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floydg -> WitPTracker now at 1.6 (6/24/2009 3:12:33 AM)

It's been over six months and while we've rested quite a bit, we have made some decent fixes and enhancements to the program. And with that, here is Version 1.6.

The following problems were (hopefully) fixed:
  • Read turn hanging when no pilots have any kills
  • LCU Formation comparison and handling of device upgrades
  • Sorting issues in Base Panel and Device Panel
  • Removal of split air groups from the database after they've been recombined
  • Ship Upgrades for two months out wasn't wrapping properly around the new year
  • Assorted small stuff we probably forgot we fixed

    The following features / changes have been added:
  • Sorting in all history pop-ups
  • Industry panel added columns for supply and fuel
  • Ship Production added some pop-ups
  • Alert when R&D has been accelerated
  • Alert and handling when an air group changes its maximum size
  • AV (approximate) displayed in LCU panel and LCU history
  • Export to comma-separated file for several aspects (Alerts, Devices, Device History, Airframe Production, Engine Production, LCUs, LCU History). This is from the File menu and the files are created in the "local" directory. Comments welcome on this...
  • TF Panel added information on aircraft total and per-ship; new pop-up showing air groups in the TF
  • New summary tabs: LCU information, Air Group information; additional info in Naval and Pilots tabs
  • More ship classes to filter in Ship Panel
  • Filtering by aircraft type in the Air Groups panel
  • Assorted small stuff we probably forget we added

    Note that databases from versions earlier than 1.5 will be automatically upgraded by the program to add new information on some of the objects (version 1.5 databases will not need to be upgraded for this release).

    The program can be found in the regular place (http://witptracker.googlepages.com)

    Thanks for all of your support, encouragement, comments and patience as we polish this thing.

    Floyd and Damian



    • Nomad -> RE: WitPTracker now at 1.6 (6/24/2009 3:36:23 AM)

    One thing that would be handy is an alert for a ship repairing to 0 SYS damage.

    And a hearty thank you for your efforts.



    floydg -> RE: WitPTracker now at 1.6 (6/24/2009 3:55:32 AM)

    quote:

    ORIGINAL: Nomad

    One thing that would be handy is an alert for a ship repairing to 0 SYS damage.

    And a hearty thank you for your efforts.


    Yeah, I think you asked for that one before, no?
    I'll put it on my list for sure this time... [;)]

    And you're most welcome.

    By the way, let me know how the LCU upgrade stuff works.



    n01487477 -> RE: WitPTracker now at 1.6 (6/24/2009 4:21:48 AM)

    First of a few messages about some of the new features (If you haven't seen them in my AAR) & some hopefully simple tutorials of the new stuff we've incorporated. As I said to Floyd the other day, I've been a bit negligent in telling you all what some of it means, and want to make amends. And hopefully I won't scare you off too much from learning this tool...

    No Nemo121 this is not from our game, so don't think you'll gleam any useful info here [:-][:D]

    First - Industry (Supply and Fuel)...the corner stone of all construction.

    [image]local://upfiles/19798/C1D8298EA04E445380863168508A7D09.jpg[/image]



    n01487477 -> RE: WitPTracker now at 1.6 (6/24/2009 4:33:43 AM)

    Another from the Industrial area... (I'll do more in a few hours time)[sm=00000939.gif]

    [image]local://upfiles/19798/9622209880EF4DDEBA4D474A17EB38F0.jpg[/image]



    n01487477 -> RE: WitPTracker now at 1.6 (6/24/2009 6:50:36 AM)

    Upgrading ... (should have started with this I guess) ...

    [image]local://upfiles/19798/8686ADAACC484ABDBEB5A981B76B11E7.jpg[/image]

    Also if you ever try to initialise the DB first time and you made a mistake with the properties, you should delete the DB files as I have said above, change the properties and then try again ...



    n01487477 -> RE: WitPTracker now at 1.6 (6/24/2009 7:31:58 AM)

    Ok. last for the moment, explaining a bit about the AirProduction screens ...

