Re: Palming It Off (was RE: FT computer files page)

On 24-Mar-00 at 15:53, Izenberg, Noam (Noam.Izenberg@jhuapl.edu) wrote:
> From: Roger Books <books@mail.state.fl.us>
> 
> >Well, I use Viewer III to store SSDs of my ships (made with the
Gimp).
> >I don't see a big market for a ship design program, I can find those
> >other places.  What would be wonderful would be something like Viewer
> >III that allowed you to mark off boxes.  I've considered writing this
> >myself, but currently I'm writing a Perl module for handling ships
> >and fleets in FB using GZF, but that won't run on a Palm.
> 
> *Drool* That's exactly what I was starting to think about as well. I
have
> little hope of coding anything, but would love such an application.
> _Ideally_ we'd want a Palm OS application in which you select weapons
(from
> your fleet's available list), rnages,  and targets, and the app rolls
the
> dice, calculates damage, and beams the info over to your opponent's
> Palm/Visor/etc, which in turn automatically marks off hull and rolls
thresh
> damage for its ships. Now _that's_ a project.
> 

Actually, I don't want the die rolling done on the Palm.  I have this 
rather severe distrust of the random number generators I have seen on
the Palm.  It's more fun to roll anyway.

> That aside, I still haven't found an application I like to translate a
ship
> spreadsheet format to an SSD. All the dedicated programs seem
cumbersome,
> and freehanding it is so time consuming.

I do it by hand, not that big a deal once you have the icons set up.

Roger