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While I actually agree with you. I'm really trying to find anyone else who is able to work on one of these projects. Actually, I think the greatest need right now is for a GM organizer. I'm currently experimenting with add-ons to TextEdit to satisfy some of the issues. So far all I've got (not much time to work on it) is to get it to be able to add links, to other files/programs and to the web.
 

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PugioilAudacio said:
Does anybody else here think that there should be a better PCGen or GM aid type program for mac? Maybe something that works faster etc.?
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There should be, yes. I keep hearing that E-tools will soon be available for Mac, though I imagine only OSX (which is fine). It's not a GM organizer, but it should fit the bill for a PCGen program. I doubt I'll buy it myself, but hopefully it will be decent.

I'd like to see someone write a nice, zippy UNIX app and compile it for OSX. If I know how, I would, but I don't...
 

Dimwhit said:
There should be, yes. I keep hearing that E-tools will soon be available for Mac, though I imagine only OSX (which is fine). It's not a GM organizer, but it should fit the bill for a PCGen program. I doubt I'll buy it myself, but hopefully it will be decent.

I'd like to see someone write a nice, zippy UNIX app and compile it for OSX. If I know how, I would, but I don't...
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You mean using X11 or something? I'm thinking of making a Cocoa app - which would run pretty well:) (OS X is built with Cocoa). I am going to try to implement the features in the other thread in this forum dealing with campaign managers. I'm still learning though, so it will take a whiiillleeee.
 

Just because people seem to not know -- there is CrystalBall Mac.

It's got its problems but for many purposes it's much better than PCGen. Worth a look, at any rate.

As far as DM organizing on my Mac, I'm an absolute convert to ProjectBuilder. Of course it's got a million features I don't need but the organizational tools are worth the price of admission, full on. And the price is right! You might not think of it but try it -- great stuff.
 

PugioilAudacio said:
I am going to try to implement the features in the other thread in this forum dealing with campaign managers.
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Could you post a link to the thread in question? For whatever reason I can't seem to find it.

And Barsoomcore, thanks for the plug! I like CrystalBall too, but then again, I'm hardly impartial. :-D

Raging Epistaxis
 


Another Macuser, in from the cold

Hey, folks. I'm on a Powerbook G3/500, Pismo, running OS 9.2.2 for the moment. I've just crammed a 60 gig HD into my baby, and sometime, when I've got the scratch, I'd like to get one of those fancy Powerlogix 1 Ghz G3 replacement chips. Yes, I'm kinda doing the Frankenmac thing...
 

Heh. I recently popped in an XLR8 G4/550 ZIF into my B&W G3, as well as a Firmtek SATA card and 80GB Maxtor SATA drive as my main drive. Very noticeable increase in performance. Frankenmac, indeed. :)
 

PugioilAudacio said:
You mean using X11 or something? I'm thinking of making a Cocoa app - which would run pretty well:) (OS X is built with Cocoa). I am going to try to implement the features in the other thread in this forum dealing with campaign managers. I'm still learning though, so it will take a whiiillleeee.
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Cocoa really is quite a nice programming environment. Just for the heck of it, I downloaded an xml doc containing all the 3.5 spells. Within a few hours I had built a simple "Spell Searcher" based on NSXMLParser that can search on any available data element (Name, Level, School, etc.). I then fired up Xcode and Interface Builder and, in a matter of a few more hours, threw together a rough GUI for it.

This is more a testament to the quality of the tools and the NextStep/Cocoa API than to the quality my programming ability, methinks.

-Ryan
 

RyanL said:
Just for the heck of it, I downloaded an xml doc containing all the 3.5 spells. Within a few hours I had built a simple "Spell Searcher" based on NSXMLParser that can search on any available data element (Name, Level, School, etc.). I then fired up Xcode and Interface Builder and, in a matter of a few more hours, threw together a rough GUI for it.
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And you've posted this for us to use... where? :)
 

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