Talk:Deck Creator

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Good work man!!!!!! I will keep a close eye on this!
1. In what are you programming that?
2. And, is the source code public? ;)
3. And subsequently, can it be easily translated?
--Joeyeti 07:19, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm glad you like it. To answer your questions:
1.)I'm programming in FreePascal using Lazarus
2.)It isn't public yet. I might release it after beta, but I'll think about it.
3.)Translated, like the dialogs? Not as easily as other software, but you can in the code. Maybe I'll release to source code, then, so that others can change the language to one they use... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Eyecreate (talk • contribs) 14:26, 22 February 2007.

Good to see some third party development, but where exactly is this going that the wiki isn't? Part of the reason for moving Dvorak to a wiki system was to allow users to easily create, colour, save, print and export their own decks. Do you think we should be doing more to make deck creation easier? (We could certainly do with a guide to making a new deck on the wiki - Help:Contents is getting there, but if anyone wants to write some proper documentation, feel free.) --Kevan 14:38, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Just straight from the head - when there will be a color picker, multiple languages (for generic card text), more templates and such and of course Wiki, MushCode and other formats for export and import.... You have a good tool to make a deck at yourself when you dont have a connection and then upload it for others! My 20 cents ;) --Joeyeti 15:35, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

These ideas mentioned by Joeyeti were similar to what I was thinking. I was looking for a way to make a deck that you could do graphically, like seen in my mock shot and in the program. I also wanted to be able to do it even when offline. While the Wiki is awesome, there are some things that are still hard to recreate. That is the gap I wanted to fill. There are others features too, like the fact that you can save your file and share it with others. While you can share and save on the wiki, it is also public, and people may want to work on a deck privately before the deck is finished and released to the wiki. This is how I prefer to work, so the program also fit my workflow. While I know many of the features can be replicated on the wiki, the are many other options that cannot. I can understand that if you only expect to use certain aspects of the game, that the wiki works great, and you will need nothing else, but I know it makes it easier for most people to create decks if they don't have to think about code/formating. When I first found the website, I couldn't find out how you could create or upload a deck, and I don't want it to be that way for others, or they may not feel like contributing. Just think of the program as another way of accessing the audience. If you can get all the ideas and features I mentioned in the wiki, more power to you, and in fact, I would thank you for eclipsing my project. I hope you understand what I mean...Eyecreate 15:59, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

It would be nice to have some kind of automated process for making card arrays, such as making 13 versions of a card with cornervalues 3-16 or changing all instances of "Rock" to "Paper" in a selected set of cards. -Bucky 15:48, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I'll look into that, that was an idea I had thought about.Eyecreate 15:59, 22 February 2007 (UTC)