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Yet Another Bag (management) API App thing

Hi gang,

I've built a (yet another) bag content viewer type thing, it tells you what items you have (sorted by type) and where in your bags they are. It also tells you how much everything's worth to sell to the Vendor and has links to the Auction pages should you want to buy some more.

Still early days, but here it is...

http://glitchzen.appspot.com/

You'll need to click the "Sign in with Glitch" button at the top left, then click the "Bags" link.

Works on Firefox and Chrome (in theory).
Not on IE yet, hopefully I'll get that fixed up over the weekend, although I don't think that'll be a problem for most people here.
Safari has some trouble with the pop-up, still need to sort that.

Hopefully when we get Write enabled in the API and a couple more methods I'll add automatic bag sorting, and auctioning from the page.

Thanks for testing, and any feedback you have. I know all the pop-up stuff is a little fussy so I'm wondering if there's better ways of doing that.

Cheers
-D

Posted 19 months ago by RevDanCatt Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Very nice!  I am worth more than 47,000 currants and have half again as much dumped at my house - LOL!  Well done!
    Posted 19 months ago by Brib Annie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It works great here (Chrome on Linux).
    Posted 19 months ago by Fussycat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 for bag sorting
    Posted 19 months ago by Not IxAEoN Subscriber! | Permalink
  • 33k in items. Not bad. I have almost as much cash as items ;)
    Posted 19 months ago by geoffreak Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wow RevDan, very nice ! only thing missing is search :)

    Trophy pieces are not showing up in detailed inventory, but can be seen when I expand the bag.
    Posted 19 months ago by gia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is pretty cool. Thanks!
    Posted 19 months ago by Jarhaven Subscriber! | Permalink
  • damn, I had no idea I was lugging around 1500+ bottles of milk :)
    Posted 19 months ago by Karikitten Subscriber! | Permalink
  • super cool, thanks!!
    Posted 19 months ago by lucy jane Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Works great. Just curious -- what's your backend written in?
    Posted 19 months ago by Crwth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Taking a wild guess, I'd say Ruby on Rails.
    Could be completely off though.
    Posted 19 months ago by geoffreak Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hey thanks all, at some point now I have to face the Internet Explorer fixing, waaaah. Anyway...

    @gia: Ah thanks for the Trophy pieces thing, didn't notice that, will patch it up. What search would you like to see btw? Type in an item name and it highlights it or something?

    @Karikitten: Haha, I had 2,393 Spinach scattered all over the place, surprisingly easy to lose track.

    @Crwth, geoffreak: It's written in Python and running on Google AppEngine, free hosting FTW!
    Posted 19 months ago by RevDanCatt Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Great work, RevDanCatt!
    Posted 19 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This worked brilliantly - thanks RevDanCatt! 

    Is there any way to include how much favour is generated when donating ?
    Never quite sure what makes those giants smile.
    Posted 19 months ago by Max Output Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks RevDanCatt, and I really appreciate you encouraging feedback :) 

    For search a basic item search is nice. But I always thought it would be nice if I could search items based on currant values and list them based on value; especially during donation to shrines.

    When I hover on a bag's name in the top list is it possible to display the name of the bag? I have 3 same color bags next to each other; and if I click on the item it displays which bag it is in. It is easier to remember the name of the bag if it is displayed along with the actual bag.

    One more feature that would be nice to have is the total number of slots; particular item types will take. For example if I have 4 humbaba emblems, 3 Friendly etc and total of 19 emblems; Displaying 19 next  to a particular item type will help in the bags organizing.

    I like Max Output's idea of approximate favor value. But I like the current interface and do not want the screen to be too cluttered. Is it possible to have a expandable interface for the item values on the left ? (Example; in Glitch game you can expand the clanchat/friends list if you want to; or minimize it when you want more screen space).

    Even if you decide not to make any more changes; I still love the app as it is :) As you said having a write function in api would make things more fun !
    Posted 19 months ago by gia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • That is awesome!

    I had a question, but i think I answered it myself. But I'll go ahead and ask, in case someone else is wondering too.

    Under Item, it has the item name and the number you have. (e.g., Musicblock XS-2 x 1) the value of the item under price then refers to the value of all of the item you have.

    Say I have ten of something, and it's value is 10. so it would say This Thing x10. and then under price it would say 100.

    Am I reading this correctly?
    Posted 19 months ago by roguewords Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wow!  And I've got even more stuff on the floor and in my cupboard!  btw -- This works just fine with Opera (my browser).
    Posted 19 months ago by Marla Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Woah! That's great work - just hovering over the items shows how much work you've put into the app. Amazing design work of the site all round too - can't for more apps from you! :)
    Posted 19 months ago by Hburger Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Woot, thanks all,

    @Max Output: I think I saw a formular kicking around somewhere for converting energy/price into favour. I'll have a look and see if I can make it work.

    Not sure where I'd fit that information in mind. I'm thinking about making a "tool-tip" pop-up for each item (tells you price, favour, ave-auction price and so on) but then I'd have two pop-ups when you roll over something, so I need to think about how that'd work some more.

    @gia: Bag names; for some reason I though the API didn't return them, but I've just checked and it does, I'll work out how to display the name (probably a tool-tip thing).

    I like the idea of somehow indicating how much room/slots you have left, so instead of seeing how much stuff you have you can see how much capacity for even more stuff there is :)

    I think I'll have an option to toggle the view into a "spread-sheet"-a-like one, that's just a full on (sorted) list with lots of columns for everything. That'll probably solve the problem of trying to fit everything in.

    @roguewords: Yup that's right.

    If you had 7 things worth 20 currents each, it'll say...

    Things x 7, Price: 140, Vendor Price 98.

    But, pro tip, if you mouse-over the name of the item in the list, it'll change the price to show you how much just 1 item is worth. i.e. I have 256 Spinach Seeds and it lets me know the total sell price is 2,048 currents. If I roll over it'll show me the individual price of 8 currents each.

    I'm going to enjoy a long holiday weekend, but should be able to push out some updates on Tue/Wed.

    Thanks again for all the feedback :)
    Posted 19 months ago by RevDanCatt Subscriber! | Permalink