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[konokoni]

With the latest version I am no longer getting errors. All of my match data is there as well. Thanks for all of your hard work on this; it's a really neat supplement to the rather lackuster official statkeeping.

[SjurWarEagle]

Speedy Pinky, on 19 March 2014 - 03:03 PM, said:

What is meaning with
menuModePoints and matchModePoints ?

Can you make a short video how to config the points or make some picture ...
in some points i dont know what it want.
Thanks

EDIT: The new version is very good ...

Hi,

a small overview on all variables you can set in the config. I'll add this description as tooltip in the next version

Username

	MWO-Emailadress (not the username) Note do self, rename the field...
Password	Your MWO-Password
disabledEntries	Entries (maps, weapons, mechs) to be disabled by default
highscoreEntries	number of entires per mech in the highscore
battlelogScreenAutoSwitchTime	Setting in milliseconds how fast the screens in the battlelog should switch automatically
displayMarkers
mechsToIgnoreForImport	list of mechs of which the data should not be imported this is used because PGI gives mechs like the heromechs the same database-id, so they are listed together with their un-championed mech and all data will be counted twice
useClickReady	switch for enabling/disabling toe autoclick of the readybutton
coordinatesReadyButton	The position of the ready-button to be clicked on (based on 1920x1080, will be scaled automatically)
useEndOfMatchScreenshot	switch for enabling/disabling the screenshot at end of match
screenshotHeight	Format of screenshots in store/display
screenshotWidth	Format of screenshots in store/display
coordinates2ndPage	The position of the position where to click in order to get the 2nd page of the end of match screen (based on 1920x1080, will be scaled automatically)
coordinatesFinishScreencapture	where to move the mouse to after the screenshots are done (based on 1920x1080, will be scaled automatically)
Show Link	Set up if link-column in the battlelog should be shown
Show Comment	Set up if comment-column in the battlelog should be shown
Show Screenshots	Set up if screenshot-column in the battlelog should be shown
Local Mode	for debug purpose, it won't update the data and not start the listeners, so useless for most users
useCoordinateTranslation	If you want to let mechcollect translate the given coordinates automatically to your resolution, this should be true.
useExtendedPixelSearch
matchModePoints	The points to look for, in order to determin the readybutton being displayed (based on 1920x1080, will be scaled automatically) Format: x,y,(R-G- B);
menuModePoints	The points to look for, in order to determin, the menu is displayed (and therefore the match over) (based on 1920x1080, will be scaled automatically) Format: x,y,(R-G- B);
readyButtonPoints	Points of the ready.button to click on before launch of match (based on 1920x1080, will be scaled automatically) Format: x,y,(R-G- B);
endOfMatchWinPoints	The points to look for, in order to determin, of end of match (win) has occurred (based on 1920x1080, will be scaled automatically) Format: x,y,(R-G- B);
endOfMatchLostPoints	The points to look for, in order to determin, of end of match (lost) has occurred (based on 1920x1080, will be scaled automatically) Format: x,y,(R-G- B);
maxDifferenceOfMatchingColor	variable how much the color may vary, this variable is needed, because of different resolutions and gamma values, normally you don't need to touch it

variable not in gui (but be added in next version)

displayMarkers

enable the feature of displaying vertical markers

I'll tinker together a manual of how to create own checkpoints, please take a look at the posts starting at http://mwomercs.com/...s/page__st__160 for more information, hope it helps, if not, stay tuned :)

[p4r4g0n]

Just some quick initial feedback - new version looks very slick and professional. Haven't tested the new functionality you added with but it was nice to have the screenshot and configuration scripts embedded within the main client.

Thanks for sharing this app

[SjurWarEagle]

Speedy Pinky, on 19 March 2014 - 03:03 PM, said:

Can you make a short video how to config the points or make some picture ...
in some points i dont know what it want.
Thanks

Checkpoints

Description:


Checkpoints in MechCollect are used to find what Mechwarrior Online is doing. Mechcollect checks some pixels on the screen and then decides what to do.
One example
Let's say Mechcollect looks for a blue pixel on the left a red pixel left bottom and a yellow pixel on the top.
You are getting the end of match screen and Mechcollect is happy, because hey, it found the corresponding pixels. As a result of this find, it takes a screenshot and switches the page (if configured so).

Problems:


Because everyone may use a different resolution when playing Mechwarrior Online, there is no "pixel in the center" for everyone. For some this is 400,300 for some it is 512,366 and some others may have 1024,540. Because of this mechcollect takes the coordinates configured in the config.properties and translates them to your current resolution. The coordinates are based on my resolution of 1980x1050, so if you are running at 1024,768 a coordinate of 400x400 on my screen should be at 207,292, so this is where the point will be checked.
But this is a calculation, it might be wrong because of rounding, interpolation and so on.

Coordinate Translation


The coordinates given to you are based on 1980x1050, as written Mechcollect transforms these coordinates to your Mechwarrior Online Windowresolution, if you want to change the coordinates and make them match exact for your system, you can turn off the translation of the coordinates, so 100x100 will always stay 100x100.


