PlayDeckOrganizer
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PlayDeckOrganizer
by Dave » 18 Feb 2013, 22:16
Made a little program called PlaydeckOrganizer.
It scans the Playdeck-folder and all subdirectories for decks.
It only reads the name and description of each deck and displays it in a screen.
Place PlayDeckOrganizer.exe in the magic directory and run it.
Features:
- filter by typing in the search-textbox (multiple keywords supported)
- copies multiple decks from any subdirectory to Playdeck
- Copies all decks from Playdeck back to their subdirectories. If they had none yet, it will be copied in the subdirectory MyPlaydeck.
Once you have organized your decks in subdirectories (unfortunately you have to do that part yourself), this proggie will make your life easier.
No messing around with renaming directories.
Just clear Playdeck-folder with a click on a button and start filling it up again with decks from your subdirectories.
Before you go experiment, make a copy of your playdeck. Just in case.
It requires .Net Framework 2.0 and is tested on Windows 7 x64 only for now, but should work on any windows.
As always, feedback is appreciated.
V2:
- Replaced annoying messages by logfile when copying decks to subdirectories
- User can define in which columns to search (Deckname,desciption and/or path)
- Able to search multiple keywords (separated by space)
- Added label in left bottom corner to show info from selected cell
V3:
- Playdeck to Subdirs went wrong with files with an apostrophe (') in it, like a Paladin's tale.
It scans the Playdeck-folder and all subdirectories for decks.
It only reads the name and description of each deck and displays it in a screen.
Place PlayDeckOrganizer.exe in the magic directory and run it.
Features:
- filter by typing in the search-textbox (multiple keywords supported)
- copies multiple decks from any subdirectory to Playdeck
- Copies all decks from Playdeck back to their subdirectories. If they had none yet, it will be copied in the subdirectory MyPlaydeck.
Once you have organized your decks in subdirectories (unfortunately you have to do that part yourself), this proggie will make your life easier.
No messing around with renaming directories.
Just clear Playdeck-folder with a click on a button and start filling it up again with decks from your subdirectories.
Before you go experiment, make a copy of your playdeck. Just in case.
It requires .Net Framework 2.0 and is tested on Windows 7 x64 only for now, but should work on any windows.
As always, feedback is appreciated.
V2:
- Replaced annoying messages by logfile when copying decks to subdirectories
- User can define in which columns to search (Deckname,desciption and/or path)
- Able to search multiple keywords (separated by space)
- Added label in left bottom corner to show info from selected cell
V3:
- Playdeck to Subdirs went wrong with files with an apostrophe (') in it, like a Paladin's tale.
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Last edited by Dave on 13 Oct 2013, 08:55, edited 2 times in total.
Re: PlayDeckOrganizer
by nove » 19 Feb 2013, 10:35
Cool little program 
I've tested it now and it seems to work "as advertised". Pretty nice
Just one "bug report" (although I'm sure it's probably a "feature"
): the "playdeck to subdirs" function is cool, but it's a bit annoying when you run it the first time, since it will give off a dialog that requires you to press "OK" for _every single deck_ in your Playdeck folder (hundreds and hundreds ). Maybe you could just add a checkbox to the interface with a caption like "ignore warnings" under the "playdeck to subdirs" folder, in case the user wants to bypass the warnings? Also, in the warning dialog, it seems you need to add a space right after the deck's name.
Other than that, seems like it does what people were requesting
(also, not that it matters, but you should probably set the title of the window to "PlayDeckOrganizer by Dave" or something)
EDIT: I just remembered another possibly useful feature (if you feel like implementing it, of course)... to make the search box also look in the path of the files; that way, if I search for "Dredge", it would give me all decks within any folder containing the string "Dredge" BESIDES decks which would contain the string "Dredge" in their filenames. This would be useful so we don't have to put information on deck "theme" within the description of the deck, as long as the deck are contained within descriptive folders.
