Re: [Rails-devel] Save file names

[Jim B. <jim...@ya...>]

> Yes, the special value NEXT_PLAYER will do that.
> save.filename.suffix=NEXT_PLAYER


One aside on this current/next player for save files-  ail's notion of  
current/next player is a little awkward for this, with pbem game,  
because it strongly depends on whether a player has hit 'Done' yet, or  
not.

Once a players hits 'Done', current-player becomes next-player, next- 
player becomes the-guy-after-that, etc.

If we were using this for save file names and token/next-player names,  
we'd have to be pretty disciplined about who presses "Done".

But, along these lines- I know it's an odd idea, but is there any way  
to set the default so that it adds suffixes for BOTH current-player  
(well, more literally- the one who just moved), and, next-player  
(again more literally, the one who should move right-now) ?

I'm thinking this might be the ideal way to have our cake and eat-it- 
too- Tom Dick and Harry were playing 18AL, I might imagine a folder  
listing like this:

1870_T000001_Tom_Dick
1870_T000002_Dick_Harry
1870_T000001_Harry_Tom
1870_T000001_Tom_Harry
1870_T000001_Harry_Tom
1870_T000001_Dick_Harry


etc.  The name on the left is the person saving the complete move- the  
name on the right is the current/next player, who needs to pick that  
up and move next.  this would be convenient, because it would be easy  
to BOTH (a) find a specific player's previous moves, (b) see who's  
move it is next, with Rails help.

Sorry to be longwinded, just thought I'd mention it.

Thanks again for all the hard work on rails and this release- all the  
quick bug fixes, convenient options, etc.  It's great.

-  jim



On Nov 21, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Erik Vos wrote:

> Yes, the special value NEXT_PLAYER will do that.
> save.filename.suffix=NEXT_PLAYER
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris Shaffer [mailto:chr...@gm...]
>> Sent: Saturday 21 November 2009 20:11
>> To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
>> Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] Save file names
>>
>> Would it be possible to set the save file name suffix to the
>> variable
>> "next player"?
>>
>> --
>> Chris Shaffer
>>
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>> On Nov 21, 2009, at 10:31 AM, "Erik Vos" <eri...@xs...> wrote:
>>
>>> On popular request, I have added two new entries to the customizable
>>> configuration file my.properties.
>>> Both affect the default file name proposed by the program:
>>>
>>> Timezone:
>>> save.filename.date_time_zone=UTC
>>> The date-time stamp is calculated using the given time zone
>>> identifier.
>>> Default is local time.
>>> The time zone identifier must be a valid Java time zone name.
>>> Fortunately,
>>> that list is very long.
>>> Java 1.6 supports names like "UTC", "EST", "EST5EDT", "Etc/GMT+5",
>>> "Cuba",
>>> "America/Montreal", "Europe/Amsterdam" etc.
>>> A bit of googling might help. I found a Java applet that displays
>>> the list
>>> at http://mindprod.com/applet/tz.html,
>>> but you must have Java 1.6 installed.
>>>
>>> Suffix:
>>> save.filename.suffix=Me
>>> The suffix is appended to the base file name (before extension),
>>> separated
>>> by an underscore, which is added automatically.
>>>
>>> A file name created by the above settings could be
>>> 1830_20091121_1825_Me.rails
>>>
>>> For some reason that currently escapes me, a file can be
>> saved only
>>> after at
>>> least one move has been done.
>>> I suppose that is not too much of a limitation...
>>>
>>> Erik.
>>>
>>>
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