Windower 4 - Discussion and Support

[Martel]

K so, somehow i found the original post about gear swap being added, I noticed it said it doesnt handle variables and that someone would need to write an addon for that, Has anything been made for that? I am askin cause i kinda just got into using variables alot for spellcast and if i am forced to use gearswap I will have to come up with something else.

Irrc, What gearswap doesn't handle, is variable replacement in the outgoing text buffer(I think that's what it was called, lol.) That means that typing %hpp wouldn't return as your HP percentage, it'd just be plain %hpp in the log. But somehow, I suspect this was not the use of variables you were concerned with.

If you meant, having a name point to a value of some kind, for example in spell cast you might have:

<var name="Main">Ryunohige</var>

In gearswap that'd just be:

main = 'Ryunohige'

In the get_sets() function.

And in both spellcast and gearswap I used that variable to do the same thing. Equip my wep on job change or after getting stripped. But if I changed to a different weapon, it'd update main to the new wep. Then if I got stripped it'd re-equip the new one.

EDIT:If you used custom variables in your macros, like I did, you're largely outta luck. But I've managed to find work arounds for every in-macro variable I used to use.

If having variable replacement in the chat log was actually what you were concerned about, then look into the addon inforeplacer. As that's what it does.

[TSFFXI]

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[Trumpy]

@ JSHidaka: I am trying to change to GS cause I am beign forced to either way. What part hinted I wont be changing to Gearswap? I am tryin to find out if i can do things similiar to how i did them in spellcast. If not i need to figure something else out. Thanks for your help though.

@ Martel: Ah ok i was kinda wondering why inforeplacer was made but i guess that answers that.

Well for an example in spellcast on thf i had it set a variable "melee" as "treasurehunter" when ever i went idle. and then i had a macro that would change var "melee" to "haste" (or whatever for better dd ect...) and equip set "$melee". That way i wouldnt forget to TH a mob (assuming i didnt autotarget it and never went idle) and could switch to "kill faster" gear when i wanted (for example after i proc a mob in dynamis).

Or on monk or dancer i would change var "melee" to fandance/saberdance or counterstance/impetus/lolfootwork based on what Job ability i used that has gear that has to be worn for duration and i would have a set for each of those.

Also in a few of the example luas for jobs given with gearswap i see something like:

function self_command(command)
    if command == 'toggle TP set' then
        TP_ind = TP_ind +1
        if TP_ind > #sets.TP.index then TP_ind = 1 end
        send_command('@input /echo ----- TP Set changed to '..sets.TP.index[TP_ind]..' -----')
        equip(sets.TP[sets.TP.index[TP_ind]])
    elseif command == 'toggle Idle set' then
        Idle_ind = Idle_ind +1
        if Idle_ind > #sets.Idle.index then Idle_ind = 1 end
        send_command('@input /echo ----- Idle Set changed to '..sets.Idle.index[Idle_ind]..' -----')
        equip(sets.Idle[sets.Idle.index[Idle_ind]])
    elseif command == 'equip TP set' then
        equip_TP_set()
    end
end

what command do i type to activate this (is that what that code is even for?)? I tried //toggle TP set and //gs toggle TP set and it didnt seem to work.

[Prothescar]

//gs c toggle TP set

[Trumpy]

ah ok prothescar (man that gold name with drop shadow is hard to read lol) thanks... does the c stand for command or something?

[Prothescar]

command i assume

(switch to BG Blackened Smart skin, 100% better than default)

[Trumpy]

Ah that is better. thanks again proth

[Arcon]

Idk if this is known but treasury doesn't seem to auto sort anymore.

Do you mean auto-stack? It never auto-sorted. There's no way for Windower to do that at all. If you want auto-sorting, you need to enable it under Menu > Config > Gameplay.

[Fwahm]

I have windower macros that swap me into WS gear, WS, then swap me into melee gear, like most PC players that don't use spellcast/gearswap. However, after this update, the 2nd equipment swap has been consistently missing a single slot of equipment. Right now, it's been failing to swap my earring 1 slot back to the melee piece each time I hit the macro, and I have to manually hit the melee gear macro again for it to swap. Oddly enough, if I change the order in my windower macro, say bringing earring 1 to the beginning, a different slot starts having problems; in my case feet.

Is this caused by lag, and is there any way to fix it, within the macro or otherwise?

[Sithel]

I have windower macros that swap me into WS gear, WS, then swap me into melee gear, like most PC players that don't use spellcast/gearswap. However, after this update, the 2nd equipment swap has been consistently missing a single slot of equipment. Right now, it's been failing to swap my earring 1 slot back to the melee piece each time I hit the macro, and I have to manually hit the melee gear macro again for it to swap. Oddly enough, if I change the order in my windower macro, say bringing earring 1 to the beginning, a different slot starts having problems; in my case feet.

Is this caused by lag, and is there any way to fix it, within the macro or otherwise?

