UTILITY: BETA: All Star's Recipe Cookbook

In order to ease the creation of larger recipe stockpiles (20+) I spent a bit of time (well, a lot of time) working up a way to get lists of what exactly was needed to craft as many recipes as I could carry without having to deal with, "Oops, missed a part." Now with a few clicks every recipe and the parts needed to create them can be quickly tallied with the Recipe Cookbook.

But after sooo many Recipes it is quite possible that I could have mixed up an ingredient here and there. Put a little too much Pangean Soil in a Luck of the Gambler here and there. Who knows?

I've tested it to the limits of what my now burned-out brain can handle and now turn it over to the COX community to break.

All Star's Recipe Cookbook comes with all 2263 Recipes that are currently available in the game.
Whip up all Salvage-craftable Costumes.
Bake all Base Item and Empowerment Recipes.
Cook up new Issue 17 Temporary Powers.
Fry opponents with PvP Recipes.
Toss together a quick salad of Common IOs.

If a Recipe is out there; it's in the Recipe Cookbook. (I hope. )

NOTE: Javascript must be enabled for the Cookbook to work. NO internet access is required once the files have been downloaded. All work is done within the downloaded files and no additional access to your computer is required nor desired for your security (and my sanity.) All files are fully viewable to allow code monkeys the ability to verify no attempts are being made to access any data or transfer any information.

Various html viewers should work with the Cookbook if they are compliant with standards.

Edit: AllStarCookBookBETA_Update 2010-05-04-1245

• Download the Cookbook from: FileFront, MediaFire, or RapidShare
• Unzip the files.
• Open RecipeCookbook20100503.html with a web browser.
• Use the alphabetized menus to select Recipes and ADD or SUBTRACT them.
• Lists for Common, UnCommon, and Rare Salvage are generated immediately with each addition or subtraction from the Recipe List.
• RESET ALL or simply reload the page to clear everything out of the lists.

Some additional Notes:

B >> Base Items. For Craftble/Placable SuperBase Items.
C >> Costume. For Costume parts that require Salvage. (Not Vanguard/Event)
E >> Empowerment. For 1 hour long boosts from SuperBase Empowerment Stations.
T >> Temporary Powers. For craftable Temporary Powers.

Exploit Weakness Recipes are listed as Levels 26-39 and 40-50 which does not match any other IO set in the game. This is intentional as those level ranges match what is listed in the game for the Salvage required.

Mirrors are appreciated since older, non-compliant browsers have difficulty with FileFront's site.

Javascript used to insure multi-OS usability. But I don't have every version of browser that is out there. If there are problems with any browser besides Internet Exploder I will attempt to address them with my VERY limited js knowledge base.

hey this is awesome and just found a place on my desktop - thanks!

Thank you. Glad you like it when it's barely even out of the box.

If you have any problems or find errors (even typos) I'd appreciate hearing about them so they can be repaired. Recipe names like Cacophany don't count because it is spelled correctly in the Cookbook; but not in the game.

I always forget images for Utility programs.

Starting Up:



Selecting a Recipe:

This is great - I actually asked around a while back if there was anything like this and considered making an application myself when I found out there wasn't one, but really haven't had the time.

As soon as the market's back up I'll be using this heavily - I just got a toon to 50 who's getting a new build - so I'll let you know if I run into any problems.

I can understand the time problem. This is my third iteration in four months after rejecting less fluid interfaces. If I had know when I started that there were over 2200 Recipes I probably wouldn't have begun.

At first I thought the Market being down would be a bad thing for Beta release, but it allows testing to be done before the Market goes into full swing again. A vacation this week also allows me the time to work on any problems found before I start getting back to juggling a dozen or more Recipes at a time.

Major respect goes to you for making this. I vote for a sticky on this thread.

The interface could use a little prettying up so it's more windowed mode / low resolution friendly. It currently gets all screwy if I resize it to half the screen's width in order to see my recipes in the fullscreen COH behind it.