Improvements:


In order to fix this problem you can change the coordinates in the config and set them to some, you did determine by youself. In order to do so, you have to edit:

• MenuModePoints
  
• MatchModePoints
  
• EndOfMatchLostPoints
  
• EndOfMatchWinPoints
  
• ReadyButtonPoints

The points can be generated by the Checkpoint Creater in the config.

All you have to do is load a screenshot into this tool (you can use the function in the setup) and click at the points you want to use as check-points.
In the lower part of the window is a textarea where the new checkpoint-string is generated.

When you are done, take this string and paste it in the corresponding textfield in the config.



The numbers are readable like this:
X,Y,(Red-Green-Yellow);
so looking for a bright read pixel at x=75,y=29 an entry would be:
75,29,(255-0-0);



The second change for improving the detection if checkpoints is some kind of scatter.
I'm not only looking at the exact coordinate, but also the points surrounding it.
So if the point 10,10 should be used, the tool looks also at
(9,9),(10,9),(11,9),(9,10),(10,10),(11,10),(9,11),(10,11),(11,11) this also should improve the detection for
calculated coordinates.
A mockup:

O O O O O
O + + + O
O + X + O
O + + + O
O O O O O

I'm aware this softens the detection and could lead to misreadings, but there should be enough checkpoints per image to be on the save side. The side who has cookies
If you want, you can switch this option off in the setup:



Tuning:


You can use setup - Test Checkpoints to test the checkpoints after saving your config.
They get a red or green border wether the checkpoint matches or not.
The rectangle is filled with the color to look for.
You can use these screenshots for finetuning the coordinates and colors.

[Michael Abt]

Bug report

Battlelog: Marking an entry and then using shift+arrow up/down to mark entries the results are borked. It looks like the first match marked is counted every time you mark another match. Furthermore, if you add a few matches that way e.g. with arrow up, then remove them again with arrow down, they are not removed from the summary but instead the count still goes up.

However, marking different entries with mouseclick in order to get a summary for those matches is working fine.

[SjurWarEagle]

Michael Abt, on 22 March 2014 - 03:12 AM, said:

Bug report

Battlelog: Marking an entry and then using shift+arrow up/down to mark entries the results are borked. It looks like the first match marked is counted every time you mark another match. Furthermore, if you add a few matches that way e.g. with arrow up, then remove them again with arrow down, they are not removed from the summary but instead the count still goes up.

However, marking different entries with mouseclick in order to get a summary for those matches is working fine.

Hi,

thanks for pointing this out, it's a bug in JavaFX, I put in the workaround today, it will be fixed in the next version.
No ETA at the moment, I want to finish the current improvement first

[Jman5]

Hey Sjur, I can't seem to get mech collect to run anymore with the new version. I got it going once, and then every time after that it shuts down on me. Here is a screenshot just before it closes:



As a side note, I made a suggestion a few pages back.

Jman5, on 16 February 2014 - 06:59 PM, said:

One thing that might be helpful would be showing damage averages for mechs. We see individual damage values per game, but it's hard to make heads or tails of whether you're improving your damage numbers or not. I would like to see something like the kill/death per mech average chart.

Any idea if this is possible to implement? You would basically create a line graph over time that shows you how your damage is trending. It would be useful to tell if tweaks you made to a specific mech loadout has helped or hurt you.

Edited by Jman5, 28 March 2014 - 06:10 AM.

[SjurWarEagle]

LOL sent you a pm just about the same time yout did the post. The graph will in in the next release.
For your bug, I think I need the log-file (directory logs) or much better the database to be able to reproduce it. No idea what went wrong.

[SjurWarEagle]

Finally...

2.1
New:
* added small remote for capturing additional screenshots during the game,
they will be assigned to the current game, if none running to the next game
(available at the bottom left)
* new config-dialog for managing markers
(old markers from markers.config will NOT be converted or used)
* new ability to create markers directly from battlelog
* Tooltips in config dialog
* Viewer for screenshots improved
* Imageviewer now able to view images from multiple fights
just select multiple entries in the battlelog and then press the button at the bottom side
* new graph for average damage
(this shows the average for the selected period, not of all data!)
Bugfixes:
* fixed a bug where the GUI got locked if navigator was used too fast
* removed some jars/classes not needed anymore
* Fixed shift-cursorkey-selection in battlelog
(caused by bug in Java: javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-18388)
* Fixed the bug where the clock stops running
* fixed broken display of infographic
* fixed a bug where the detection didn't work if the next game was started while update was running


No, you didn't miss release 2.0 I just didn't want to use 2.0 after the UI 2.0 release

This time I experimented with some tutorial-videos to explain the new features. They aren't very good, but I hope they help you understanding the new stuff.

Teams




Imageviewer



Markers



Screenshotremote



Download: http://sourceforge.n...28.zip/download

Edited by SjurWarEagle, 30 March 2014 - 09:39 PM.

