NeoMallers Portal 10: Final Thoughts?

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when you update your shop front, all ignored items (-1) are reset to 0 ----------------------------- [color=purple]Contrary to popular belief, the Irish and I are not married[/color]
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Bump! :) I was having some of those 'if only portal did this' thoughts again, and what do you know, some I had a year ago! I didn't read through the whole thread BUT how about: 'Buy at' price averaging - it's a trick not everyone who uses portal does. Just keep updating your 'buy at' price with the average of what you've actually paid for the stock you currently have, and your profits will come out correct in the end. But I find I spend a LOT (A LOT) of time with my Calculator open alongside the SSW and Portal. So, if I'm using it so much, doesn't it make sense to incorporate that possibly as a function? Tell portal 'I just bought X of item Y at price Z', and it sees you already have 'A of item Y that you paid B' for, and then update your 'buy price' with the new average of (A*B + X*Z)/(A+X)? And voila!
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Yeah that has been on the list for a while. But for now, i just go with a ballpark figure. :P ----------------------------- [color=purple]Are you protected?[/color] http://www.neopets.com/~punchback_bob CG information & more
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I still want to add a 'append the last digit of the sale price to the name' feature for 'same name' items, there are so many, and it would make submitting shop front AND sales history SO much easier ;) Sadly, for the first time in a long time, I almost said 'why not write my own tool for this'. And then I thought 'Ummm..... I don't have the time for that' *lol*
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an update like that i can probably do over the christmas break.. need to pull up the code. The bigger issue is the dormant neomallers online, which is nearly active. But the design is flawed and it will eventually slow the server down too much ----------------------------- [color=purple]Are you protected?[/color] http://www.neopets.com/~punchback_bob CG information & more
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Kekekeke :) I'm not a 'cloud' person, so the online version doesn't appeal to me as much as it would, say, Mac users. At the same time, 'cloud' also makes me paranoid ;) But any egging that works on the Portal dev side is worth it to me :K And yes, I overuse emoticons :P
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If you're still looking for suggestions, I have a few :) - Right now, when making a mistake submitting the shop front, Portal freaks out and closes down completely. Isn't there a way to catch that exception? The same thing goes for right clicking in manage stock (only in filtered mode, I think), the portal gives me a runtime error and closes down. - When I'm in filtered mode, and I want to change the CP Mall to CP Name or the other way around, it always switches back to normal mode. Right now I just switch back to filtered mode again manually, so it's not a big deal, but it just seems like odd behaviour to me. - I don't know if this is a bug, or if I'm doing something wrong, but the "Last sold" field in the Manage Stock view (on the bottom right with the item stats) always says "never", with every single item? - And I realise this is a long shot, but the skin still looks messed up to me because I have my DPI set higher than 100%... Any fix for that would be fantastic. Thanks again for all the work you've done on Portal. It's such a life saver!
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Thats odd.. it's supposed to default to CP name. The last sold thing was 5 min job of some sort and didnt get much testing. Naturally, it's really buggy. Along with the error catch. everything is pretty much based on the original neomallers 0.3 beta when it first launched yeah.. the controls dont "reset" properly when an error is found so i've always let it shut down haha. As for the skin, im not sure if i can fix that. it's an issue with the programming environment and it's not behaving really good with modern operating systems. (that environment was made in 1998) And yeah, the cloud is always an issue. Or more specifically, putting the item database in its on database. It means a paste to the server would result in about 100 queries to the server in a short amount of time. Now if it was 1000 items, it'd be 1000 times. Multiple that by users and it adds up. Furthermore, it becomes a load issue. It takes longer and longer to do that as the database gets bigger and bigger. ----------------------------- [color=purple]Are you protected?[/color] http://www.neopets.com/~punchback_bob CG information & more
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--------------------- - Right now, when making a mistake submitting the shop front, Portal freaks out and closes down completely. Isn't there a way to catch that exception? The same thing goes for right clicking in manage stock (only in filtered mode, I think), the portal gives me a runtime error and closes down. --------------------- The Right Click error happens if you don't have the item selected first. If it's highlighted, right clicking should remove it from the list properly. ----------------------- - I don't know if this is a bug, or if I'm doing something wrong, but the "Last sold" field in the Manage Stock view (on the bottom right with the item stats) always says "never", with every single item? ---------------------- I haven't seen that myself, my Last Sold is correct for all my items... I'd like to see what you're doing, or what's wrong with your Database that that's happening. If you try a new database, does the same thing happen? --------------------------- - And I realise this is a long shot, but the skin still looks messed up to me because I have my DPI set higher than 100%... Any fix for that would be fantastic. --------------------------- I doubt that'll happen so long as it's the VB6 version that's running :(
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i have tried porting it to VB.net but it wasnt easy. Alot of code needs to be tweaked and it would take a long time.. so figured an online version would be better.. Clearly that has issues too. Need to teach myself more effective SQL it seems ----------------------------- [color=purple]Are you protected?[/color] http://www.neopets.com/~punchback_bob CG information & more
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