Conquer Club

ender516 wrote:

Abyss24 wrote:Postby ender516 on Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:16 pm
Why do I feel like you are passing me a bottle of milk and asking, "Does this taste sour to you?" Anyway, I clicked the GET BOB link in the first post, which took me to the userscripts.org page that I expected, and the Install button brought up the dialog box I expected, which counted down 3 seconds then activated the Install button. I then clicked the Show Script Source button and everything looks fine there. So I suggest you examine your Add-ons Manager page and look for toolbars and whatnot that might be tossing extra things into the mix.

OK, so I tried again and I allowed it to add Sendori as there was no way to custom install without it. I went through the whole thing. I did not get BOB, but I did get some new junk stuff I didn't want, which I immediately uninstalled. I checked add on manager as you suggested and I saw nothing unusual there. Very confused--what is the problem here? Can you try to run through the whole install and see what yuo get? It doesn't even look like BOB is part of the exe that comes up.

P.S. I also got a 7-zip 9.21 added here, which I think is a legitimate file compressor but I really don't know.

I think I see what your problem is. When you get to the userscripts.org page, there is an enormous download button next to a 7-zip logo (or at least there was today when I loaded the page, it may change). THAT IS AN AD. DO NOT CLICK IT. Look for the green Install button up in the grey header box, beside the title of the script, "Conquer Club - BOB". Click that to install BOB.

OK, that is an important point, thanks for noticing, I can't believe I didn't see that. Anyway, now when I hit the proper "Install" button I am getting a page full of script:

// Conquer Club - Card Counter, Card Redemption Value, Status Indicator
var versionString = "5.2.4";
// This monkey is now called:
///// //// /////
// // // // // //
///// // // /////
// // // // // //
///// //// /////
// PLEASE READ ALL THE COMMENTS AT THE START OF THIS FILE BEFORE EDITING
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Installation
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// This is a Greasemonkey user script.
// To use, first install Greasemonkey: http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
// Then restart Firefox and revisit this script.
// Under Tools, there will be a new menu item to "Install User Script".
// Accept the default configuration and install.

// To uninstall, go to Tools/Manage User Scripts, select "Conquer Club - BOB", and click Uninstall.

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Meta Data - required for Greasemonkey
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// ==UserScript==
// @name Conquer Club - BOB
// @version 5.2.4
// @namespace http://yeti_c.

I have Greasemonkey installed already so I do not know what to do here as it should download from here. I don't understand what it means when it says, "Under Tools, there will be a new menu item to "Install User Script"; there is no install user scripts in Firefox, and when I use Greasemonkey's menu there are no scripts present.

Okay, those instructions in the script are out of date, but normally when you load a script file, you don't see the source: Greasemonkey pops up a dialog box which counts down three seconds then enables an Install button. If you just get the script in a text window, you are having the same problem as was seen here a few pages back, or perhaps it was in a different report. Anyway, select and copy all of the text in the script (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C). Then under the Greasemonkey drop down menu, click New User Script... and then, in the dialog box that appears, press the "Use Script From Clipboard" button. You should be good to go then.

ender516 wrote:Okay, those instructions in the script are out of date, but normally when you load a script file, you don't see the source: Greasemonkey pops up a dialog box which counts down three seconds then enables an Install button. If you just get the script in a text window, you are having the same problem as was seen here a few pages back, or perhaps it was in a different report. Anyway, select and copy all of the text in the script (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C). Then under the Greasemonkey drop down menu, click New User Script... and then, in the dialog box that appears, press the "Use Script From Clipboard" button. You should be good to go then.

I followed these instructions and when I press the "Use script from from the clipboard button" a new dialogue box appears that says, "Please choose your preferred text editor". ???

Abyss24 wrote:

ender516 wrote:Okay, those instructions in the script are out of date, but normally when you load a script file, you don't see the source: Greasemonkey pops up a dialog box which counts down three seconds then enables an Install button. If you just get the script in a text window, you are having the same problem as was seen here a few pages back, or perhaps it was in a different report. Anyway, select and copy all of the text in the script (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C). Then under the Greasemonkey drop down menu, click New User Script... and then, in the dialog box that appears, press the "Use Script From Clipboard" button. You should be good to go then.

I followed these instructions and when I press the "Use script from from the clipboard button" a new dialogue box appears that says, "Please choose your preferred text editor". ???

