Some suggestions...

[BigFish]

Wow, I never seriously thought anyone would actually attempt a project like this, and I must say that you did a good job at it. However, I have just a few suggestions:

* The ability to link to custom characters, music, and backgrounds. No custom characters is not that much of a limitation, but with music and backgrounds it can get a tad irritating. You see, I have dialup, and being able to use MIDI versions of the songs would greatly help in making cases, because at the moment I am making my case without sound.

As for custom characters, you wouldn't need to upload each custom character to the server... you could just change the character image to the specified link. And for preloading, I looked at the source code for the trial page (hope you don't mind... it's hard to resist Although most of the main code is stored in external .js files anyways, so I didn't learn many of your secrets. ) and saw how the preloading worked. Custom images could be preloaded merely by replacing the image link with the URL of the custom image, likeso:

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<img onload="incrementerCompteurPrechargement();" src="http://photobucket.com/etc etc...." alt="" />

And something similar could be done with backgrounds.

* Also, would it be possible to anchor the textbox text to the upper-left corner? It's kinda weird in the middle left. But that's just my opinion.

* More than one correct option for image spot/evidence presenting? It would make investigation making quite a bit easier, although that would probably require a significant change to the editor to make it possible. So... yeah... that's a problem....

I hope you don't think I'm being too demanding. I really like this project. I mean, finally, a working case maker! Wow.

[Unas]

Thanks for your suggestions and your compliments I'm glad not to be the only one who likes this site

* The ability to link to custom characters, music, and backgrounds. No custom characters is not that much of a limitation, but with music and backgrounds it can get a tad irritating. You see, I have dialup, and being able to use MIDI versions of the songs would greatly help in making cases, because at the moment I am making my case without sound.

I understand that, trough a dialup connection, this would not load very fast... In fact I strongly recommend a high speed connection for this, precisely because there are lots of musics and pictures to load ^^
Linking to custom music could be done, however I am not sure at all that the mid file format would work. The sound system I currently use (I chose it because it's almost universal : it only needs the Flash player to work) can only play mp3s, and a system for listening to .mid files would certainly be much harder to use if I want it to work for everyone... I'll keep that suggestion in mid, though : maybe I'll think of something

The idea of custom characters has already been suggested more than once and, unfortunately, I don't think it would be currently possible for my system needs to scan a character's directory to know which pictures are available, and I cannot scan remote directories (to my knowledge, at least). Of course such a system is imaginable, but it would require a mountain of work and more time than I currently have.

As to the idea of custom backgrounds, I have no objection . I think it should be quite easy to implement. Depending on the free time I get, this will definitely be there sooner or later

And for preloading, I looked at the source code for the trial page (hope you don't mind... it's hard to resist Although most of the main code is stored in external .js files anyways, so I didn't learn many of your secrets. ) and saw how the preloading worked.

Don't worry for this, I don't intend to keep it secret (it would be hard in fact, as everyone can see the source code their browser has loaded ^^)

* Also, would it be possible to anchor the textbox text to the upper-left corner? It's kinda weird in the middle left. But that's just my opinion.

* More than one correct option for image spot/evidence presenting? It would make investigation making quite a bit easier, although that would probably require a significant change to the editor to make it possible. So... yeah... that's a problem....

Changing text position will be easy, and it's true that it would look better and more "true game like". I'll change this soon
Concerning a possibility to add multiple answers, this would definitely need a quite important change of my script for actions; however now that I think about it I have an idea on how to handle this. Once again, my free time is quite limited so it won't be done soon, but I'll think about it (between 5 and 6 weeks to wait for my next holidays )

[BigFish]

I don't think it would be currently possible for my system needs to scan a character's directory to know which pictures are available, and I cannot scan remote directories (to my knowledge, at least).

You could do it like this:

Lame mockup:
Character Name: Payne
Folder URL: www.photobucket.com/album/BigFish/
Images for character (separate with comma): AfroPayne.gif,AfroPayneHappy.gif,AfroPayneDisco.gif

And then it would merge the folder and image together, making:

http://www.photobucket.com/album/BigFish/AfroPayne.gif
http://www.photobucket.com/album/BigFis ... eHappy.gif
http://www.photobucket.com/album/BigFis ... eDisco.gif

Hope this helps with that. Although, the biggest problem with custom sprites: Barely anyone can make good looking PW sprites.

The sound system I currently use (I chose it because it's almost universal : it only needs the Flash player to work) can only play mp3s

So you use a Flash system for it? I thought you just used the conventional "page background music" thing, which supports MIDI. (Ever been on Snopes? I think they play irritating MIDI songs in the background on the Disney page... ) I'm not sure how you'd change the bg music with JavaScript though, and your system works, so nevermind. It's too much trouble anyways, and it works fine without audio.

Also, I have one other feature request, although I might just be missing something on this one:

Is it possible to hide evidence/profiles through the evidence/profile panel rather than in the text panel? I've seen it done in other cases on this site, but I'm having to use a "hide evidence" command in the text area. I don't see any hide button on the evidence/profile section.

Another news tidbit, I tried out Capcom's official "case maker" thing, and I actually like yours better! I mean, even looking past the language barrier, yours is better. So, good job!

[Unas]

Although, the biggest problem with custom sprites: Barely anyone can make good looking PW sprites.

In fact, that's why I have never considered this my first priority ^^
But I like your idea for custom pictures I'll see what I can do about it

So you use a Flash system for it? I thought you just used the conventional "page background music" thing, which supports MIDI.

I never used the bgmusic attribute. However, the older version of this site used the "embed" element, which works almost the same. However, I changed it to a flash player for compatibility reasons : reading audio from a web page requests a plugin (it's not handled by the browser itself), and there are several plugins which don't respond the same to JS commands and html attributes... So I decided to use the flash plugin (which has this quality of being the same everywhere )

Also, I have one other feature request, although I might just be missing something on this one:
Is it possible to hide evidence/profiles through the evidence/profile panel rather than in the text panel? I've seen it done in other cases on this site, but I'm having to use a "hide evidence" command in the text area. I don't see any hide button on the evidence/profile section.

Indeed, you're missing something I don't blame you though, since I have not yet translated the "How to" in English.
In fact, to make a piece of evidence hidden at the beginning of the trial, you don't have to do anything except use the "reveal evidence" action somewhere in your trial.
When the editor detects that a piece of evidence has no apparition message set through this action, it will automatically reveal it at the beginning of the trial. However, if this action is used somewhere, the corresponding evidence will be hidden at the beginning, waiting to be revealed when the action gets executed
I hope I explained this well, since it's not completely intuitive

Another news tidbit, I tried out Capcom's official "case maker" thing, and I actually like yours better! I mean, even looking past the language barrier, yours is better. So, good job!

I didn't know this case maker existed When was it created ? I launched the first version of mine last summer, maybe I even did it before Capcom
Too bad I can't speak a word of Japanese (although I've learnt Chinese language for a few years), but I'm glad you like mine better ^^ Thanks again