Extracting broker data?

mkb102 · #1 03-03-2006, 07:47 AM

Hi,

Let me start by saying that i have zero experience with EQ2 UI moding, but have had some experience with the World of Warcraft API (which seems to be considerably more powerful).

Would it be possible to extract data from the broker window in any manner? I was thinking along the lines of having a button that when pressed, pasted the selected item/price/seller into the chat window - the resulting output could then be parsed from the log file. Is this possible at all? Or totally impossible within EQ2?

Thanks for any advice.

Magus · #2 03-03-2006, 08:50 AM

Don't think it's possible.

**Zonx** · #3 03-03-2006, 12:23 PM

Possible, but a PITA and would likely make the item selection somewhat flaky.

Take a look at how my Store window passes the item name to the "Find It" button. A similar mechanism could pass a concatinated list in 1 line to the chat input. You'd need to select each item and hit return. You'd also have to page through long list since there's no known way to grab more than the current 8 items at a time. Hardcoded returns in the data may be a problem, might also provide a way to auto return the chat input.

mkb102 · #4 03-03-2006, 04:16 PM

Thanks for the advice! Being able to click a button and have a concatinated list of the 8 items/prices/sellers pasted into chat definately has potential. Could i impose again and ask how you would actually have the button paste the info into chat? I assume it would be something in the OnPress attribute.

Thanks in advance.

mkb102 · #5 03-04-2006, 02:11 AM

Had a go at it myself: created a new button in the market search page (where the Find Items + Reset buttons are). Within the OnPress attribute i had the code:

Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.MainHUD.MainChat.Chatpage.ChatFrame.ChatInput.Text = Parent.Parent.ResultsPage.Table.ScrollPage.row Item Name.LocalText

Unfortunately this didnt seem to work at all and i couldn't find any usefull debugging information within the ui.log file.

Could anyone with some more experience possibly tell me what the problem is? Needless to say, the problem is that i am either setting the text into the chat window wrong, extracting the text from the market window wrong, or possibly (and most likely!) both.

Thanks.

**Zonx** · #6 03-04-2006, 06:06 PM

Played with this a bit... sadly it seams the selected item name and price data includes an invisible object that wont pass through chat. I can get it to paste the data into the chat input just fine, but getting it to pass through chat requires manually deleting the invisible object preceeding the price.

When I have more time, I may try to decifer how the lists are dealing with selected item indexes. If I can figure that out, it might be possible to pull the data directly from the dataSource. All of this is hardcoded, so its doubtfull I'll stumble upon the hidden properties.