Also, please remove the limit of 34 recipes. I want to make shopping lists for recipes I'm *bidding* on, and the market limit of recipe stacks is much, much higher than 34.

Also, clicking on a recipe that is already added to the recipe list (grey box) should select it, for easy addition/substraction of items you already added to it.

The beauty about an utility that's coded in JavaScript and CSS is how easy you can move the UI elements around until they look good for you. I didn't have time to "fix" (in my eyes) the colors yet, but this is how I arranged the UI:

This is frikken amazing. I have always wanted something like this. Mids has a "shopping list" (officially called "Recipe Viewer") type of thing that lists recipes and salvage in your build and can be copied to clipboard, but the resultant lists that can be pasted into notepad or whatever are not purty and visual like this (it's just big long text lists).

Also: Leandro, that looks way better to me, how do I set it up that way?

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Got the list resize working on the fly to at least a minimum of around 400 px before the lists start stacking vertically.



As I stated previously, stacking the lists over OR under the recipes will cause problems with a larger number of Recipes with the proposed change.

30 RECIPES SELECTED FULLSCREEN: Linked ONLY due to lack of image re-size on boards
http://i41.tinypic.com/2vxolkp.jpg

The same 30 Recipes with changes AND a window resize to 637px. Smaller is also possible.

Leandro: "I'm never going to put more than 10 recipes in there at once"

LOL. And you are the one that was asking for removal of the 34 limit.

For editing I stick with Notepad++ so I never have a problem with Finding or mass specialized Replace. The idea of an external CSS for people using other editors is not a bad one, nonetheless. (Learning how-to is another matter. )

In many cases Click == Add is workable.
Until you don't have a part available for one of the Recipes selected. With Click == Add such cases end up being ++1 and then --2 to get rid of the original and the auto-Add. So it is not always, "it's because you want at least one." In some cases it is because you need to Subtract just one (or more).

But that does give me another idea on how to handle both situations!

Kheldarn: Same here (Eastern USA).
My first guess would be that FileFront is having problems on it's end with the .filefront.com/thankyou.php redirect. Leandro has a slightly altered version on MediaFire (which I always had headaches with for 50-90MB maps) that may offer an alternative until FileFront has a traffic decrease or finishes whatever they may be doing with their servers.

Tweaked settings: 412px including scrollbar before stacking for lower resolutions.

Dunno what changed, but FileFront finally let me download the version in the OP...

Have to look at this tomorrow. Bedtime right now...

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This looks great thanks.

I can also confirm that it works very nicely in Fedora 12 - meaning I can have it sitting nicely on my work box screen while I play

Top marks - though I've not yet gotten to use it in depth

Suggestion: Would it be possible to give an optional "Complete Set" button? For example if I wanted a complete set of Thunderstrike at level 41+ could I just choose that and get the ingredients rather than choosing them individually?

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk

AllStarCookBookBETA_Update 2010-05-04-1245
Download points:

• FileFront
• MediaFire
• RapidShare

• Altered visual layout:
  Recipes over Salvage
  Improved alignment of list with base size of Selection Menu.
  Increased list padding for readability
• Added:
  Ability to ADD or SUBTRACT with RecipeName click:
  • Clicking ADD or SUBTRACT buttons sets that as default setting for further Recipe selections.
  • Clicking a RecipeName without using ADD/SUB buttons queues the Recipe in LastClick until one of the buttons is used.
• Doubled time before current menu dropdown fades.

• Exceeding in-game RecipeMax of 34 while maintaining ability to reduce selections to zero with SUBTRACT.

• External js+css to allow Users to change appearance.
  Note: NO attempt to override a User's Default settings of Tool/Options/Broswer-Based_Sub-Menu/Default Font will ever be done by this designer in order to maintain usability for those needing larger fonts to read.
• Ability to ADD complete sets.
• Ability to SUBTRACT complete sets.

Bravo, excellent service to the community here.