FETMatt
Hi all,

Got a few ideas for feature requests for the Offline Order editor.

1 - The abilty to select a large number of files for the Parser. For example if you have 5 turns come in, it would be nice if you could select all 5 turns and click 'Run Parser' and it would do all 5 turns.

This one may not be a editor thing per se but it would be nice to see.

2 - The option to have your turns sent to you as text file attachements. At the moment I have to cut and paste the turns from my email client to a text editor. It would be nice if we could have the files as attachments, it would save a lot of work.

That is all thanks. Otherwise it is really great and I look forward to the new version (the direct upload feature looks great)

Cheers

Matt
David Bethel
QUOTE
1 - The abilty to select a large number of files for the Parser. For example if you have 5 turns come in, it would be nice if you could select all 5 turns and click 'Run Parser' and it would do all 5 turns.


It accepts wild cards already. Like *.trn

May look at the attachment thing, its just a different type of mime. I think thats how it was done originally.
nortonweb
Are you sure about that I just tried 204_51_1_*.txt and it just gave me those ones to pick one of!!!!

Pete
Steve-Law
QUOTE (nortonweb @ Dec 20 2004, 01:27 PM)
Are you sure about that I just tried 204_51_1_*.txt and it just gave me those ones to pick one of!!!!

Yup. One of the earlier versions allowed this but v1.2.3 and 1.3.2 don't.

nortonweb
So I'm not doing it wrong .. that's good ...

Then the answer is no most versions don't accepts wild cards like *.trn.

Would that be right? So the request should go back into the queue.

Pete
Steve-Law
oops. Sorry my mistake. I just tried W:\*.txt and it's still parsing now.

What I was thinking of was I thought that the earlier version let you (ctrl/shift) select multiple files in the browse. I could be wrong (but that would be a better way imo).
nortonweb
No worries..

Well my version I'm running doesn't like that at all it only allows one file at a time..

David can you give us a list of the versions that allow multiple file parsing.

If you have time of course :-)

cheers
Rich Farry
As stop gap measures you could try:

- Saving several turns to one file (Outlook will save several selected mails to text as one file automatically for example)
- Merging files
Archangel
I have just experimented with version 1.3.3

Using a text string "C:\Program Files\Skeletal\Phoenix\Received\Archangel\*.txt" in the text box on the left of the 'Browse' button works like a charm. Multiple files are parsed based on the wild card match mechanism.


However, the dialog box which pops up when the browse button is clicked has not had the relevant background option enabling multiple selections enabled by the developer. It could also be the case that relevant code that processed the dialog box selection does not handle multiple selections any way.

Note searching a list of files that matches a regular expression then processing those that match is not quite the same as processing a list of file names one at time.
Darrenworthy
Hi,

I have another idea for a feature.

When the parser finds a ship, starbase etc that has a different name from the name that is already in it, it reports that it has changed it's name. Would it be possible for the parser to report the old details that will be overwritten by the new ones as well?

i.e. rather than simply:

CIA SHIP Example (1234) (changed)

it would report:

CIA SHIP Example (1234) (was CIA SHIP Now you see me...)

Cheers,

Darren