[MR] Re: OA for O&A (was RE: heraldry)

[Christofe DuBois]

Actually, I'm working on a Flash program to do exactly this...  having
trouble with the database queries and resizing charges, though...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Towey, Brian" <cbt4489 at GlaxoWellcome.com>
To: "'Christofe DuBois'" <admin at scahunt.com>; "Merry Rose"
<atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 1:45 PM
Subject: OA for O&A (was RE: heraldry)


> Wow!  Office Automation for the Ordinary and Armorial.
>
> (O-A-O-A! O-A-O-A!  Feel it hot hot hot!)
>
> While we're dreaming, I think it would be doable to have a "Paint Your Own
> Device" program, where you pick a field, then (optionally) a division or
> border, paste some charges on and color them, etc.  You could disable
> illegal color combinations, e.g., your field is red, so green is not an
> option for your sheep.  As you go, the matching blazon grows in a sidebar.
> Then-- and here's the big payoff-- the program makes an Internet query
> against the big O&A database in the sky.
>
> * You click on a vertically divided shield from the Divisions palette, and
> choose black and white from the color palette.
> * The little shield on the screen turns black and white
> * The blazon box says "Per fess sable and argent,"
> * The O&A box says [48 items matched case-insensitive blazon pattern="Per
> fess sable and argent".]
>
> It would not be too far a stretch to query with each new step and disable
> white for your sheep, if white was taken, and offer you only gold.
>
> Once you have a nice design with no conflicts, you click a button and it
> sends your submission off in standard format.  A unique blazon, as we all
> know now, doesn't guarantee acceptance, but at least you would know about
> any obvious conflicts.
>
> Want to draw something that the program won't do?  No problem.  Get out
your
> paper and crayons and get ready to wait for the manual submission process.
>
> We've got a volunteer for the database and workflow.  We have people
> offering libraries of clip art.  I could do the paint program in VB
> (eventually), but it might be better in Java.  Any other geeks out there
who
> want to play along?
>
> -BT
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christofe DuBois [SMTP:admin at scahunt.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 2:02 PM
> > To: Merry Rose
> > Subject: Re: [MR] RE: heraldry
> >
> >
> <SNIP>
> > Submissions done digitally:  Entered by local Herald and given the
status
> > PENDING.  The CoH and other reviewing bodies can then simply log onto
the
> > site, check pending devices and either approve or decline them.
Approved
> > devices are checked APPROVED and are instantly added to the database,
> > along
> > with an email to the local Herald about the approval.  Declined devices
> > are
> > checked DECLINED, details about the decline are noted, and an email is
> > sent
> > to the local Herald about the decline.
> >
> > And I'd be MORE than happy to build this for you.  THE HUNT is up and
> > running, and I'm now positively ITCHING for some more SCA design
> > projects...
> >
>
>