Helping Mids along

Last I checked, yesterday... it wasn't ready (so it is now; awesome) but is still applicable and relevant to any post-I16 releases and it wasn't a suggestion for Paragon Studios; it was a suggestion for those who were already contributing as well as the current editor... thought that was kind of obvious. :|

Steiner and St0n3y are different individuals. People were getting frustrated with Steiner for not updating Mids' fast enough for their liking (since he also manages other parts of the Titan Network), St0n3y created an excellent unofficial update, and Steiner brought him on as an official member of the Mids' team.

It was ready yesterday. Note that the previous version of Mids' is pointing at Mids' website (honorableunited.co.uk, IIRC) to check for updates, rather than the Titan-controlled cohplanner.com. In order to get I16 Mids' Hero Planner, you have to uninstall your version of the program, and download the new version from cohplanner.com.

Future versions will be capable of auto update, since the I16 version also now looks to cohplanner.com for updates.

I downloaded it, today, straight from the CoH Planner page w/o uninstalling my previous version... so far; no problems.

When I checked yesterday; it was right after I logged in for the morning... it wasn't at the CoH Planner page.

I didn't think to check the forums for it because the trend was for Mid's to be released a few weeks after the release.

Anyhow, being that there are two working on the Mids project (for the time being); hopefully everything will be more fluid and timely... but the point ultimately was to have the community (ie, people like Midnight, St0ney and Steiner) pool together when an issue does creep up (like with what happened between the i13 and i16 updates).

Kudos to Steiner and Stoney for pooling the talents and resources and actually having this out pretty much on the button.

Thanks for the clarification, Fleeting.

I didn't uninstall the old version before installing the latest build and it works fine for me.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

Originally Posted by ShadowNate ;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!

Probably not a requirement to uninstall the old version, but as with most programs, if you're downloading and installing a new version, uninstalling the old version is probably a good idea, anyway.

You won't lose your builds, so no worries there.

As far as I know, aside from the data files which are just plain text, the "database" is just an arbitrarily binary packed file with all the necessary information. I could be wrong on the specifics of that, but attempting to document the Mids' database format would likely be an exercise in traipsing through a set of source code files to reverse engineer the documentation.

I am willing to tell you, however, that the cross-platform Mids' I'm in the process of building is using Apache Derby to store program data in a fully relational SQL database. The database editor I'm implementing will be different from the one that exists in Mids' currently.

Currently, in Mids', the database editor directly modifies the stored data used to display things in the program. In the version I'm developing, the database editor won't touch the data at all. Instead, it will develop a second schema representing the changes you've made. Your changes will override the values in the main schema (thanks to the wonders of Outer Join), but this format means that at any time you can undo your changes to the database (when your changes are deleted, the 'official' values reassert themselves), and any updates to the database won't override your changes (they're still listed as changes in your schema, and will still override the new, updated values).

Please recall, however: the Cross-platform Mids' Hero Designer is being built from the ground up. There is no projected release date for the program, and Mids' will be .Net only for some time yet. Apologies, Mac and Linux players!

I agree. I was so excited that I forgot until I had already started.