X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~yarrgweb/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=yarrg%2Fweb%2Fupload;h=db82c6910c88caf468fd3f93ded34a1019ce0d0b;hb=2fc281fdc41a5e7b97550cda3806c903b8a7ae9b;hp=2714dcd8aa4998a71135e0cb561e2cee57dae3c9;hpb=ae5738198eb4625ac13ba5f3cb92ca0f97a3acd0;p=ypp-sc-tools.db-live.git diff --git a/yarrg/web/upload b/yarrg/web/upload index 2714dcd..db82c69 100755 --- a/yarrg/web/upload +++ b/yarrg/web/upload @@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ <& docshead &> +<%perl> +my $url_base_base= 'http://yarrg.chiark.net/download/jpctb'; +my $download_version= 'test'; +my $url_base= "$url_base_base/$download_version"; +

Uploading to YARRG

@@ -46,7 +51,7 @@ Puzzle Pirates game client and uploads it to the database. You will need to upload data yourself if there is no data for your ocean or island, or the data that is there is too old. You should -also upload when preparing trade run, as market conditions change and +also upload when preparing a trade run, as market conditions change and you want a plan based on recent data.

@@ -84,9 +89,10 @@ report the problem to us, not to Three Rings.

Installing and running on Linux

Download -http://www.greenend.org.uk/owen/free/jpctb.tar.gz +<% $url_base %>/jpctb.tar.gz and unpack it. You run it from the command line. Change -to the directory where you unpacked the tarball above, and then run +(cd) to the top level jpctb directory +which was created when you unpacked the tarball, and then run 
 ./jpctb /path/to/yohoho/yohoho
@@ -97,7 +103,7 @@ ordinary Puzzle Pirates startup script, which is normally

Installing on Windows

Download -http://www.greenend.org.uk/owen/free/jpctb-linkfarmer/jpctp-setup.exe +<% $url_base %>/jpctb-setup.exe and double-click on it. It will either:
  1. Just work, in which case you'll have a new icon on your desktop which @@ -124,9 +130,9 @@ databases.

    YARRG JPCTB uses the Java Accessibility API, which is a part of the -Java platform. It's an facility in Java, available for all Java +Java platform. It's a facility in Java, available for all Java programs, intended to help make applications available to users with -disabilities; for example, it permits hooking in screen readers. The +disabilities: for example, it permits hooking in screen readers. The use of the Java Accessibility API was helpfully suggested by a Ringer in the forums (to another developer of a third-party tool, wanting help getting information out of Duty Reports). @@ -141,7 +147,7 @@ core game functionality which would make cheating possible.

    -JPCTB works by running any unmodified copy of the YPP client but with +JPCTB works by running an unmodified copy of the YPP client but with a separate JVM (Java Virtual Machine) configured to use the appropriate accessibility plugin. We do this (rather than configuring the computer's main JVM to use the JPCTB accessibility plugin) so that @@ -149,7 +155,7 @@ it is still possible to launch Puzzle Pirates without JPCTB (for example, in case the JPCTB client should cause any kind of problem). -

    Authorship and source code

    +

    Authorship, source code and other versions

    Thanks to Burninator for writing the core of the JPCTB client. Ian Jackson and Owen Dunn adapted it to improve the installation setup (in @@ -169,11 +175,18 @@ the MIT-style two-clause licence.

    +The download directory can contains other versions (eg unreleased test +versions), which you can see here: + <% $url_base_base %>/ . + +

    + The source code for the downloadable released binaries is in the -Linux +Linux tarball. We maintain YARRG JPCTB in git, and you can get -recent and perhaps unreleased versions from -git://git.yarrg.chiark.net/jpctb.git. +source code for recent and perhaps unreleased versions from +git://git.yarrg.chiark.net/jpctb.git and/or +git://git.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ijackson/jpctb.git .