Sorry, I forgot about that step. It is going to display the script in an editor in case you want to modify it. DON'T MODIFY IT. The editor you choose is the one that Greasemonkey will use in future if you go to the Add-ons Manager and press the Options button on a particular script, then press the "Edit this User Script" button. If you do any coding on your computer, select the editor you use for that. If not, just pick notepad or wordpad. When that editor is opened with BOB in it, just close it without editing or saving.
I wish I knew why some of you users were having this problem. If you have Greasemonkey installed, what setting is preventing the automatic handling of .user.js scripts? Have you disabled Javascript in some way?

ender516 wrote:

Abyss24 wrote:

ender516 wrote:Okay, those instructions in the script are out of date, but normally when you load a script file, you don't see the source: Greasemonkey pops up a dialog box which counts down three seconds then enables an Install button. If you just get the script in a text window, you are having the same problem as was seen here a few pages back, or perhaps it was in a different report. Anyway, select and copy all of the text in the script (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C). Then under the Greasemonkey drop down menu, click New User Script... and then, in the dialog box that appears, press the "Use Script From Clipboard" button. You should be good to go then.

I followed these instructions and when I press the "Use script from from the clipboard button" a new dialogue box appears that says, "Please choose your preferred text editor". ???

Sorry, I forgot about that step. It is going to display the script in an editor in case you want to modify it. DON'T MODIFY IT. The editor you choose is the one that Greasemonkey will use in future if you go to the Add-ons Manager and press the Options button on a particular script, then press the "Edit this User Script" button. If you do any coding on your computer, select the editor you use for that. If not, just pick notepad or wordpad. When that editor is opened with BOB in it, just close it without editing or saving.
I wish I knew why some of you users were having this problem. If you have Greasemonkey installed, what setting is preventing the automatic handling of .user.js scripts? Have you disabled Javascript in some way?

OK, I went to the add-ons menu manager in Firefox and BOB is there. I pressed options, then "Edit this user script". I don't do any coding so I just picked wordpad--the copied text appeared, I closed it, still no BOB. Coincidentally, just before I tried this I uninstalled Java and disabled the Java add-on as my tech guy at work told me to do this on PCs--is this right or has the patch come out?

My bob seems to have stopped working today, and I'm having the same problems listed above, maybe there is something wrong with the BOB???

dana1971 wrote:My bob seems to have stopped working today, and I'm having the same problems listed above, maybe there is something wrong with the BOB???

BOB is working for me, so BOB is not completely broken.

Abyss24 wrote:

ender516 wrote:

Abyss24 wrote:

ender516 wrote:Okay, those instructions in the script are out of date, but normally when you load a script file, you don't see the source: Greasemonkey pops up a dialog box which counts down three seconds then enables an Install button. If you just get the script in a text window, you are having the same problem as was seen here a few pages back, or perhaps it was in a different report. Anyway, select and copy all of the text in the script (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C). Then under the Greasemonkey drop down menu, click New User Script... and then, in the dialog box that appears, press the "Use Script From Clipboard" button. You should be good to go then.

I followed these instructions and when I press the "Use script from from the clipboard button" a new dialogue box appears that says, "Please choose your preferred text editor". ???

Sorry, I forgot about that step. It is going to display the script in an editor in case you want to modify it. DON'T MODIFY IT. The editor you choose is the one that Greasemonkey will use in future if you go to the Add-ons Manager and press the Options button on a particular script, then press the "Edit this User Script" button. If you do any coding on your computer, select the editor you use for that. If not, just pick notepad or wordpad. When that editor is opened with BOB in it, just close it without editing or saving.
I wish I knew why some of you users were having this problem. If you have Greasemonkey installed, what setting is preventing the automatic handling of .user.js scripts? Have you disabled Javascript in some way?

OK, I went to the add-ons menu manager in Firefox and BOB is there. I pressed options, then "Edit this user script". I don't do any coding so I just picked wordpad--the copied text appeared, I closed it, still no BOB. Coincidentally, just before I tried this I uninstalled Java and disabled the Java add-on as my tech guy at work told me to do this on PCs--is this right or has the patch come out?

BOB is JavaScript, not Java, and the two are supposedly distinct. However, perhaps you get carried away. Go to the Options dialog box and select its Content tab. Make sure the Enable JavaScript box is checked.

I reinstalled Firefox and BOB works now...

"BOB is JavaScript, not Java, and the two are supposedly distinct. However, perhaps you get carried away. Go to the Options dialog box and select its Content tab. Make sure the Enable JavaScript box is checked."

Done. Still no BOB. Sigh...

Well, perhaps you should try what dana1971 did, and reinstall Firefox, Greasemonkey, and BOB.

Just wanted to stop by and thank everyone who has been involved in updating BOB and helping others use it. What an awesome script!

ender516 wrote:Well, perhaps you should try what dana1971 did, and reinstall Firefox, Greasemonkey, and BOB.

I did this but Greasemonkey remained in the Firefox browser after the re-install. In any case I tried to install BOB and this time when I hit "new user script" and then "use script from clipboard" it put the copied text into the wordpad vessel; this did not happen last time. However, now I don't know what to do from here. Do I save this wordpad file to my computer?

Abyss24 wrote:

ender516 wrote:Well, perhaps you should try what dana1971 did, and reinstall Firefox, Greasemonkey, and BOB.

