Jeff Freeman

Here is an instructions page for MyDungeonRunner

This is a Google gadget:

It’s a one-line bit of code you could stick on your blog side-bar or what-have-you to display your DR character.

That’s possible because the DR character data is provided in XML format, rather than just being displayed on a web-page.

I hinted about it in this post, along with the bold promise: I’ll make some things this weekend and show you.

Well, I only made one thing, and it’s nowhere near complete.

I completely forgot that when it comes to laying out a web-page, I have to spend three hours diddling with text colors and font-sizes for every one hour spent on the text itself.

I spent a couple hours solid just making the male/female symbols… not counting time spent figuring out where to put them.

Anyway.

There is a Google Gadget Editor from which you can Open From URL to edit this gadget to your own satisfaction. That ‘URL’ link there is the one to open from.

You’ll save your own new version of it, and it’ll be so great that you’ll probably want to publish it, share it with everyone, and bask in the glory of having made the first Dungeon Runners Character Sheet gadget.

You completely deserve it, because as far as I’m concerned laying-out something that doesn’t look like ASCII-puke is way harder than copy-n-pastin’ javascript from the internet. Don’t forget to put your name in as the author, and move the gadget images from where they are being hosted for my gadget, to where they’ll be hosted for your gadget.

I’ll focus on functionality:

The XML is read into an array, and you can reference the data like so:

charData[’Name’]
charData[’Title’]
charData[’Attributes’][’Endurance’][’Innate’]
charData[’Attributes’][’Endurance’][’Effective’]

etc.

I’ve setup the tabs for stats, skills, and equipment to be displayed separately, and done enough of the stats display to serve as an example.

Feel free to ping me for help if you get stuck.

I’ll be moving on to explore some of Google’s other goodies, such as Desktop Gadgets and - think about guilds, gadgets, and this for a second - OpenSocial.

It’s enough to make you all tingly with anticipation, ain’t it?

Well, just remember that you’re going to have to format anything that I come up with yourself.

Seriously.