Supply Icon Question

[stalingrd]

Greetings,

Just a pedestrian question - when I'm looking at the supply in a hex, I can see a circle with the supply number. Sometimes it has two colors - white and blue, and sometimes it is just white.

If it is half white and half blue, does it mean that the hex is being supplied currently, and the full white not?

Thanks -

[Curtis Lemay]

ORIGINAL: stalingrd

Greetings,

Just a pedestrian question - when I'm looking at the supply in a hex, I can see a circle with the supply number. Sometimes it has two colors - white and blue, and sometimes it is just white.

If it is half white and half blue, does it mean that the hex is being supplied currently, and the full white not?

Thanks -

We have just got to get this added to the manual somehow. Newbies have been asking it over and over again since 1998. It really gets old.

When the icon has red in it, only the red side would be in supply in that hex. When it has blue in it, only the blue side would be in supply in that hex. When it has neither red nor blue in it, both sides would be in supply in that hex.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: Curtis Lemay
...It really gets old.....

Don't let it bother you stalingrd, Curtis is just having a bad day. Next time you have a question just send it to me in an email and I'll do my best to answer it. That way you won't get rocks thrown at you. ( larryfulkerson2002 (at) yahoo (dot) com ).

[Curtis Lemay]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

ORIGINAL: Curtis Lemay
...It really gets old.....

Don't let it bother you stalingrd, Curtis is just having a bad day. Next time you have a question just send it to me in an email and I'll do my best to answer it. That way you won't get rocks thrown at you. ( larryfulkerson2002 (at) yahoo (dot) com ).

Let me be clear. The rock was aimed at Norm for not putting it in the manual to begin with. It's perfectly understandable for newbies to keep asking about it.

[larryfulkerson]

Hey Curtis:  now that you've explained it I agree with you.  I remember asking this same question myself.  Thanks.

[fogger]

Thanks for asking Stalingrd, I did not know that. As I use to tell my troopers there are no dumb questions.

[L`zard]

ORIGINAL: Curtis Lemay

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

ORIGINAL: Curtis Lemay
...It really gets old.....

Don't let it bother you stalingrd, Curtis is just having a bad day. Next time you have a question just send it to me in an email and I'll do my best to answer it. That way you won't get rocks thrown at you. ( larryfulkerson2002 (at) yahoo (dot) com ).

Let me be clear. The rock was aimed at Norm for not putting it in the manual to begin with. It's perfectly understandable for newbies to keep asking about it.

No problemo, Bob!

Especially as the 'manual' is still Acow native, LOL!

Of course, one doesn't expect a 'new' manual until the last patch is published for ToaW III, eh?

Which will prolly be the basis of the ToaW IV manual........(nudge nudge, wink wink ).....


Meanwhile, Stlngrd and Fogger.... check out the 'wishlist' ( tm.asp?m=1540287 ) for some of the things already clariified, eh? Not to meantion the 'readme' for your current patch (what's new, found in your base toaw folder)...

[:D]

[Curtis Lemay]

ORIGINAL: L`zard

ORIGINAL: Curtis Lemay
Let me be clear. The rock was aimed at Norm for not putting it in the manual to begin with. It's perfectly understandable for newbies to keep asking about it.

No problemo, Bob!

Especially as the 'manual' is still Acow native, LOL!

Of course, one doesn't expect a 'new' manual until the last patch is published for ToaW III, eh?

Which will prolly be the basis of the ToaW IV manual........(nudge nudge, wink wink ).....

One can certainly understand Norm's reluctance to edit the manual - it was a bound paper booklet. It may seem easier in our case, since the manual has been translated to electronic form. But, in reality, it's not any easier, since it's in PDF format. We don't have anyone who can edit PDF files. The manual's PDF file was created by Matrix higher-ups. And, believe me, they're not user-friendly.

We can't even convert the PDF file to Word so that we could at least create an edited Word document. Fortunately, the "What's New" file is in both PDF and .rtf formats. So we can edit the .rtf file (then we have to send it off to be converted to PDF by those higher-ups).

[L`zard]

ORIGINAL: Curtis Lemay
The manual's PDF file was created by Matrix higher-ups. And, believe me, they're not user-friendly.

We can't even convert the PDF file to Word so that we could at least create an edited Word document. Fortunately, the "What's New" file is in both PDF and .rtf formats. So we can edit the .rtf file (then we have to send it off to be converted to PDF by those higher-ups).

User friendly 'higher ups', LOL! Basic contridiction of terms [:D]

The opart cw help.chm file might be a starting place tho I can understand the massive effort such a rework would require. Oh well, just another reason to anticipate Toaw IV, eh? Maybe a new release would generate enough money to hire the work done, heh heh.......

[Curtis Lemay]

The Adobe software for PDF is just too expensive. But there do exist cheaper third-party software that, supposedly, converts PDF stuff back & forth. I bought one that was supposed to convert Word & Excel to PDF. Turns out, my versions of Word & Excel were too old for it to work with. I had to go throught the "money back" thing. Having been thus burned, I'm leary to try another one. But it's a real problem that I wish we could solve.

[Gregor]

It is difficult to convert a PDF like the TAOW manual to a editable Word file. It is however reasonably easy to extract the text from it in a straight text file, there are certainly open source Java libraries that do this. I think it would be reasonably easy to crop the images out of it as well. So a new editable manual might be created in Word without having to retype the whole thing, just cut and paste from a text file into a formatted Word doc.