I've tested it now and it seems to work "as advertised". Pretty nice
Just one "bug report" (although I'm sure it's probably a "feature"
): the "playdeck to subdirs" function is cool, but it's a bit annoying when you run it the first time, since it will give off a dialog that requires you to press "OK" for _every single deck_ in your Playdeck folder (hundreds and hundreds ). Maybe you could just add a checkbox to the interface with a caption like "ignore warnings" under the "playdeck to subdirs" folder, in case the user wants to bypass the warnings? Also, in the warning dialog, it seems you need to add a space right after the deck's name.Other than that, seems like it does what people were requesting
(also, not that it matters, but you should probably set the title of the window to "PlayDeckOrganizer by Dave" or something
)EDIT: I just remembered another possibly useful feature (if you feel like implementing it, of course
)... to make the search box also look in the path of the files; that way, if I search for "Dredge", it would give me all decks within any folder containing the string "Dredge" BESIDES decks which would contain the string "Dredge" in their filenames. This would be useful so we don't have to put information on deck "theme" within the description of the deck, as long as the deck are contained within descriptive folders.
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by CirothUngol » 23 Mar 2013, 00:23
Hiya, Dave.
Wow, nice looking app. Tiny, sleek, and really fast!
It looks like Visual Studio... which language? What was your development time?
I'm looking to move away from Just BASIC/Liberty BASIC. It's excellent for utilitarian, i-need-to-use-it-once sort of programs, and I'll continue to use it 'cause it's so easy, but the difficulty in developing my latest effort has proven to me it's ineffectualness in creating larger, more complex applications (take a look at the code to the PDAnalyser sometime... eek).
I've been investigating other platforms, and I'm currently leaning toward AutoIt, 'cause it's a simple, procedural, scripting language with a familiar BASIC-ish syntax, it offers a ton of Built-in and User-provided functions, it has an insane amount of control over the Windows GUI, it compiles to a single, fully-contained executable with absolutely no dependencies, and it's still completely free.
However, I've never used one of those multi-mega software development platforms with the gigantic array of gizmos, widgets, and what-not. I've always found them rather intimidating... to force an analogy; I'm accustomed to NotePad, not Microsoft Word.
...but I might be willing to learn, if it will significantly reduce the amount of effort it requires to produce a working application. Which version of Visual Studio do you use, maybe I can scare up a copy?
Wow, nice looking app. Tiny, sleek, and really fast!
It looks like Visual Studio... which language? What was your development time?
I'm looking to move away from Just BASIC/Liberty BASIC. It's excellent for utilitarian, i-need-to-use-it-once sort of programs, and I'll continue to use it 'cause it's so easy, but the difficulty in developing my latest effort has proven to me it's ineffectualness in creating larger, more complex applications (take a look at the code to the PDAnalyser sometime... eek).
I've been investigating other platforms, and I'm currently leaning toward AutoIt, 'cause it's a simple, procedural, scripting language with a familiar BASIC-ish syntax, it offers a ton of Built-in and User-provided functions, it has an insane amount of control over the Windows GUI, it compiles to a single, fully-contained executable with absolutely no dependencies, and it's still completely free.
However, I've never used one of those multi-mega software development platforms with the gigantic array of gizmos, widgets, and what-not. I've always found them rather intimidating... to force an analogy; I'm accustomed to NotePad, not Microsoft Word.
...but I might be willing to learn, if it will significantly reduce the amount of effort it requires to produce a working application. Which version of Visual Studio do you use, maybe I can scare up a copy?
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Re: PlayDeckOrganizer
by Dave » 23 Mar 2013, 11:43
i made this in C# in Visual Studio 2008.
I think i got the platform by usenet. Don't tell anyone
The code could also be copied down to VS 2005 en up of course to 2010.
The first draft would be 3-4 hours since i'm not completely familiar with C#. Tweaking costs me always the most time (the famous 80-20 rule).
I think when you make a program like PlayDeckAnalyzer in C# ( or any other VS language), it will greatly improve in speed.
And you have a lot of controls to choose from.
The main advantage writing in a VS-language, like C#, is the enormous amount of examples on the internet. There is always someone who had the same problem and asked about it. And gotten a response. (like: how do i write to a file in c#?)
I included the source-code of PlayDeckOrganizer.
You can read the code in Form1.cs with notepad++ or any other texteditor if you don't have VS2008.
Or steal the code and use it in your new platform
Maybe it helps in your decision.
If you are changing platform and run in some problems, let me know. Maybe i can help.
I think i got the platform by usenet. Don't tell anyone
The code could also be copied down to VS 2005 en up of course to 2010.
The first draft would be 3-4 hours since i'm not completely familiar with C#. Tweaking costs me always the most time (the famous 80-20 rule).
I think when you make a program like PlayDeckAnalyzer in C# ( or any other VS language), it will greatly improve in speed.
