I just wanna say Thanks soooooo much for this as my earlier copy of the initial 1.6 version by Christoph Nahr was "somehow" buggy when i was trying to load up DA values into it. Yours is proving to be steadily working and as a bonus, i would eventually get access to the new highly complex tech-trees of TA. April 23rd sure is a date to remember for all GC fans.

Although, i'm also deep into the early stages of developing 'GTeChnos' (a sort of visually oriented tool simply coded in VB05X, which is similar to Galactopedia in scope & in features but focusing more on some target details and swift values - only!) the entire analysis of researching assets couldn't have been any easier without both Christoph and your version.

If you only made a single person happy with this work... it's certainly me!
I highly recommend anyone to pick it up (specially those lucky Beta testers) - this, until mine is out though!!

I am glad you appreciate my update to Galactopedia.
By the way, in case you happen to find any bugs, I will fix them if you mention them in this thread.
Of course, if you do not have the Twilight of the Arnor expension yet, you will be unable to find bugs within the new functionality. Or at least, not yet.

This has been fixed and will be in our next beta update.

Awesome update to a great little program.

When I started to get back into GalCiv and TA I was trying to remember the name of this program and couldn't for the life of me. It was like, "I know there used to be a program to view this stuff out of the game..."

One thing you might add if it's not too hard, is the maintenance cost of the planetary improvements.

Bump! I wanted this to be easier to find.

I vote for replacing the old Galactopedia sticky with this one. The old version is no longer compatible with much and isn't even hosted at the page in the old thread. That means you have to click like 4 times to get it there.

Thanks again for the update Netriak!

Great Update. Thanks . It working better with more useful features than before.

I always try to fix any bugs, but I am not able to replicate those bugs myself. Can you show me some screenshots of them, and are you using the latest version, 1.7.4?

It may very well be that the race selector I made is on the wrong place under certain settings, but I'd need to know what settings those are. A screenshot could tell me.
The same goes for the text cut-off, although I'm sure I fixed such a bug several versions ago, which is why I'm asking whether you are using the latest version.

Okay, got the version above and installed it.

Bottom rows now display fine as expected with the side-scroller maxed down as it should. The only remaining thingy is the race selection droplist which is still above the radio-button.

I'll bet it is caused by something better known as the legendary "backhand slap to the forehead!" misconceived reasoning on my silly part or just a simple, NET settings as you suggested.
Lemme know about anything else.

Drum roll, please... problem fixed!
The combox now gloriously sits right where it should. Thks.

Now, an ever so slightly tiny framing detail; Ship Components_Driv--e, the *e* gets covered up by the frame.

Still, i wouldn't want to intrude on your coding skills but could you share the method you have used to correct some of the above? I'd simply be curious since i am also working on GTeChnos with a VB05X interfacing plan... which - in fact -- btw ---

You may be interested by this...



Latest snapshot (resized at 800 from original 1024 wide, lowered resolution) of the template i always pre-draw to develop some codes.
It is actually not exactly finished for TotA features (although the entire DA tree design is all there!)... but the small boxy (right below the multiple colored Races/octagonal cue tool_Icon) is almost ready to receive conditional items such as "A history of..." & etc.
Let's see if you can detect the Terror-Star group & the double Plagues Cure(s) location, just for fun!

For the abilities side-bar, not sure if that would be good to have all values ON or simply slapping a droplist. Still thinking about a few more thingies.
Central "hexagon-symbol splasher pic" is where the selection listings will be gathered.
And, so on.

Which, reminds me;

- Collaboration and co-authoring, would that be a possibility between the two of us?

Anyway, GalactoPedia is certainly great as it is & Netriak, you had the guts_generous_skillful mind to fix & enhance it for everyone.

In the meantime, i've got two HUGE Mods to work on and a couple of Utilities to keep on planning.

Gotcha!

Yep, it is a Visual basic **Express** '05 Edition i'm stuck with.
I figured developping in Delphi would be an indirect better way... but the routines would need a whole re-writing of the essentials & a declaration group so big it could bug itself to death before i even to get to have an effective beta copy.
Call me lazy, Pure Pascal days are long gone and C++ is much more convivial -- if one has the languages nailed and the PC compiler speed for it.

Thus, VB - licensed, not bought. Intuitive, lotsa user-friendly options, kinda easier than looking at thousands of indented lines.
Be a coder, act as a coder, cope with the tasks involved. I'm no longer the late 70's IF-ELSE basic TI/99-4A magician i've been, i guess. ASM mnemonics and SLR 16 byters operands of the mid 80's in a professional school didn't help either.
Bof, it's okay. Life goes on.

I also agree that coordination IS the main culprit of any hopes i may have had.
Then, let's call whatever comes out of my stuff; a friendly competitor of the Nahr_Netriak results.

Again, thanks for your kind help.

Back to work.

thanks for this most helpful tool !!!!


Nasty

I know its off topic, but you might want to have a look at C#. You can get it in an express version too, and it is really the best of both worlds when it comes to .Net programming. You have the fast managed capabilities of VB with all the power of C++. It also tends to be much more natural to write than VB or C++, at least to my ear. Most folks with a background in C++/Java/etc can pick it up really easy.

treborblue:

Now, first of all, is there perhaps something wrong with your twilight install?
Is there a twilight subdirectory in the galciv2 directory? Are there files missing?

If there is no obvious problem, can you post the data of the crash report?

I also just uploaded a new version, 1.7.4.36220, that supports better error messages in case of missing data. Perhaps that version can tell you what is wrong.

CommanderGizmo:

What it is doing? Loading the .net framework is what takes most of the time. If you for example run another .net program just prior to running Galactopedia after starting up your computer, Galactopedia will load in a second or so, and visa versa.
And I have no idea how one would display a progress bar in c# if the .net framework is not yet loaded...