Deck Builder and Rules Viewer

[Snacko]

That is already possible and described in help.
You can write 'cc>1' in search bar which means converted mana cost greater than one, or 'cc=1'.
This filters the cards in the database, there's currently no way to filter the deck. It's just possible to sort cards in deck.

[Strainer]

Hi.

I personally favor Nate's Deck Builder over any other because it is simple to use and has all the features anyone could want. There is only 1 simple feature I would like to request:

Support for Online PlayTable and the .dck format it uses. According to my tests, the OPT deck files are the same structure as MWS deck files, so all the Deck Builder would need is to recognize the ".dck" files of OPT and open them with the same routine as for MWS (it even works changing the ending from ".dck" to ".mwdeck" and open it that way). It would also be nice to have the feature to save decks as .dck, I could then fully replace the OPT Deck Builder (which isn't bad, but I'm used to the awesomeness of Nate's too much ). OPT supports third party apps to open and modify decks, one more step to supporting this awesome program.

Thanks a lot and keep up the great work.

Greets

[juzamjedi]

Snacko - would it be difficult to total the mana sources down at the bottom where it shows the colored mana symbols in the spells?

I tweak decks a lot and sometimes I forget to update my mana base to support the changes. File this one under "nice to have."

[Snacko]

@juzamjedi
The only problem would be that I need to redo the image that defines layout of stats.
Mana sources could also be counted for each color / colorless, however then 1 dual+ mana source would go into all the colors it produces.

@Strainer
It's no problem I'll add dck to supported deck files.

[Snacko]

http://www.mediafire.com/file/1gud1wdk4 ... 7-rc6.3.7z

This is only intended as an update as it does contain only changed files.

* caching of images
* plugin errors don't stop deckbuilder from launching
* added Online PlayTable .dck as a supported extension, you can load / save (same format as MWS decks)

Image cache uses soft references which basically means as there's less memory available to jvm the faster the cache fills and needs to prune less used images. By default jvm has 64M heap memory, and this leaves the cache ~10M, which is quite plenty for Wizards images (enough to cache all images in a deck). I suppose you don't need cache if using full pictures, unless you got them on some slow network drive. You can tweak memory available to jvm by running the software as
'java -Xmx256M -jar DeckBuilder.jar' (you can change 256M to as much as you need/want).

[nantuko84]

about soft links
I would like to thank you, Snacko, for your reference to google collections (http://code.google.com/p/google-collections/) you've made inside one of the forum's topics
I've shared this link at my work and we are going to use it on our projects

regards

[jendave]

Hi Snacko,

When you are able, can you post the source code for the new version?

Thanks
Dave

[Snacko]

@nantuko84
There's also some nifty stuff at Guava project which is an umbrella project for google java code (not evertyhing in there is considered stable).
What I like from the Map package is you can write something like:

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 ConcurrentMap<Key, Image> cache = new MapMaker()
       .softValues()
       .makeComputingMap(
           new Function<Key, Image>() {
             public Image apply(Key key) {
               return loadMyImage(key);
             }
           });

Which gets you a value that is soft referenced, plus the entries compute themselves if they're missing from the map! So you can always cache.get(key) and always get a value back that is also stored in the map.

@jendave
will upload it tommorow
edit:
There you go http://www.mediafire.com/file/jzzituove ... 7-rc6.3.7z

[jendave]

Perfect. Thanks!

[Strainer]

Thx for adding Online Play Table decks Snacko.

Greets

[jendave]

There is a problem with the rules-general.txt file in the latest version. The last few lines are cut off and it causes Deckbuilder to crash on my Mac laptop. If I replace it with the rules-general.txt from the last version (or even just cut-n-paste the missing lines) and remove the rulesdb, Deckbuilder runs fine.

[dbbergen]

Feature request:

Snacko, thank-you for continuing to lead and manage the continued development and updates to Deckbuilder. Thanks to everyone else who has contributed.

I am wondering if somebody could add the ability to display the total value of the card panel and/or deck panel (multiplying the 'owned qty'(card panel) or 'qty'(deck panel) by the magic traders prices? It would be useful to know the value of a collection and the cost to build a deck. I'd also like to hold Budget Constructed tournaments with deck value caps; this would be an easy way to calculate.

Also, is there a Card Shark prices plug-in anymore?

Thanks for your replies.

[Snacko]

I am wondering if somebody could add the ability to display the total value of the card panel and/or deck panel (multiplying the 'owned qty'(card panel) or 'qty'(deck panel) by the magic traders prices? It would be useful to know the value of a collection and the cost to build a deck. I'd also like to hold Budget Constructed tournaments with deck value caps; this would be an easy way to calculate.

I'll add this with the count of mana sources in the deck which was requested before. It would go in the statistics table.

The problem with Card Shark is that it doesn't provide an export with all the card prices and the links to editions appear and disappear as the sets rotate.

[dbbergen]

Thanks Snacko!

Another nice piece of 'Deck Information' would be the counts of Common/Unc/Rare/Mythic.

Cheers,

[kristijanH]

I'm using Magic Album and it can export my owned cards in csv format but when I import owned quantities in Deck Builder the owned button doesn't work. And what does the unique button applies to?