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Reconnaissance Photo app

Postby RamWreck on Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:21 am

Anybody have any ideas on how a Reconnaissance Photo app could be developed?

It could be used in fog of war games to capture the "current state" of the map at various times so that you could look back and see where folks were a couple of turns ago even though you are no longer near them.

I do this by hand with screen captures sometimes but it would be cool to have an app that went out periodically (say twice a day) and captured the state of the map as you currently see it.

Thoughts?

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Re: Reconnaissance Photo app

Postby yeti_c on Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:51 am

RamWreck wrote:Anybody have any ideas on how a Reconnaissance Photo app could be developed?

It could be used in fog of war games to capture the "current state" of the map at various times so that you could look back and see where folks were a couple of turns ago even though you are no longer near them.

I do this by hand with screen captures sometimes but it would be cool to have an app that went out periodically (say twice a day) and captured the state of the map as you currently see it.

Thoughts?

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BOB has a "snapshots" feature - that can do this - but it can't be automated.

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Re: Reconnaissance Photo app

Postby RamWreck on Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:49 am

BOB has a "snapshots" feature - that can do this - but it can't be automated.


It can't be automated with Bob? or it can't be automated period.

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Re: Reconnaissance Photo app

Postby yeti_c on Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:15 am

RamWreck wrote:
BOB has a "snapshots" feature - that can do this - but it can't be automated.


It can't be automated with Bob? or it can't be automated period.

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It can't be automated with BOB - unless I code it to be...

But that would involve you having your browser connected to CC at all times.

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Re: Reconnaissance Photo app

Postby RamWreck on Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:43 am

But that would involve you having your browser connected to CC at all times.


Agreed and that may not be desirable. I was thinking of trying to use CURL (I have done a little bit of programming with this before) to capture the results and save them and then develop a "display" app that lets the user browse the captures.

However, I don't know enough about the CC API to know how "doable" that would be.

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Re: Reconnaissance Photo app

Postby RamWreck on Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:15 pm

So these are the key lines right?

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<tr>
<td id="map-cell" style="width:690px;height:548px">
<div id="outer-map" style="background-image:url(maps/American_Civil_War.L.jpg);width:690px;height:548px"><a name="map"><img id="inner-map" src="map.php?key=map013b18df0cd3af8f33880431c5fe1679" alt="American Civil War" /></a></div>
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</td>


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