Character Sheets for PPC

[sponge]

Any D&D players use an excel sheet on their PPC or some other app as their char sheet? Can only find some shitty $17 RPGCommando app, a painfully slow and barely working Visual CE program, and one that's so close to being perfect, except for the fact it uses PCGen exported files (want to be able to edit stuff on-board)

If I knew enough eVB, I'd probably make one myself, and rip the interface from that PCGen one, but I don't. And I'm lazy.

[TechMage]

Can you give me a few links on info about D&D and character sheets? I will make one if it's not too much work. I'll even add a cool D&D background and probably make it skinnable also. AD&D is on it's 3rd edition now, right? Do you want it to have seperate sheets for 2nd and 1st edition rules also?

[sponge]

Actually, the author of one of them:
http://www.metacraft.com/PCGScry/
released the source on the forum. The interface is perfect, the problem is it just loads from XML files generated by PCGen. That might just mean it'll be easier in the end to start from scratch and just copy the interface.

The only thing I'm dreading about making it myself is saving/loading. The way I know to do it is to open a file, and write each and every form element to it, a huge copying and pasting job looking at all the elements there will be. That and I haven't used listboxes, etc. Nor do I actually have eVB anymore :P

There's a PDF version of the character sheet (which shows some of the math operations you do that can be automated in program) http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/20030718b
2nd one down, 3rd edition, not 3.5. I know almost nothing about the game, so I can't be of too much help.