shortest_legal_path.ini

looking for a basic way of using it for example:

system A is X number of Systems away from System B

i am working on other stuff currently and was just hoping someone might have some code laying around similar.

i can modify it for my needs dosnt matter what language its in either ( lol someone sends me asm for it i will die)

defiantly want to add a range feature even if its simple like adding a column called range so you can sort by how many systems away it is and i remember seeing a file that had connection in it so i think i will work on that and showing the best 20 or so runs when any system is selected today.

but if anyone has a good algorithm for finding a simple best path i can hack up for it that would save me a headache i am sure lol

select any system to any system and you got it … me too man it bugged me too

awesome i know c++ as well so porting it wouldnt be bad i would love to get a nother guy or 2 that code as well that would make it a bit easier but you really dont want to see this code yet lol … 13 hours of extra black coffee no sleep and oragel (for my toothache) lol .0001% error checking and ugly stuff like

for(int jk=0;jk <=traderoutecount; jk++)
{
int bob= 0; // lol seriously
}

the jk var was due to me running out of single char ones lol

ohh and dont forget the misuse of public elements in structs and

the temp1-1000000 variables

Alex as far as source goes its 99% parsing ini files and 1 % nasty data moving and comparing

example :

generate all trade routes that have a profit of 1 or better credit
then search through for the ones we want lol

high tech i know lol its all written in c# so its easy … but let me clean up the code a bit more and like you said get the bugs ironed out then we can talk about that. but i am definatly an open source kinda guy and all … LINUX RULES or whatever

like i said earlier the only ioncross files used are the conversion from the internal names to display names like RH06_01_BASE = Planet Blah i have yet to find where that info is listed elsewhere but i am sure its in a file somewhere that i can decrypt just havent got there yet… but i will if there is a demand for it if people like it etc…

yes currently only shows the best profit run the highest i am working on having it show the top X num of routes but wanted to get some feedback on it first. i was thinking about adding a range field so if i did that i would want to be able to have the top X profit wise or distance wise but that will have to come after i get all the crap ironed out and see what everyone wants the most…

lol woot award for me and its not the buggiest app of the year award?

yes i have but it had been gimped to purposefully not show you certain trades and it didn’t have the features that i wanted …

i believe the only thing i get from there is the pretty system and base names instead of the crappy internal names eg: RH06_01_BASE

i run straight fl with discovery and this is they way everything is layed out on mine so i am going from there.

the dynamic economy stuff i am not sure how the discovery people or alot of the traders would look at that i dont want them to burn my house down but i havent decided aginst it just figured i would get this working for now then move on if the fancy or response is good. i mainly play on my own server with a couple of my friends and gf. so that is the why behind it…

yea my girlfriend just got that one doh … lol fixing it now just bear with me hehe the stupid bugs will be the quickest to fix lol

i was up all night working on it so i am a little delirious

going to add some error checking (omg noooo) and save the path to the reg

For the traders out there i have a new app that i wrote that i need some beta testing on… its called freelancer best profit calc.

what it does:
processes all the datafiles having to do with systems bases commodities etc and lists and sorts all possible trade routes in the game.

lets you lay out multiple stop routes and dump pretty data to a csv (aka excel spreadsheet) file if you want that kind of kinky number crunching like me lol

i am using it on discovery currently but it should work on any version.

i need some people to try it out and make sure i didnt forget anything or if they can think of some more features that it could use etc… and find bugs lol.

**ONLY TESTED ON FL DISCOVERY MOD SO FAR **
** DOES NOT USE THE DYNAMIC ECON ––yet **

-------------------- Known Bugs-------------
the path browse button is broken ( it does that on initial startup now but i will change that so you can switch installs or mods etc

(any system) - Specific system hasn’t been coded yet just a matter of copy pasting but i haven’t done it yet the code for generating the routes is ugly currently lol

-------------------- info ------------------
it saves the chosen freelancer path entry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\flbpc
in the registry