UWP reader

[kafka]

I have a huge amount of UWPs generated by computer/Genie files compiled together for a Sector that I am working on. Rather than having to look up each UWP code. Is there a online reader/app that would take take those raw numbers and translate them into real English.

 

[mattman]

I wrote a standalone program a while back that's command line based.

I'll tweak it to accept a text file and throw up a box of the UWPs and their trade code as output and post it to a site next week some time. Will that be fine?

 

[DFW]

I wrote a standalone program a while back that's command line based.

I'll tweak it to accept a text file and throw up a box of the UWPs and their trade code as output and post it to a site next week some time. Will that be fine?

Wow! That's nice of you.

 

[kafka]

I wrote a standalone program a while back that's command line based.

I'll tweak it to accept a text file and throw up a box of the UWPs and their trade code as output and post it to a site next week some time. Will that be fine?

Sounds great...

 

[SJE]

Y'know, now I want an Ipad App that lets me type in the UWP (or the name of an official 3I planet) and it translates the UWP code and any other details associated with it.

How about it Mongoose? Know any Ipad developers to produce a line of iTraveller Apps?

SJE

 

[Bense]

Come now, a true Traveller grognard knows the codes by heart without having to parse them out with a computer program!

 

[simonh]

Fortunately I happen to have two scripts which can be adapted for this. One a financial message code reader and the other a Traveller project I'm working on. I've taken the Traveller data from one project and the message reader code from the other. It's only a minimalist utility though.

ReadUWP.

The ZIP file unpacks into a directory called ReadUWP. Inside that is a whole bunch of libraries and stuff plus the executable ReadUWP.exe

To use it, select the text of the UWP, e.g. "C695735-9" and copy it to the clipboard. Next just run ReadUWP.exe.

The utility reads the text of the UWP off the clipboard and pops up a table of the attributes, the codes and a brief description.

Windows only, and I've only done basic testing. It won't manage other stuff like world name, trade codes, etc. It only expects the actual world attribute codes. Seven characters, a dash, then one more character. Extra characters at the end get truncated, but more characters at the beginning will give garbled results. Code values it doesn't have data for will show as 'Unknown'. It's written in Python and if anyone would like to see the source just let me know.

If a reader for a whole UWP line would be more useful I might be able to do something but it would take a little while.

Simon Hibbs

 

[DFW]

The utility reads the text of the UWP off the clipboard and pops up a table of the attributes, the codes and a brief description.

Works like a charm!

Thanks

 

[Rikki Tikki Traveller]

Come now, a true Traveller grognard knows the codes by heart without having to parse them out with a computer program!

Quoted for Truth and to show how much of a GEEK I am over Traveller. I thought of posting the same thing...

 

[mattman]

Hello Kafka, I posted it to this link:

I pm'd you for your email address if you don't want to mess with Yahoo to get it.

Please let me know if it does the trick.


http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MGT-Aids/files/*AIDS-GM/

(sorry for the annoying link)

 

[far-trader]

Come now, a true Traveller grognard knows the codes by heart without having to parse them out with a computer program!

Quoted for Truth and to show how much of a GEEK I am over Traveller. I thought of posting the same thing...

:lol:

Ditto (Tritto?) when this first came up, but I didn't post it because even at my clearest, geekiest, grognardiest Traveller best, I never managed to memorize the Gov types. I had a few committed but mostly looked them up if I had to. Generally I ignored the Gov type anyway and just treated it more as a bureaucracy level (more like the rest of the UWP is a progressive function, rather than the way Gov is less so).

The community help is cool though, as always