[Jman5]

still can't get it running. Here is the log file

Quote

20:50:23 [INFO ] [de.tkunkel.mechcollect.DatabaseMigration:178] migrate - Databaseversion: 7
20:50:24 [INFO ] [de.tkunkel.mechcollect.MainController:139] init - Starting ready-watcher
20:50:24 [INFO ] [de.tkunkel.mechcollect.MainController:144] init - Starting EoM-watcher
20:50:24 [INFO ] [de.tkunkel.mechcollect.MainController:155] init - Starting watcher.
20:50:24 [INFO ] [de.tkunkel.mechcollect.Starter:187] stop - Shutting down...

Here is the error I initially get. Afterward it just shuts down like before.

Quote

20:54:08 [INFO ] [de.tkunkel.mechcollect.DatabaseMigration:178] migrate - Databaseversion: 4
20:54:08 [INFO ] [de.tkunkel.mechcollect.DatabaseMigration:29] backupDatabase - Backing up database
20:54:17 [INFO ] [de.tkunkel.mechcollect.DatabaseMigration:207] migrate - Migration from '4' to '5' needed.
20:54:17 [INFO ] [de.tkunkel.mechcollect.DatabaseMigration:368] migrate4to5 - Migration from '4' to '5' started.
20:54:18 [INFO ] [de.tkunkel.mechcollect.DatabaseMigration:393] migrate4to5 - Migration from '4' to '5' done.
20:54:19 [ERROR] [de.tkunkel.mechcollect.DatabaseManager:2162] getAllTeams - java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: user lacks privilege or object not found: TEAM_DEFINITIONS

Edit: Ok I deleted my database folder and I got it to run. However, I would really like to find a way to import my old data because I have been running it since September.

Edited by Jman5, 30 March 2014 - 04:55 PM.

[p4r4g0n]

I got the same error the first time I ran the new build. However, I re-tried launching it without doing anything and it ran without any problem the second time.

Did you try re-importing your old db after you got it to work with a fresh db? (i.e. copy your old db over)

[SjurWarEagle]

Damn me, I once again forgot to copy the migration-method to the older versions.

At the moment MEchCollect migrates from version 4 to 5 then starts, next start it migrates from 5 to 6 the next one from 6 to 7.
Correct would be from 4 to 5 to 6 to 7.

2 Ways to fix this:
- restart three times
- use http://sourceforge.n...28.zip/download

[Jman5]

Hey Sjur, I had an issue with the mech average damage graph. I played a bunch of games without mech collect and so when I got it booted up I had one big mega-score of like 14,000 damage listed in my battlelog. This is being included as a single game, so my averages are completely screwy.

[Darian DelFord]

Hail and well met, just DL'ed this app and wanted to try it out, however I can not even get it to start. Is there a post somewhere that I missed on how to set it up. i edited my email and PW and nothing.

[p4r4g0n]

Not sure what you mean when you say you couldn't get it to start. Did you double click the start.cmd file?

If you did and nothing happened:-

What OS are you using?
Do you have Java installed?
Is it at least version (edit: typo) 47.51?

Clarification required please.

Edited by p4r4g0n, 02 April 2014 - 02:13 AM.

[Darian DelFord]

p4r4g0n, on 01 April 2014 - 08:04 PM, said:

Not sure what you mean when you say you couldn't get it to start. Did you double click the start.cmd file?

If you did and nothing happened:-

What OS are you using?
Do you have Java installed?
Is it at least version 4.51?

Clarification required please.

Yes I double click and nothing.

I Dl'ed the latest Java version that is up. I use Win Vista 64 bit. I changed the config file to my email and PW and I double click start and nothing.

This is the line of my start file. It was not recognizing JAVA by default. I am sure this is probably the problem as I screwed something up. The path is correct.

Quote

path=C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin java -jar MechCollect.jar config/config.properties config/colors.properties config/colors_custom.properties config/markers.list

Edited by Darian DelFord, 01 April 2014 - 10:30 PM.

[p4r4g0n]

You have a 64bit OS but your Java version is installed in the 32bit Program folder? Can you check if you installed the 32bit or 64bit Java version? If it is the 32bit version, try downloading the 64bit version.

Edit: I recall someone else had a problem using the 32bit version. Anyway, if your Java version is not the culprit and you just need to set the Java path, you could do it either through the Control Panel or by modifying the start.cmd file as shown here

Edited by p4r4g0n, 02 April 2014 - 02:18 AM.

[Zeddecius Ward]

Hi Darian,

i had a similar problem on my 64-Bit System. The Java Updater is just updating the 32-Bit Version once it is installed. Manually installing the 64-Bit Version solved my problems.

[Hammerhai]

Sad to report that in upgrading from 1.8 to 2.1 it became apparent that 1.8 ate my database. Have to restart my stats collection, it will not work in 2.1.

[SjurWarEagle]

Sorry to hear, but without the database, a log, an errorreport I cannot do anything.
You can take 1.8 with the backups.