Windower 4 - Discussion and Support

[Cairthenn]

The login errors for DressUp should be fixed. I also added an auto update feature for your own character. I've added a setting to enable/disable this as it injects an outgoing packet (this is used frequently, when you use waypoints, for example, so it's not 'dangerous', but I figured I'd give people the option to opt-in).

You can enable with with //du autoupdate or //du au.

Now, when you do //du self race mithra, you'll switch immediately if it's turned on. No need to change gear for it to take effect.

[Arcon]

I havent tried silence addon for a couple days but before when it came out it indeed blocked all the equip messages, but instead showed 5-10 blank lines for like anything that happened. So i went back to the plugin which works fine for me.

This has since been fixed.

[LiquidFriend]

Apologies if this has been mentioned, but Guildwork plugin has been crashing every time I do a synthesis since moving up to 4.1.

[Cairthenn]

We're aware, and the issue has been "solved", but we can't update Guildwork servers.

[Ophannus]

I mean cancel plugin hasnt been working, not silence plugin ><. It doesnt cancel sneak when i apply jig or itchi when i cast ni

[Sechs]

Huh? Tested Cancel yesterday in my txt macro for Spectral Jig and it was working like a charm.

[Darkmagi]

Cancel isn't working for me either. Addon and plugin version does not work for canceling utsusemi at least.

[Arcon]

I also tested it and it seems to work fine. Is that only on Utsusemi? Can you show me how you're using it? Utsusemi is a bit more complicated, as there are 4 distinct IDs for it.

[Trumpy]

Cancel wasnt working for me either for sneak canceling i had posted boutit last week in the spellcast thread. What i was doin wrong was targettype instead of spelltargettype for tellin it i was targeting my self. once i fixed that it seems to work, I havent used utsusemi but last time i did it was working, just have to have the right buffs for it like arcon mentioned cause there are 4 of them.

[Ophannus]

Should I just delete my cancel and re download?

[Arcon]

Can try, but it shouldn't be any difference. Can you give a concrete example of what command isn't working with which buff up. so I can try to verify it?

[Sechs]

This is what I have in my Spectral Jig TXT file, and it works just fine

input /equip legs "Etoile Tights +2"
input /equip feet "Maxixi Toeshoes"
cancel sneak
input /ja "Spectral Jig" <me>
pause 2
input /equip feet "Skadi's Jambeaux +1"

[Arcon]

I assume you're using the cancel addon, not the plugin? I wasn't aware that the plugin can take names, I thought only numbers.

[Darkmagi]

Cancel 66 isn't working, neither is cancel copy image with the lua version. The same ID worked for all copy image before the update to 4.1. It just says that the buff isn't found.
Edit: Found a fix for the addon version, apparently typing //cancel copy image with any number after works. IE: //cancel copy image 9999999 cancels, but //cancel copy image does not.

[Arcon]

The plugin definitely did not support cancelling all copy image buffs with just ID 66. The code for it hasn't been touched in 8 months, and that's long before the 4.1 version branched off.

The IDs for Utsu are as follows:
66 => Copy Image
444 => Copy Image (2)
445 => Copy Image (3)
446 => Copy Image (4+)

You need the right ID to cancel it.

[Darkmagi]

Well that's strange, because I swear I had a macro with cancel 66 that was working before the update. I had just been using it and remember messing up a fight because my macro stopped working after updating. Maybe I'm just crazy.

Well regardless of whatever that is, //cancel copy image doesn't work, while //cancel copy image with any random number does.

[Arcon]

The Cancel addon was written eons ago when the libraries were mostly shitty and lacking in many ways. These days the entire addon can be rewritten as follows:

_addon.command = 'cancel'

require('luau')
res = require('resources')

windower.register_event('addon command', function(...)
    arg = (...):number() or L{...}:concat()
    local player = windower.ffxi.get_player()
    if player then
        for buff_id in L(player.buffs):it() do
            local buff = res.buffs[buff_id]
            if buff and (arg == buff.id or windower.wc_match(buff.name, arg) or windower.wc_match(buff.name:slug(), arg)) then
                windower.ffxi.cancel_buff(buff_id)
                return
            end
        end
    end
end)

If you copy that into your Windower/addons/cancel/cancel.lua file and reload it, you should be able to use it like that.