    [image]local://upfiles/19798/7A72A0118B6344FBBB626240D5B7CFF7.gif[/image]



    n01487477 -> RE: WitPTracker now at 1.6 (6/24/2009 3:33:29 PM)

    1.6 Available The program can be found in the regular place (http://witptracker.googlepages.com)

    Next in the series ... more explanation of the Air Production screen ...

    [image]local://upfiles/19798/EFF8E5DDBFF043038FEDCDC43A6600F6.gif[/image]



    n01487477 -> RE: WitPTracker now at 1.6 (6/24/2009 3:41:29 PM)

    TBO and Potential use
    1.6 Available The program can be found in the regular place (http://witptracker.googlepages.com)



    [image]local://upfiles/19798/2F3F34AA9A064AAAA6C371F0C97850A0.jpg[/image]



    n01487477 -> RE: WitPTracker now at 1.6 (6/24/2009 3:56:00 PM)

    Engine Planning Tool (Japanese only)
    1.6 Available The program can be found in the regular place (http://witptracker.googlepages.com)

    [image]local://upfiles/19798/49AE7B12B4AB48CF9924B77B7FC4D6B8.jpg[/image]



    n01487477 -> RE: WitPTracker now at 1.6 (6/24/2009 4:02:25 PM)

    1.6 Available The program can be found in the regular place ( http://witptracker.googlepages.com )
    New screen of the TF - air pop-up...

    As you can see fairly self explanitory (although you might be thinking why 200 /210 - Well one group is off the TF). Floyd and I talked about including these but it didn't make the cut this time, but I'll see if I can add a switch so you can see where those wayward groups are in the future.

    [image]local://upfiles/19798/207D08ACE1A54956969EA79F499B5E6D.jpg[/image]



    n01487477 -> RE: WitPTracker now at 1.6 (6/24/2009 4:22:14 PM)

    1.6 Available The program can be found in the regular place ( http://witptracker.googlepages.com )
    Some of the LCU changes... last for tonight [>:][>:]

    [image]local://upfiles/19798/D8A92E0E26224BC992E42F0A55F9AA94.gif[/image]

    So what do you guys think ?



    CaptDave -> RE: WitPTracker now at 1.6 (6/24/2009 6:29:22 PM)

    Speaking as someone who is playing the Japanese side, for the first time, with production on, I think the engine planning information is a godsend. Thank you! [&o]



    Dili -> RE: WitPTracker now at 1.6 (6/24/2009 7:09:18 PM)

    quote:

    So what do you guys think ?


    Outstanding!



    n01487477 -> RE: WitPTracker now at 1.6 (6/25/2009 1:42:05 AM)

    1.6 Available The program can be found in the regular place ( http://witptracker.googlepages.com )

    CSV exporting ...



    Thanks Dili and CaptDave for the support ...

    [image]local://upfiles/19798/CAEDFA336F634F458CAB8DB5329B10C6.gif[/image]



    USSAmerica -> RE: WitPTracker now at 1.6 (6/25/2009 3:10:29 AM)

    Damien, Floyd, it looks like you guys have delivered once again!  I can't wait to get a turn from my opponent to load, so I can see all of the new goodies.  [:D]

    Thank you, gentlemen!  [&o]



    n01487477 -> RE: WitPTracker now at 1.6 (6/25/2009 4:32:10 PM)

    Thanks Mike (USS America) ...

    While I'm here just showing two new alerts...

    Should I continue my tutorial series ? Any requests ?

    --Damian--

    [image]local://upfiles/19798/8A903CF5F0004406A5E970EE030DACB6.jpg[/image]



    USSAmerica -> RE: WitPTracker now at 1.6 (6/25/2009 5:10:30 PM)

    Please continue the tutorials.  Even though I play as the Allies, it's a great demo of functions I haven't yet used. 

    Oh, and I really like the "Return to action" alert.  [:)]



    wbm4x -> RE: WitPTracker now at 1.6 (6/25/2009 6:05:30 PM)

    With R&D, is there any way to show how many planes have been built after the R&D factory(ies) have been repaired? In other words, is there a way to show, perhaps in the air production screen, how far along the x100 planes a current R&D project has accumulated and give us a view of the possibility of early airframe arrival?

    BTW, I've been working with Tracker for a couple of months and it is just fantastic. Keep up the good work.

