In where-vessels, click "Acquire"
-You will probably want to create a "vessel-notes" file to get the best
+You may well want to create a "vessel-notes" file to get the best
use out of where-vessels, see below.
If you don't have exactly one YPP client open and logged in then you
OPTIONS:
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- --pirate PIRATE Treat vessels belonging to PIRATE as your own
- --ocean OCEAN Use map of OCEAN
+ --ocean OCEAN
+ Use map of OCEAN. Default is to guess by looking for an
+ open Puzzle Pirates client on the same display (logged on
+ as PIRATE, if --pirate was used).
+
+ --pirate PIRATE
+ Supplies the name of your pirate. If you also supply a notes
+ file (see below) where-vessels will treat ships belonging to
+ PIRATE as your own. An empty argument means do not care about
+ vessel ownership. Default is not to care about ownership without
+ notes; with notes, default is to look for a Puzzle Pirates client
+ on the same display (on OCEAN, if --ocean was used).
--notes SOURCE
- Use SOURCE as the vessel notes; default is "vessel-notes" in the
- current directory. See below. SOURCE may be of the following forms:
- SCHEME:... eg http:... URL, fetched with Tcl's http package
- |COMMAND ARG ARG command (Tcl list) whose output is the notes
- NOTES-FILE ordinary file
+ Use SOURCE as the vessel notes. See below.
+ SOURCE may be of the following forms:
+ empty argument No notes, this is the default
+ SCHEME:... eg http:... URL, fetched with Tcl's http package
+ |COMMAND ARG ARG command (Tcl list) whose output is the notes
+ NOTES-FILE ordinary file
+
+ --filter-separate-lock-owner
+ In the filter, show two separate 3-button filters for the lock
+ status, and the ship owner, rather than one 9-button filter with
+ an option for each combination. (If there are no notes, only
+ one 3-button filter, for the lock status, is shown, anyway.)
--vessel-info-source RSYNC-SRC
Update information about vessels, subclasses, icons, etc. from
Do not fetch ocean map from Yppedia. Instead, use copy in DIR.
+USER INTERFACE:
+===============
+
+There are some things that won't be obvious from the user interface.
+
+The black square with the blue square inside it is the panner for the
+map.
+
+If you get an error message from Acquire, or a message about the
+notes, shown as a red, yellow or blue message below the Acquire or
+Reload Notes button, you can click on the message to get a pop-up
+window with the full error message.
+
+Colonised islands are shown with names in black; uncolonised in grey.
+Dotted routes are unpurchaseable charts. (Information from Yppedia.)
+
+If you click on one of the little white icons on the map, you'll see
+an explanation of what that icon string means appear in the top right.
+Each element of the icon is explained in turn from left to right.
+Then you'll see a list of the ships represented below, ordered by
+owning pirate (if known) and then by name.
+
+The "Show" panel allows you to filter the displayed ships. If you
+don't select "These:" then none of the other controls in the "Show"
+panel have any effect, so touching any of the latter sets the overall
+filtering style back to "These:".
+
+"Copy island names" makes where-vessels "copy" (as in "copy and
+paste") a comma-separated list of the names of the islands at which
+selected ships are present. You can then paste this into other tools
+(eg, the YARRG website). (Technically, "copy island names" claims the
+X Primary Selection.)
+
+"Display/combine details" allows the map display to be decluttered by
+squashing together differing ships:
+ * "Size round down": selecting a size means that every ship of that
+ size will be rounded down to the next un-selected size. Naturally
+ you cannot select sloops for rounding down!
+ * "Lock/owner": "Yours?" simply pretends that all unknown ships are
+ not yours; that is useful if your crew has many ships and you only
+ bother writing about your own ships in the notes. "For you" shows
+ the vessel lock status, except that if it's your ship and unlocked
+ it shows just that it's yours (and doesn't show whether it's
+ unlocked or crew use). "Lock" shows the lock status only.
+ * Flags: See perlop(1) on the tr/// (aka y///) operator. All
+ characters entered into the boxes are literal; ranges etc. are not
+ supported.
+Filtering done by the "Show" panel takes effect before the collapsing
+done by "Display/combine details", so you can filter on details which
+you are collapsing for display.
+
+If you select (click on) one of the ship names in the list in the top
+right, you'll get an icon string below the vessel list which gives the
+complete information for that vessel, as it was before the collapsing.
+
+
+
VESSEL NOTES:
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