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Offline Shade

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And many thanks for that :) Without the sexp output, I might have gone crazy already. Anyway, tried my hand at a navigation template to make browsing between sexp categories more convenient. Can see it at the bottom of the Objectives and Time SEXP pages so far (only ones I've completed as yet).
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"Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh ****ing great. 2200 references to entry->index and no idea which is the one that ****ed up" - Karajorma
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Instead of 'most recent sexp' and 'most recent feature', to save real estate I just went with 'most recent additions' which can be anything, sexps or some other improvement. Made a template for it (Link) which I will call from the portal. Reason I went with a template is so when making an update, one doesn't have to dig through a whole page of code to find the proper place to insert it. This way it's fairly simple and I even added a comment to show where :) Also included an edit link on the template, so to update it just click that little blue link in the top right corner.

So now there's a place to tell people about new additions to FRED, sexps or other. My thinking was to just use headlines. If there's also an article about it, make the headline a link to it, but if there isn't someone else (like me) can do that at a later date once there is. It's simply a way to avoid the situation we have now where stuff gets added and 2 months later someone like me still doesn't have a clue it exists ;) As long as we stick with headlines, there should be no need to delete old ones either, I'll just check it occasionally to see if it's getting too long and get rid of the older ones if it is. Really does needs to be quick and easy or noone will bother to update it.
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"Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh ****ing great. 2200 references to entry->index and no idea which is the one that ****ed up" - Karajorma
"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct." - Niels Bohr
<Cobra|> You play this mission too intelligently.

 

Offline karajorma

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The reason why I suggested having both is because SEXPs are added at a very quick rate so the new features section will almost always be pointing at new SEXPs.
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Offline Shade

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True, you do have a point. It's easily changed at least, we can just split the block into two lists, sexps and features, a horizontal rule between then and good to go :) Will get that taken care of shortly.
Report FS_Open bugs with Mantis  |  Find the latest FS_Open builds Here  |  Interested in FRED? Check out the Wiki's FRED Portal | Diaspora: Website / Forums
"Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh ****ing great. 2200 references to entry->index and no idea which is the one that ****ed up" - Karajorma
"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct." - Niels Bohr
<Cobra|> You play this mission too intelligently.