GURPS HP & FP Tracker (application)

[ericbsmith]

I've been messing around with C# and whipped up this little application to help keep track of multiple characters HP and FP totals as well as displaying the current HP and FP status (Below 1/3, At or Below 0, -1xHP, etc). It also keeps track of current Move and Dodge based on the halving from lowered HP & FP. Tracks up to 24 PCs or NPCs. Requires the Microsoft .NET framework.

Probably horribly written by normal design standards, but this is me messing with C# and trying to learn how to do basic controls, layout, and functions like Save/Load.

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April 1 Update
-Added ability to rename Tabs from the Rename top menu

April 14 Update
-Reducing FP below 0 automatically reduces HP by a like amount, per the rules.
-Added check box to turn a character entry into an Energy Reserve entry (for the character above or below that one, whichever you wish to use).
-Added Reset to Defaults under the File menu, which resets everything to defaults.
-Added warning message box to Save, Load, and Reset options under File Menu
-A few other minor tweaks & fixes

April 30 Update
- Added a Timer button to each character. This opens a window where you can set a countdown timer, useful for abilities that can only be used every so often in real time (such as Luck).

[Ronnke]

Nice little utility. It would be cool if you could add tabs and change the name of the tab so that as GM you could create a tab for planned NPC encounters.

eg.

My Players / Dock Encounter (Pirates) / Dock Encounter (The reinforcements) / Kraken / etc....

[ericbsmith]

Originally Posted by Ronnke

Nice little utility. It would be cool if you could add tabs and change the name of the tab so that as GM you could create a tab for planned NPC encounters.

Allowing users to add tabs isn't going to happen (at least, not the way I've written the app), though I could probably add a couple more myself. As for renaming them, I'd like to be able to allow that, but right now I honestly don't know how to do it. I was happy as frak that I'd managed to get the save function working, and I'd like to improve that with a standard save dialog at some point.

Anyway, I squashed a couple bugs in the code and posted an updated version.

[Kale]

Any chance of compiling this for Linux? @:-)
I use a netbook with Ubuntu for my games...

[nerdvana]

Originally Posted by Kale

Any chance of compiling this for Linux? @:-)
I use a netbook with Ubuntu for my games...

Not to say it isn't a good idea... but have you tried running it in the Windows Emulator in Ubuntu?

[Kuroshima]

Originally Posted by Kale

Any chance of compiling this for Linux? @:-)
I use a netbook with Ubuntu for my games...

Same here...

A port to Java should not be that difficult, given that c# and java are not that different. The GUI can be designed with Netbeans (it's nearly as good as Visutral Studio at designing cookie cutter GUIs, IMHO).

As for WinE, personally, I don't have it installed in my net book, since it's one of the SSD models, and hard drive space is very limited (4GB for the OS). Also, the Atom processor has very low power consumption, but it's not the fastest processort out there...

[ericbsmith]

Guys... as much as I would love to make this available in Java or recompile it for Linux... I'm in the process of learning C# using Visual Studio for Windows machines. I really don't know a darned thing about Java, nor how I'd go about compiling the code for Linux (let alone testing, since I don't have a Linux box) .

I'm making this because I'm building similar apps for class, but I'm already pushing the bounds of my knowledge of C# working on this. For instance, I spent the last couple hours figuring out how to shuffle information between forms so I could make a Rename Tab method. I spent a couple hours the other day trying to figure out how to save & reload the data.

[JMD]

Impressive first C# app. Thanks for the contribution! Being able to track multiple hp/fp sets is a huge advantage.

One thing I noticed is that if you reduce a characters current HP to a point where they get a status message such as total bodily destruction, and then you raise the Base HP of the pc, then the message doesn't change.

The timer is a great idea. I'm currently implementing a similar idea into my Droid app. One suggestion is to have it play a sound when the time runs out. Having it play a sound or not should be optional.

[therpgguy]

I really like this app. I've been playing with it and like the functionality of it. Are you working on adding any more functions to it? If so, what?

[Mehmet]

Hello ericbsmith,

Is there any chance you would make the source code available? I am a dabbler myself, just interested in your implementation and maybe I could add a couple of things and send the code to you at some point.

Cheers...

PS: willing to sign an NDA if you like :)