NOTE: Currently not working on this as I am not a member. Will look into it when I buy some more membership.
CURRENT VERSION: Version 0.2 - Coded hops patches. All hops patches as well as Catherby allotment patch are in minutes and seconds. I will soon update the rest. Modified strawberry time as for me it wasn't done in time. I still need to test though.
SOURCE CODE: Here is the source code. Make any modifications you want...I don't mind.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/56920130/Gim...%20date%29.rar
NOTE: MaxPower has just alerted me to the fact that these growth times work in a lot more complicated manner then previosuly thought. Turns out it depends greatly on "Farming Ticks" and System time. This should not affect most flower patches, but it will affect a lot of the longer growing patches. Please also note these times serve mainly as a guide to growth times rather than an exact time for growth completion. I'm going to try my best to figure out how to give a more accurate indication of when your crops will be completed; but I'll need to give a good read to the forum post MaxPower sent me at the bottom of this thread. Another thing to keep in mind, Logging out can prolong your crops growth times depending on when you log out and what you are growing.
What is it?
This is a new farming application I just developed that will notify you when your crops on Runescape have completed. As I have just developed this application, it will probably contain a few errors. I will be doing my own testing but please notify me of any errors that arise. I got the growth times off a website so they might not all be accurate; so please notify me of ones that are inaccurate and I will try to work on a fix for it.
Please leave feedback, improvements, what you think of the program etc. it's all much appreciated thanks.
How To use:
1. You plant your crops (Currently only Flower, Herb Allotment, and hops patches are supported)
2. You Press Start on the patch at one of four locations (Catherby, Falador, Ardougne, and Port Phas.),
3. You choose your item you'll be planting and it will start a countdown timer. Once the countdown timer reaches 0, you will be notified by a system tray message and a sound alert of which crop has completed growing.
Plans for the future:
* Code Patches: Allotment, Flowers, Herbs, Hops, Bushes, Trees and Fruit Trees
* Add minutes and seconds rather than just seconds (Partly Done)
* Code the file menu (Partly Done)
* Create a better tutorial video
* Add a super-compost timer
* Add Auto-Updater
Why this is useful:
You can be AFK, watching a movie, doing something else in Runescape and you will be notified exactly when your crops are done which dramatically maximizes your experience.
And doing a farm run takes literally no time at all; and with useful teleports such as cabbage patch etc. you can really do your farming runs quickly.
Here is the download link: (V 0.2) (Up To Date):
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/56920130/Gimbo%27s%20Farmer.exe
Also here's a video of me explaining it if your interested (Its pretty much the same as what I've said already though):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aZmXmVtjIo
(This video is kind of outdated now as well. I'll make a better video closer to release of this application.)
Please test out this application and notify me of any errors or crops not completing in time etc.
You can either reply to this post, PM me or leave a comment on my YouTube video/channel.
Testing I've Done:
Flowers: Limpwurt - Flawless - always completes on or close to timer going off.
Allotments: Sweetcorn - 3:08 off - need to test this one a bit more but it may just be that some crops are randomized slightly. Because this may generally be used for afking, I may decide to add on an extra 5 minutes that will ensure the crop is done as growth times show vary to about one growth cycle. I did log off during this test so I will need to redo it. (Logging off used to (not sure if it does now) make crops grow longer. but then again 3 minutes really isn't too much of a concern. I was already at the patch too. So if it took like 2 mins to get there; well your just waiting a minute.
Allotments: Strawberry - Way off - about 10 mins behind (A whole growth cycle). Should be able to fix by adding on an extra 10 mins. Will see how this turns out in my next farming run.
Herbs - Harralander - Done when I arrived at patch (took about 20 secs to get there). Seems pretty accurate to me.
As you can see growth times are fairly accurate. but tell me of patches not done in time. And if you can how much longer they took; don't worry too much about this though, I can do this myself.
How you can help:
If you see any errors in the program:
*Tell me what the error is
*Brief description of what you did for the error to occur.
*What location and what patch generates the error.
All feedback is much appreciated and will ensure the program is as good as it can be.
Also if patches aren't complete when the timer goes off; please tell me which patches do this and I will do my best to fix it.
Version History:
0.1 - Program created; simple interface; supports only allotment, herb and flower patches.
0.11 - GUI massively updated. Added Tress, Fruit Trees, Bush and Hops patches. Not coded yet. Added file menu also. Still to be coded.
0.12 - Added Auto Updater. Check for updates from the file menu.
0.13 - Fixed up Falador Herb patch. Partly coded file menu. Auto updater now checks for updates on program launch.
0.14 - Fixed labels displaying as black on Windows Aero theme. Exit button now works also.
0.15 - Added minutes and seconds for all items on Catherby Allotment patch. Will start coding the rest as soon as I test if they are working correctly.
0.2 - Added all hops patches and locations. Hops patch Times are in minutes and seconds. Modified strawberry time as for me it wasn't done in time. I still need to test though.