A Ship Generator

BETA 6
Ladies and Gentleman, its out. Not much new stuff, but some fixes and, most importantly, the custom stuff creator.

Files
As always the program comes in different flavours, all packed into self-extracting RAR-Archives with recovery record.
Upgrade: will conserve all your options (basically only changes the stsc.exe and adds the "docs" directory)
Full version: carefull, overwrites all your options
Full w/ sources: includes my Delphi programming sources

Fixes
- Problems with floating point SU and Power costs
- Flickering of lists on slow PCs when changing rapidly options

Known issues
- SIF is still being deleted after ship size change. Got the problem nailed down, though, will fix it asap

Custom items
I won't say much here. When you unzip the files, you will find a "doc" directory with a winword file explaining how it works. If you wish another format for the file, please contact me.

Upcomming
My vacation. I can deploy hot-fixes until Sunday midday if need arises, please post here or e-mail me (you got my e-mail under "info"). After that, I'll be off for about 2 month.

Thanks
To all of you for waiting so long and not killing me in the process. :D

Thanks Zortiander. I've been waiting for this :) I'll load it later & have a play. Cheers

Sundowner :cool:

Beta 6 / Beta 6.1
List of known errors

All issues stated here will be fixed / have been fixed in Beta 6.1,s cheduled for Sunday. If you find any other bugs / errors please post them here, or better yet e-mail them to me and I'll get upon it asap.
The current status of the problem solving is written behind the line with an appropriate colour code.

SU Calculation
- The cloaking device was not calculated correctly (missing "+" in SU cost calculation) FIXED
- The sensor arrays were not taking into account the options FIXED
- The SIF cost did not get updated on size change. FIXED

Feature Changes
- The SIF works perfectly now and was changed it design DONE
- Simple printing into a text file Partially completed (Hull, Personnel, Energy, Propulsion, Sensors)
- Some code cleaning DONE
- New Dialog for printing DONE
- Some changes to the labels DONE
- Redid the layout of the hull page a bit DONE
- Internal support for many new help itemsDONE

Incompatibilties
- SIFs from Beta 6 are incompatible with SIFs from Beta 6.1. This should however be the last incompatibility that I will encounter. NOT CHANGEABLE

BETA 6.1

Just a new exe-file, the changes are listed in the post above:

Beta 6.1 updated exe

Just replace the existing stsc.exe with this one.

Please be sure to delete all SIFs on your ships with this new version. They are incompatible

Notes on Beta 6.1
The simple printing into a text file hasn't got finished, its still experimental. It doesn't save the file, but you can copy paste it into notepad or a similiar editor and print it from there. Its just a quick and dirty solution to get your ship on paper.

I am away on vacation now for a month or two, so don't expect Beta 6.2 until then, sorry folks if it takes so much time.

What to expect in beta 6.2
- finishing the text file printing
- security systems will be implemented
- some additional categories for custom items
- a utility to create custom items (so you don't have to write the lines by yourself)

What is planned in the future
- finishing one day the HTML printing (grrrrr)
- an automatic update program (working on this one already)
- revamp the help file format (html maybe?)
- finish writing the help files (after revamp though)
- race dependant SU allocation (klingons pay differently for a bridge etc.)
- include race dependant SU for custom items, too

Time planning
I might have some more time during my next term, so chances are good programming will advance a bit faster. Priority number 1 are bigfixes of course, number 2 is doing the race dependant SU, number 3 is playing with things like an auto-updater etc. and printing comes last. You may ask why? Honestly, I don't like to code good-looking HTML so I postpone that as strong as I can. :rolleyes:

Just a last longing look at one of my favourite threads.

Thank Zortiander, hope to hear from you about this,

Sundowner:(

Well guys... I won't log in again, so I say good-bye to you all. You can always look up my web page that I will haul up and where I'll post news and such about my STSC. I will get a forum running later on, too. But all somewhere in mid-october.

As for all of oyu who want regular e-mails, about program updates and the like, write me an e-mail and I'll put you on the list.

Goodbye to all of you, Sundowner I'll meet you somewhere in space be sure!

And to all of you who play EVE, send me an eve-mail to Zortiander and we shall meet again.

Cheers
Zortiander