Default name for armies

[ibboard]

Apparently users like Snowblizz may feel lazy/unimaginative and want the app to ​name their army for them. This would be a GUI change rather than an API change.

[ibboard]

​Snowblizz's suggestion is to use "[Race name] Army ([points value])" or to extend races to define what a default army size is (e.g. "Host" for Elves, "Throng" for Dwarves, etc).

[ibboard]

Move tickets to new "confirmed" status to show that they've been checked

[Henri]

I've been looking at this since you note it is a GUI thing and I've managed to get a simple version working. Ie just taking the race name + army, and getting the point value.

I am however curious, if I wanted to use a "name" pulled from the datafile would there be any more involved changes, I can figure out so much that the schema needs to include the new attribute, but it does also require changes to the Warfoundry.API, yes? I've managed to track down the Warfoundry.Objects.Races but I can quite fathom how it all fits together.

[ibboard]

To pull a basic name you'll need to add a few bits to the API:

1) Add a property to the Race object ("DefaultArmyName" or something sensible) with a setter, a getter and a variable behind it
2) Add a definition to the schema (an attribute on the <race> tag is probably most appropriate)
3) Add the loading of the value to the WarFoundryXmlRaceFactory - we can have multiple factories, but XML is the main one for now and it just parses the XML file and creates the necessary objects.
4) Add some tests in the IBBoard.WarFoundry.API.Tests project to make sure that it validates and loads correctly, and fails if you give it an invalid value.

As a future extension, we could make this fall back to the game system if nothing is defined at the race level and let the race name be used (e.g. "{0} horde" would become "Dwarf Horde" "Human Horde" etc).

If you want any more suggestions and pointers, just start a topic on the forums :)

[Henri]

(In r674) Re #153: Default name for armies
Been messing a round with the code a bit

[Henri]

(In r676) Re #153: Default name for armies
Hopefully API code added as well

[Henri]

(In r677) Re #153: Default name for armies
Now it reads the data from the race file but changes everything in the list instead?!?
Well I guess this was a nice little program until I broken it. My bad.

[ibboard]

(In r678) Re #153: Default name for armies

• Add explicit default value in schema
• Swap adding of extra constructor parameter (which wasn't stored at any point) to using property
• Clean up line endings

[ibboard]

(In r679) Re #153: Default name for armies

• Have a fight between VS.Net versions over how to reference projects (may need to update from 2K3 but still target .Net 2)
• Use property of race object and clean up comments

[ibboard]

(In r680) Re #153: Default name for armies

• Do a bit of string formatting to allow "{0} Empire Army" to become "2000pt Empire Army"

[ibboard]

(In r681) Fixes #153: Default name for armies

• Merge back in to Trunk

[ibboard]

Mark fix as released under 0.1RC2