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This is the new aircraft comparison window. I made it so you can compare more than two -- just keep adding columns as wide as your screen can get (or wider, since it has a horizontal scroll bar).

Thanks so much for doing this. It looks really sharp!

floydg wrote: Sun Aug 02, 2026 11:15 pm This is the new aircraft comparison window. I made it so you can compare more than two -- just keep adding columns as wide as your screen can get (or wider, since it has a horizontal scroll bar).

Screenshot 2026-08-02 190957.png

Wow a new upgrade to Tracker what a treat and surprise! Any general ETA for release of the new version?

floydg wrote: Sun Aug 02, 2026 11:15 pm This is the new aircraft comparison window. I made it so you can compare more than two -- just keep adding columns as wide as your screen can get (or wider, since it has a horizontal scroll bar).

Screenshot 2026-08-02 190957.png

WHOO_HOO!!!!!!


Floyd, you DA man!!!!!

Very useful

While I am re-using a lot of the Java code, it's all being re-done in Python.
I'm also making some architecture changes along the way to make start-up a lot quicker.
This will be packaged with the Python interpreter so you won't need to install anything extra, plus no 32-bit Java dependency!
I'm about 40% into it, I guess, after several months of hacking away.
I am trying to package what I have so far now so you can try out some of the functionality for feedback.
I'm hoping to have a somewhat functioning partial implementation by the end of the month.

Awesome.

floydg wrote: Sat Aug 08, 2026 9:42 pm While I am re-using a lot of the Java code, it's all being re-done in Python.
I'm also making some architecture changes along the way to make start-up a lot quicker.
This will be packaged with the Python interpreter so you won't need to install anything extra, plus no 32-bit Java dependency!
I'm about 40% into it, I guess, after several months of hacking away.
I am trying to package what I have so far now so you can try out some of the functionality for feedback.
I'm hoping to have a somewhat functioning partial implementation by the end of the month.

That would be awesome. I am starting a new PBeM game in the next week or so and I would love to use your new version.

Xargun

Having just some of the functionality available will be a big plus.

It appears that with the latest versions of 32 bit Java that memory threshold errors occur after 50 turns. No amount of configuration or deletion of old databases resolves functionality. It's pretty incredible that any application cant run in a 4GB window. The move to python solves lots of problems.

Although it is quite possible to use the utilities embedded into WITP AE -- WITP Tracker enabled rapid and meaningful access to critical decision data in an organized presentation making the game playable -- especially as the IJ.

I continue to monitor and await an alpha version.

Any updates on this?

I ran into a roadblock in packaging this as a single file (or small number of files). The separate 32-bit thing that reads the files isn't working and I got frustrated and decided to give myself a break. I'll get back to it soon.

floydg wrote: Thu Sep 24, 2026 12:15 am ... The separate 32-bit thing that reads the files isn't working ....

Crap! Yeah, got a lot of "utilities" that you count on to work and when they don't, very frustrating ...

floydg wrote: Thu Sep 24, 2026 12:15 am and I got frustrated and decided to give myself a break. I'll get back to it soon.

Yep, that's the best thing. Have a cold one (or two), give yourself a few days ...

floydg wrote: Thu Sep 24, 2026 12:15 am I ran into a roadblock in packaging this as a single file (or small number of files). The separate 32-bit thing that reads the files isn't working and I got frustrated and decided to give myself a break. I'll get back to it soon.

Thank you for the update!

I know nothing about computer languages, but i suspect its hard to press on.
I would wager that many of us wouldnt mind chipping in a few pieces of coin to help motivate this project. Anyone who has played this game needs a ledger of sorts, me thinks. And hard work is hard work.

(i would try the other ledger that has appeared on the other thread, but antivirus keeps flagging a possible trojan....)

Nonetheless, we hope for good news, but no pressure