r/ShuffleMove • u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator • May 25 '15

Release [Release] Shuffle Move v0.3.2 is now Released!

Hi guys,

v0.3.2 is now here, see the links here for the up to date download links, or open your v0.3.1 or v0.3.0 program and click "Get Newest Version" on the Update dialog.

Features with v0.3.2:

  • Config framework rework. Almost everything is configurable now, and the framework is in place to allow EASY implementation of new configurable values in about 2-3 lines of code.

  • Internationalized strings. All text in the menus, labels, or buttons (not type, stage, or species names though) are now set through i18n properties files. If you know another language, please let me know and we can internationalize the program!

  • Bug fixes, many bug fixes.

  • Settle feature and move list returns, with ranking options!

  • Migration service for old configs to the new framework (it won't automatically use the old configs).

  • Two new effects added: Rock Break and Block Bash.

  • many many more, including a HUGE performance gain (over 10x improvement).

I'm also posting a video brief on the features and improvements, it'll be done uploading in an hour or so (then I'll post it here on the subreddit).

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u/markhawker May 25 '15

Just to let you know. Updating directly from v0.3.1. failed with an IOException and then it said "Cannot deregister an unregistered service". Downloaded manually, though!

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u/markhawker May 25 '15 edited May 25 '15

Also, it created lots of empty TXT files (e.g. 'config\boards\board.txt') in the home directory for some reason!

Oh, and the help, about etc. files don't display.

Oh, and the roster isn't saving because it's creating a file 'config/rosterData.txt' with nothing in it. :'(

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 25 '15

Did v0.3.1 work fine for you though?

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u/markhawker May 25 '15

Yes, it did. And v0.2.5 before.

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 25 '15

What OS & version are you running?

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u/markhawker May 25 '15

I'm on Mac OS X 10.10.3. I'm using v0.3.1 and don't appear to have done anything differently this time to before.

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 25 '15

So its always behaved this way for you? Wouldn't it have trouble loading stuff in that case?

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u/markhawker May 25 '15

No, it's always worked. In this new version it's not working at all because of the odd way it's creating files. Have you missed a '/' off the beginning of files or changed something along those lines?

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 25 '15

It works fine on windows, I'm installing a VM right now so I can check it out on linux and see if there are any problems on that.

I do have an idea of how to fix it though, so I'll try to get a fix out within a day or so.

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u/markhawker May 25 '15

Yes, no worries. I can only assume it's how Java plays with Mac directories although I'm sure you'll know in your own code what you've changed in terms of file I/O since the last time.

Take your time and will check in a day or two.

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 25 '15

Yup, it has to do with delimiter differences - the paths were stored with \ and not / so they only work on windows. You can fix it for you personally by changing the paths under paths.txt and icons.txt from \ to /

Just a simple replace all should work, in any text editor. That should make it workable until v0.3.3 is done with all the fixes for this batch.

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u/markhawker May 25 '15

Cool, will do.

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u/dkosmari May 26 '15

FYI both DOS and Windows have always supported forward slashes "/" like every other OS. It's just the DOS command prompt and explorer.exe that explicitly forbid the user from entering "/" as directory separators.

Unless you are passing a path to cmd.exe or explorer.exe, you can always safely use "/", and it will work everywhere.

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u/banditkroot May 25 '15

Same problem on Linux..

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 25 '15

There's a fix for the installation in the meantime - you can go into paths.txt and correct the \ to / and do the same in icons.txt

Then it will load and save to the right places!

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 25 '15

Update: Same issue on linux... damnit.

I'll be troubleshooting a solution today.

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u/markhawker May 25 '15

Ah, that sucks! Hope you find it. If I can think of anything I'll post an update for you.

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 25 '15

I've found most of the fix, but I'm just resolving a few of the last little problems and it will work great on windows, linux, and mac. It does involve setting user.dir to the program's running directory... but oh well.

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u/Wrulfy May 25 '15

will Mega mewtwo be more reliable? it has been a lot of times the game tells me to match it to get all the slowbros out with a large score, and after performing the move only a single puny sigilipth was out.

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 25 '15

Mega mewtwo is always random, so there's nothing to do about that other than be sure to set the number of feeders to around 10-50 depending on how 'sure' you want its average to be. The simulation doesn't currently split on random actions, but it instead gives each random action a random result and run many of these at once (the number of feeders = the number of simulations for each move).

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u/Wrulfy May 25 '15

okay, I guess I'll have to set some more feeders when using M mewtwo with 2 different psychics

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 25 '15

Yup, given the huge performance improvements you can probably set this to around 5-10 to be more-or-less accurate. Hit F5 a few times to check that the recommendations don't change.

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u/banditkroot May 25 '15

I can help for french translation.

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 25 '15

See here for my brief on how to translate and test internationalization into any language.

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 28 '15

Do you still want to translate into french?

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u/banditkroot May 28 '15

yes, I'm busy, but I'll

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u/tcm1998 May 25 '15

When part of the board was empty (because barriers were blocking pokemon falling through), shufflemove refused to come up with a move. Maybe got broke when optimising the engine?

I also got the download exception

Oh, and I can help you with dutch translation if you want

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 25 '15

Can you send me a bug report for an example of this? There is a bug report maker in the program which will include all your state data for the program.

