workin on a program

[sklarcakes]

I have a small home office, and set up my traders on various computers and account depending on what computer is in use.

Being a software type, I figured I was tired of continually
entering values for items, so I've started writing a program
to help me manage and log bazaar stuff.

Though its not finished yet, it will display trader information
and logs. In the near future, it will allow to cut-copy-paste
items and save the trader ini files. I've been toying with other
ideas (such as some trivial reporting on the logs), but I
am currious to get some input from the community.

To try it, you need java 1.2 or later installed on your
machine. You need to edit the bazeq.property file
to point to your eq directory (this will won't be a manual
process shortly.) Then to run it, type
java -jar bazeq.jar
or
java -cp bazeq.jar Bazeq

If anyone wants to contribute new icons for the server/trader/log/player tabs, I'd appreciate it.

If there is enough interest from programmer types,
I'll open source the project.

You can download the program from
http://www.xyplot.com/bazeq.zip

Cheers,
Sklarcakes/Sklinker
Noble Lions
Tarew Marr

Note from the editor: Download file from the internet at your own risk. This author, while working on what sounds like a nice tool, is unknown to the owners and staff of EQTraders. ~Lothay

[sklarcakes]

More Information

Added a menu bar, rudimentary implementation of cut and paste, it saves trader files now, added a page at http://www.xyplot.com/bazeq.htm to download and view instructions.

Cheers

[Sanna]

Ooh, a Tarew dude. I'll say hi next time I swing through. ^_^


Ok... read this, read the page... keep in mind that you are a programmer, and I'm gonna guess that the majority of the rest of us are not. Therefore: Speak Simply and Carry a Large Dummies Book.


I got the zip.

I unzipped the zip.

I edited the .properties file. Took me a second to realize that a drive is only gonna have 1 backslash. (D:\everquest or to that effect.)

My computer seems to tell me I have Java 1.4.something installed.

I went to Run and typed that line. I got a black DOS looking box on the screen that flashed some data and then disappeared.... and then nothing.




I say this here and not in an email since I assume other people are going to be looking at this program (it looks nifty, I wouldn't be trying it if it didn't ^_^). Hopefully maybe this helps you.

Yes there's a chance I have the wrong Java thingy installed; I'll pester the boyfriend to look at it and tell me. Oh, and referring back to the 'you are a programmer and I/we are not....' How would someone check if they have the appropriate Java? Where would I go to get the appropriate Java?


Thanks in advance, and it looks like a nifty program...


-- Sanna
darnit, I need to take a programming course... so tired of not understanding 85pct of what comes out of my BF's mouth... >_<

[sklarcakes]

nooooo!

You do need the two \\ unfortunately.

So...

C:\\Program Files\\Sony Entertainment\\EverQuest

[Sanna]

Hm. 2 \\ where applicable, still no worky when I run the 'java -jar...' part.

May have to wait till Thurs to get the BF to take a look at my Java programs. Will get back to you then.

-- Sanna

[tsbaity]

Doesn't work for me either, I get an empty window.

[sklarcakes]

wee hours

I need to see what error messages are comming up.

However, I've since implemented the feature
to go pick the eq directory. Right now I'm going
on the assumption bad things happen if the
this directory is not found. I'll test that.

If you can, do something like this...

java -jar bazeq.jar > out.txt

and e-mail me the out.txt file.

Cheers,

[sklarcakes]

as of 11 am mdt

You no longer need to edit the properties file,
and I've added a merge menu item that will
merge all pricing data accross players by the following
rules:
if the price is not zero pick the item of the higher price

the download page no longer points to a zip, but
the jar directly

http://www.xyplot.com/bazeq.htm

[tsbaity]

Deleted the old files, and downloaded the file again.


java -jar bazeq.jar
java.io.FileNotFoundException: bazeq.properties (The system cannot find the file
specified)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
at EqConstants.getInstance(EqConstants.java:40)
at Bazeq.load(Bazeq.java:32)
at Bazeq.main(Bazeq.java:92)
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError

[sklarcakes]

easy

That should not happen with the jar I put on the website this morning Please grab the new one.

[tsbaity]

Like I said, I deleted all the old files and got the new. Did it again with same results.

[sklarcakes]

no such method

I was distracted by the first error and ignored the second. NoSuchMethod implies its trying to call code that is not in the jar.
Unfortunately its not telling me where/who.

I've just update the program to dump out extra information on
a startup failure. Please send me the outout of this, and
the java -version

Thanks

ps people can ;tell marr.Sklinker, Sklarcakes, or Tepol me
with comments if i am on