I did this but Greasemonkey remained in the Firefox browser after the re-install. In any case I tried to install BOB and this time when I hit "new user script" and then "use script from clipboard" it put the copied text into the wordpad vessel; this did not happen last time. However, now I don't know what to do from here. Do I save this wordpad file to my computer?

I think that the file is already in place at that point, and the editor is just there in case you want to customize the script. I think if you close wordpad without doing anything else, you should be good to go.

BOB has a problem to handle bonus collections --> viewtopic.php?f=64&t=162795&start=555#p4090627
Probably the issue is with type="mandatory"

thenobodies80 wrote:BOB has a problem to handle bonus collections --> viewtopic.php?f=64&t=162795&start=555#p4090627
Probably the issue is with type="mandatory"

This is what I was coming to post about.

On July 7, 2009 there was a comment in this post about hovering the mouse over a tert and seeing:

"Territories on the map: Highlight (with a certain convention) the territories that border this territory.
6 different options atm: Border (2-way attack), attack-only, defend-only, bombard, bombarded by, mutual bombard"

I see the six different conventions on the map, but don't have a key to tell me what is what. Some I have figured out and some I think i know, but I would like to be certain. Does someone have the map legend/key?

Thanks!!

dt03457 wrote:On July 7, 2009 there was a comment in this post about hovering the mouse over a tert and seeing:

"Territories on the map: Highlight (with a certain convention) the territories that border this territory.
6 different options atm: Border (2-way attack), attack-only, defend-only, bombard, bombarded by, mutual bombard"

I see the six different conventions on the map, but don't have a key to tell me what is what. Some I have figured out and some I think i know, but I would like to be certain. Does someone have the map legend/key?

Thanks!!

Well, the help page for BOB, although out of date, included this (I think). However, that is a dead link now, so we should see about recovering and rehosting that. (It would likely be best to embed in BOB itself.) However, all is not lost. In addition to the markers on the map, there is a small region of text on the Game Page entitled Map Inspect. It is just below the My Spoils line, which is below the Game Type, etc., which is directly below the map image. When you are hovering, not only do icons appear on the map, the name of the territory over which you are hovering appears after the words "Map Inspect:" and below that, those same icons appear with an explanatory keyword like "Borders" and the list of territories in that category, with the number of troops on each territory as well.

ender516,

LOL...Thanks!!! I must be blind as i have never noticed the "Map Inspect:" before, or if I did, I totally ignored it. That works perfectly. Thanks for the tip, it will certainly help me a great deal on some of the maps I play

OK... what up with the link in post 1 to download BOB??
All I get is a bunch of adware and crap.... no BOB.

Is there a different source than the link that is going to take me an hour to clean off my computer?

When you get to the userscripts.org page for BOB, be sure to click the Install button in the top right corner. Don't be fooled by enormous "Download Now" buttons that are in fact ads. (I think they are labelled as ads, but it can be hard to spot.)
Perhaps we should change the link from the /show/ form to the /install/ form.

ender516 wrote:When you get to the userscripts.org page for BOB, be sure to click the Install button in the top right corner. Don't be fooled by enormous "Download Now" buttons that are in fact ads. (I think they are labelled as ads, but it can be hard to spot.)
Perhaps we should change the link from the /show/ form to the /install/ form.

Thanks... figured it out. Thought I was savvy enough to avoid those kinds of things, but nooooo...

Got BOB, up and running. Very cool, now I just have to sort out what everything is...

BOB, clickies, and assault odds all stopped working on me last night, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling everything, but to no avail

You didn't accidentally disable Greasemonkey, did you? Have you tried reinstalling it?

ender516 wrote:You didn't accidentally disable Greasemonkey, did you? Have you tried reinstalling it?

Yes I checked to see if I accidentally disabled it, but it was enabled. I then uninstalled and reinstalled greasemonkey but the add ons still aren't working for me. Every time I try to download I just get the script page and the code used for the code.

Crazyirishman wrote:

ender516 wrote:You didn't accidentally disable Greasemonkey, did you? Have you tried reinstalling it?

Yes I checked to see if I accidentally disabled it, but it was enabled. I then uninstalled and reinstalled greasemonkey but the add ons still aren't working for me. Every time I try to download I just get the script page and the code used for the code.

Does this happen for all scripts, or just BOB?

EDIT:

A quick thought: go to the Firefox Options dialog and open the Applications panel. Check the content types to see if something is set for Javascript files (.js, .user.js, text/javascript, ...) I'm not sure how it might appear, as there is nothing in there on my machine, but that is the point: my downloads work - Greasemonkey puts up a dialog which does a three second countdown, then enables the Install button. If you are not seeing this, then something is keeping Greasemonkey from working on the file, and it may be in that Applications panel.