And you have a lot of controls to choose from.
The main advantage writing in a VS-language, like C#, is the enormous amount of examples on the internet. There is always someone who had the same problem and asked about it. And gotten a response. (like: how do i write to a file in c#?)
I included the source-code of PlayDeckOrganizer.
You can read the code in Form1.cs with notepad++ or any other texteditor if you don't have VS2008.
Or steal the code and use it in your new platform
Maybe it helps in your decision.
If you are changing platform and run in some problems, let me know. Maybe i can help.
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Re: PlayDeckOrganizer
by stassy » 23 Sep 2013, 14:06
While trying to update the "official" Playdeck folder to latest OoAv1 patch with PlaydeckOrganizer v2, I got a crash with the following message :
Crash occurred when I hit the Playdeck to subdir button, after PDA did his check (it was not the "normal" Playdeck folder but the PDA Playdeck folder)
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Crash occurred when I hit the Playdeck to subdir button, after PDA did his check (it was not the "normal" Playdeck folder but the PDA Playdeck folder)
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Re: PlayDeckOrganizer
by Dave » 28 Sep 2013, 08:34
Stassy, this is the way i would do it:
But then again, I would stop after point 7.
1. Start PlaydechOrganizer
2. Cleared Playdeck
3. Copy decks from folders i want to run in Pda, in PlayDeck
4. Start Pda
5. Convert those decks
6. Copy those decks back in Playdeck
7. Click 'PlayDeck to subdirs'
8. Crash.....
So could you tell me each step you took, so i can emulate the problem ?
But then again, I would stop after point 7.
1. Start PlaydechOrganizer
2. Cleared Playdeck
3. Copy decks from folders i want to run in Pda, in PlayDeck
4. Start Pda
5. Convert those decks
6. Copy those decks back in Playdeck
7. Click 'PlayDeck to subdirs'
8. Crash.....
So could you tell me each step you took, so i can emulate the problem ?
Re: PlayDeckOrganizer
by stassy » 28 Sep 2013, 10:27
- PDO is in Magic/PlayDeckAnalyser folder in order to update the Magic/PlayDeckAnalyser/Playdeck folder
- PDO is launched and start to detect all decks in Playdeck folder of PDA.
- I hit the clear button (there was no deck file in Playdeck root so nothing happen)
- I select all deck from the list (ctrl+A) and hit Copy selected to Playdeck button
- I start PDA updated to OoAv1 and with Magic/PlayDeckAnalyser/Playdeck as Playdeck folder which detect around 2k7 decks, then I hit the convert button with no sort and no option selected (30/40/16000) for aroud 30ish seconds
- I select again all deck in PDO with ctrl+A and hit the Playdeck to subdir button with overwrite confirmed
>>> crash
- PDO is launched and start to detect all decks in Playdeck folder of PDA.
- I hit the clear button (there was no deck file in Playdeck root so nothing happen)
- I select all deck from the list (ctrl+A) and hit Copy selected to Playdeck button
- I start PDA updated to OoAv1 and with Magic/PlayDeckAnalyser/Playdeck as Playdeck folder which detect around 2k7 decks, then I hit the convert button with no sort and no option selected (30/40/16000) for aroud 30ish seconds
- I select again all deck in PDO with ctrl+A and hit the Playdeck to subdir button with overwrite confirmed
>>> crash
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Re: PlayDeckOrganizer
by Dave » 13 Oct 2013, 09:04
Sorry it took some time to adress your problem, Stassy. But here it is: V3 of PlayDeckOrganizer.
Updated the first post.
For the interested:
The culprit was: a Paladin's Tale. PDO uses a database kind of way to check if a deck-name is in multiple dirs (other than Playdeck-folder itself). In databases you have to double each apostrophe (a Paladin's Tale should be a Paladin''s Tale)
Anyway, enjoy the new exe
Updated the first post.
For the interested:
The culprit was: a Paladin's Tale. PDO uses a database kind of way to check if a deck-name is in multiple dirs (other than Playdeck-folder itself). In databases you have to double each apostrophe (a Paladin's Tale should be a Paladin''s Tale)
Anyway, enjoy the new exe
Re: PlayDeckOrganizer
by stassy » 13 Oct 2013, 13:03
Argh, so if PDO doesn't like copies of the same deck in several directories, it would be nice to have a tickbox to bypass this feature (for EDH deck used in Tournament and Challenge for eg.)
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