New Race Viewer/Profiler (ESP) Utility Released

[ColdSteel]

Andres,

Thanks for the nice feedback and ideas.

I've had some very similar ideas to yours (as has Raynor who had some suggestions for me too) but since I was teaching myself how to code in Python and generate the HTML code with the HTLMgen module from scratch, I needed to learn how to crawl before I could walk (so to speak).

Because of the Python learning curve I've kept things fairly simple to start out but do plan to add some more sophisticated stuff in the next Version now that I've pretty much learned the language.

One idea I had that I thought would be really, really cool would be to take each race, and produce HTML pages for each of their ship designs, turning all the cryptic weapon families and other numbers into graphics and text by X-referencing with the components files. That way you could see fairly easily (and graphically) what technologies the race's attack ships, etc. would research and use.

I'll look into the bug you reported, thanks. Yes, the main.html page is generated Last as you surmised. I agree something happened before it got there. I'll need to add in some more error checking and display and maybe an error log file to report them out. That's a lot of files. What was the Last race and file it processed correctly? That might be a good clue.

I'll also look at the output reformat you suggest since I was thinking something similar.

Thanks again.

-CS

[ 29 April 2002: Message edited by: ColdSteel ]