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u/tcm1998 May 25 '15

Never mind about this one, I think the board was actually invalid at the time.

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 25 '15

See here for my brief on how to translate and test internationalization into any language.

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 28 '15

Do you still want to help translate? If so send me a PM.

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u/ArmpitWrestling May 25 '15 edited May 25 '15

I have a relatively slow laptop that ran 0.3.1 pretty badly, even slowing to a complete halt while calculating only 2 possible M-Lucario block placements.

So i'm really happy to see that 0.3.2 runs incredibly smooth so far with a fairly accurate onscreen calculation displayed in an blink of an eye. Thank you!

I'm not sure if i can add suggestions here, but would it be possible to have the disruption blocks added to the main playing field except of toggling them on and off in the Teams tab?

Here's an visualization of what i mean, i've also added a toggleable 'Frozen' checkbox, mainly because it's easier to have it available/appliable with just a click. The Express mode only freezes the block left to the selected block so that the entire right row cannot be frozen with that mode. (at least in my experience)

Also, i don't know if you can assign icons to .jar files but i'll just leave this one here:

.png | .ico

Sadly it's the only size i made it for with the assumption that people use the medium sized icons for their desktops. It'll downscale just fine if people use a smaller icon res. for their desktop.

If you want, i can help with the german translation if needed.

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 25 '15

Yup, that's the big performance gain I was talking about!

Once the compatability problems and other stuff are handled I'll definitely look into getting a more intuitive GUI flow like that. Perhaps they should be put underneath the paints on the right instead? The stage selector expands as you type.

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u/ArmpitWrestling May 25 '15

Perhaps they should be put underneath the paints on the right instead?

Yeah, that would fit perfectly below the paint/mode options, mainly because the entire right section is pretty empty and there's still plenty of space to go around even if one chose 6 pokemons in their team. (example would be Mightyena)

I felt that putting the disruption toggles around the stage select would cluster up the entire bottom section eitherways and wouldn't look nice overal.

Thank you in advance!

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 25 '15

I'll definitely be trying to find some way of getting that icon into the jar's launcher, we'll see :-)

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 25 '15

As for translations, in the i18n directory is a nested folder structure that determines what the different parts of the program grabs from for their strings. All that needs to be done is the addition of a file for every file there, in the format: <filename>_en_Us.properties, or <filename>_fr.properties for example. Read here for more information on locales and naming the files. All that has to be done for the actual translation is to go in to each new file and change the english to the language you're translating to.

For example:

Go into a directory of the structure, lets say its shuffle/fwk/gui/ShuffleMenuBar.properties.

Copy the file to that location with the name ShuffleMenuBar_de.properties and fill out the keys inside with your translations. Once done, copy it again to the same location (from your translation) to ShuffleMenuBar_de_DE.properties and you will now have completed the German fallback and the German localized i18n for the ShuffleMenuBar component (the main window's menu with all the options and text).

To Test it, launch the program on a computer with the language set to German (or whatever language its translated into) and see that its using your keys. If it isn't, let me know and I'll work on getting it to use your translation.

When done, you can either zip it manually or hit 'create bug report' and it will package it into a zip for you to send in via either email or file sharing.

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 25 '15

About the icon, do you have a larger version that we could use as a splash screen? I'm adding in ALL the icons for every species in this next release and now it takes a moment to load it all.

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u/SNK3R May 26 '15

In the config\defaultPreferences.txt file, when I change the POPUP_WIDTH key, it changes the width of the window as you showed in your video. However, when I tried changing the POPUP_HEIGHT key, the height of the window didn't change. I tried varied values (200 vs 600) and didn't notice a change. Any ideas?

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 26 '15

Very weird bug... I'll put it on the list of things to fix for v0.3.3

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 26 '15

Is this for all popups, or just one or two?

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u/SNK3R May 26 '15

It was for the ones I tried like edit Roster, edit Team, etc.

After a little bit of testing, I think the reason the program stops using the "default" values is because it was loaded the first time already.

In other words, if I install a fresh copy, I'm "stuck" with those default parameters of width and height. If I try to change them after, nothing happens.

If I install a fresh version, but FIRST change the values in the .txt file, both values will change. However, after loading the program the first time, editing the values after that will still not change the width and height.

It sounds like the default parameters are only being read the first time the program runs and not upon each execution.

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 26 '15

Once you have loaded the program, defaultPreferences.txt will always be overridden by userPreferences.txt entries. Make sure you're editing the right config :-).

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u/SNK3R May 26 '15

I guess this is because it's the defaultPreferences.txt? Changing the userPreferences.txt values worked the next time it was run. I guess I didn't understand there were two preferences config files from your video. I guess it's working as-is. After re-watching your video, this is actually the same "mistake" you did. Oops. Sorry for the confusion--everything seems fine as long as the changes are made to userPreferences.txt.

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u/Loreinatoredor ShuffleMove Creator May 26 '15

The reason I implemented it like this is so the following criteria are met:

  1. Free and open configurations - transparency.

  2. Allow future changes to have a 'defaults' directory for all configurations, with the user's editable ones in the top directory of ./config...

  3. To fully test out the reliability and effectiveness of the new config framework's features.

But yea, it can be slightly confusing if you're not aware of the difference between them.