Exercising Those Developer Muscles

Project Vulcan continues apace with Archons and the occasional Chimera for a corp mate being produced and sold on market for copious amounts of ISK.

The one frustrating part of the project is keeping an eye on all the moving parts in this operation that is spread across multiple characters: Buy orders, sell orders, industry jobs, contracts, and assets. Even with everything done through the corporation, I still need to log in to see what's going on or use a third party tool.

So being the masochist that I am, I decided the best course of action was to build my own little app that would allow me to see my status at a glance. I've got the API calls I need to make and decided that instead of trying to do a heavy C#/.Net app again I would do some playing around in Python.

Progress So Far

So far I got a window with a poorly placed listbox. Its been a busy day.

EVE Shopping List v1.00.0003 Beta now open

My little code project is ready for beta users! The EVE Shopping List installer can be found here, just click on File\Download to get the ZIP file, extract on your computer, and run setup. The application was written on .Net Framework 4.5 so it may download that from Microsoft and install that if you don't already have it. Simple instructions to use the application are included in the ZIP file.

The application does not use any API information nor does it currently make any calls out to the internet. Its just a tool for making shopping lists.

The source code can be found on Github.

Please feel free to make any comments, suggestions, or bug reports here.

Eve Shopping List v0.1

As a frequent user of Pyfa for getting my ship fits and someone who buys in bulk his ships for the month, I often have to compile a list of modules from various fits into a spreadsheet so I know I need ten damage controls, 8 Energized Adaptive Nano Membranes, etc. This list saves a lot of time in the market hub buying everything.

I figured I should make a better way of compiling this list and get some practice with WPF and C# in the process.

If you are interested, here is my code's repository on Github.

Its a work in progress, but basically you copy and paste EFT text fits into the window and hit add and the program parses it and makes a list of modules, ships, charges it contains. You can save+load the lists and copy to clip board. Going to add functionality to add one off items (like extra ammo!) and edit the list directly for fine tuning.

It was created in Visual Studio 2012 and is written in C# and WPF. If you are curious, give it a whirl. I will be creating a distributed install for public consumption once version 1.0 is complete.

NOTE: I am aware of the website EVE Online Shopping Lists. There are definite advantages to a web application and I might even go that way myself in the future.