Request

[DREDIOCK]

Couple of requests really.

I would really lke to see  something like we had in AW where after you land or are shot down that lists your last 5 or so kills.
Alot of times we get caught up in the moment of a fight and do not have time to see who you just killed. Then you land and see you got for example 5 kills. But you have no idea who it was you killed.
Myself personally I would like to know.

Another request has to do with the Strat list.
When listing the feilds while looking at strat   Would you kindly place them in numerical order?
It would make finding the info on the feild you want to look up about 1000 times easier. The Way its set up now is a real PIA.

[JB73]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Another request has to do with the Strat list.
When listing the feilds while looking at strat   Would you kindly place them in numerical order?
It would make finding the info on the feild you want to look up about 1000 times easier. The Way its set up now is a real PIA.

then all bases would have to be named

0001
0014
0214

always a zero in front of the name. computers are stupid. make 10 text files in a folder naming them 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, and 10.

then arrange the folder contents by name.

the order will go:
1
10
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

putting the "1"'s together like AH does now.

unless you name all bases with a zero digit in front (and all base numbers with the same ammount of digits IE XXXX) you wont get a "numerical" list.

even 01,02,0123,044,04,022 wouldnt sort right. not the same ammount of digits.

it would go:

01
0123
02
022
04
044

it has to be 0001 and so on. hope this makes sence and explains it.

[moot]

Add the kill names to the (promised:) post flight statistic .txt dump, maybe at the beginning of the log, with other general info so the people not inclined to search thru the rest of the exact (stats etc) info that follows below don't have to scroll down (much).

[DREDIOCK]

LOL that would be fine by me

Orrr is ther a dot command we can use to bring up info on a particular feild?
IF not
I am now formally requesting one. lol

Originally posted by JB73
then all bases would have to be named

0001
0014
0214

always a zero in front of the name. computers are stupid. make 10 text files in a folder naming them 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, and 10.

it has to be 0001 and so on. hope this makes sence and explains it.

[Ecliptik]

computers are stupid.

Computers are only as stupid as those who program them.  It's very trivial to write a sorting algorithm to give shorter strings higher precedence than longer ones, so "1" would always appear before "10".  "A9" would always be before "A23".  Such a sort would be limited by its fairly specific purpose, but it's still only a handful of lines of code.  Drediock's request is easy to fufill.

[JB73]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK
LOL that would be fine by me

Orrr is ther a dot command we can use to bring up info on a particular feild?
IF not
I am now formally requesting one. lol

in AHII you can right click the filed you want on the map and bring up strat FYI.

hope that helps

[JB73]

Originally posted by Ecliptik
Computers are only as stupid as those who program them.  It's very trivial to write a sorting algorithm to give shorter strings higher precedence than longer ones, so "1" would always appear before "10".  "A9" would always be before "A23".  Such a sort would be limited by its fairly specific purpose, but it's still only a handful of lines of code.  Drediock's request is easy to fufill.

ive never seen a computer that would put 9 before 10 naturally unless there was a 0 before the 9

if its so easy why has noone done it?

[DREDIOCK]

Probably done by engineers all of whom I am utterly convinced are all stuck in Rube Goldberg mode. Cause I've never met one that designed anything that wasnt about 20 times more complicated then it needed to be.
LMAO

Originally posted by JB73

if its so easy why has noone done it?

[Spork42]

(On windows XP Pro. I think XP Home does this as well.)

[Ecliptik]

ive never seen a computer that would put 9 before 10 naturally unless there was a 0 before the 9

Because you're looking at things that put strings in strictly alphabetical order, like file lists.   If you're dealing with alphanumeric strings of arbitrary length, usually you just treat numbers like letters.  Other orderings a little more tricky and only make sense depending on what you're sorting.  For something special like field names that are always one letter followed by a number up to three digits long, it's simple to ensure 9 goes before 10.  Trust me, I have done it.