Notes ingame?

Eloa · #1 02-23-2005, 09:13 AM

Is it possible to write to a file from ingame? I remember hearing something about being able to make your own notes and they save. If this is true, would it be possible to say, click a button and it sticks the /loc, target name, and zone into a note. Then the game would save that, and it could be worked so that this would be an uploadable text file to EQ2MAP Site that would convert it into POI's?

Just an idea, it'd be grand if it were possible. Though I doubt it

Deathbane27 · #2 02-23-2005, 10:32 AM

Setup:

1- /joinchannel YourMom123 (Or some other unique channel that no one else would be in)

2- Have logging OFF.

Macro (Sorry, can't be done with a button script, needs spaces and thus needs a macro):

/: ; log ; loc ; tellchannel yourmom123 %t ; who longerthanlongestnameposs ; log

What this does: Turns logging ON, gets your loc, gets the target's name (without telling the world), gets the current zone (without extra junk by searching for a name that can't exist), and turns logging back OFF.

That's the only method I can think of.

Tobiah · #3 02-23-2005, 10:48 AM

Quote:

/: ; log ; loc ; tellchannel yourmom123 %t ; who longerthanlongestnameposs ; log

Damn how did you figure that out?

/respect Death

Eloa · #4 02-23-2005, 10:54 AM

Is it possible to specify a log file?

Deathbane27 · #5 02-23-2005, 06:22 PM

I tried, but /log doesn't seem to accept parameters.

**Zonx** · #6 02-23-2005, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Tobiah

Damn how did you figure that out?

/respect Death

Lol, that's esentially how we took raid attendance in EQ1. Syntax is a tad different but same idea.

Generally a good idea to start and end the macro with predictable messages for later parsing incase you need to log something else between macros, or maybe you're running several log macros (maping, POIs, etc). For example...

/: ; log ; tellchannel yourmom123 POI_MACRO_START ; loc ; tellchannel yourmom123 %t ; who longerthanlongestnameposs ; tellchannel yourmom123 POI_MACRO_END ; log

This way you can easily grep out the POI_MACRO start to end.

Eloa · #7 02-23-2005, 08:50 PM

Hmmm, I dont want people to be uploading their entire logs. But maybe I can get it to where they upload it, it's examined, code is extracted for POI's and the file is deleted. That oughtta work. Not the most efficient, but all thats available I guess.

Maybe possibly I could create a new UI window that will SHOW the information then use an external program to pull the info out into a file...dunno, not THAT good with vb yet. Anyone wanna try to tackle this for me? There could be a reward...

Quib · #8 02-23-2005, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Eloa

Maybe possibly I could create a new UI window that will SHOW the information then use an external program to pull the info out into a file...dunno, not THAT good with vb yet. Anyone wanna try to tackle this for me? There could be a reward...

This is borderline EULA-breaking if not completely against the EULA. EQ2's active memory is off limits.

An active log reader could pick the data out of the log as it's written and upload it, and would be fair-play though.

Quib