Back in Beta!!

After getting a nice cease and desist letter from SquareEnix, I had to pull the FFGear app off of the itunes store.

Now about a month and a half later, I've got a new version almost ready to submit to apple.  It's currently in beta, couple more kinks that i need to work out and some new graphics in the works.  I'm planning on submitting back to the itunes store sometime in the first or second week of Feb.

All of the fixes that were originally going to go out with v1.2 which got hammered down by SE, will be in this version. I have also added a new feature which will allow you to import your own icons for all the gear in this app.  The app will ship with some default images (free from copyright infringement) for gear, but I'm sure you will want some better and more specific graphics.

Introducing the FTP Import!

You find this screen by tapping on [Update Application Data] from the Gear Sets screen.  Then Choosing "User Generated (FTP)".

I recommend using FileZilla to transfer your files from this point. (http://filezilla-project.org/)

Just enter the "Connect To:" IP Address given to you by the FFGear app where it says "Host:" in FileZilla.

To Upload your images or data lists, just drag-and-drop the files onto the Uploads folder.  Currently the app is accepting 3 different Files to be uploaded:

Icons.zip           - archive of icons for gear items in the app.

GearInfo.plist    - xml containing info on all the gear in the app.

food.plist          - xml containing info on all food items in the app.

Aside from this, I'm also currently finalizing a Mac & Windows client that will build the three files mentioned above.  It is a modified version of the tool that I had originally used to gather all the item/food icons.  The Mac client is ready and the Windows client is very close.  I'll update here when they are both ready and available to download.

For legal reasons i cannot host any of the files containing copyrighted images from FFXI, so it will be up to you all to either gather up your own (suggest by using one of the two client apps mentioned above) or maybe some of the other folks that are using this app will do so and provide them to you all.

Either way, I'm very excited to have this FFGear app so close to being available to you all once again!

A Few Bugs Fixed, A New Version Submitted

As is expected there were a few bugs/crashes in v1.0. 

• PUP Weapon Selection caused app to crash
• App Data Update taking unneccesarily long

I've fixed these both and added some other features like BLU spells and a better way to keep the app data up-to-date.

I'm more than aware that there are probably other issues that I havent found yet, please report them here or email me at actionsreaction(AT)gmail.com and I will get them fixed and another update out asap!

Enjoy!

FFXI Gear Simulator Arrives on the App Store!!!

After a short 2 weeks under review, FFXI Gear Simulator hit the store!  

I also already have an update almost ready to post to the AppStore, this update will include Blu Spells (spell bonuses/trait-combos), a fix to prevent unnecessarily long app data updates along with a couple small bugs that I didnt find until after the initial appstore submission.

 ::Edit::

Oh yeah, weapon selection for PUP is broken currently... sorry... will be fixed w/the update

I'll be posting support documents here shortly

iPhone 3.0 compatability update & FTP Upload

An updated version is on iTunes now.  This provides the fix for the 3.0 software update, along with a means to upload your comics via FTP.  Filezilla ftp client has been fully tested for compatability and would be my suggestion (link)

I'll have a video tutorial on how to use the FTP upload soon.

Upload your comics via FTP

Ok, I've finally found the time to get together an alternative method for getting your comics into PullLists on your iPhone or iPod Touch.  I have now added the capability to upload via FTP.  This should be a solution to the windows users who couldnt get the Bonjour-based solution to work. 

I've just finished testing this using the FileZilla ftp client.  I plan on continuing testing with different FTP clients, but plan on pushing this out to the app store as soon as I can.  If you have a preferred FTP client please let me know here and I'll test it w/PullLists.

Currently the FTP method will only work for .cbz(or .zip) files, but I'll also have a simple utility available for converting .cbr(or .rar) files to .cbz's. 

Using this FTP method, all unarchiving and image resizing happens on the phone itself.  After the upload completes, .cbz's are unarchived and the comic is added to your readable comics in the app.  When displaying each page, the app checks the image size and resizes to the maximum supported size if neccessary. 

keep tuned in, more info to come...