I agree with Lomir...

The chances of you getting a virus from an authentic PS download and install is nil.

Maybe YOU should take some measures and get a virus scan.

This isn\'t even the right forum...

I hate these one-posters who don\'t even use capitalization, don\'t pay attention, and ask inane questions....

How odd, I have the same problem.

Except, occasionally, it works...

Hmm, I just got a dump file of the error, should I do anything with it?

Hmm... that array structure looks okay. But when it sends it to the server, we would probably have to replace the null (0) value with the space value; I think it\'s something else in the ASCII character set. But is that the most efficient way to do it? Maybe I should have a look at the gedit source code... it seems to be pretty similar to what we want.


So, maybe this could worm its way into the 0.4 release!

I was actually thinking of each page being a different entry in the database. The header file wouldn\'t be viewable, but would be purely for the server to tell what to send over.

I think that a different data string for each page would be easier, because it could monitor each string individually and watch for if they have too much.

About placing things anywhere.... that really would be needed, wouldn\'t it? It\'s a journal, anyways. I remember the old EDIT dos program too... We should look into making a text editor, or else finding one that we can change.

And also, how many people are running this at 320x200?

We would probably want standard ASCII, it\'s friendliest for ASCII art and maps and such. A nice, curly, journal font may look good... but spacing would be problematic.

Actually, DiamondCrite, I don\'t think any one person would have 4 GB in their notebook. Their would be a limit, so probably the biggest notebook that would ever exist would be about 1 MB. For comparison, most four-hundred page books, when converted to text, are less than 1 MB.

And shouldn\'t each page be slightly independent of the others? Wouldn\'t it be bad if you were writing in your notebook and found your nicely formatted notes on the next page halfway down the page? We should have each page sent over as one big raw text file, with page breaks included possibly, but not required. For example, the previous sentence was one long line, but was broken up by the forum software.

Basically, the server would send over each non-blank page as a long string of text, with optional page breaks included, but the client would do the actual word-wrapping and measure the length of each page. When it sees that it has gone to the end of the page, it would skip to the next page and continue writing. Arrow key navigation of the pages would be nice, perhaps with chapter markers and bookmarks.


Hmm... perhaps we could even expand this system into non-writable in game books. Maybe we could even be able to find rare books of magical lore and read them to find the spells. A library with useful information in books would be nice... but you would have to have the check out and all that junk... might be too complex.

But we have a dedicated planeshift server, right?

I mean, in the long run, does 4 GB of space really matter? I have cd sets of linux that are on my hard drive, and take up several gigabytes, but it doesn\'t matter. I don\'t think that we need to worry about space.

Also, why would it need to be encrypted? Does it really matter? I can understand encrypted LOGINS... but encrypting and decrypting takes processor power that could better be used for other stuff.

We probably need a developer to tell us if we would have disklspace problems with it. But at around 50k per person, I think we could handle it, possibly even automatically downloading it to someone when they login. On second thought, scratch that. We should serve it to them only when they request it, to conserve bandwidth. Maybe a message like \"You fumble in your pack for your journal\" would appear while it downloads the text from the server.

Perhaps we could also split it up, and have a computer\'s journal that would be a detailed log file, that would only be stored on that computer.

Originally posted by Merdarion
Well, why not just open a text editor and write it into there, then save it?

Merdarion, several reasons. First of all, most people don\'t like switching between fullscreen applications, because of desktop resizing and such. Also, it would detract from the aura of the game. If we have a journal displayed in the game with yellowed pages and cracks in the binding, it would certainly have a better effect than a plain white background in a text editor. Also, the point of it would be that it is on the server, and easy to access. You could also get it from anywhere.