If I would remake Heroscribe

[StratosVX]

Don't forget import functions. I think summer semester is about 5 weeks away or so. I'd be happy to help if I can. One thing that I think is overkill, but might be necessary is the number of files needed for icons. We have raster, vector and sample. Do you think it would be possible to condense these down to just vector? Might also make implementing an import option easier.

[lestodante]

Please try to make the map of the same size of the Questbook. Heroscribe maps are a little flatten, so they have the same lenght in horizontal bur shorter in vertical.
Also for the notes: some kind of auto-formatting text to make them fit in one single A5 page.

[Anderas]

I did not even see this deviation until now! Wow.

I am thinking about using svg as file format.
It is modern, widely distributed, supported....
And....
We could put the monster fight values directly inside. Because it has a metadata tag.
Then we would get rid of the Ghostscript problems so many of us encountered.

[StratosVX]

Also for the notes: some kind of auto-formatting text to make them fit in one single A5 page.

Keep in mind that by using this option, the amount of information that people can enter will be limited. There is absolutely no way I could have used this when I compiled the archived quests from the site. Some of Dewayne Agin's notes went on for multiple full pages. I like this idea, but I think it should be an option to turn on for people that can keep their quest notes small.

[Maurice76]

Also for the notes: some kind of auto-formatting text to make them fit in one single A5 page.

Keep in mind that by using this option, the amount of information that people can enter will be limited. There is absolutely no way I could have used this when I compiled the archived quests from the site. Some of Dewayne Agin's notes went on for multiple full pages. I like this idea, but I think it should be an option to turn on for people that can keep their quest notes small.

How about the option to simply add further notes? Something like inserting a page specifically for extra notes, so to speak. You could have the default of the map with 1 page of Quest text, but then an option to extend the notes with further pages. This could come in two flavors: one that simply copies the map so you don't have to flip the page all the time while reading the quest (in which case any changes to the map would have to be automatically copied to the clone on the next/previous page) with 1 additional page for quest notes, or a blank insertion of 2 empty quest note pages.

[Anderas]

Well, I see this as a not-problem, to be honest.
When there is no space, a new page will be made.

Half the first DinA4 or letter is the map, the other half is flavor text and quest notes.
If the quest notes extend, the next page are quest notes only. Why not. I mean, it's bad style in most cases with few remarkable exceptions, but why not.
Then, if there are special monsters used, somewhere there will be a table explaining them.

This is a problem we will solve once the basic soft runs, not before....

[cornixt]

I did not even see this deviation until now! Wow.

I am thinking about using svg as file format.
It is modern, widely distributed, supported....
And....
We could put the monster fight values directly inside. Because it has a metadata tag.
Then we would get rid of the Ghostscript problems so many of us encountered.

Supporting PNG files would make it much more open for people to use existing pictures, and they have much more support, especially on older computers and tablets.

[devarionarias]

I have a little bit of experience with Python, but not much with GUI for it. I found this article here which may be useful if the built in Tkinter is used.

https://docs.python.org/3/faq/gui.html says it can be used cross platform (also check out FAQ at the bottom for it)

AND

https://www.python-course.eu/python_tkinter.php lists what sort of built in widgets it has

[Anderas]

I did not even see this deviation until now! Wow.

I am thinking about using svg as file format.
It is modern, widely distributed, supported....
And....
We could put the monster fight values directly inside. Because it has a metadata tag.
Then we would get rid of the Ghostscript problems so many of us encountered.

Supporting PNG files would make it much more open for people to use existing pictures, and they have much more support, especially on older computers and tablets.

Today we have the sample and raster pngs and the eps files
eps is for high quality, sample is for the html showing off all the icons, and raster is the version you see in the export png.
The trick about exchanging EPS for SVG is that we then have support where we have none today (talking only about the vector corner of the software here).

SVG is supported directly in every browser.
check this svg for example:

[Anderas]

So the GitHub repository is set up.

https://github.com/Anderas2/Heroscribe2