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Post by GooRoo on Oct 14, 2017 20:09:09 GMT -8
So I now have the urgent task of creating a 2017 index by release date! And there are also the Designer, Graphicz Area, Alphabetical and Difficulty indices to be updated.
It's work, but it's FUN work that needs to be done. Just sad that the year is almost over before there were any submissions tested and ready for release. And it looks like there will soon be 21 more puzzlez that will be verified for release, so I'd better get cracking!
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Post by GooRoo on Oct 14, 2017 20:28:50 GMT -8
2017 index now exists ... Designer index update is my next task.
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Post by GooRoo on Oct 14, 2017 21:03:56 GMT -8
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Post by swietymiki on Oct 15, 2017 6:58:45 GMT -8
I'd like to point out a small mistake: since battlez do not have a difficulty, the difficulty next to Cash Mania should be an empty box.
Other than that, still waiting for the updated map and walkthrough to be put in the index and the thread announcement.
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Post by GooRoo on Oct 16, 2017 11:17:50 GMT -8
Gruntz In Space index is now up-to-date. But the wakthrough for "The Four Sword Gruntz" is a .DOC file, and I do not have Office, so do not have Word to display it. So I have not linked it into the thread, or to the various indices ... yet.
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Post by GooRoo on Oct 16, 2017 13:57:23 GMT -8
Hard difficulty index is now up-to-date. But the walk-through for "The Four Sword Gruntz" is a .DOC file, and I do not have Office, so do not have Word to display it. So I have not linked it into the thread, or to the various indices ... yet.
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Post by GooRoo on Oct 16, 2017 13:58:16 GMT -8
Alphabetical (T) index is now up-to-date. But the walk-through for "The Four Sword Gruntz" is a .DOC file, and I do not have Office, so do not have Word to display it. So I have not linked it into the thread, or to the various indices ... yet.
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Post by swietymiki on Oct 21, 2017 11:41:16 GMT -8
You do not need Microsoft Office to open the .doc file. You can download OpenOffice for free and it will run just as fine.
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Post by GooRoo on Oct 21, 2017 15:52:27 GMT -8
You do not need Microsoft Office to open the .doc file. You can download OpenOffice for free and it will run just as fine. I just went through the process of downloading (and registering) OpenOffice. Will install it on the laptop and check it out after dinner (4:53PM now).
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Post by GooRoo on Oct 24, 2017 14:27:56 GMT -8
First off, OpenOffice works just fine on my laptop Windows 10 computer.
I just finished updating all of the "by release date" indices, so that clicking on a Designer name will present you with a list of all of the Custom Levelz (Questz and/or Battlez) that that person has created. The indices by graphics area also work that way, and (so far) Very Easy, Easy, Hard, Very Hard and Frustrating difficulty indices as well.
The alphabetical and the many 'Medium' difficulty indices will either go very fast, or very slow, depending on whether they have somehow become obfuscated (all of the carriage return and line feeds eliminated) ... thanks to 'replace' functionality. Just a few entries for Designers (those with rather long 'handles') are a problem for me ... because I was lazy when I set up their entries, and made their tags short ... in a non-standard way.
Due to browser caching, you may need to do a refresh to see the changes.
BTW, this is a project I undertook in anticipation of the rest of Wedrikul's "Mini Campaign" set of puzzlez being successfully BETA tested and verified. So I am going through the various indices trying to make them ready for the new additions. When I discovered how horribly the "Rocky Roadz" index had been messed up, I wanted to fix problems before updating any index became more time-sensitive. Fortunately, only a few indices required major effort in repairing them.
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Post by GooRoo on Oct 24, 2017 16:16:41 GMT -8
So far, not so good. The first three alphabetical components were messed up, so it took me about four times as long to make the Designer link changes. Dinner time now, so I will likely call it quits for the project for this day. Puzzlez beginning with a number, and the letters A and B are corrected.
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Post by Perfect Grunt on Oct 28, 2017 1:54:36 GMT -8
How much time do you spend with updating those indizes?
I have the feeling that using a database for it would be a lot faster...
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Post by GooRoo on Oct 29, 2017 19:22:56 GMT -8
I have corrected (I believe) all of the errors caused by renumbering the threads created in late 2015 ... affecting all 32 of the 'Standard Level' re-dos for this Forum's twelfth anniversary. As part of that process, I eliminated the two-step process of seeing an individual's Custom Level index; now clicking on an author's handle in any of the other four indices (Graphics Area, Difficulty, Date Released and Alphabetical) will take you directly to the current index of the CLz submitted and released.
Tomorrow I will tackle the 2017 releases ... all 22 of them.
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