Offline Teases (TeaseMe)

[Mr-Elusive]

Tried this out and it works great. Pulled down a tease or two already. :)

Keep up the good work.

[janmb]

Some more feedback:

Tried to grab "The maze of wrestling divas" a little while back, using the 0.1.1 version.
(http://www.milovana.com/webteases/showf ... p?id=14973)

It does handle the many single and double quotes used in the tease text, but apparently the encoding is somehow not supporting it correctly. In the resulting xml file I end up with each of those symbols ( ' " - and ...) being represented as a short string of ascii symbols/non printables.

Looks very messy to read. Easily fixable by some search and replace work on the xml file, then again it would of course be good if the parser/translator would do that in the first place

[MrV]

Great program :D

[Takenaga]

@janmb:

I made a small adjustment to support the encoding as used by script 14973. It will be available in the next release.

BTW. the sources for TeaseMe are on github (https://github.com/TakenagaT/TeaseMe), I consider that a safe place to store it.

Thanks for your feedback.

[janmb]

Goodies - thanks

[cd_228]

Can you use values? Or only flags?

[gestalt]

I might just be being an idiot, but I can't use this program at all!!

I've installed it, and run the 'tutorial' sucessfully, but I can't do anything with it.

It tells you all the things the program can do, but there aren't any instructions.

How do I create a new tease? Does the software have an interface where I can build a tease similar to the way the online Nyx software works, or is it simply something that will run .XML files that I have written the html coding for?

Sorry if I'm being a bit dim about all this....

Gestalt.

[d3vi0n]

no problem... the tutorial is just an example for a tease. Download more teases at the first post of this thread.

Each tease consists of a xml-file and a subfolder with the media (e.g. the images). You simply load the xml-file with TeaseMe and play the tease. There is no special interface in TeaseMe to "build" a tease. Use a text editor and write your own xml to create a tease. The xml-tags used in TeaseMe are simple and mostly self-explanatory. You can use "_Tutorial.xml" or any other tease as starting point or help. In "_Tutorial.xml" are helpful comments on the different xml-tags to explain how it works.

Every tease-xml has the same structure (1. Metainformation, 2. Pages):

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><Tease scriptVersion="v0.1"> [color=#408080]<Title></Title>[/color][color=#408080]<Description></Description>[/color][color=#408080]<URL></URL>[/color][color=#408080]<Author></Author>[/color][color=#408080]<MediaDirectory></Mediadirectory>[/color][color=#408080]<Settings></Settings>[/color] [color=#0000FF]<Pages>[/color][color=#0000FF]      <Page id="[i]start[/i]"></Page>[/color][color=#0000FF]      [i]...[/i][/color][color=#0000FF]      <Page id="[i]end[/i]"></Page>[/color][color=#0000FF]</Pages>[/color] </Tease>

Every page offers the same basic xml-tags to create content:

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 <Page id="[i]PageID[/i]">      <Text></Text>      <Image id="[i]filename[/i]" />       <Audio id="[i]filename[/i]" />      <Video id="[i]filename[/i]" />      <Button target="[i]PageID[/i]"></Button>      <Delay seconds="[i]length[/i]" target="[i]PageID[/i]" style="[i]secret/hidden/normal[/i]" />      <Metronome bpm="[i]speed[/i]" />      </Page> 

For more: read and play "_Tutorial.xml"

[omgimapotato99]

Very nice program. I like it!

[wheresmything]

Quite a nice little app, but I was wondering if there is anyway to offline the html teases? A bunch of my favorites are the older ones from before the flash option was available. I suppose I could manually copy one page at a time and basically create it as new, but that would be a huge amount of time and work (frankly, more than I can or would invest). It would be nice to have some auto-pulldown from the site for these since the site is pretty often very slow in delivering the pages.

[uiewhf32]

Hey, I've been playing around with making my own teases on this for the past week or so, and one of the things I'm trying to do is have a simple script that will use a different set of pics every time. I don't want totally random pics; for example, if I have 5 sets of 15 pictures, and each time I want the tease to randomly choose a set, but only use pictures from that set, is there a way to do that? I don't know a lot about xml, but I cant find a way to just declare variables and things outside the script, which is how I would intuitively go about this.
Any help would be appreciated...

[janmb]

What you describe should be doable by gathering each set into its own sub folder... Have a look at the tutorial random explanation - it already demonstrates how to pull random pictures from a folder (in this case the folder is confusingly enough called "random", but it should work with any folder name you want)

edit: Just realized you also want to randomize which set is used... Not so sure how you would do that, hopefully you can pull a random number and use that as part of the folder name, but need takenaga or devion to address that

[Takenaga]

I was offline for awhile so I missed all discussions/questions.

@cd_228 - No, you can use only flags at the moment, what do you want to accomplish with values?

@wheresmything - Great idea, I'll have a try to implement the downloading of html-teases.

@uiewhf32 - janmb is correct about the random part in the subfolder, that should do the trick. It is not supported in this version, however. I'll implement it and ask d3vi0n to make a new release.

[edit] When trying to implement the random subfolders, I realized that this would not work, using something like id='set*\start.jpg' would randomize the image, every time, it would not stay in the same set. You probably would want to set a value for the set and then use that value (I gave myself and cd_228 a good use case for values... let's see if I can come up with an implementation.

[janmb]

@cd_228 - No, you can use only flags at the moment, what do you want to accomplish with values?

Could be handy for keeping track of stuff like edges etc I guess?

[wheresmything]

@Takenaga - Thanks

Also, I went ahead and created (manually) a version of Lori's Fantasy-Based Teasing (http://www.milovana.com/webteases/showtease.php?id=7174) and it was incredibly painful (it's very long). I'd be willing to post that here somewhere if people are interested, but there are 2 issues that I'd want to address first.

1) I can upload it somewhere, but not host it, so I don't know what to do about that.
2) I haven't actually gotten Cactusman's permission and don't want to make anyone angry (It is exactly as he made it with credits and all, I just added a couple of chapter points so you can do it in pieces instead of all at once). Not sure what I should do about that.

The amount of time it took to make the transition for this one makes it clear that I was right about not doing these by hand, so I wont be doing anymore that way :)