Added basic palace and stars information!

 Added certain features for beginners.  Basic stars and palace information for quick references.

The basic star's information is included for convenience.

In next few sessions, I will show you a revamped Palace Perspective that I was talking about in previous section.  Stay tuned.

For users of the clunky app, you can be assured this iteration surpasses the clone's partial implementation.

New Twins user interfaces - up to 3 twins !!

 I was experimenting several user interface ideas to support multiple twins.

After toying with 4 designs, I have decided on this interface.  Now there is support not just for a pair of twins but up to 3 of them!

In the old clunky application, I used a checkbox to denote twins.  In this refresh, I used some web UI tricks to allow users to toggle between twins.  See the screen capture below, a picture speaks a thousand words.

To avoid confusion, when you save the data, take note of the twin's number and input the number in the name!  This is a nifty mechanical trick.  

With this addition, I have surpassed the clone's implementation of the Si Hua Flying Stars web application. 

In addition, I took the opportunity to allow users to plot ancient charts, from 1885 to as recent as 2100.

I will post more screen captures of new features, stay tuned!

Updates on the Si Hua Zi Wei application - Localisation

 

It is quite an irony, today when I added support for Simplified and Traditional Chinese.  I will be adding other Western European languages soon if time is kind to me.  I took the opportunity to clean up the localisation and we see how it goes.

The next enhancement is UI related.  

If two stems in single palace sends outgoing transformers to opposing palace, I used a UI trick to enhance the effects below and labelled the transformation!  This is recent cosmetic change for the clunky application 8)

In the good old workstation days, graphics or system programming in C or C++ was interesting work after the dark ages of the Assembler.  Web application was one area that you tried to avoid given the horrible slop from the Javascript folks and till today, it continues to stump me that chaps are using hand phones to view 12 palace charts.  We live in a strange world.

Next UI challenge in the horrible world of web application, how to plot a chart for a customer who has triplets 8)

Before you pay money for someone to spoonfed you, put on your thinking cap.  The idea is simple, think of Siblings and set that palace to be Life aspect for your twin doppelganger .  

The other method uses Palace Interchange.  I will briefly describe palace interchange in another blog, yes, free of charge.

When I first introduced the Twin feature in the clunky Si Hua application 10 years ago, I am actually puzzled that some con$ultant wanted to put that nugget in a paid course.  So I guessed I just busted another money making opportunity for another folk, oops.