Raptoer
January 15th, 2010, 04:35 AM
Hello all, some of you know me, but the important thing is I'm probably going to be making a utility for C3I.
The main purpose of this utility is to make Dinko's life easier, as it will hopefully eliminate improperly formatted army lists. It should also make the simple parts of the game trivial, and thus allow more advanced parts to stand out more.
This utility will be a stand alone java application, it will read in the excel files provided, give a sorted/filtered list of units available and an organized list of units selected along with a cost.
-The units selected will be organized into proper companys, brigades, and divisions and display a warning if they do not conform to dinko's standards.
-The user will be able to supply a modifier to the cost via a command line, this may be supplemented later by allowing the admin to distribute a scenario file with the government type/whatever bonuses in a non-human readable format that the admins will distribute keys to that will apply or reveal some bonuses but leave the rest obscured. This system is given no guarantee of security beyond being unable to open the file in notepad.
-Possibly allow dinko to distribute an end of turn file. This file would contain all of the data from the battles, but each user would be able to view only the portion that dinko allows using a key/pw given to the user at the start of the game.
The utility will not do the following:
-Interface with Steel Panthers
-Send the file to dinko
-explode, thus destroying your town (ok, it just might).
In case any of you are wondering, I'm doing this for fun, tbh I'm not actually interested in playing C3I, dunno why though.
I'll take whatever suggestions you guys have and see what I can do with them. I also have no idea how long this will take, I haven't really done java UI before.
The main purpose of this utility is to make Dinko's life easier, as it will hopefully eliminate improperly formatted army lists. It should also make the simple parts of the game trivial, and thus allow more advanced parts to stand out more.
This utility will be a stand alone java application, it will read in the excel files provided, give a sorted/filtered list of units available and an organized list of units selected along with a cost.
-The units selected will be organized into proper companys, brigades, and divisions and display a warning if they do not conform to dinko's standards.
-The user will be able to supply a modifier to the cost via a command line, this may be supplemented later by allowing the admin to distribute a scenario file with the government type/whatever bonuses in a non-human readable format that the admins will distribute keys to that will apply or reveal some bonuses but leave the rest obscured. This system is given no guarantee of security beyond being unable to open the file in notepad.
-Possibly allow dinko to distribute an end of turn file. This file would contain all of the data from the battles, but each user would be able to view only the portion that dinko allows using a key/pw given to the user at the start of the game.
The utility will not do the following:
-Interface with Steel Panthers
-Send the file to dinko
-explode, thus destroying your town (ok, it just might).
In case any of you are wondering, I'm doing this for fun, tbh I'm not actually interested in playing C3I, dunno why though.
I'll take whatever suggestions you guys have and see what I can do with them. I also have no idea how long this will take, I haven't really done java UI before.