Previewing the next "2.0" release of deckbox (Page 1 of 3)

As always, great work.  And if you ever need any help, just let us know.

I'll be poking around in the alpha for a while now.....

Edits for feedback:
Seriously, some AMAZING changes, and a lot of the stuff that we've all been asking for.
I love that you can now search on whether you have a certain edition of a card in your inventory, and that I can finally find all of my foils.

Tooltips are a problem for me right now, partially because they overlap a lot of things, especially in the popup dialog, which makes it hard to interact.  But I think the bigger issue, which also might solve the first problem, is that thetooltips don't disappear on mouseout, and that is because on line 14949 of the main.js you have a missing function parameter.

This:
Deckbox._.addEvent(document, 'mouseout', function() {

Should be:
Deckbox._.addEvent(document, 'mouseout', function(event) {

Additionally, I think that tooltips should be used a bit more sparingly.  I don't think I need a tooltip when I hover over every one of my deck names, I only need one if it doesn't fit in the allocated space.

I'm assuming that this is part of it not all being finished, but the decks don't actually link up with your inventory, so it says that I own 0 of the cards in every deck.  Just in case though, I figured I would point it out.

Last edited by NullParameter (2012-11-27 19:49:41)

NullParameter, you are right, we kind of went overboard with the tooltips, we'll tone it down a bit. The tooltip mouseout bug you mentioned is fixed now (was not happening in chrome that's why we didn't see it, firefox is a bit more fussy ).

Inventory and wishlist counts in decks should also be correct now, thanks for reporting.

Also fixed a crash with inventory display when filtering by owned edition and sorting by price.

Thanks for the feedback!

On the topic of adding cards, we thought that if you wish to add cards directly to the tradelist you could use the tradelist add. Do you mean you generally want things added to the tradelist as well when added to the inventory? Would an extra checkbox option be ok in the add widget of the inventory for that?

I +1 this one.  That's a feature I'd love to see, too.  I'm trying to keep playsets, but am trading all additional copies.

I realize it may need to wait until the next release (or the one after that , but it is definitely something I'd like to see.

A checkbox would be great!

Absolutely beautiful, Sebi! I can't wait until it is released!

I do want you to look at one thing.  In my inventory--my Urza's Tower--four appear, each on a separate line (in the alpha), all with the same edition and condition.  In my actual collection, I only have one.

What happened to the Total Decks count column in the Inventory?  That was the only place I could easily see when I had a deficit of cards owned versus ones I wanted for decks.  Please don't remove that column.  If anything give me a way to filter on it so I don't have to page through my entire inventory to check it.

Thanks for the update! It looks very promising. A couple small critiques:

The language flag is a nice idea. However, the UK flag for cards in English? I mean, sure, they invented the language. But the cards are definitely in American Englinsh, not British English ("color", not "colour", etc...).

Also, I like that cards of different editions are split out in the tables, but it does make it somewhat more difficult to quickly skim a large inventory and see how many cards of each name you have. Is there a way you can make this easier? Some possibilities I can think of are:
* Collapse cards of the same name together, giving an option to expand them into multiple rows for different kinds of the card, OR
* Use the same background color on the rows of cards of the same name

Thanks for all your hard work!

I like this one, too.  Consider adding it to the list for the following release.

Edit: was having issues seeing this in my list, until I applied a change to one of my cards to set the edition.  After doing that and starting to page through my collection, the "in deck" icon appeared for some of the cards but not anywhere near all of them.

I am a little disappointed though, as this is a significant decrease in functionality for me, because the value was in being able to see without having to click on each of them individually.  I would much rather just have the column back.

Last edited by ArtosKincaid (2012-11-30 20:42:01)

Good job, guys! Thanks a lot!

Now Inventory list of cards looks much better. I like default values when adding cards - that's what I wanted to have.
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There are some questions on alpha release:
1. Seems like View - Spoiler doesn't work in Inventory. Is it a glitch, or Spoiler view will be only in Card Database? Will it have highlighting owned cards?
2. I'm Russian and I don't quite understand the difference between Edition Owned and Edition Printed in options. What is the difference? If Edition Owned is only Editions that I have, then, first, seems like it doesn't work for me, and, second, would be great only Editions I have to appear in the drop-down list of this option.
3. In Inventory Search & Filter there is no Cost column? It useful when I want to find a card in my collection with the same cost to replace weak cards in official decks.
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And a wish about Export option:
Would be great to have a possibility to Export to CSV only checked cards and delete exported cards from Inventory (could be checkboxes for these options). For example, I want to give a bunch of my M-2013 red cards to my brother (who has an account on Deckbox, too): I just check these cards, press Export checking "Only selected cards" and "delete exported cards from Inventory" and send the file to him. Cards disappear from my Inventory. He takes the cards, comes home and just imports the file I've sent, and he already has these cards in his Inventory by only a couple of clicks.
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What's next?
I think that after alpha version becomes Version 2, it would be great to think about internationalization:
- interface translates
- foreign language card search and thumbnail display (already discussed that, but it's really not very comfortable to open Gatherer (which has Russian card search, and thumbnails) to find a correct English name of the card to enter it to Inventory. The same - when building decks)

Thanks a lot for a really good job done! I'll include the link to Deckbox to my MtG Russian forums signs, maybe that will make some more people from Russia to register here and Russian interface plus Russian card search would attract even more Russians.

Last edited by BlackTracktorist (2012-12-04 08:56:46)

It may just be me, but on the trade interface, I liked seeing each side of the trade in a separate column, as is the case with the current site.  It made it easier to view both sides of a trade.  Also, with wide-screen displays being much more common these days, I have far more horizontal screen space than I do vertical.  Am I the only one who likes the current two-column model?