[Krackers87]

I have updated the  FS2RG and have decided to rerelease it.

Fixes from .1:

Blank pages bug fixed.
Addition of Details column in the report (not quite working yet  )
Fixed missing entries bug in the reports.

What needs to be changed:
Info needs to be added to most of the ships
Details column needs fixin

Possible changes in the future:
Conversion to standalone .exe (requires me to recode in Vbasic )
Addition of Freespace 1 ships
Addition of other campaigns info
Creation of a switch to select wich campaign(s) to create a report on.





For those of you who dont know what this is, it is an easy to use database created from the information on Sandwhich's FS2 info sheet thingy.

Currently its coded in .mdb which means if you dont have MS Acess you need to install runtimes to use it. Now.. to me this doesent seem like such a big deal but some people go crazy that "OMG!!! MS is installing stuff on my computer!!! Arrgghh get it off!!"

Anyways, i made this to create an easy to use refrence to quickly find the informtion you need on a specific class, race, mission appeared in, name, etc... of a ship. Then the database creates a report based on the fields you selected and displays the information for you.

This is currently Beta, which means it has bugs and some stuff aint workin but it is still helpful in quite a few ways.


Any input/sudgestions/bug reports would be greatly apreciated


Downloads:

Freespace 2 Refrence Guide

.mdb runtimes


Can this pls get stickied?

[Xelion]

Cool, haven't seen this guide since v1 when it was released. Spelling error on font page:

Addition of info column to report (not yuet working)

should be

Addition of info column to report (not yet working)

nothing else AFAIK

[Xelion]

Just noticed u used SQL, what version of VB did u use?

[Krackers87]

its not VB

i used Microsoft Acces

i have to convert it in VB to make it an exe eventually.

And i know the info colomn should be working but i need my mum to help me w/ that since im baffled, and shes asleep.

[.::Tin Can::.]

wait, I got the plugins and everything installed, but, what program do I choose from the list? I cant find it!

Where is Microsoft Access because I dont have it at all.

[Ferret]

It's part of MS Office.

[Drew]

MS office 2003? i dont have it either, and i have the full 3 disk set of office 2000

[kasperl]

MS office personal doesn't have it, only pro and corporate, IIRC.

and accces is an ugly POS to distribute anything in, IMHO. backwards compatibility is a joke, both ways around. newer versions can't open anything old without converting, and saving backwards, yeah right.

[.::Tin Can::.]

So then thats it? We just cant view it? Let's say that we just had a regular computer without anything except XP on it without all those fancy utilities. How would we use the plugins you gave us to view the file?

[Lightspeed]

doesnt work for me. .mdb documents suck, anyway

[.::Tin Can::.]

I just need to figure out how to make it open and then thats that. How did this guy do this exactly?

[jdjtcagle]

Go into word or something, click open and find the file

[.::Tin Can::.]

Tried that. It just made the entire thing jumbled up squares and stuff.

Like this!

 
 C o n n e c t   D a t a b a s e   D a t e C r e a t e   D a t e U p d a t e
 F l a g s   F o r e i g n N a m e   I d   L v  
 L v E x t r a   L v M o d u l e  
 L v P r o p   N a m e
 O w n e r   P a r e n t I d   R m t I n f o L o n g   R m t I n f o S h o r t   T y p e ƒ        ÿÿ ÿÿnÿÿ ÿÿiÿÿ ÿÿ ÿÿ ÿÿ        ¼Ï¼ �     ƒ     ÿÿ ÿÿ¼ÿÿÏÿÿ¼ÿÿ ÿÿ¼ÿÿÏÿÿ¼ÿÿ         ¼Ï¼ �     Y            ÿÿÿÿ           Y            ÿÿÿÿ             I d   P a r e n t I d N a m e

[kasperl]

and this is why you use a wiki, HTML, Excel or just plain old tables in word.

or plain text. plain text is perfect.

[.::Tin Can::.]

Elaborate a tad clearer please...

[Ghostavo]

I downloaded the file and the runtimes and when trying to open the file I get some security warnings... and then when I open any report I get something like this...



Is this supposed to happen?

[Ferret]

Someone try OpenOffice.

[edit]

Right, I tried it in Access (Office 2000). It comes up with this nifty little search box with drop downs, but no matter what I select it screams:
"There was a problem retrieving printer information for this object. The object may have been sent to a printer that in unavailable."

No ****, I don't have a printer on this machine.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Ferret
Someone try OpenOffice.

Tried it. Got 8000 pages of junk. As I suspected OO doesn't include a database program in the standard download.

[kasperl]

Idea: just throw the whole mess in the wiki.

[Lightspeed]

other idea, convert it to something useful.