Just to let you know, I think I'm done with the development of the new functionalities. I am still in the test phase, though. Below some screenshots how it looks like.
Any feedback is very welcome!
@Hastorlin: Many thanks for your feedback. This is because data in foreign languages are not yet available on Scryfall (cf. screenshot hereafter). This is more or less normal for Lost Caverns of Ixalan as the set has just been released. But for Wilds of Eldraine, released on Sept., that's rather strange. Especially since Commander & Enchanting Tales have cards in French but not the main set. It may be worth opening a ticket at Scryfall to report it.
@Just 4 Fun: Many thanks for the donation, it's greatly appreciated
What you describe sometimes happens when a server is not responding anymore (usually, gatherer (!), and very rarely, scryfall). Thus, the program is stuck at a given card, waiting for data to come.
I acknowledge this situation is not well managed at the moment, and the code has to be improved. Skipping the blocking cards (with a time out) and continuing the extraction might not be a relevant solution, because many sets will probably be not completed accordingly. But I admit, the software should give you the control back and should not freeze. I will work on this in the coming weeks to get rid of this limitation.
What you can do in the meantime is to kill the program, then restart it. Normally, the pending database is automatically recovered during restart and you can resume the download, after having selected only the non-completed sets (with the preset). It is not ideal, but at least, you do not lose your former work.
@Sylvester Temple: That is a possibility, but I would prefer to go to one column per scan parameter set. Keep in mind one may want to process with the original scans, the full scans, the border crops, and the cropped versions alltogether! This will be a great work to do, but I would need some time for it. I cannot promise it is available for the next release, but I will keep you informed about the progress, for sure.
@Sylvester Temple: There is currently only one column to show local scan status. How would you manage that if several parameter sets are now available for the image extraction? Would you implement one column per parameter set? If yes, this is a significant work.
By the way, checking the existence of files in local folders can take some time on very long database, and slow down the peformance (as you might experience when you load a big database with activated display of scan status). If there are several columns to show the local scan status, I am afraid of poor performance at database loading.
@Sylvester Temple: Many thanks for your comment. Great idea! This is a functionality that I would personally use as well!
However, this is not easy to do given the present code architecture. But is seems to be achievable!
In details, the user may define several parameter sets in the image preference panel (making sure extensions are different so that the image files will not overwrite each other!), and then, tick the ones to use for the extraction.
By the way, for WHO & LCI, I will release a new version of GEx with all the set parameters up-to-date. I am just waiting that multiverseIDs of LCI & LCC sets are available on Scryfall.
@Cyber-Bix: Thank you for the report! WotC finally replaced "Converted Mana Cost" by "Mana Value" on the Gatherer
I will fix this in the next release (basically when Lost Caverns of Ixalan is released). I will also update the set list with the 'Dr who Commander' sets (basic set + planes + collector boosters).
@Maqui : Many thanks for the bug report. It is indeed a bug in the display of the column of item texts, due to recent addition of "defense" characteristics. This bug does not affect exports. It is now fixed in release 7.2b.
@The Piley One : Welcome to the Gatherer Extractor Community. It looks like you are doing things correctly... but maybe you forget to save your database and reload it when you re-open the software. It seems you start from scratch each time. Thus, if you want to resume the download process from a previous task, you first need to reload your database. Then, by selecting "Select all unprocessed sets" and starting the extraction, fully processed sets will still be there in the database, but they will not be extracted for a second time.
I hope this helps. feel free to reply if you need further support.
7.2 is released.
Battles are now supported. Loyalty characteristics of Planeswalkers which are missing from Gatherer (probably because of a bug on their side coming with the last update of the website to implement battles) are now patched with Scryfall data.
Enjoy!
Thanks for the report. Unfortunately, a small number of other cards are also missing : Ayesha Tanaka, Armorer, etc. This will be fixed in the next Gamepack release.
Very sorry for the inconvenience.
I reuploaded the Gamepack. Give it a try, it should download now. I have anyway to compile a new Gamepack uo to Phyrexia: All will be one.
Regards,
Any feedback is very welcome!
What you describe sometimes happens when a server is not responding anymore (usually, gatherer (!), and very rarely, scryfall). Thus, the program is stuck at a given card, waiting for data to come.
I acknowledge this situation is not well managed at the moment, and the code has to be improved. Skipping the blocking cards (with a time out) and continuing the extraction might not be a relevant solution, because many sets will probably be not completed accordingly. But I admit, the software should give you the control back and should not freeze. I will work on this in the coming weeks to get rid of this limitation.
What you can do in the meantime is to kill the program, then restart it. Normally, the pending database is automatically recovered during restart and you can resume the download, after having selected only the non-completed sets (with the preset). It is not ideal, but at least, you do not lose your former work.
[EDIT]: I found the issue and fixed it. It should be OK now with the latest version (7.2c, released today). Have fun!
By the way, checking the existence of files in local folders can take some time on very long database, and slow down the peformance (as you might experience when you load a big database with activated display of scan status). If there are several columns to show the local scan status, I am afraid of poor performance at database loading.
However, this is not easy to do given the present code architecture. But is seems to be achievable!
In details, the user may define several parameter sets in the image preference panel (making sure extensions are different so that the image files will not overwrite each other!), and then, tick the ones to use for the extraction.
By the way, for WHO & LCI, I will release a new version of GEx with all the set parameters up-to-date. I am just waiting that multiverseIDs of LCI & LCC sets are available on Scryfall.
I will fix this in the next release (basically when Lost Caverns of Ixalan is released). I will also update the set list with the 'Dr who Commander' sets (basic set + planes + collector boosters).
@The Piley One : Welcome to the Gatherer Extractor Community. It looks like you are doing things correctly... but maybe you forget to save your database and reload it when you re-open the software. It seems you start from scratch each time. Thus, if you want to resume the download process from a previous task, you first need to reload your database. Then, by selecting "Select all unprocessed sets" and starting the extraction, fully processed sets will still be there in the database, but they will not be extracted for a second time.
I hope this helps. feel free to reply if you need further support.
Regards,
version 0.23 : http://www.mediafire.com/?nk6je6kmrqowq
Now battles and defense characteristics are well supported.
The MTG Gamepack has also been updated up to MOM - March of the Machine: http://www.mediafire.com/?ksapcl1gv7g54
Have fun !
Battles are now supported. Loyalty characteristics of Planeswalkers which are missing from Gatherer (probably because of a bug on their side coming with the last update of the website to implement battles) are now patched with Scryfall data.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
I reuploaded the Gamepack. Give it a try, it should download now. I have anyway to compile a new Gamepack uo to Phyrexia: All will be one.
Regards,
Enjoy!