Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Login problems?

A couple of days ago, the DnD 4e Compendium got a review in the App Catalog from Shawn M, who marked it zero because he was unable to log in - and I'd like to address his complaint here, since the App Catalog doesn't provide me with any way to respond to comments internally.
Very DISAPPOINTED!!! I have an account but it still won't let me login nor see any information. POOR APP!!!
By Shawn M
The Compendium app itself doesn't actually handle any login information at all. Once you've chosen to view an item, the app launches the phone's browser, and user authentication is handled by the Wizards.com website, over which I have no control.

If you have any trouble logging into the Wizards of the Coast website, you should contact their technical support, because unfortunately I'm not able to do anything about it.

Saturday, 6 March 2010

DnD 4e Compendium 0.4.9

The latest version of the DnD 4e Compendium for webOS has been submitted for release, and should be available for download in the next couple of hours.


New features
  • Filtered searches now allow Cost and XP limits to be provided for Items, Rituals and Monsters.
  • A few under-the-hood improvements.

Known issues
  • Searches can cause hangs if there are a large number of results. Be as specific as possible when searching to avoid this - search titles only, or use the filters to narrow down the results. Don't try to get a list of every power, item or monster.

Upcoming features
At the moment, the focus is on improving the core functionality of the app so that I can get it to a point where I'm happy submitting it to the full App Catalog, so there won't be any major new features. That said, feel free to leave a comment or send an email if there's something you'd like to see improved or added.

Saturday, 27 February 2010

webOS 1.4 [FIXED]

Update: This problem has been resolved in version 0.4.9, which has just been submitted to the Beta Catalog, and should be available within a few hours.

The release of webOS 1.4 today seems to have caused some problems with the DnD 4e Compendium - it seems to be hanging while retrieving the filters from the Wizards.com website.

I'm doing what I can to fix the issue, but until it's resolved the app is sadly likely to be unusable.

Thursday, 11 February 2010

Almost ready?

Over the last couple of days, I've made some good progress on the next release of the Compendium.

In addition to fixing a couple of bugs with the previous iteration, I've tidied up the validation on the new XP and Cost filters to avoid a problem with the Wizards.com API.

I'll be putting the current version - 0.4.8 - through its paces over the next couple of days, and hopefully should have a date in mind for the next release by the end of the weekend, pending any further issues.

Thursday, 4 February 2010

XP and Cost filter progress

After taking some time away from the development of the app, mostly just to start seeing it more like an end user might, I've started back on the code to get cost and experience fields added to the filter searches for items, monsters and rituals.

I spent a significant amount of time tonight working on the layout - unlike the level filters, the cost and XP fields have a huge number of potentially infinite values, and the kind of granularity that might be required when searching is much higher. With that in mind, I couldn't just use the same integer picker widgets as before. I had to arrange two text fields in a way that made sense and didn't take up too much space - which is more awkward than it first sounds when you're working mostly with pre-defined widgets.

I've come up with a solution that will hopefully work, although it still needs some tweaking - making it obvious where to tap to highlight the field is the first order of business now that the fields exist at all.

I'm not going to make any promises about when the next iteration will be available, but hopefully it'll be soon.