Has anyone ever thought about a print command from nightmare? I have a bad memory, and even worse handwriting(i can't even read it). What I was thinking about was a tool that would take edits and list them in text format to print. Maybe something just for the edits that are made, not for the whole database. Something like map# room#, item# itemname, monster# monstername.......something like that the stats could even be included. I always hate opening nightmare only to have to look through everything to find one edit that I've made and i can't remember anything. A tool like this would be of great value for those of us that have memory loss.......i guess i did too many drugs in highschool.....
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Kain
a idea [Archive] - ForumsHQ
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admiralacid
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Re: a idea [Archive] - ForumsHQ
--how i wanna see it done--
A button or some other control to dump the record your working w/ into its own database. Will it will seek out and update the records or append to the table? What ever it does, it should time stamp it too just for fun.
Later you can get a "report view" of what has been done. It will dump (all or most recent) to a text file so you could print, use for online bbs option or for web pages.
A button or some other control to dump the record your working w/ into its own database. Will it will seek out and update the records or append to the table? What ever it does, it should time stamp it too just for fun.
Later you can get a "report view" of what has been done. It will dump (all or most recent) to a text file so you could print, use for online bbs option or for web pages.
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Ark
Re: a idea [Archive] - ForumsHQ
That would be very nice, but a *ahem* nightmare to code, as it were. Syntax seems pretty good though, and it's not a bad idea at all, hopefully he'll put something like this into the next NMR :)
- Ark
[edit] Well, I guess there's 2 ways I could think of to do this that wouldn't be *too* difficult.. The first would be simply to log every change you make as you make it, with the original values, into a database on the fly... The second would be to use the 'stock' databases as a baseline, then find every discrepency, and report that. No purpose for this, just my mind wandering :P
- Ark
[edit] Well, I guess there's 2 ways I could think of to do this that wouldn't be *too* difficult.. The first would be simply to log every change you make as you make it, with the original values, into a database on the fly... The second would be to use the 'stock' databases as a baseline, then find every discrepency, and report that. No purpose for this, just my mind wandering :P
Re: a idea [Archive] - ForumsHQ
how about a "restore record from database" option -- you would select a database and a record number (or range of records), and then select a database to restore it from (allowing you to restore records to their original state).
the problem with saving your changes to a separate db is that when you switch records in NMR, it saves. i could turn that off, but i think its usefull more times then not. since it saves on every record change i would have to write the original and changed records to the seperate DB for every record change. if i only did the changes it would still have to check every value to see what's changed in between switching records and would cause a lot of performance loss.
about the "print" command thing ... my offline viewer (http://www.mudinfo.net/explorer/) (coming soon) has an option to "copy to clipboard" on most of the records which can be usefull if you want to print or store info somewhere.
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the problem with saving your changes to a separate db is that when you switch records in NMR, it saves. i could turn that off, but i think its usefull more times then not. since it saves on every record change i would have to write the original and changed records to the seperate DB for every record change. if i only did the changes it would still have to check every value to see what's changed in between switching records and would cause a lot of performance loss.
about the "print" command thing ... my offline viewer (http://www.mudinfo.net/explorer/) (coming soon) has an option to "copy to clipboard" on most of the records which can be usefull if you want to print or store info somewhere.
-syn