Edit:
This way it also supports wildcards:

//cancel copy image*

That way you can cancel all forms of copy image with the same command. Or, if you just want to cancel 1 and 2 shadows:

//cancel copy image|copy image (2)

And so on for other things.

[semco]

When I assume that the Gearswap lua is a replacement for spellcast am I correct? Is a gearswap file an xml and where do I place the files if I download them? Also how do I initialize an include? It would really be helpful if you could put some kind of explanation on how this new gearswap works in the Gearswap thread, similar to the way you have the spellcast shop thread set up. I learned so much just reading in that thread about spellcast. Gearswap seems like something Id like to try, just need a bit of education on how it works.

[Trumpy]

You could use something like this, last time i used it it worked but i havent ninja'd since update...

<if spell="Utsusemi: Ichi" buffactive="Copy Image*" notbuffactive="Silence|Mute|Omerta|Obliviscence">
<action type="Equip" when="precast|midcast" set="Utsu" />
<if notbuffactive="Copy Image (3)|Copy Image (4+)">
<midcastdelay delay="2.5" />
<cmd when="midcast">cancel 66</cmd>
<cmd when="midcast">cancel 446</cmd>
</if>
<else>
<cancelspell />
<return />
</else>
</if>

<if spell="Utsusemi: Ni" notbuffactive="Silence|Mute|Omerta|Obliviscence">
<action type="Equip" when="precast|midcast" set="Utsu" />
<else>
<cancelspell />
<return />
</else>
</if>
<if Spell="Monomi*|Tonko*">
<action type="Equip" when="precast|midcast|aftercast" set="Idle" />
<if spell="monomi" BuffActive="Sneak">
<midcastdelay delay="2.5" />
<command when="midcast">cancel 71</command>
</if>
</if>

With this you are only canceling shadows when you have less shadows than you would have when you casted it. and you arent cancelling them when you are silenced and unable to cast. and also the canceling sneak when you are recasting monomi

[Motenten]

When I assume that the Gearswap lua is a replacement for spellcast am I correct? Is a gearswap file an xml and where do I place the files if I download them? Also how do I initialize an include? It would really be helpful if you could put some kind of explanation on how this new gearswap works in the Gearswap thread, similar to the way you have the spellcast shop thread set up. I learned so much just reading in that thread about spellcast. Gearswap seems like something Id like to try, just need a bit of education on how it works.

Byrth provided a general explanation a few pages back: http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/115...=1#post5985652

To create an include file, make a new .lua file with the following structure:

local _MoteInclude = {}

function _MoteInclude.init_include()
    -- do some initialization stuff
end

function _MoteInclude.my_other_function()
    -- do other stuff
end

return _MoteInclude

The actual name of the table in the include (_MoteInclude, here) is up to you. Just make sure it's prefixed on any of the function names you use.

Note that there is currently no standard initialization function. You have to call that on your own within your job script:

    include('Mote-Include.lua')
    init_include()

I do this from within the get_sets() function, which is the current name of the initialization function for the job files (subject to change, since it's not very descriptive).

Most of -what- you can do is described in the Variables spreadsheet that's in the GearSwap directory when you activate the addon. However that doesn't really describe -how- to do things; it's largely assumed that you'll be skilled in scripting or programming of some kind, and that you can apply those logical concepts to the code itself. You'll also need to refer to external sources for Lua documentation (though the online Lua docs are pretty good).

At some point a broader tutorial will be written. Right now is still the early bits of getting things working, which means even the people skilled in programming are having to poke around to see what it's capable of.