Consolidated Timer Window for EQ

I made a simple consolidated timer system to replace multiple instances of GTT (gambosoft game text triggers). I 4 box so wanted 1 simple UI overlay for the things I want to track.

Turns out innerspace has a nice built-in log monitor system that can trigger on text matches. My solution consists of 2 files:

interface xml file - http://pastebin.com/S0L4j94h
script to load in each IS session - http://pastebin.com/Nxnp9u4q



some points:

• (yes first label is wrong, it should be PAL not SK )
• number of timers and labels are hard-coded, could dynamically add them to window
• timer scale is coded to 3 minutes, it's fine for me but you could dynamically scale each timer based on full duration
• timer durations are hard-coded when invoked, as you get new AA that shorten / lengthen / etc you must update the script
• labels on timers could have remaining time dynamically added
• the triggers file also demonstrates text to speech notifications, for example all my /tells are spoken to me

[firescue17]

Very nice.

Is there documentation to do this stuff somewhere. I tried looking around the website but didn't see anything, I am curious as to what is possible. So I have questions, now I just need time to try it.

My most frustrating problem while boxing is questing in EQ. Though with clickable quest text it is a little better.

Is something like this possible in the system? Wonder if it is would be allowed.

Parse logs for [text],
add buttons to a ui for each one you see (maybe last unique 10 or somtheing),
click one to broadcast that to all windows.

Does logging affect performance?

Usually I just turn broadcast on and hit enter and type, so it isn't really something I need just a nice to have.

[firescue17]

Is something like this possible in the system?

Lax would be the expert to ask; however, my suspicion is the support is not available in Inner Space at this time.

Wonder if it is would be allowed.

Parsing the log file is allowed. Turning it into a hotbutton isn't much different than the way GamTextTriggers and GamParse turn log information into an overlay. A disallowed behavior would be if you coded something to automatically output the text back into the game once it was extracted from the log.

Does logging affect performance?

Absolutely! Especially if you're logging multiple characters at the same time and also if the logs are not backed up or deleted regularly.

My most frustrating problem while boxing is questing in EQ. Though with clickable quest text it is a little better. . .

Usually I just turn broadcast on and hit enter and type, so it isn't really something I need just a nice to have.

Everyone in every game has this annoyance. You can find many threads here and on dual-boxing.com about better ways to manage dailies, cursor sync issues, reward windows popping up in random places, etc., etc. It's just one of the joys of multi-boxing. For one-time quests, I also turn on repeater and type "/say <keyword>." If it's a mission I plan on farming repetitively for an extended period of time I will use a Mapped Key to store the quest text and output it with a hotkey using "Copy from Clipboard" and "New Keystroke Action" as detailed here and here.

I think it would take an inordinate amount of time for very little benefit to write a parsing program to extract text given the repeater options and Mapped Keys options already available.

Is there documentation to do this stuff somewhere. I tried looking around the website but didn't see anything, I am curious as to what is possible. So I have questions, now I just need time to try it.

All documentation needed is on the innerspace wiki

- building the UI http://www.lavishsoft.com/wiki/index.php/LavishGUI:Element_Types
- addTrigger used for parsing http://www.lavishsoft.com/wiki/index.php/Command:AddTrigger
- general lavishscript info http://www.lavishsoft.com/wiki/index.php/LavishScript

The last link has the "getting started" stuff if you've never run your own lavishscript outside of isboxer. You can open the innerspace console in-game and run the script; or you can add a script to the game profile startup in the innerspace console configuration.

Is something like this possible in the system? Wonder if it is would be allowed.

Parse logs for [text],
add buttons to a ui for each one you see (maybe last unique 10 or somtheing),
click one to broadcast that to all windows.

This would be pretty straightfoward to do - anything that goes into the log can be matched and have a trigger added. In the trigger atom it would be a matter of going to UIElement['the@path@to@element'] and adding a child, enabling it, setting an onclick, etc for what you want to do.

Like you I just use broadcast /say blah blah for quest text. The bigger annoyance I find is collecting and handing in items, and there is no silver bullet for that.

Does logging affect performance?

Yes, but the noticable impact depends on your system. I run 4 accounts on a q6600 based system with a 100gig SSD, with all 4 logging. I usually archive the files when they get around 400-500 MB each - not because I notice any performance problem with EQ but because gameparse takes too long to load the files for DPS meter. Your experience may vary based on your hardware.