I understand your desire for using your own server but I would prefer some way to self host as your server or even Dropbox might disappear at some point. Peer to peer or a self hosted solution (e.g. via Nextcloud) seems more robust. Just food for thought ;)
While you are at it, in addition to &# 8226; (•) my compendium also contains &# 8217; (’) and &# 8212; (—). It would be awesome if you could add these characters as well.
Once again, thank you for your work.
If you prefer, I could implement a method where the app would look for the files locally. You will only need to have the campaign/map files locally available on both device.
We only need the file server to allow for image file sharing because it eats up a lot of bandwidth on the multiplayer engine we use.
And yes I could add those special characters. Just so where on the same page, this is for the items/spell compendium? or for the monster compendium?
Those character codes are parsed during import for the compendiums. The text input system used by the app doesn't automatically convert them though.
I will probably add a check after text input to convert those type of text during input ;) I found those type of text in most xml compendiums. I didn’t expect the use-case of entering them manually.
Interesting but in my case I did not enter the codes manually. I imported an XML file so I can't tell you why the codes did not get parsed properly. I have been using epicGM for quite a while already so maybe back when I first imported the XML file the parsing of these codes did not work properly or maybe something else is going on.
Sadly atm I can't test if resetting and reimporting the compendium would help because the file picker is broken in Linux.
I first imported the files in Windows and have since then just copied the compendium around/used Dropbox to sync it.
