When you run Sutekh for the first time, it will display the following 4 panes.
On subsequent runs, the list of panes to show will be read from file. You can determine which panes are shown either by explicitly saving the layout using Save current pane set from the File->Preferences, or by letting the Save Pane Set on Exit option save the configuration.
Sutekh maintains a list of all the cards published by White Wolf as the White Wolf Card List. This lists all the cards, and, for each card, the expansions it has appeared in.
The pane displays the information about the currently selected card.
Sutekh deals with collections of cards as card sets. Card Sets can either be stand-alone, or subsets of other card sets. This pane lists all the card sets which have been created. Initially, only a card set called My Collection is created, to hold the details of your card collection.
This card set will hold the details of your card collection.
Card Sets are, by default, not editable, unless they are empty. This can be changed by toggling the Card Set is Editable menu entry in the Edit Menu of the pane. Empty card sets are always editable. Before adding cards to a card set, ensure it is editable.
Cards can be added by dragging them from the White Wolf Card List to the pane for the card set. Selecting multiple cards will add a single copy of each selected cards. You can also use the copy & paste options from the edit menu.
When a card set is editable, + and - buttons will be shown next to the card names. These can be used to increase or decrease the number for a given card.
The number can also be changed using the keyboard: ’+’ and ’-’ will increment and decrement counts, while the numbers 1 to 9 can be used to set the count for the given card to that value.
You can also copy or drag-n-drop cards from other card sets. Unlike copying from the White Wolf Card List, copying from another card sets will copy all the selected cards.
Cards can be removed from a card set either by using the - button shown in the card set pane next to the card name, using the keyboard shortcuts to change the number of cards, or by selecting cards and using the Delete selection option from the Edit menu.
The Sutekh user interface consists of panes. The number of panes and the layout is entirely up to you.
Panes can be added using the Add Pane Menu, while the contents of the currently selected pane can be replaced using the Replace Pane Menu. New blank panes can also be added by splitting the current pane, either into two panes next to each other, or into two panes stacked one above the other. Panes can be swapped by dragging a pane to it’s new location.
Card sets will be opened in a new pane added on the right by double clicking on the entry in the Card Set list. Card sets can also be opened in a specific pane by dragging the card set name from the Card Set list to the desired pane.
If the Save Pane Set on Exit option in the File->Preferences menu is set, Sutekh will save the current layout when you exit, and restore it on startup. You can also save the current layout using the Save Current Pane Set option.
Panes are removed from the list by closing them from the Pane Actions->Remove current pane menu option (or the associated keyboard shortcut). Card Set panes will also be closed if you delete the card set.
A new card set can be created from the Card Set List, using *Create New Card Set* option from the Actions menu. The name is required, and must be unique. A Card set can either have No Parent, in which case it is a stand alone card set, or you can choose any existing card set as the parent, in which case it is a subset of that card set.
A card set can be renamed using the Edit Card Set Properties option from the card set list’s Actions Menu. An open card set can also be renamed via the Edit Card Set Properties from the Actions Menu of the card set.
The parent of a card set can by changed via the Edit Card Set Properties option from the Actions Menu, or by dragging the selected card set onto it’s new parent in the card set list pane.
Card sets can by deleted via the Delete card set from the Actions menu of the card set list pane. Open card sets can also be deleted via the *Delete card set* option from the Actions menu of the card set pane.
Card sets can be marked or unmarked as “in use”. The set of in use card sets are considered to be those currently active. The display modes dealing with child card sets only consider child cards sets that are marked as “in use”.
Sutekh has several options which control which cards are displayed for a card set, and what information about the cards is displayed.
The cards to display are also affected by the filters that are applied.
This option, controls which cards are displayed.
The default mode shows only those card that belong to the actual card set.
“Show All Cards” shows the entire list of cards. This mode is often useful when entering cards into a card set for the first time
“Show all cards in parent card set” shows the combination of the card in this card set and all the cards in the parent card set. It is useful for seeing which cards are available for adding to a deck.
“Show all cards in child card sets” shows all cards that belong to the “in use” children of this card set in addition to the cards in this card set.
This controls what information is displayed below the card name.
“Show Expansions”, the default, shows which cards have been marked as belonging to which expansions below the card name.
“Show No Children” disables anything below the card name.
“Show Child Card Sets” shows the allocation of cards to the “in use” children of the current card set.
“Show Expansions + Child Card Sets” shows the expansions as for “Show Expansions”, and shows the card set information for each expansion below as well.
“Show Child Card Sets and Expansions” is the reverse of “Show Expansions + Child Card Sets”, showing the child card sets and the expansion information below.
If the card set is the child of another card set, you can also display information about the parent card set.
“Show Parent Count”, the default, will just show the count of the same card in the parent card set.
“Don’t show parent card counts” disables the column with the parent count.
“Show difference between Parent Count and this card set” shows the difference between the parent count and the count for this card set.
“Show difference between Parent Count and card sets in use” shows the difference between the parent card set and total in all the “in use” card set. If this card set is not “in use”, then the number of cards in this set does not influence this number.
Sutekh has a very powerful filtering model, which allows quite complex queries on the card database.
There are a number of basic filters available for querying the card lists, such as Clan, Discipline, “Card Text” and so forth.
Most of these filters only allow a limited range of options which are selected from a drop down list. The Clan filter, for example, only accepts the clans listed in the database as input. Multiple items can be selected in this list, which means the filter matches on any of those selections.
Other filters, such as the “Card Text” filter, require you to enter a string. The filter will match any card that contains this string. The ’%’ character can be used as a wild card in this string to match any number of letters.
The “Card Sets In Use” filter takes no input.
The “Card Count” filter takes two selections. The first selects the card counts to match against, while the second is the card set to test against.
These basic filters can be combined to create more complex queries.
Multiple filters can be combined in 4 different ways.
Each of these allows multiple filters to be added to them, and then combine all the included filters according to the chosen rule.
“All of” requires the all the included filters to be satisfied simultaneously. It useful for finding cards which require a discipline and a given cost, for example.
“Any of” requires that at least one of the included filters is satisfied.
“Not All of” requires that at least one of the included filters is not satisfied. The difference between “Not All of” and “Any of” is that _“Any of“_ will include the results of any cards that match all of the filters, while “Not All of” will exclude those, but return cards that satisfy none of the filters.
“None of” requires that none of the included filters be satisfied.
In addition to the basic filters, the Sub-filter option allows these combinations to be nested. Thus an “All of” filter can include “Any of” or “None of” filters below it, which allows for extremely complex queries to be constructed.
For example, to find all cards that require either ‘Follower of Set’ or ‘Serpentis’, but not both, the following filter could be constructed:
An “Any of” filter, which includes two “All of” sub-filters. Each sub-filter includes the Clan and Discipline basic filters, and the one is set to match ‘Followers of Set’ and NOT ‘Serpentis’ while the other is set to match NOT ‘Followers of Set’ and ‘Serpentis’
Once a filter has been constructed, it can be saved with a given name and loaded again later.
The card set list can also filtered. The basic filters available here are:
These filters can be combined as well, allowing queries such as ‘All of card sets in use where the card set name includes “Nosferatu”’.
When filtering card sets, the card sets that match, and their parents are shown, since this relationship is always important.
The different show card modes are often useful for entering a card set quickly. Start with with “Show all cards” or “Show cards in parent card set” and then increment the cards that belong to the card set. Another useful approach is to use the “Card Set from Filter” option to create the card set.