Intel Monkey is a program for WITP-AE players to help facilitate digesting Intel provided in the various reports (SigInt, Combat, Operations, Events). Here is the link to the .zip file in Google Docs.
(Link in Signature below.)
Intel Monkey is written in Python, beginning with Python version 3.2.3 and requires that version of Python or higher be installed in order to run Intel Monkey. It is technically independent of the Windows operating system, but as AE is a windows only program I doubt that Intel Monkey will be used on either Linux or Mac OS.
The program reads in the player's report files that AE archives every turn. Those files are located in "save/archive" (in AE's main folder find folder "save", inside that folder find folder "archive").
Your AE shortcut must have the "-archive" switch for AE to create those files every turn.
Current State and Use Instructions
The program reads files from AE's "save/archive" folder. Make certain you play AE with the "-archive" switch or else those files will not be created and there will be nothing to read.
Intel Monkey is still very new and has a very small set of functions compared to what is intended. Currently Intel Monkey processes all of the player's SigInt files. Future versions will process with other files as well.
- When started, Intel Monkey will take several seconds to read in all the SigInt files.
- A GUI window will open, where the information is displayed.
- Each line from each SigInt file has been made into its own record with the date at the front, and parsed into fields containing the various information. Note that some of the line come with four pieces of information (including the date) while others come with six (including the date).
- Buttons in the lower left corner allow the report to be sorted according to the criteria noted next to each button.
- You can click in the "Enter Search Text" box and type in something to search for. The first occurrence from the top (in the currently selected sort order) will be found and positioned in approximately the middle of the screen. The search is case insensitive (upper/lower case does not matter).
- The report can be scrolled using the scroll bars, or just click inside it to use the keyboard (PageUp, PageDown, etc.) or the mouse wheel if your mouse has one.
- You can select text in the report and copy it a) to some other program or text editor (useful if you are making notes for yourself), or b) into the search text entry area (useful to search for something you see now that causes you to want to change the sort order and look at all similar things).
- When finished, click on the X in the upper right-hand corner to close Intel Monkey.
There are many additional functions planned for Intel Monkey, including reading in and processing the other reports. The present functions are very useful already as they allow a player to see SigInt reports for a specific base, or all reports for a specific enemy unit, and so on.
Screen Pic Sample
Below you see a capture of my screen when running Intel Monkey, and I overlapped a few things for you to see them clearly. In the upper right is my AE shortcuts folder. There you see my shortcut for running AE, my shortcut for running Tracker, and my shortcut for running Intel Monkey. In the upper left you see a window that opens when Intel Monkey runs, which is similar to the window that opens when Tracker runs. You never have to do anything with that window. The large GUI window below is the main Intel monkey window. There you see the report displayed, the buttons on the lower left for you to choose how to sort the report, and the search box to the right of those buttons.
NOTE: Now working for multi-day turns.
Another new version:
The link is to a new version, V0.2.2e
