When setting focus on commodities, always use top left corner of table

[ypp-sc-tools.db-test.git] / pctb / README

diff --git a/pctb/README b/pctb/README
index 59a3646591e7fa2f4f1e869c71302f87d8a76b2a..8379208a4e7319ef1e0c7481c8c4751405040439 100644 (file)
--- a/pctb/README
+++ b/pctb/README
@@ -6,17 +6,22 @@ This tool can:
   - produce the results as a tab separated values file
   - upload the results to PCTB
 
   - produce the results as a tab separated values file
   - upload the results to PCTB
 

-To run it, change to this directory, type `make', and then:
-  ./ypp-commodities --upload
-to upload to the PCTB server.   Currently we use pctb.ilk.org,
-the testing instance of the PCTB database, pending approval from the
-operators of the main server.
+To build, install the dependencies, cd to this directory and type `make'.
+
+To screenscrape and upload to the PCTB server, select `trade
+commodities' from the hold of a vessel or building, and run:
+   ./ypp-commodities
+Currently we use pctb.ilk.org, the testing instance of the PCTB
+database, pending approval from the operators of the main server.

 
 Or, for example, for a tab-separated values dump:
 
 Or, for example, for a tab-separated values dump:

-  ./ypp-commodities --tsv >commods.tsv
+   ./ypp-commodities --tsv >commods.tsv

 
 While it is capturing the screenshots, do not move the mouse or use
 the keyboard.  Keyboard focus must stay in the YPP client window.
 
 While it is capturing the screenshots, do not move the mouse or use
 the keyboard.  Keyboard focus must stay in the YPP client window.

+If you use Gnome or KDE you must raise the YPP client window so that
+it is completely unobscured - the ypp-commodities program tries to do
+this but metacity and kwin do not honour the request.

 
 
 Command-line options
 
 
 Command-line options


@@ -64,6 +69,8 @@ Or set the environment variables YPPSC_PCTB{_PCTB, _DICT_UPDATE, _DICT_SUBMIT}
 Installation requirements
 -------------------------
 
 Installation requirements
 -------------------------
 

+Your X server must be 24bpp (or better).
+

 This program has quite a few dependencies:
                                                        Package (Debian etch)
 
 This program has quite a few dependencies:
                                                        Package (Debian etch)
 


@@ -135,6 +142,47 @@ GUI.
 See README.privacy for full details.
 
 
 See README.privacy for full details.
 
 

+Authorship and copyright
+------------------------
+
+The PCTB server itself is a project of Joel Lord and various others.
+
+
+However, this screenscraper and upload client was written entirely
+from scratch by me, Ian Jackson.  It is part of ypp-sc-tools, a set of
+third-party tools for assisting players of Yohoho Puzzle Pirates.
+
+ypp-sc-tools is
+Copyright (C) 2009 Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
+
+This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+Yohoho and Puzzle Pirates are probably trademarks of Three Rings and
+are used without permission.  This program is not endorsed or
+sponsored by Three Rings.
+
+
+The character and UI images copied from the YPP client, and submitted
+to stored and shared by the YPP SC PCTB dictionary server, are those
+provided by Three Rings as part of the YPP client and by your Java
+installation.  I regard the current use of these images in this way as
+Fair Dealing (in the UK) or Fair Use (in the USA).
+
+These images do not form part of the ypp-sc-tools distribution,
+although the ypp-sc-tools pctb client does download them automatically
+from my dictionary server when run in the most ordinary way.
+

 
  - Ian Jackson
    ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk
 
  - Ian Jackson
    ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk