Month: December 2006

New Look!

Union Micro is now sporting a new look! Thanks to my friend Drew over at Central Gaming Network for creating the template and to WordPress for being so flexible for integration into the template! Work is still on-going as I fine-tune some things such as creating the contact page.

Some of the features of the new site are the three boxes that stand out in the middle of the page. The first two supply you with the last four posts in the Site Updates and Product Updates categories. The third box gives you a snapshot of what’s in progress at Union Micro right now. I’ve created a menu across the top that drops down and I’ve grouped things as best as I could. The Pages, Categories and Archives sections are WordPress related, so they’re in their in their own drop downs.

I’ve also added links in the footer that allow you to subscribe to my RSS feed with different RSS-related websites. There’s also a link to Firefox – during the creation of this site I’ve witnessed first-hand just how DUMB Internet Explorer 6 is. If you’re still using Internet Explorer 6, I strongly suggest that you make the switch. I must admit that I haven’t tried Internet Explorer 7 so that may be a different story.

Elevator bug fix.

This is a pretty critical problem which has been fixed. Basically the “_queue” script wasn’t clearing certain floors from the queue so it was going into an infinite-loop and crashing when it ran out of memory. A big downfall of this is that it will tell your doors to open a hundred-million times (not literally), so you may need to delete and replace your car. This has been fixed and I’ll probably send out the update Friday night/Saturday morning. I’m just too tired at the moment to package everything up again after doing it last night and it’s almost 4am. If you want to send me an instant message in-world I’ll send you the 2 scripts or an update disk. Yes, this update will finally use the update disk… however I want to test something on the update disk to make sure it works properly before sending out this update.

I also need to work on the update listed below so I may just send them out together… then again that update isn’t very important so I may wait on it. This update won’t completely use the update disk though, because it requires a modification to the notecard in the doors. You’ll probably have to manually add the commands into your notecards.

Update: 1.6.1 elevator cars are in the update server as well as the CORRECT version of the doors this time. 

Access lists and teleports

Just an FYI, the teleport feature is in no way linked to the access lists of the elevator car. If you have access lists configured for your elevator car, then I suggest not using the “Set TPs” option in the controller because this will allow people to just teleport to that floor. Once you set the TPs then you can’t undo it without resetting the doors.

I’ll be adding a simple fix for this in the future so that you can restrict teleports in each direction for each floor. For example AllowTPUp and AllowTPDown – this should give you enough control to exclude certain floors from the TP feature. Unfortunately due to how the teleports work I’m unable to add access lists to the teleport feature.

Modified Theme

As you can see, I’ve stretched the page out to be wider and modified a lot of subtle things to give the site a better feel. The menus on both sides have the style from the header (change colour on hover, etc) and I’ve modified the blog entry separators.

I’m at it again! Elevator updates!

I, NEVER being content with anything, am in the process of adding MORE stuff to the elevator system. I’ll keep this post short and sweet… features being added:

  • Owner menu’s for doors and controller.
  • I’m adding a menu to the doors and controller similar to the one in the elevator car.
  • Allows me to access information for the doors and controller and verify settings.
  • Owner menus have a back door that allow me to pull up the menu.
  • Communications Test.
    • Select “Test Comms” from the controller to verify communications of all doors and cars.
    • Allows you to quickly find items that aren’t communicating with the controller.
  • Teleport.
    • You’ll be able to right click the arrow buttons on doors to teleport to the floor above and below your current floor.
    • Now you get the best of both worlds!
    • You get the style of an advanced elevator with the ease of teleporting on those lazy days.
  • More statistics.
    • Doors and the controller have a status button that will show you stats such as is in the elevator cars.
    • Controller will tell you how many commands it has processed.
    • Doors will tell you how many times they’ve opened.
    • Let’s you roughly estimate which floors are the popular ones.

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