last number, which in a typical Tarot deck would be 78.

So I'm not trying to renumber my card files. I don't think just renumbering the cards would work anyway, as I thought you had to have 00 file for the program to work correctly.

In reality, the Magician is the 2nd card in the deck... so it even makes sense. I just happened to be doing something yesterday, and got thrown off (which isn't difficult), and it made me think about it again.

Richard, forget I asked. Today I'm ok again LOL just one of those things around here we call a brain fart .-)

Carry on!
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Hi Shari,

OK, I will post the list of suggestions soon...I am away visiting family at the moment, so maybe next weekend. By the way, thanks for your offer to assist in bringing the help file up to date. I am not sure when the best moment to start thinking about that might be though. My big worry is always to find the right time to approach the translators with these things, so as not to be foreverer pestering them with little changes.

As far as the numbering thing goes, one easy way to bring the two things into line might be have a preference to Number from zero instead of one on the Card Note form. This would be easy to do because the number that appears there is just a label, it doesn't affect the rest of the program. So you could opt to have the fool displayed as zero the same as the card itself is numbered. Or maybe I could just change it to work that way, I can't imagine anyone would be really upset...(?)

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Hi Shari, Everyone,

As promised, this is the list of bugs and known issues that need to be fixed, and the list of improvements that have been suggested.

Known bugs:

The Spread and Reading Wizard allow you to use the ampersand symbol in the name of a new Spread or Reading, but if you do the file in question won't work.

Apparently some long, thin decks are sometimes not being absorbed by the parking rectangle when the user wants to park the deck. I thought I had fixed this but I hadn't.

People still write to me with messages about a critical error to do with a missing DeckCollection.xml file. I can't work out what is causing this.

Improvements:

After sharing a deck in the Deck Exchange, you can't edit the name of a deck you just shared. It is picked up from the name of the directory. You should really be able to do this.

The file size of the zip file should be visible as a column on the Deck Exchange. This would give people a better idea of how long the download might take.

It would be nice if the zoom window could show a comparative zoomed image by tapping in turn on different cards. It would be especially useful for spreads with a lot of cards in them, where the cards themselves obviously have to be small.

Would be cool if the Deck Exchange gave statistics.

Have an always collect cards on entering the Tarot Zone option.

If a deck includes a background.jpg file the program should display that by default when no other background is specified. This would be cool for P2P sharing but might slow down exchanges if the graphic were too large.

Buy a digital cetificate so downloaded files don't provoke a scary warning message from 2000, XP or Vista.

Would be good to go through all the CardData.xml and Spread files on the site and weed out the senseless ones (i.e. the ones that no longer render properly because they were made with previous versions of the program). This is more of a To Do than a program improvement.

The big one: make it so that cards can be freely rotated through a series of angles. Probably five degree steps would be nice. Spread and reading files would have to be redesigned to compensate for this. There would have to be some intuitive way of rotating the card in the program.

Extend the Fast Find tool to work with spreads.

Have a proper error log that people can read - at the moment errors are written to a text file. Some people might have trouble locating the file so it would be easier if there were an Errors Log form in the program.

Have a relaunch deck button for when you are in the OTZ.

With a bit of scripting, would it be possible to make the program install different versions of CardData.xml? This is a question for me to look in to. Depends on Windows Installer, but it would be nice for a German user to see the card notes appear in German for the default decks included with the setup files, etc.

Mouse scrolling in spread wizard.

Make it so you can save a unique combination of decks that you have chosen on the compare cards form, so you can always bring up that set and see them side by side. I like the idea that these sets could also be used as templates for tours where you change from one deck to the next, taking them all in order.

No-one has suggested this, but I know it to be true: on changing decks, the program could be made to apply the nice transition affects you sometimes see in Internet Explorer when navigating from one site to another. One background image could disolve, to be replaced by the next. Or they could change via rotating or sliding strips in the way of eighties TV shows (think Dallas).

Context-sensitive help.

Would be nice to put a progress bar on the FileManagement control for when you copy folders.

Add some sounds - just for shuffling and dealing.

On the Articles page in the OTZ it would be nice if you could also upload images. This could be done but it is down the bottom because the Articles page, along with the Resident Readers page, seem to attract little interest.