    Bill



    herwin -> Bug Report for 1.6 (6/25/2009 6:54:40 PM)

    I'm blowing off during initialisation with an array index out of range exception. The index is -1 and the place is SummaryPanel.SetSummary(SummaryPanel.java:662). This happens whenever I try to run with an existing database. If there's no database, the program is fine. The existing database can be one created by 1.6 or inherited from 1.5.



    Nemo121 -> RE: Bug Report for 1.6 (6/25/2009 10:51:43 PM)

    quote:

    No Nemo121 this is not from our game, so don't think you'll gleam any useful info here [:-][:D] 


    As if I'd stoop to snooping for info.... oh, ok, yeah, good call actually [8D]



    n01487477 -> RE: WitPTracker now at 1.6 (6/26/2009 12:08:58 AM)

    quote:

    ORIGINAL: wbm4x

    With R&D, is there any way to show how many planes have been built after the R&D factory(ies) have been repaired? In other words, is there a way to show, perhaps in the air production screen, how far along the x100 planes a current R&D project has accumulated and give us a view of the possibility of early airframe arrival?

    BTW, I've been working with Tracker for a couple of months and it is just fantastic. Keep up the good work.

    Bill

    Sorry, we will not include that information as it is not shown in the game, but thanks for the support

    --Damian--



    n01487477 -> RE: Bug Report for 1.6 (6/26/2009 12:19:31 AM)


    quote:

    ORIGINAL: herwin

    I'm blowing off during initialisation with an array index out of range exception. The index is -1 and the place is SummaryPanel.SetSummary(SummaryPanel.java:662). This happens whenever I try to run with an existing database. If there's no database, the program is fine. The existing database can be one created by 1.6 or inherited from 1.5.

    Herwin, I know why this is a problem for you as I just made a test, it comes from incorrectly assigned bases to regions. If in the past you assigned based to regions using the import-base region definitions and there was an error. eg using the RHS-EEO bases when you are playing another version of RHS - then an error occurs.

    This gets translated into screwing up the system, my snafu I'm afraid and I didn't see it before release.

    To fix it: -
    1. because you had problems with 1.5, I guess you are using 1.4. Manually go through and make sure all the bases are correctly assigned to regions. Then try to upgrade.
    or
    1. Start afresh - new DB, load a turn. Then go through and manually assign your bases to regions. (If you let me know the scenario you are using I'll make you a cluster file for it over the weekend)

    Sorry again Herwin, we seem to make life difficult for you.

    --Damian--



    n01487477 -> RE: Bug Report for 1.6 (6/26/2009 2:55:39 AM)

    Mini Tutorial -- Setting regions and Clusters
    First it is not the intention of this AAR to be purely about WitpTracker ... but I get some questions so I want there to be a place where they are answered.

    1. After loading the savefile the first time you might notice that some bases are not assigned to regions. This must be done to ensure that all the economic data is collated properly.

    [image]http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/n01487477/WITP_IMPORT/Import_0.jpg[/image]

    2. Click File --> Import Base-Regions Definitions

    [image]http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/n01487477/WITP_IMPORT/Import_1.jpg[/image]

    3. A dialogue box will open, go into the folder Region-Mappings

    [image]http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/n01487477/WITP_IMPORT/Import_2.jpg[/image]

    4. Pick your mod and click open (I'm using the EmpireAblaze mod)

    [image]http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/n01487477/WITP_IMPORT/Import_3.jpg[/image]

    5. After clicking open and then confirming, all the bases will be assigned to regions. Next --> Setting Bases and Regions and exporting.

    PHOTOS
    (AND just so you know I'm using photo bucket to show these pics)
    1. Make an account with them http://photobucket.com/ (be careful - I never give accurate details!), upload the photos
    2. copy each url onto a message ... 
    http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/n01487477/WITP_IMPORT/Import_3.jpg

    3. In this forum area copy the link and place image tags around it ... 
    [image]http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/n01487477/WITP_IMPORT/Import_3.jpg[/image]

    4. That's it ... easy right!!!

    Mini Tutorial - Assigning Base to Region
    Say you find a base that you want to reassign ... Wake Is. Is certainly not West Coast USA

    [image]http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/n01487477/WITP_IMPORT/WITP_REGIONS/Region_0.jpg[/image]

    So click on the Region Column and scroll to the required Region ... click .. that's it ...

