Friday, September 17, 2010

I Built Aardwolf One Stop Shop Today...







http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKeVoV9gEUM
This is the link to the YouTube video.
http://www.calamityengine.com/aardwolf/index.php
Download Link

I thought this up sleeping last night, it scans the wiki to fill one box with all the areas so they can be quickly searched using the search box and you can select them. All area pages on the wiki contain all the maps links from the different sites. One Stop Shop scans all the links to store in the bottom box when you select a area. It will adapt and grow as the wiki does. So if a area is added to the wiki the program will scan that in when it opens. Once you select a area if you have options > skip area page to first map turned off it will load the areas page and scan it for map links and insert them in the box below the areas box. If you have it turned on it goes to the first map link result in the bottom box. Now you have all the links and they stay there when you go to a map page or a different web page. So you can instantly jump from a map on Emerald's site to the same map on Light's. Under the "links" in the menu strip are all the sites I can think you need to play or would want to reference to play and learn Aardwolf. The program has the View > Always On Top option so the window floats above your other windows so you can still see it and play Aardwolf. You could resize it to fit in mushclient with the other windows or maximize it and turn on x ray to have a huge map overlay of a area on your desktop. Its fast and easy, and its dynamic as it grows with the wiki. Its a super small download and takes no space < 1mb. Awaiting public's opinion and thoughts, also suggestions for new features. Try it and leave your comments below =)

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