AJAX BOB 4.7.1 Development/Discussion (don't post bugs here)

[yeti_c]

Sherkaner is now taking over maintenance and development of BOB.

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[Angus Khan]

Sherkaner is now taking over maintenance and development of BOB.

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I for one want to give my heartfelt thanks to Yeti_c for his incredible work to date. Personally I would have probably quit CC without BOB because it was too cumbersome to go through and manually figure out the things BOB does for me so easily.

Adding Clickable Maps was just icing on the cake. Yep, there have been headaches along the way, almost all of them attributable to Lack making undocumented changes to the server.

You've done an excellent job Yeti, and I want to be the first to commend you for it.

[cicero]

Version 4.7.3 has been released ... But the first post of this thread hasn't been updated ... Can you let us know what has changed please ?
(And what happened to 4.7.2 )

[yeti_c]

Version 4.7.3 has been released ... But the first post of this thread hasn't been updated ... Can you let us know what has changed please ?
(And what happened to 4.7.2 )

4.7.3 is a transition release to Sherkaner - i.e. all the changes relate to allowing him to update the script from his logins from fileden and userscripts.

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[sherkaner]

Version 4.7.3 has been released ... But the first post of this thread hasn't been updated ... Can you let us know what has changed please ?
(And what happened to 4.7.2 )

4.7.3 is a transition release to Sherkaner - i.e. all the changes relate to allowing him to update the script from his logins from fileden and userscripts.

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Yes, that's correct. It also reformats the file a bit (though you won't notice), and fixes the text changes: 'loses'->'lost', 'gains'->'gained' and 'receives'->'received'.
This in turns makes sure the armies are calculated correctly again, and the Elimination Summary works correctly again too.

[Cyantist]

Has anyone tried to use this on Safari and GreaseKit?
I would like to if it is possible.

Feel free to try!!

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it didn't work =(
I don't know why...

It hasn't worked for me either...
Maybe if we get enough of us requesting that it work with Greasekit, they'll make an update for it...

[Lucalupulasa]

hi, i just got this.
how do i attack because it doesnt say in the help thing. is there a button or what? when i click on the territory i want to attack from it just comes up with the hover thing. please answer.

[Boss_oss_ss]

the same way you do it normally, your thinking of clickable maps

[impassive]

Hi, I'm making small changes in BOB just to see how things work a little bit (I've never developed in greasemonkey before, and I haven't done javascript in years).

Anyway, occasionally I come back to a game being surprised by the board. When one of your territories are attacked and your armies are nicked, but your territory is not conquered, it can be hard to tease out of the log what happened. Sometimes I'm left thinking I had more armies in a territory, but I can't be sure if I've been attacked or I just don't remember right. Of course a log of attack attempts would resolve this.

But what I've been fooling with is having a setting to automatically take a snapshot after you end each turn. I've hacked in the menu setting and that seems to work ok. Taking the actual snapshot isn't working though. It is calling the existing 'takeSnapshot' function where I want it to. It is even adding a menu for the new snapshot taken. But when I refresh the game page or leave and come back to it, the end turn snapshot is no longer on the menu.

Here's the part that is not working:
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// ENDTURN SNAPSHOT MOD ***********************
var newhandleResponse = unsafeWindow.handleResponse;

unsafeWindow.handleResponse = function() {
   var ret = newhandleResponse();
   if (lastCommand == 'End Reinforcement' || (lastCommand == 'Reinforce' && gameSettings.fortifications != eFortifications.UNLIMITED)) {
      confirm("ENDTURN SNAPSHOT MOD 1:");
      if (!gameSettings.speed && myOptions["endTurnSnapshot"]=="On") {
         confirm("ENDTURN SNAPSHOT MOD 2: about to attempt to take snapshot");
         takeSnapshot();  //THIS IS DEFINITELY BEING CALLED
      }
      lastCommand = '';
   }
   return ret;
}


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After the turn is completed, this is being run - I see both confirms. And the snapshot shows up in the snapshot menu. But it then goes away when the game is refreshed or reloaded.

I suspect I'm not calling 'takesnapshot' at the right time. If anybody can give me any ideas on where to call it, or any other pointers in general, I'd appreciate it.

[sherkaner]

I'm not sure what's happening here. You're not getting any errors with firebug?

I think I'd perform the snapshot just before the request is sent, I'd probably use the part indicated by /* Ishiro's Confirm Commands code */ for that, 1 boolean for finished turn would be nice there anyway. At the end everything should be at the right place.

[impassive]

Thanks for the info.

I had assumed from what I knew about how the site works that the reinforcing would need to be done on the server side first to have the page reflect any reinforcements done. That is, if the snapshot was performed before the request was sent that it wouldn't reflect the reinforcements. I'll try taking the snapshot where you suggest to see how that goes. It would be good to see if it saves any snapshot at all to see if I've got something else wrong going on.

The /* Ishiro's Confirm Commands code */ area is where I'm setting the 'lastCommand' variable, but an end turn boolean might be a better way to do it.

I've loaded firebug and it isn't reporting any errors. I'm also able to step through scripts on the page (game.js, etc.), but I haven't seen where to access greasemonkey code. It doesn't show up for me so far. I'll keep digging and googling.

[LordF]

This may have been raised before as a TODO - would it be possible to calculate how many armies (as well as territories) each player has in a fog of war game? This is presumably relatively easy to work out from the game log provided you know the initial number of armies for each player.

[sherkaner]

Number of armies is impossible (there's nothing about that in the logs), number of territories is already in the script (statistics).

[BigBallinStalin]

Sorry just bringing this back up to the top when I search "ajax."

[yeti_c]

This is an old topic - you want to goto

viewtopic.php?f=59&t=91386

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