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Post by jsager on Jun 26, 2008 19:26:27 GMT
Dave I could easily write your data out to an XML format. Can project AON host an ASP.NET website? If so I can put a little something together for 7th sense.
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Post by Dave on Jun 26, 2008 22:54:50 GMT
Okay, I'm going to continue to deal with my own format for now, then, and jsager, you can take a look at adding some XML writing functions when my editor is done. As to the website, I don't know if PA can host an ASP.NET site or not - I'll let alderaine answer that one. Thanks for the offer!
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Post by alderaine on Jun 27, 2008 9:11:57 GMT
From what Jon has said, Aon can get hold of whatever technology is needed to host various sites - if this becomes a project, let me know and I'll get Jon to set you up an account.
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Post by jsager on Jun 27, 2008 21:41:07 GMT
Dave -
Please let me know what content you would like on the site. Let's rock it out.
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Post by jsager on Jun 27, 2008 21:48:06 GMT
Another fun thing we could do (and this is crossover thinking from the common nav file and the general discussions we're having) is to have a way to note that a game that's being played is a "by the book" game (i.e. no doubling up Weaponskill), and with no saving, and then write out wins to the hall of fame on the website (i.e. you made it to the list of people who completed Flight from the Dark through The Jungle of Horrors without dying)
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Post by Dave on Jun 27, 2008 22:50:26 GMT
Another fun thing we could do (and this is crossover thinking from the common nav file and the general discussions we're having) is to have a way to note that a game that's being played is a "by the book" game (i.e. no doubling up Weaponskill), and with no saving, and then write out wins to the hall of fame on the website (i.e. you made it to the list of people who completed Flight from the Dark through The Jungle of Horrors without dying) That is a really great idea! It would be very easy to do. We just need to decide which Gameplay Rules (of which I am incorporating a *lot* more options, for customizable play) are considered "By the book" rules, and we could have a Hall of Fame. Nice idea, jsager! I'll PM you concerning the website. (One of the Gameplay Rules I'm incorporating allows for alternate weapon bonuses from magical, and even ordinarily non-magical weapons. For instance: The Sommerswerd normally just gives +8 CS all the time. Under the optional Gameplay rules, this weapon could be made to give just +2 bonus against normal enemies, and +10 vs. Darklords. This would greatly balance many of the combats. Also, special named weapons could have special bonuses against certain enemies, like Prince Pelathar's Sword could be +2 vs. Vordaks or something like that. This is, of course, only if you choose the "optional weapon bonuses" Gameplay Rule, or whatever it ends up being called.) Just a little FYI, there.
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Post by jsager on Jun 29, 2008 2:22:28 GMT
ok alderaine, before I go any further with what I'm working on for Dave, can we get official confirmation that Project Aon can host a DotNetNuke website?
DotNetNuke is free software, I just want to verify that Aon will install and host it for Dave before I go doing a lot of work for him on a DNN website only to discover Aon has run into technical difficulties and my work goes down the toilet.
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Post by haskellpaul on Jun 29, 2008 19:23:18 GMT
Hey Dave I'm looking forward to seeing the equipped items idea thingie implemented in the new version of Seventh Sense! As you'd agree, it'll definitely help to clear up a lot of confusion. Your program is awesome by the way, I really really like how customizable it is. Strangely enough, I actually like how seventh sense is sort of the opposite of Lone Wolf DS in terms of customization. The DS version feels more like a video game whereas your's feels more like a "program" and I'm hoping it sorta stays that way Keep up the excellent work man! (ps - that "hall of fame" idea you guys were talking about is freakin brilliant....)
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Post by alderaine on Jun 30, 2008 11:16:56 GMT
jsager - send me the link to the information, and I'll forward it on to the powers that be. The page will need to list all the technical requirements.
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Post by alderaine on Jun 30, 2008 11:23:10 GMT
Thinking about it, you should also draw up a sample page that we can test with - it should incorporate simple versions of the technological features you intend to use. I don't want to pressure anybody into a box, as I want to encourage free development, but you seem to have picked up one heck of a lot of projects! Just so we all know what's going on, can you jot a line with a summary of them all, and the order you intend to tackle them in? (I won't hold you to it - it's just so we have an idea.) As our only resident XML expert, the most beneficial things you can do are: 1/ Draw up the XML parsing code needed to read a page and all its info from the existing AON XML (see the CNF thread for details.) 2/ Start drawing up the complete guidelines for our final XML (Everybody at AON is looking forward to this document While neither of these may jump out at you as being glamorous, you can be assured that they will both be extremely useful to us all
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Post by jsager on Jun 30, 2008 17:02:44 GMT
I know the XML stuff isn't glorious, and I understand how important it is. As a programmer, I deal with that stuff all the time, trust me. I came here just now to take a break from coding timezone detection settings for an automated phone system. With that having been said, the reason I chose dotnetnuke for the website thing is that you can really get a site up and running in an hour or two, which is a huge advantage over coding one up from scratch. Here's a link to the dotnetnuke help section, the nav tree is on the left, and look in the hosting stuff: www.dotnetnuke.com/Default.aspx?TabId=787&TID=2670&cid=332
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Post by Thomas Wolmer on Jun 30, 2008 20:00:44 GMT
Project Aon's web hotel, DreamHost, is a LAMP provider. Even if it might be possible to run ASP.NET based applications using Mono (though I don't see support for Mono being mentioned at http://www.dreamhost.com), my understanding is that dotnetnuke requires MS SQL...? I am not in charge of things though, maybe we can tie in a MS server as well, but I don't see that happening without a substantial added extra monetary cost...
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Post by jsager on Jun 30, 2008 21:01:07 GMT
Project Aon's web hotel, DreamHost, is a LAMP provider. Even if it might be possible to run ASP.NET based applications using Mono (though I don't see support for Mono being mentioned at http://www.dreamhost.com), my understanding is that dotnetnuke requires MS SQL...? I am not in charge of things though, maybe we can tie in a MS server as well, but I don't see that happening without a substantial added extra monetary cost... Yes, DNN requires SQL, and yes if you're running a LAMP stack then it's going to get tricky. I don't see any reason to add extra money into this project. On the other hand, I also don't really want to learn PHP. What if I hosted it? Could we just link to it from Aon's site, or would that be a problematic scenario from the standpoint of how you guys like to do things?
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Post by alderaine on Jul 1, 2008 9:04:13 GMT
I have forwarded the request to Jon to see which option he prefers. Generally, AON say that sites should be hosted on their server, but I believe there are exceptions.
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Post by alderaine on Jul 1, 2008 13:36:07 GMT
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