|
Post by starfixer on Aug 20, 2012 0:47:14 GMT -5
Wow I have no idea how to edit this. It would be alot easier if i could see it as its displayed in the game and work from there
|
|
|
Post by Cory Trese on Aug 20, 2012 0:48:25 GMT -5
Shallow Thought obviously has some experience with HTML -- he created much of the contents. Many of your suggestions have been incorporated based on your other posts, so it may be easier to post suggestions to him and I. If you think the help file is complex the actual game code is about 1000x harder
|
|
|
Post by starfixer on Aug 20, 2012 0:48:42 GMT -5
Okay starting to figure this out. But Im clicking it and i cant add/remove anything. How do I add stuff?
|
|
|
Post by Cory Trese on Aug 20, 2012 0:49:41 GMT -5
What I was doing was downloading the ZIP to my machine, decompressing it and then using my web browser to view and Notepad2 to edit.
|
|
|
Post by starfixer on Aug 20, 2012 0:52:35 GMT -5
What I was doing was downloading the ZIP to my machine, decompressing it and then using my web browser to view and Notepad2 to edit. Can you please explain to me in a more simple manner? Im not really familiar with this but I really want to make some edits and help you out. Is there a way you could send it to me in a format that looks the same as the game? Is there a simpler way to edit it?
|
|
shallowthought
Exemplar
[ Patreon & Star Traders 2 Supporter ]
Posts: 382
|
Post by shallowthought on Aug 20, 2012 1:27:32 GMT -5
Open the link to google docs, click file->download. Right click the zip file, then something like "extract here".
To edit the files, you can use notepad, but it's not great. Google for notepad++, install it and use that to open the html files.
If you've never used html before, google for html tutorial. There's nothing advanced in the html files though, you might be able to work it out just by looking at what's currently in them.
|
|
|
Post by starfixer on Aug 20, 2012 1:41:41 GMT -5
Im just copying it and pasting it to microsoft word and editing it. Although i have a few questions before I can complete. I sent cory an email.
|
|
|
Post by Cory Trese on Aug 20, 2012 1:43:24 GMT -5
Im just copying it and pasting it to microsoft word and editing it. Although i have a few questions before I can complete. I sent cory an email. That won't work, sadly, I won't be able to use any edits that aren't done in the HTML format that the system consumes. Might be best to post them in text on the forum and let Shallow or I fold them into the HTML. If you copy and paste into Word you'll remove the markup and I won't be able to publish them in the APK. PS: I wrote back on your PM. No problem posting questions like that into the thread tho, it's no secret how the officers and upgrades work
|
|
|
Post by Cory Trese on Aug 20, 2012 1:45:40 GMT -5
Open the link to google docs, click file->download. Right click the zip file, then something like "extract here". To edit the files, you can use notepad, but it's not great. Google for notepad++, install it and use that to open the html files. If you've never used html before, google for html tutorial. There's nothing advanced in the html files though, you might be able to work it out just by looking at what's currently in them. If you can figure it out using ShallowThought's steps here, you have pretty much learned how to make web pages and help files for ANY game, not just ST RPG. Good skill, worth the practice. Where I work we pay several people good money for being able to do just that.
|
|
|
Post by starfixer on Aug 20, 2012 1:48:10 GMT -5
well i might have screwed it up but Im doing my best. Man do I feel bad for you. This is the help code, I cant even imagine a ship code, upgrade code, boarding code. I had no idea it was this frsutrating and time consuming.
|
|
|
Post by grävling on Aug 20, 2012 2:02:06 GMT -5
I believe that the thing that starfixer is looking for is an html wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) editor. This is a popular one. www.kompozer.net/index.phpIt takes the html, renders it (i.e. makes it look like what you see in the game) and then lets you edit the rendered version in your browser. Then it automatically generates the html based on what you have typed. This saves having to learn all about html. There are other html-aware wysiwyg systems out there, I just happen to know that this one works. It may require working in the firefox browser rather than the Internet Explorer -- I am not sure about this, though. However installing firefox on your computer is no big deal, either. Hope this helps, Grävling
|
|
|
Post by starfixer on Aug 20, 2012 2:07:01 GMT -5
So one I install it, how do I make all this code look normal? I just click on a link from Cory's zip file and it'll display normal? Is there something I have to do after installing it?
|
|
|
Post by Cory Trese on Aug 20, 2012 2:07:18 GMT -5
I just need to be able to SVN merge them into my tree and use "diff" to review the changes. I worry about non-HTML editors reformatting everything and making it hard for me to merge in changes from multiple authors. And that's not a knock on SVN, that's a knock on XHTML
|
|
|
Post by starfixer on Aug 20, 2012 2:09:47 GMT -5
OMG my brain is hurting. You know what, Im just gonna edit it from the code. Its easier. The whole code is already there, its fine. I sent an email another email to cory about officers. Once i get a response, I can successfully complete the new officer help and everything will be included. Everything including every single update ever, everything mentioned at every post, everything that was ever in any per-existing help I have added. It will be physically impossible for there to be anything missing.
|
|
|
Post by fallen on Aug 20, 2012 9:55:37 GMT -5
starfixer - thanks for the edits! And thanks for being willing to use a normal text editor, as it makes the merge so much easier. Try something with syntax highlighting (shows the tags) like Notepad++. Can't wait to see your newest revision!
|
|