Testing on Android

I got a BlackBerry device from work, but unfortunately the included (or any other) browser is not up to the strenuous demands of the Grendel. Using the AVD, I have a much better idea of real-world usage:

Close a JQuery Dialog by clicking outside of it

Thank you David Little: http://www.littled.net/new/2009/11/30/how-to-close-a-jquery-dialog-box-by-clicking-outside-of-it/

function show_dialog(title, content) {
  // close dialog when clicking outside of it
  $(".ui-widget-overlay").live("click", function() {  $("#mydialog").dialog("close"); } );
  $("#mydialog").html(content);
  $('#mydialog').dialog('option', 'title', title);
  $("#mydialog").dialog( {
    modal : true,
    autoOpen : false,
    title : title,
    position: 'left'
  });

Tags location on Tiddlywiki

To move the tags box from the top right corner to the bottom:

<div class='tagged...

Must be moved below <div class='viewer... And above <div class='tagClear...

v0.3.2 available for download

v0.3.2 features:

* Logging - Save game notes with xp, hp context
* Equipment - Magic items may have skill, ability, or other (fort, att, ac, etc) numerical benefits
* Monk special abilities - Flurry of blows
* Rogue special abilities
* Spell data complete
* Skill data complete
* Special ability (non-operational) data complete

Plenty of bug fixes (and probably plenty introduced).

Taking a break until I get a superphone, or even one human being besides myself shows some interest.

v0.3 available for download

After fixing the Load character data functionality, I felt a small celebration was in order. Thus a new zip is available for download. This release has some boring improvements, like Special Abilities (though this isn't data-complete) and more spell and skill data, but the major change was a refactoring of how weapon and armor selector work on the edit page.

Javascript's flexible typing and giant hash object reference model(?) lets you do some neat tricks to reuse code. Essentially you can pass in the string names of attributes or functions to be acted on, rather than defining interfaces as you would in Java. For example, weapons and armor have a similar structure, and the edit UI for both behaves in exactly the same way. Some stuff about the code below.


function populate_data_part(chardata, data_name, id_name) {
for (var j in chardata[data_name]) {
var item = window[data_name].first( {
id : chardata[data_name][j][id_name + '_id']
});
$("#" + id_name + "_" + j + " option[id='" + id_name + "_" + j + "_option_" + item.id + "']").attr("selected", true);
// TODO - this part might be better in recalc
for(var i in window[id_name + "_edit_data"]) {
var edit_attr_name = window[id_name + "_edit_data"][i];
var value = chardata[data_name][j][edit_attr_name] == null ? item[edit_attr_name] : chardata[data_name][j][edit_attr_name];
$("#" + id_name + "_" + j + edit_attr_name).val(value == null ? "" : value);
}
}
}


For 0.4, I'll refactor the steaming pile that is feats.

Windows 7 window tricks in XP

The most (only?) compelling feature of Windows 7 for me is the automatic window resizing. When you grab a window and bang it against an edge, the window is resized to fill half the screen (either horizontally or vertically).

You can get the same functionality for XP with PowerResizer. Brilliant.

Motorola Razr V3 keys not working

I had to look around for a bit to find the answer, so maybe this will save somebody some time:

The keys (except for the red on/off button) on my Motorola Razr V3 stopped working during our trip to the beach. Turns out the phone is sensitive to humidity, so putting the phone on the air conditioning vent for a little bit got it working again.