I know 2-3 people in my LS that use scripts and having the same exact problem since the update, so I'd say it's nothing to do with lag. I told a few to just download gearswap and use it as if it was scripts and remove all the functions that swap gear on ja,precast,ws ect ect. Here is an example: http://pastebin.com/E5btbz23

Functions in this gearswap profile are removed so you can just use as if it was scripts. Make a macro /console gs equip sets.idle
and it would equip idle as if using a script /console exec idle.txt

Using it this way everything is equipping fine from wardrobe and inventory or both at the same time.

[Sechs]

However, after this update, the 2nd equipment swap has been consistently missing a single slot of equipment. Right now, it's been failing to swap my earring 1 slot back to the melee piece each time I hit the macro, and I have to manually hit the melee gear macro again for it to swap.

Yes I reported this issue, it happens for EVERY windower script macro, and usually the slot is always the same until you reload or do what you told.
Altough I *think* this happens only for macros involving stuff inside Wardrobe? If you ignore wardrobe I *think* this issue isn't there, as far as I noticed.
Very very strange though.
It's bringing me to use Gearswap even for secondary jobs where I have only very straightforward/simple macros and that, so far, never made me feel like I needed Spellcast/GS.

[Draylo]

Do you mean auto-stack? It never auto-sorted. There's no way for Windower to do that at all. If you want auto-sorting, you need to enable it under Menu > Config > Gameplay.

Yeah auto-stack sorry. It doesn't do it anymore.

[Byrthnoth]

Windower equipment scripts input /equip commands rapidly. There seems to be a bug introduced in the last patch that makes client equip commands unreliable in general. While the bug may exist, it's probably not a Windower problem.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...-from-wardrobe
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...-from-Wardrobe

Spellcast would have the same issues because it relies on /equip commands (it essentially just dynamically generates a windower equipment script and inputs it). GearSwap bypasses the client and just injects equip packets, so it doesn't have this issue.

[JSHidaka]

lol... Hmm timers is "fixed" for the SCH thing... just that instead stratagems it says "Immanence"

[Subadai]

I have windower macros that swap me into WS gear, WS, then swap me into melee gear, like most PC players that don't use spellcast/gearswap. However, after this update, the 2nd equipment swap has been consistently missing a single slot of equipment. Right now, it's been failing to swap my earring 1 slot back to the melee piece each time I hit the macro, and I have to manually hit the melee gear macro again for it to swap. Oddly enough, if I change the order in my windower macro, say bringing earring 1 to the beginning, a different slot starts having problems; in my case feet.

Is this caused by lag, and is there any way to fix it, within the macro or otherwise?

I had this problem (with weaponskills) also, and I'm pretty sure it only occurs with equipment in the wardrobe. I fixed it by inserting pause .1 between the equip script and the weaponskill script. Or, at least it seems to work so far.

[Trumpy]

Man i dunno why but ever since i found out you can abbreviate /console as /con it makes my eyes bleed anytime i see someone post /console.

Well i spent all night working on my whm mules gearswap. spent most of it making the gear sets from lookin at what i had in spellcast. then another few hours altering the "rules section" of a dnc lua to a whm lua AKA pretty much removing all the dnc stuff. Not knowing a thing about lua or coding for the most part Id get errors that looked perfectly fine to me (thank god the errors tell you exactly what line is the issue). Most of those were fixed moving things around in the code, or splitting an and to a sub if check or breaking the code into smaller if to end sets of code.

Took me like an hour to figure out how to cancel my sneak when casting sneak but only while casting sneak on myself not others. spell.target.type='self' wasnt working (had to use this in spellcast). Eventually spell.target.name="myname" worked

Man i hope it gets easier or its gonna take me a week+ just to get my few jobs working. Tonight i have the task of makin a changespell code block for cures (based on hp of target and mp of caster) without the actual changespell i had in spellcast. Then i can still tell my mule to cure whoever via send and he will alter the tier based on whats needed automatically. In spellcast i even had different mp and hp amounts for things when in abyssea cause of infinite mps but i am not sure if i will bother with that one.

One thing i noticed is my spells were goin off at 50% on the cast bar, some even faster. I dont think they casted that fast with spellcast with the same sets (maybe soemthign wasnt working and i never noticed).

[Mimaru]

Question not sure if this is the right place to post this, but is Timers plugin messed up for anyone else? was working fine yesterday no JA are being labeled wrong.

[Falkirk]

Yeah, Unleash is being called Caper Emissarius and Sic/Ready is listed as Pentapeck. o_o

[Byrthnoth]

All shared timers are defaulting to the highest buff ID name instead of using the hardcoded category names.

I made an issue for it on the windower bug tracker. Arcon will probably fix it tomorrow.

[Motenten]

spell.target.type='self' wasnt working

spell.target.type == 'SELF' (it's case sensitive)