    [image]http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/n01487477/WITP_IMPORT/WITP_REGIONS/Region_1.jpg[/image]

    What about making a new region and assigning a base ?
    1. File - > regions

    [image]http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/n01487477/WITP_IMPORT/WITP_REGIONS/Region_2.jpg[/image]

    2. Click New and type in a name and click "Create"

    [image]http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk135/n01487477/WITP_IMPORT/WITP_REGIONS/Region_4.jpg[/image]

    3. Go back and change the Base-region assignment on the drop-down list

    Next ... a bit more on saving clusters (please if you have good cluster files for mods can you please send them to us - for inclusion)



    herwin -> RE: Bug Report for 1.6 (6/26/2009 9:37:51 AM)

    quote:

    ORIGINAL: n01487477


    quote:

    ORIGINAL: herwin

    I'm blowing off during initialisation with an array index out of range exception. The index is -1 and the place is SummaryPanel.SetSummary(SummaryPanel.java:662). This happens whenever I try to run with an existing database. If there's no database, the program is fine. The existing database can be one created by 1.6 or inherited from 1.5.

    Herwin, I know why this is a problem for you as I just made a test, it comes from incorrectly assigned bases to regions. If in the past you assigned based to regions using the import-base region definitions and there was an error. eg using the RHS-EEO bases when you are playing another version of RHS - then an error occurs.

    This gets translated into screwing up the system, my snafu I'm afraid and I didn't see it before release.

    To fix it: -
    1. because you had problems with 1.5, I guess you are using 1.4. Manually go through and make sure all the bases are correctly assigned to regions. Then try to upgrade.
    or
    1. Start afresh - new DB, load a turn. Then go through and manually assign your bases to regions. (If you let me know the scenario you are using I'll make you a cluster file for it over the weekend)

    Sorry again Herwin, we seem to make life difficult for you.

    --Damian--


    Reunion was unassigned... If anyone needs it, I have a region file now for RHS 7.95. It's posted to the back-up site. Look at the back end of the page. Damian, you can grab it for your collection.



    ny59giants -> RE: Bug Report for 1.6 (6/26/2009 8:38:36 PM)

    Damian or Floyd,

    Is there an easy way to see what repaired the turn before?? I would like to be able to look at a list of where each 1000 supply points was spent during the turn on aircraft factories, oil, resources, etc..



    n01487477 -> RE: Bug Report for 1.6 (6/27/2009 1:40:12 AM)

    Micheal,
    you can see what will repair the next turn  ... if a base has 10K at it - it will repair (the building happens before supplies are moved) ... I get your point though.

    There are a few other ways to find the info, but not a comprehensive list.

    --Damian--



    Nomad -> RE: Bug Report for 1.6 (6/27/2009 2:01:59 AM)

    Damian and floyd, a quick note that for the first time I remember in a long time I had a hang up loading the next turn. I have created a new DB with the version 1.6 release. I had loaded about 4 or 5 turns and last night It got to comparing leaders and just quit. I gave it at least 30 minutes but it never completed. I exited and restarted the bat file and everything seemed to load ok and the next couple of turns have loaded right.



    floydg -> RE: Bug Report for 1.6 (6/27/2009 3:46:04 AM)


    quote:

    ORIGINAL: Nomad

    Damian and floyd, a quick note that for the first time I remember in a long time I had a hang up loading the next turn. I have created a new DB with the version 1.6 release. I had loaded about 4 or 5 turns and last night It got to comparing leaders and just quit. I gave it at least 30 minutes but it never completed. I exited and restarted the bat file and everything seemed to load ok and the next couple of turns have loaded right.


    Hmmm... I thought I had all of that licked.
    Did it happen on each load of a new turn (before the restart), or just one?



    Nomad -> RE: Bug Report for 1.6 (6/27/2009 4:03:59 AM)

    Just the one and it was about the 4th turn I loaded into the DB. It doesn't seem to have caused any problems and the last 4 or 5 turns have loaded without a problem.



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