Greetings fellow Dresdenites,
I have been working on version 2 of my character manager program for a while now and the time has come to try and squash all the bugs I've not found and test the features I've not tested. If you've used version 1 of my program, this will be very similar to that only I hope that instead of making the same mistakes of the past, I've made entirely new ones.
That being said, I need some volunteers. Probably about 5ish to 10ish or so to begin with to take a look through the program. There are a few requirements (nothing onerous, I think).
- You must be using Windows (sorry Mac people. Nothing against you, but this is how I program)
- You must have .NET framework 4.0 or later (you can find that here:http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17851)
- You must be willing to have odd and potentially horrific things happen to your character file. (I cannot stress this enough. Back up your character files. They should work just fine, but I don't want to destroy something you've put time into due to one typo in 15 thousand lines of code)
- If you want to view character sheets the easy way, you must have IE 9 installed (even if you don't use it. The character sheet uses HTML5/CSS3 and IE 8 and earlier will ignore those parts. You can still view the sheet, it just looks terrible. The other option is that I included an "Export Character Sheet" option that will save an HTML files you can view in Firefox, Chrome, Opera or whatever you normally use.)
- You must be willing to tell me about whatever errors you run into, or they will never get fixed. (I'm aware plenty of errors never got fixed with version 1, I'm hoping to do better this time.)
- I also ask that you not pass the program around yet. It will have bugs and I'd prefer to limit the exposure until I can kill most of them. I'm not saying you can't share it around, but please don't yet. It is easier to troubleshoot a little at a time.
My hope is to get feedback and have a released version by the start if next month, depending on how much needs fixing. Just post in this thread if you are interested in testing and this evening I will send out links to the program (assuming of course no power outages or cooking catastrophes)
