String Generator

Z on the rocks · Post by **Z on the rocks** » 11 Apr 2007 17:39

This is a great idea. Good for players that are new and don't really know where to start when starting strings, like myself.

I'm anxious to test it out.

Blue_turnip · Post by **Blue_turnip** » 11 Apr 2007 23:44

Okay, I'll do it.

And Zeb, your value judgements may not apply to me. I don't reckon it'd be a pointless exercise, I'd learn a bit more and have fun - it's not all about you

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Your also pretty much saying you'd like to have only one choice when it comes to cereal in the morning, or only one type of car to buy - just because the program does similar things won't mean it's identical.

Cass · Post by **Cass** » 12 Apr 2007 09:07

I think I'm going to try and make one of these for the final project in my computer programming class. I'm a terrible programmer so it wont be very good, but it still might be fun to give it a shot.

Cass · Post by **Cass** » 12 Apr 2007 09:10

Cass · Post by **Cass** » 12 Apr 2007 09:10

edit: somehow managed a triple post

Z on the rocks · Post by **Z on the rocks** » 12 Apr 2007 11:30

Cassy, u haf teh mad skillz.

Blue_turnip · Post by **Blue_turnip** » 14 Apr 2007 02:13

Lol z on the rocks - funny as comment.

Yeah, I've got exams in two weeks so I probs won't do any, but after that I'll go rabid on it. Yay!

shredzilla · Post by **shredzilla** » 14 Apr 2007 05:00

LMAO Cod

Dat · Post by **Dat** » 14 Apr 2007 11:54

Matt & Tom:

Not everyone has a great imagination to come up with good combos to practice, especially when they are tired at the end of a session, or if they always play alone. Even with a great imagination, you're still limited by habit and routine.

http://www.mwhansen.org/footbag/generator.zip

I didn't post this before because it is a hack (read: incomplete) I threw together in time for the new years jam. It was made only for competition so it doesn't have any good features, like choosing string length. The max is 7 because Mike and I figured it would be hard to memorize more than that quickly in competition. If you want more, just splice combos together. There's a lot of other stuff I want to do too, and I've been putting off working on it cause I've been busy getting my life together. If someone really wants to make this project great they should talk to Steve and make a version to put into footbag.org using php and mysql. That way people can use it to keep track of their progress online, a la collecting pokemon. I will eventually do this once I've got other things taken care of.

This only works in windows.

Read the instructions I included. A browser window will pop up, but you still have to wait for the program to finish loading before it starts working (bad user interface design, I know). The command prompt will show this when the program is ready:

=> Booting WEBrick...
=> Rails application started on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server; call with --help for options
[2007-04-14 12:48:10] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1
[2007-04-14 12:48:10] INFO ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-mswin32]
[2007-04-14 12:48:10] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=1456 port=3000

Once you see that hit refresh, or go here http://localhost:3000/combos/ . It won't work if your firewall blocks the program.

Major flaw: It will crash if you don't put the right kind of tricks in. For instance, if you choose 4 add combos and under 4 adds you put only clip > clip and clip > toe tricks, and no toe > clip tricks, the program will crash cause it won't be able to link between all the tricks. If that happens, point your browser here http://localhost:3000/combos/clear to reset, and then make necessary changes to the database.

If you want to have a separate list of tricks, like for different types of sessions or for another person, just make another copy of the program folder.

I'm not looking for feedback on this program. Enjoy it for what it is.

jay7 · Post by **jay7** » 14 Apr 2007 14:01

To bad, you are getting feedback.

It is awesome!

THANKS!
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CIC flurry · Post by **CIC flurry** » 15 Apr 2007 01:03

Dat's a pimp

Langstaff · Post by **Langstaff** » 15 Apr 2007 16:09

CIC flurry wrote:Dat's a pimp

Werd! This generator is teh hella tight.