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From: Politikill@cup.portal.com
To: AmigaE@bkhouse.cts.com
Subject: Re: WizKid picked up Quip!
>Yeah... mind you, I ripped most of that off other fortune cookie programs, and
>there's a minor chance that some of them repeat <gasp>, but I've tried to take
>repeating quips out. I figured I'd better give a TON of quips to my potential
>users instead of crippling them with only a few (and leaving them to gather th
e
>rest).
Ahhhhh...yeah...when I sent out GammaTag with 1500 one-liners, I thought
that was a lot...I now have 2500 or so...when I see really good ones, I rip
em off too.
>However, I have been looking for a bunch of one-line quips to use for this
>purpose (that is, I need to find a datafile filled with one-line quips, and
>I've been too busy to manage this myself). Perhaps your Gamma-Tags could be
>reformatted to Quip conventions...
Sure...if you want I can send you a message with all of them...I think
it would probably be shorter than UUEncoding them, but I'm not sure.
>I was actually surprised that people wanted a GUI for Quip, but after thinking
>about it a while, and knowing some of the problems I had with manipulating the
>quips (it's a major pain, I think, to have to use a text editor to find the
>quip I want to modify, when I know the number of the quip), I can see where a
>GUI front end/maintenance program for Quip would make it a very positive
>addition to the overall setup.
Yes! Everything today HAS to have a GUI! Without it it's useless :-)
When I wrote GammaTag, it came from this 10 line (not exaggerating) ARexx
script which picked a random number, and then added that line from a tagline
file...I modified it to use a GUI using RexxArpLib, and then went about
adding features galor! (favorite taglines, insert taglines where the text
{GammaTag} is, selection of another tagline...I went WAY overboard...I
wanted to convert it to E, but ran into problems with listviews...maybe when
I'm completely done with EDS...
>Here's a question for everyone who has bothered to look at Quip...
>
>I want to make the damned datafile smaller (it's irritating, to me, to have a
>textfile that is .5 megs in size, when I know text can be crunched and
>extracted fairly quickly). I've planned to use XPK to handle this. XPK will
>let me pack/unpack in memory rather than always using files (thank goodness).
Yes...XPK seems rather cool!
>My problem is, I want to create an IFF to handle this, but I don't want to
>compromise on size (that is, I don't want to wind up using 8 bytes for every
>single quip, yet I want to take advantage of IFF).
>Currently, my thoughts are to put all the compressed quips in the same IFF
>chunk (say, FORM QUIP DATA), then have another chunk with relative pointers to
>the compressed quips within the chunk (FORM QUIP TABL), with perhaps other
>chunks for other bits of information (FORM QUIP COMM MAXS XPKN...). Does
>anyone have any input on this; am I going about this efficiently.. is there a
>way that might be more efficient for both speed and compression.. anything I
>perhaps haven't taken into account?
I don't think you can do this...you would have to creat your own
library...what you could do now is creat the IFF file with a header perhaps
letting Quip know the start and end of each quip, and then just plain raw
data after the header....I still think using a plain text file which is
automatically XPK'd where the person can go in and snag ANY quip they want
without having to use Quip at all...they would just have to manually unpack
it.
>In any event, I'm happy you like Quip, Politikill. If you should create any
>new datafiles, please send 'em up <grin>.
Actually, it's WiZkId...my address is just Politikill...and ACTUALLY, I
had to delete Quip from the HD...I got Syndicate (AWESOME, AWESOME GAME!)
and Brilliance (kinda) this weekend...
/ / /
/_/_/iZ
MODULE 'WiZkId'
PROC main()
wizkid.inetaddress:='Politikill@cup.portal.com'
wizkid.realname:='Jeffrey J Peden ]['
ENDPROC
*-- GammaTag Version 2.8 --*
*-- As long as I live, I shall be, myself, no other, just me.