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What are we going to do with it? Are we going to keep working with the info I've collected? (I can send it to you if you want) Or are we going to start it from scratch?

We are going to finish it right?  :wink:

You can let me see what you have. But I have a lot on my plate atm  :cool:

Let me see what format your stuff is in, and I'll get back to you.

Ultimately the plan appears to be, anyone will be able to edit the demonary (well perhaps if their forum karma is high enough that is -- but they could alternatively give data to those that can... in exchange for credit / karma of course)

The main site won't be so much a wiki. There is already code in place for the demonary, but it seems a bit unfinished. I'll have to review it all first. Maybe you've used some of it yourself?

I can probably work out a way to feed all of your data into the system automatically to get started.

My only personal concern regarding the wiki is getting the names right. That will mean the katakana name for every devil. A traditional translation of each name. A modern translation. Then each localization's name. For instance, I won't stand for Jack'o'lantern, to be only filed under "pyro jack" :doh:



As far as the main site is concerned. The bigger problem right now is the graphical layout of it. And I still haven't scheduled a time to post about it. Basically if we can't get the uncomposited graphics Tony used for the site, it will have to be totally redone. So somehow we gotta get a hold of Tony. He should've left that stuff somewhere on the server, but he didn't. So frankly he really left everyone hanging.

I guess I already seen the code you mentioned, Tony give me a little sneak peak. And about the info of mine, I have it packed in an excel document with pictures stats and info mythological demon (in some cases), and of course separated between games. I will PM you with the link  :wink:

Is there any free / open-source software I can open your spreadsheet file with?

I have a free-trial of Microsoft Office pre-installed on my portable, but says I can only use it 14 more times  :sweatdrop:

I almost missed the other games you had in there! I just saw the extra tabs on the very bottom of my app.

Looks good. I will need to know if this file format is published or not. If not, you will want to convert it to something that is.

I could find all this out on my own, but I'm pretty busy as it is  :smug:

use "open office", it's freeware.

Thanks for the suggestion. Do you know if Open Office likes .xls?

Xls is a binary format. So ultimately we'll have to go another route...

 


I think probably we'll be doing something like this:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=60903

It would be better however Emillio if you can work out a lossless way to store your work as a .csv file -- that ideally can also open correctly into Excel and other free software like Open Office. The images embedded in your spreadsheet should be converted to image file names. If you can store the same image files in an archive with a csv file, that would be great. The images don't have to be viewable in the spreadsheet export/import, but I'll need them that way so I can automatically dump everything into the Demonary database.

About the images I can send them to you in a separated winrar, if you like. And if you can explain to me the .csv files, it would be magnificent, since this is the first time I ever heard of that extension  :confused: maybe a tutorial or something like it, 'cuase once I save the .xls file on a .csv, it only appears the text (all messed up) but the images doesn't appear  :sick: I don't know if that how you want it  :sweatdrop:

Csv just means "comma seperated value" (file).

I don't know the specifics of how cells are merged etcetera, but basically csv is just a plain text file with each value, then a comma for the next cell, then a newline character (invisible) for the next row. Once you get it to there, I'll sort out the rest. Just remember, however you do it, in the csv file, where the image would be in a cell, instead you need to make sure the images name is there instead (a csv file can't store images really)

Any spreadsheet app should have an export/save as option for csv.

One thing I noticed, is that I need to save each page of the excel book as an .csv document. So, what you need, is that I save each page of the document and send them to you?

Well, yeah, in the end each game/page needs to be it's own file. But you can just keep things how you like it, then export it the way we will need it at the end of the day.

Got it.  :wink: