***Program*** Freelancer Trading Helper

Thu Mar 13, 2003 12:59 am by Chaldan

I've just completed an early verision of my Freelancer program "Freelancer Trading Helper". It computes trade routes based on your selections and the data in goods.ini and market_commodities.ini.

here it is

Note: It's written in Java (I haven't got a clue as how to make a GUI in C/C++), so you'll need at least JRE 1.4 installed (or the full SDK). GO to the download page for J2SE 1.4.1 and from there select the JRE or SDK

Edit: Version 0.2 is up. The only difference is that I included my own decompressor so you don't have to decompress the files yourself, however it still works if you decompress them with another program

Edit: Version 0.25 is now up. I've added a text field for specifying your current amount of credits

Edit: Version 0.7 is now up. There are several improvements from 0.25, see the readme for details

Edited by - Chaldan on 14-03-2003 11:51:14

Edited by - Chaldan on 14-03-2003 13:05:55

Edited by - Chaldan on 19-03-2003 10:37:19

Thu Mar 13, 2003 1:29 am by freighter fighter

that might just be usefull at some point

Thu Mar 13, 2003 3:56 am by ThresholdRPG

Nice program!

Thu Mar 13, 2003 9:43 am by Restricted

im getting an error about loading goods.ini

and yes i decompressed it....any clue what the error is....i used bini to decompress...

Thu Mar 13, 2003 10:13 am by Chaldan

Well, you need to backup your original goods.ini and market_commodities.ini and rename the uncompressed goods.ini.txt to goods.ini and market_commodities.ini.txt to market_commodities.ini. I'll probably make a change to the program so that it checks for the .txt-files as well (or include a decompressor so that this step is not necessary at all)

Thu Mar 13, 2003 7:53 pm by Dai

i used bini to decompress the inis and renamed them to ini like you said. the program still gives me an error opening them so i can't use it =/

Thu Mar 13, 2003 9:21 pm by Chaldan

Exactly what does the error say? I need to know, so I can locate it in my code.

If it says "Error opening goods.ini" check these things:
-Make sure the uncompressed goods.ini is in the DATA/EQUIPMENT/ directory
-Make sure that the fltrader.jar is the same directory as the DATA, DLLS and EXE folders

Edited by - Chaldan on 13-03-2003 21:36:05

Thu Mar 13, 2003 10:10 pm by Wumpus23

This is by no means a complaint. In fact, once I actually read the instructions and got it working, this was possibly the most useful 3rd party program I could think of for Freelancer! I applaud you for your hard work!

If I may impose enough to make a request: Is it possible to add in addition to the "specify desired profit" field in the trade routes tab, a field with the amount of money you can spend (spending limit) field? I have no clue if this fits in with your sceme, so I apologize if it doesn't!

Otherwise, this is a GREAT tool! Well done!!!!

Thu Mar 13, 2003 11:06 pm by saydo17

This is a great utility. Now I dont know if this is possible but if you could work out something to do with the time it takes to run routes because even though this route:

Optronics: Planet Honshu (Honshu) => Planet Cambridge (Cambridge)
$1189 profit per unit ($326975 profit total)
Luxury Food: Planet Cambridge (Cambridge) => Planet Honshu (Honshu)
$1200 profit per unit ($330000 profit total)

Is the most Profitable over all, this trade rout:

Cardamine: Yanagi Depot (Sigma-13) => Planet New Berlin (New Berlin)
$840 profit per unit ($231000 profit total)
Engine Components: Planet New Berlin (New Berlin) => Yanagi Depot (Sigma-13)
$299 profit per unit ($82225 profit total)

Is the most profitable per time. This run takes around 5 min. Still it is proably a longshot and the program is great.

No Blood For Oil

Fri Mar 14, 2003 1:12 am by Blyre

I also discovered that file extensions in Windows need to be turned on in order to rename the uncompressed goods.ini and market_commodities.ini . Also, make sure that the original goods.ini and market_commodities.ini files are removed from the directory. Took me a while to figure that out...heh.

The program works great for me now. Just thought I'd pass that along.

Wallace

Fri Mar 14, 2003 1:12 am by hurg

I can't get it to run

I'm running on XP Professional with JRE 1.2 installed.

I've decompressed goods.ini and market_commotities.ini using BinQ and renamed them back to [name.ini.

I've placed a copy of fltrader.jar in the Freelancer directory (along side DATA, EXE etc.) and run the app using the command line:

java -jar fltrader.jar

Here's there error I get;

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Freelancer>java -jar fltrader.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: invalid range pro
perties
at javax.swing.DefaultBoundedRangeModel.<init>(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JSlider.<init>(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JSlider.<init>(Unknown Source)
at GUI.TradingGUI.createTradePanel(TradingGUI.java:212)
at GUI.TradingGUI.<init>(TradingGUI.java:46)
at fltrader.main(fltrader.java:8)

Any ideas?

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Hurg

Fri Mar 14, 2003 1:16 am by Blyre

Hurg, try right-clicking on the fltrader.jar file and opening it directly.

Wallace

Edited by - Blyre on 14-03-2003 01:16:40

Fri Mar 14, 2003 1:21 am by hurg

Oo, real-time. I'll try it now.

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Hurg

Fri Mar 14, 2003 1:26 am by hurg

I've fixed it! The problem only happens with JRE 1.2. I've just installed JRE 1.4.1 and it works perfectly now.

Thanks me.

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hurg

Fri Mar 14, 2003 1:53 am by Restricted

got it working...i had it in the data directory...not the freelancer directory...now...would it be possible to get a version of this that could list all possible trade routes with a positive profit based on the system/base selection...instead of just 1 or 2 routes...and not have a required profit field....say for example i want all the positive profit routes in the new york system only...would be great...i dont know how to edit java stuff or i would make the changes myself

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