Windower: State of the Project Update! New Plugins!

[Aureus]

Itemizer is nice, but it does do one annoying thing. It keeps complaining to me that my magic command may be improperly formatted. I have a spellcast rule that just changes me to <me>, among other certain common typos, and often I just do /ma spell me because I'm lazy. But I don't need to be reminded every time that it's improperly formatted.

There's an option in the settings xml to turn off chatlog output if it's bothering you.

[Khamsin]

There's an option in the settings xml to turn off chatlog output if it's bothering you.

Oh, thanks. By the way, is there a way to distinguish between different items of the same name? Say, I have multiple Tuajehbats (magian staves, one for pet:attack, one for pet:MAB, etc.) and had spellcast (via commands) get it from sack before and after use, can you tell it which one?

[fantasticdan]

Any idea why '/console High Jump' crashes my windower every time?

[Mafai]

Any idea why '/console High Jump' crashes my windower every time?

Why would you do /console High Jump over /ja High Jump?

[fantasticdan]

Idk, that's what I've used for all my in-game macros for as long as I can remember thou, and I've never had a problem before.

[Aureus]

Idk, that's what I've used for all my in-game macros for as long as I can remember thou, and I've never had a problem before.

It's wrong, don't do that.

[fantasticdan]

It's wrong, don't do that.

What's the difference, aside from this error with high jump? I've been using /console in my macros for years with no problems until now.

[Alolbont]

Any word on Yarnball???

[Esvedium]

Does "/console HighJump" crash you? Only thing I can think of is that "/console High" is trying to do something that is crashing you, but I don't know.

Like was said, though, there is no good reason to not just use standard in-game commands and just let spellcast do everything behind the scenes. All of my macros are like they would be if I played without spellcast. /ma "Dia III" <t>, etc. Also helps for the short time after an update if spellcast is borked, I can still hit my macors, and while gear doesn't change, I still cast whatever I was trying to cast.

[fantasticdan]

I was under the impression precast doesn't work properly if you use regular game commands, IE: gear swap before a JA, fast cast set before casting, etc, since the game would be trying to execute the command before it can go through spellcast. Is that not the case?

Can't test at the moment, but '/console High Jump' didn't crash me unless I was actually targeting a mob with it.

[Esvedium]

I know that in-game macros (or hitting things from menu) will equip precast stuff, as my convert will still equip all my MP gear before actually converting.

[Khamsin]

I was under the impression precast doesn't work properly if you use regular game commands, IE: gear swap before a JA, fast cast set before casting, etc, since the game would be trying to execute the command before it can go through spellcast. Is that not the case?

Can't test at the moment, but '/console High Jump' didn't crash me unless I was actually targeting a mob with it.

I was under the impression that precast does work properly when typing the command normally, without extra delays. I just figured spellcast intercepted all commands, and then sent the equip commands to the server before it sent the action.

[Yugl]

Idea for the next windower:

I have a wireless controller that needs to be "turned on" each time I power up my laptop and must be turned on before loading FFXI on windower. When I logged into the test server a few minutes ago, I forgot to turn on the controller but turning the controller on after loading FFXI allowed me to use the controller. I would like that happen with windower too if possible.

[Nightfyre]

I was under the impression that precast does work properly when typing the command normally, without extra delays. I just figured spellcast intercepted all commands, and then sent the equip commands to the server before it sent the action.

This is correct. Pretty easy to see in the debug log.

[Khamsin]

One thing I did notice was that I wasn't able to /get "Ifritite" sack, or certain other items. Similiarly, I was also unable to use 'find' to locate it, either. I seem to recall someone mentioning that issue for 'find', but it also seems to be an issue for itemizer, too.

[Radec]

One thing I did notice was that I wasn't able to /get "Ifritite" sack, or certain other items. Similiarly, I was also unable to use 'find' to locate it, either. I seem to recall someone mentioning that issue for 'find', but it also seems to be an issue for itemizer, too.

This is fixed with the items_general file from the radsources, the windower one doesn't have the more recent additions (Slip 12/13, ____ites, etc)

[NynJa]

Seems relevant to post this here

How come when I do a //gc whatever, if its seems like it has to move a lot of items, my game freezes, and I ultimately r0?

[Byrthnoth]

What is your delay set to, and do you have debug on?

[NynJa]

Delay 500 (default?)

I'm unaware of any debug function

[Byrthnoth]

You can force any of Aureus' plugins to generate a debug file by adding <debugMode>true</debugMode> to the settings xml (settings/GearCollector.xml). That will probably be the first step in a situation like this, but you should also check to make sure you have the most updated version. I use these settings and they work most of the time. blockKeyboard and blockMouse were causing crash problems for me until I set them to false. I get two other frequent problems:
1) GearCollector causes an error and unloads itself.
2) GearCollector decides that (instead of grabbing what I asked it to grab) it wants to put away all of my gear. Reloading typically fixes this.

Neither of them seem to generate anything useful in the debug file, unfortunately. I still feel that using gearcollector is a lot faster and less effort than swapping gear myself even with the two above errors.