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[rcthelp]

Man, that's a lot of work! I'm glad to see you can edit your comments though

That feature may not make it into the first version of the new combined ride exchange

At the moment I'm focusing on the new filter screen, to limit results to versions of the game and expansions that you actually own. The previous screenshot showed how you could say what game versions you wanted to see, and then select All, None, or a selection of the ride types.

That has been presenting lots of problems. For example, if I said that I didn't own Time Twisters, it was still possible to select a Time Twisters ride from the selection list. Apart from the error handling I'd have to do, it's all a bit counter-intutive.

Javascript to the rescue! When you choose the game versions you have, the ride lists are automatically refreshed. So if you say you don't have Time Twisters, none of the Time Twister rides appear in the lists.

Here's a couple of screenshots of what I mean. In the first, I have said that I have only Time Twisters. In the second I have said that I have only Wacky Worlds. The list of rides I can choose from is completely different.

 ttonly.png   8.45KB   11 downloads  wwonly.png   8.49KB   10 downloads

[Wolfman]

That's very interesting. Especially if members DON'T have to keep entering the same information every time they DL from the ride exchange.

I wonder if this would be a good idea to have some sort of "settings interface" for the ride exchange in the member's control panel.

[rcthelp]

That's very interesting. Especially if members DON'T have to keep entering the same information every time they DL from the ride exchange.

I wonder if this would be a good idea to have some sort of "settings interface" for the ride exchange in the member's control panel.

You mean something like this?

 ridexcontrol.png   25.34KB   17 downloads

[rcthelp]

Or perhaps this? Really starting to make some progress now. What you see are the default ride preferences when you use the new Ride Exchange for the first time.

 defrideprefs.png   45.84KB   13 downloads

I'm working on the next 2 tabs now. More later.

[rcthelp]

Here's the 2nd tab

 defscenprefs.png   20.73KB   11 downloads

[rcthelp]

Finally the 3rd tab

 defoutputprefs.png   21.65KB   11 downloads

[rcthelp]

I've really been making some great progress with the new Ridex.

At least I WAS until my development server crashed last might.

It looks fairly terminal with a bad hard disk, and fsck just won't recognise it to repair it.

My last back up is from end of May

And it will probably take me a month just to get a new disk, Linux reinstalled, PLESK reinstalled, PHP and MySQL patched to the correct level...

Suddenly, I don't see this being finished until the end of 2009.

Don't know whether I can be bothered anymore....

[Luketh]

aaaaah, bummer! It was looking pretty nice, too...

[Woodpecker]

It looks fairly terminal with a bad hard disk, and fsck just won't recognise it to repair it.

Was 'fsck' your verbal response to the crash?

Please don't give up now. You were doing so well, and the new ridex looked so much more promising than the old one.

Edited by Woodpecker, 31 August 2009 - 10:12 PM.

[rcthelp]

[root@ryalls lost+found]# find ./ -name *ridex3*.php
./#6687136/skin_ridex3.php
./#6687136/skin_ridex3_rc1.php
./#6620210/members/sources/tabs/ridex3.php
./#6620210/members/sources/tabs/ridex3.conf.php
./#6654876/cache/lang_cache/1/ridex3_public_ridex3.php
./#6654876/cache/skin_cache/must_be_unique/skin_ridex3.php
./#6654876/cache/skin_cache/beta2masterskin/skin_ridex3.php
./#6654876/cache/skin_cache/cacheid_2/skin_ridex3.php
./#6654876/cache/skin_cache/master_skin/skin_ridex3.php
./#6654876/cache/skin_cache/master_ridex3/skin_ridex3.php
./#6654876/cache/skin_cache/cacheid_3/skin_ridex3.php
./#6654876/cache/skin_cache/cacheid_1/skin_ridex3.php
./#6654876/cache/skin_cache/cacheid_6/skin_ridex3.php
./#6654876/admin/applications_addon/other/ridex3/modules_public/list/ridex3.php
./#6654876/admin/applications_addon/other/ridex3/sources/classes/ridex3/admin_ridex3_functions.php
./#6654876/admin/applications_addon/other/ridex3/sources/classes/ridex3/class_ridex3.php
./#6654876/admin/applications_addon/other/ridex3/app_class_ridex3.php
./#6654876/admin/applications/members/sources/tabs/ridex3.php
./#6654876/admin/applications/members/sources/tabs/ridex3.conf.php

That may not make much sense to anybody but it's one of the most beautiful things I've seen in the last few days.