Windower 4 - Discussion and Support

[Cream Soda]

How do you turn off the buff duration portion of timers?

Tried setting buffsTimerLimit to 0 but that didn't work

[Arcon]

How do you turn off the buff duration portion of timers?

Tried setting buffsTimerLimit to 0 but that didn't work

I think it was <enableBuffs>false</enableBuffs>.

[Cream Soda]

Worked, thanks. Had to add that one in there. Wasn't there on its own.

Another question, as I'm a newb to xml

Is there a way I can set the x/y positioning based on the resolution I'm playing? I play in different resolutions depending on how many characters I'm playing or what else I'm doing/how much screen space I need.

[mistmonster]

That's battlemod, change your
<addtochat></addtochat>
to <addtochat color="121"></addtochat>

I'm dumb, could you kindly tell me where to make this change? Thanks!

[Byrthnoth]

Open your spellcast xmls and Find/Replace <addtochat> with <addtochat color="121">

[Zirael]

Regarding putting new options in your DLL plugin/ LUA addon that requires users to delete their settings file and re-downloading a new one: how about putting in your settings.xml a line <settings_file_version="1.01"> and in your DLL/LUA code a check for what version of the settings file the user has. If the user's version is outdated, you could send out a prompt saing that there is a new settings file available, tell the user to backup and re-download settings.xml file etc.

The next level of doing this would be (I lack mathy mind to be good with programming, but I believe it's possible) to compare for settings.xml file versions, and if user's settings are older, importing whatever compatible settings they have in their file, making a backup of their file as backup_currentdate_settings.xml, and writing updated settings.xml file with user's changes and your new stuff, then displaying a prompt to the user that the settings file was upgraded (could even show them a list of new functions in settings by comparing their file version with your changelog etc) and advising them to have a look and customize new options.

Also, you could do a similar check for first plugin usage, where yo want the user to go in the folder and customize settings for themselves - for example people running Battlemod for the first time and complaining that they see every chat message, or people using Timers for the first time and complaining they don't like Yarnball part of it, or the graphical mode etc. You could be displaying "First use" prompt to the user until they go to the settings and change the <I_have_customized_this_to_my_liking="true">

I hope this helps.

[Arcon]

Is there a way I can set the x/y positioning based on the resolution I'm playing? I play in different resolutions depending on how many characters I'm playing or what else I'm doing/how much screen space I need.

You can override the <global> settings on a per-character basis:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<settings>
    <global>
        <!-- Global settings here -->
    </global>
    <arcon>
        <!-- Arcon's settings here -->
    </arcon>
</settings>

You don't need to copy all settings to your character-profile, only the ones that deviate from the global values. So for your mules, you'd only need x/y position settings (unless you want to change other things as well).

[..]

I hope this helps.

Like I said, Lua addons aren't affected by that, the config library takes care of these issues. However, first-use is not easy to detect without creating dummy files or something. Also, the XMLs aren't generated from within the code at all, that does not happen currently, and would need to change/amend the libraries used for it. XMLs are currently only read.

[Zirael]

You can override the <global> settings on a per-character basis:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<settings>
    <global>
        <!-- Global settings here -->
    </global>
    <arcon>
        <!-- Arcon's settings here -->
    </arcon>
</settings>

You don't need to copy all settings to your character-profile, only the ones that deviate from the global values. So for your mules, you'd only need x/y position settings (unless you want to change other things as well).



Like I said, Lua addons aren't affected by that, the config library takes care of these issues. However, first-use is not easy to detect without creating dummy files or something. Also, the XMLs aren't generated from within the code at all, that does not happen currently, and would need to change/amend the libraries used for it. XMLs are currently only read.

Hmm, I'd swear Wtbox writes changes to settings file upon //unload and Battlemod generates settings file if it's not there (at least v1 did). Might be just few individual addons currently doing stuff like that, tho.

[Arcon]

Hmm, I'd swear Wtbox writes changes to settings file upon //unload and Battlemod generates settings file if it's not there (at least v1 did). Might be just few individual addons currently doing stuff like that, tho.

wtbox (now staggertrack) doesn't use the config library at all, battlemod does, but I'm not sure to what capacity. But that just shows what I meant, most Lua addons try to provide that functionality. Fortunately, it's a lot easier in Lua than in C++.

[Dammerung]

How do I use blacklist with Timers? I want Protect/Shell to not show up in the buffs list.

[Cream Soda]

You can override the <global> settings on a per-character basis:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<settings>
    <global>
        <!-- Global settings here -->
    </global>
    <arcon>
        <!-- Arcon's settings here -->
    </arcon>
</settings>

You don't need to copy all settings to your character-profile, only the ones that deviate from the global values. So for your mules, you'd only need x/y position settings (unless you want to change other things as well).



Like I said, Lua addons aren't affected by that, the config library takes care of these issues. However, first-use is not easy to detect without creating dummy files or something. Also, the XMLs aren't generated from within the code at all, that does not happen currently, and would need to change/amend the libraries used for it. XMLs are currently only read.

ah, it's a no go then. Don't always play on the same resolution/character. Guess I could just make multiple XMLs and swap them out accordingly

[Vendog]

im new at windower and trying to use it to 2box. heres my issue when ever i load my main it wirks fine but the i try to load my alt the main crashes. anyone know why or what i am doing wrong?

[Buffy]

If using windows vista or higher, make sure you have UAC either off, or turn off the screen dim function. Screen dim = POL crash.

[Vendog]

whats UAC?

[Byrthnoth]

User Account Control

[GeneyusTitan]

ah, it's a no go then. Don't always play on the same resolution/character. Guess I could just make multiple XMLs and swap them out accordingly

I haven't had a need to do this with 4.0 but on 3.4 I just made two different windower folders.

[Vendog]

Thanks alot man everything is working good.

[Cream Soda]

for battlemod, how do I adjust the color for when debuffs wear off?

[Byrthnoth]

There's no debuff-specific option, because there's nothing in the status.xml resources that tells me if a given status is a buff or debuff. There have been so many requests for the past-tense verb form of debuffs (paralyzed, etc.) that I may just give up and change the resources though. I will need to talk to Radec first about the best way to do it though.

[pieceofsoap]

Spoiler: show

http://pieceofsite.seniorbrown.com/f...FailToLoad.jpg

Currently running Windows 7, every time I try to load scoreboard I get these messages, including when the game first boots up. I installed it via Windower, I see people talking about unloading scoreboard, but I cant unload since its not loading in the first place.
Am I making a bonehead mistake? Searching the thread for scoreboard doesn't show anything like this issue that I've seen, (Help me out!)