I guess I'll try this all-in-one-thread thing.

Still gonna try to post regular hand-written updates every so often. Should I keep those in this thread too? Or keep spamming my own news?

Just dump everything here. Anything else might look like clutter. Although clutter's not so bad here.

Keep daily changes in this thread. When beta stages (beta 2, beta 3, etc.) are complete though, start a new thread.

So, something like Beta 2 thread, Beta 3 thread, etc. unless that is still too much clutter.

Aha, suppose that works.

I think handwritten updates are good for explaining the "big picture" reason behind some of the smaller groups of changes.

automated veekun changelog Aug 24 beep boop I am a computer

pokedex:
7e4ca65 9 hours ago: Filled in missing Pokédex flavor text, even when duplicated.
338a93e 9 hours ago: Removed +x from Crystal sprites.
204a43b 11 hours ago: Renamed de-accented item names in the db.
2cce2d7 12 hours ago: Added whoosh and sqlite files to .gitignore.
bd70b19 12 hours ago: Added lookup tests. #15
83a52bc 14 hours ago: Restored accents on Poke * items.
c9893e9 16 hours ago: Added support for type: prefix and forme lookup. #15
f1ac382 35 hours ago: Fix whoosh version so Nidoran search works.
b5fde0d 2 days ago: Return correctly-cased foreign names from lookup. #15
929cfc5 2 days ago: Finally weight lookup results by language. #15
85e220b 2 days ago: Flesh out lookup by number. #15
1a34d3c 2 days ago: Added support for lookup by other language name. #15
40300f9 3 days ago: Added lookup support for foreign language names. #15
721cfb3 4 days ago: open_index was returning an index instead of a SpellChecker. #15
e3a947d 4 days ago: Allow lookup() callers to pass in their own whoosh indices.

spline-pokedex:
9ac175a 9 hours ago: Added support for sprite forms. #74
2378ed9 10 hours ago: Hide flavor page sprite tables that don't apply. #74
e49878c 10 hours ago: Merge flavor text together when the same for both versions in a group. #74
9ee61df 16 hours ago: Minor tweaks to improve lookup results.
61d3730 3 days ago: Updated lookup to match new return value.
71c74d8 4 days ago: Create a Pokédex whoosh index on startup and keep it open.

Upshot of all this fucking work:

Flavor pages are about "done". So close.

Lookup is bitchin' and more working. Foreign names (all of them) work far more sensibly than they ever did here. Lookup by number also works now. It's a little different this time around: looking for '1' will get you all of Bulbasaur, Master Ball, normal, etc. If you just want the Pokémon, use 'pokemon:1'. Similarly, 'type:psychic' has replaced 'psychic-type', and 'item:metronome' vs 'move:metronome' work. This also means that Psychic/Metronome will actually work in the Pokémon search.

Also, you can look up form(e)s as simply 'wash rotom', etc. So, finally, forms will work in the comparer and move search.


I renamed some files with names that might piss off Windows (poké-ball.png and friends). Sorry about that. But I already had ?????.png, so Windows was going to be pissed off anyway.

I hope that by "Windows" you mean IE.

No, I mean that checking out the pokedex code on Windows might not work so well, because ?????.png is not a valid filename on Windows.

I expect it will work, but a couple files might get renamed to have underscores or something.

automated veekun changelog Aug 25 beep boop I am a computer

pokedex:
c8551bf 5 hours ago: Added random lookup. #57
bf31d19 6 hours ago: Wildcard lookup! #89
4a32d3d 6 hours ago: Some minor lookup refactoring.
c1e0423 7 hours ago: Revert "Renamed de-accented item names in the db."

spline-pokedex:
6fdd089 6 hours ago: Fixed non-Pokémon lookup.

'mew' lookup is still not fixed. ;_;

Lookup is hecka broken at the moment. Something that worked fine during development but breaks if I try to run it for real.

Fixed it. Hopefully this is a decent solution.

Northern California slang?

automated veekun changelog Aug 26 beep boop I am a computer

pokedex:
d56ba04 5 hours ago: Added alt Shaymin/Giratina/Rotom moves for Platinum. #5

Why not have just a number default to the Pokémon? Only Pokémon have numbers on the surface. And you don't have it pulling up Rhyhorn (RB internal ID 1).

Because
(a) it's inconsistent and that makes me sad,
(b) the Pokémon is on the resulting page anyway, and
(c) I'm not sure lookup by number is even used very often? Maybe I should log these things.

fair enough. c in particular.

Still doin' stuff, I promise. Just complicated tedious stuff! And I don't want to push it partially done because it may or may not work.

I noticed that moves show damage multipliers. (id="dex-page-damage") For example, Rest.