Make it so that you can launch readings or spreads, from their respective managers, via the context menus on the trees.


...These suggestions are in no particular order. Or really they are in a combination of two orders, because on the main list I keep I add more recent suggestions at the top, but from time to time I will relegate a suggestion which I think is trivial by moving it to the bottom. There are some more suggestions on the bottom of the list which I haven't included here becuase they are, while good, really very trivial indeed.

Keep 'em coming!

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here are my top 5 suggestions... (not talking about bugs)

*New* A way to add a card once you have dealt the spread, and started the wizard. (Don't know if this is feasible or not)

Mouse scrolling in spread wizard.

Make it so that you can launch readings or spreads, from their respective managers, via the context menus on the trees.

Make it so you can save a unique combination of decks that you have chosen on the compare cards form, so you can always bring up that set and see them side by side. I like the idea that these sets could also be used as templates for tours where you change from one deck to the next, taking them all in order.

The file size of the zip file should be visible as a column on the Deck Exchange. This would give people a better idea of how long the download might take.

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Hi Shari,

I just uploaded the first version of the 8.3 beta, which applies the idea for the zoom window. Nothing off your list, but I had already started work on the zoom thing so it made sense to finish it. It looks like you are going to win this argument about priorities by default though, so you should see a couple of yours in the next beta release .-)

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enhancement... sometimes I do a spread for documentation using the FREE Layout mode... then I find I have an incorrect card in the spread and I want to remove one and put the right one in it's place
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Hi Richard,

As you asked, here are two Bugs, not on your list yet and two more suggestions

BUG 1: Problems with minimising, restoring etc. Whenever I go to another program, if I click on the Taskbar Icon for Orphalese, only the current Deck comes back. I then have to click the Icon on the Taskbar again TWICE, (minimise and then restore again) to get the program back. I do have a heavilly hacked version of Windows XP but none of my other software exhibits this behaviour, so I think it's just Orphalese.

BUG 2: Order of the Saved Readings. I name my readings with the date first, Year/Month/Day. (And then an indicator of which Deck and then a one word Reason for the Reading. All this stored within a 'Month' Folder.) This Date format sorts correctly ALL the time in Windows, however in Orphalese, because it tries to do it's own thing, I get my reading MOSTLY ordered correctly, but with the occasional one or two that insist on being out of order. If I look at the same files in an Explorer window they are back in correct order. Now what's going on?

IDEA 1: The option 'Launch Extra Deck' doesn't really belong in the options form. This really belongs in the Main Menu. For me the Options form should only be for 'Set and Forget' Things. Not for something like this that by its nature you will only want on sometimes.

IDEAS 2: The Seeded Shuffle Option is one that I'd like to have a Keyboard shortcut to. I use it often!

IDEA 3: (Why do ideas always multiply?) Have a separate Ideas and Bugs section in the Forum. They seem to be all over the shop. I only put these here because your long list was here.

Regards Greg the Yeti
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Post by Greg the Yeti »

Hi again Richard,

This time in reply to your note from 11 days ago

As far as the numbering thing goes, one easy way to bring the two things into line might be have a preference to Number from zero instead of one on the Card Note form. This would be easy to do because the number that appears there is just a label, it doesn't affect the rest of the program. So you could opt to have the fool displayed as zero the same as the card itself is numbered. Or maybe I could just change it to work that way, I can't imagine anyone would be really upset...(?)

If I understand you right you're saying that you might make it a Deck Option or even a Universal Program change, so that the Cards in the 'Card Notes Editor' are numbered exactly as the image files.

I think that this is a brilliant idea. I'm all for it. It would mean there was just one system and would reduce the possibilities of errors.

The current Image Numbering, 00 - 21 in the case of the Major Arcana, is of course the same as the cards and this simple fact is enough to make it desirable!

I see no problem in any divergent Decks simply being renumbered for Orphalese, as they are currently to allow easy comparisons. The Original Deck Numbering can be retained in the Card Data file for display, so as not to tamper with the Author's wishes!!

Sometimes converting an interesting Deck to Orphalese ordering can require converting lots of numbers and it CAN do one's head in! So the fewer different numerical systems the better!

Regards Greg the Yeti
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