Windower 4 - Discussion and Support

[NynJa]

So I dont know if this was fixed in .27, but I'm using the hook swap to .26 so I can use send, and somethings up with my gamepad. For whatever reason, on its own it randomly bugs out and it operates on the window thats NOT in focus. I have to turn it off and turn it back on to fix it (wireless).

[ShinseiRyu]

Can someone upload the .26 hook.dll? I do not seem to have the previous versions option in windows 8.
Edit: found a link in the ffxiah thread

[NynJa]

I'm getting random crashes as well too now, was chilling in Ceizak and bam..."POL error"

[Mafai]

An update was pushed tonight to fix Send. It's a hook update so it requires game reboot.

[Kohan]

An update was pushed tonight to fix Send. It's a hook update so it requires game reboot.

Thanks.

As a lot of users are concerned about the auto-update feature (although I personally understand why you would use it), have you considered an alternative to completely removing the preceding hook, such as creating a local backup on update? Whenever a problem arises for a user necessitating a rollback, already possessing the prior version would make it easier for them to revert.

[Mafai]

Thanks.

As a lot of users are concerned about the auto-update feature (although I personally understand why you would use it), have you considered an alternative to completely removing the preceding hook, such as creating a local backup on update? Whenever a problem arises for a user necessitating a rollback, already possessing the prior version would make it easier for them to revert.

The auto update is there to prevent from using the old versions because they had an issue / lacked features. Majority of our past issues were because of outdated plugins / hook and this has completely stopped that (besides this last update). This was an issue with our repo (we had a couple branches which caused some confusion). The issue was actually from 2 updates ago and it never made it out to you guys, then the latest set made it out with 2 new sets of changes (one being bad). If something major would have broken, we likely wouldve rolled the update back until we fixed the latest version. We knew that fix was going to be fast so we left that hook as release while it was being worked on. Sorry it took so long.

[Squah]

Does kparser work in Windower 4? I want to see what my reso averages are with Bereaver

[Cream Soda]

Yes, but not with battlemod

[Squah]

Why isn't it showing any of the parse data? It worked fine before (months ago) but now it just shows blank, but it says it is recording data.

nvm I'm stupid. turns out all the old window tabs I had saved had reset so it wasn't displaying anything because I wasn't telling it to.

[TacoTaru]

Are there any addons currently that work like gotSushi does for Ashita? I've been adding in accuracy gear sets to all my XMLs and having an on screen accuracy monitor to know how good my current set is would be wonderful.

Bumping this since I never saw an answer. Would Scoreboard work for this if all I wanted to track was hit rate?

[Dotsudoku]

I'm getting random crashes as well too now, was chilling in Ceizak and bam..."POL error"

Seconded. At first I thought it was an issue with the XIview/vision dats I always use, but then it continued to happen when I got rid of them. Seems to only happen when spellcast changes my equipment(on any job)

[Mafai]

Seconded. At first I thought it was an issue with the XIview/vision dats I always use, but then it continued to happen when I got rid of them. Seems to only happen when spellcast changes my equipment(on any job)

I wonder if this has to do with any of the new gear. Do you happen to know if you have any on, or in your inventory when it happens? It could be missing from resources or a bad item in resources.

[Carraway]

Bumping this since I never saw an answer. Would Scoreboard work for this if all I wanted to track was hit rate?

As far as I know, you can't change Scoreboard to a hitrate% monitor, but you can //sb stat acc for all characters' accuracy, or add <playername> for someone specific. Would be nice to be able to toggle modes between DPS, current hitrate%, and other variables.

[Dotsudoku]

I wonder if this has to do with any of the new gear. Do you happen to know if you have any on, or in your inventory when it happens? It could be missing from resources or a bad item in resources.

Updated resources, still crashing

scenarios I've noticed that result in a crash:
-using JA to JA quickly, I.E. Spirit > Soul Jump in quick succession
-using JA to WS quickly, I.E. Soul > Drakes in quick succession
-finishing the casting of a GEO spell
-standing idle around other people casting(has only happened once, so I may be mistaken)
-looking at my linkshell list(happened twice, which prompted me to repair modded dats)

No addons loaded, plugins:
auto-exec
blinkmenot
spellcast
boxhelper
cancel
distance
drawdistance
guildwork
infobar
itemizer
pettp
silence
spellcast
tickle
timers
tparty

Someone please halp

[Vyvian]

I wonder if this has to do with any of the new gear. Do you happen to know if you have any on, or in your inventory when it happens? It could be missing from resources or a bad item in resources.

Out of curiosity, why does equipment need to be recorded in resources anyway? It seems to be the cause of angst every update when new equipment comes out. I can understand spells and such, as the rules divide them into types like elemental magic and such, but it seems like you should just allow spellcast to send bad equip commands to the game and have nothing happen rather than require someone to maintain a massive list of equipment that seems to grow continuously.

[Mafai]

Out of curiosity, why does equipment need to be recorded in resources anyway? It seems to be the cause of angst every update when new equipment comes out. I can understand spells and such, as the rules divide them into types like elemental magic and such, but it seems like you should just allow spellcast to send bad equip commands to the game and have nothing happen rather than require someone to maintain a massive list of equipment that seems to grow continuously.

It checks to see what you have equipped to prevent the red text errors from trying to equip something you already have equipped. The issue is then its pulling the item name from resources, so if its not there, its changing it to "" and causing a crash.

Check to see whats equipped in that slot (equip slots are stored as item id) > lookup item id
Lookup item name from set > get id

compare equipped ID to wanting to equip id.
send equip based on name from resources, if it doesn't exist it crashes.

That's all how I think it works from looking at it.


I added some code to hopefully fix this, you wanna test to see if I broke it? Or delete an item from resources and see if you crash?

[Modoru]

I haven't done it in a bit, but tele-spells seem to crash me, idk why.

[Vyvian]

It checks to see what you have equipped to prevent the red text errors from trying to equip something you already have equipped. The issue is then its pulling the item name from resources, so if its not there, its changing it to "" and causing a crash.

Check to see whats equipped in that slot (equip slots are stored as item id) > lookup item id
Lookup item name from set > get id

compare equipped ID to wanting to equip id.
send equip based on name from resources, if it doesn't exist it crashes.

That's all how I think it works from looking at it.


I added some code to hopefully fix this, you wanna test to see if I broke it? Or delete an item from resources and see if you crash?

I deleted Arhat's Gi +1 from items_armor.xml and I didn't crash when I triggered an action to equip it, it just didn't equip, which I find to be an improvement over crashing the game. Thank you.

I appreciate the explanation, I was more just curious rather than looking for it to be changed. But if you use windower scripts, and try to equip stuff that is already there, you don't actually get any red chat log spam. It sounds like the technical reason is for if equipmain="verethragna" type rules, which is understandable.

[Mafai]

I deleted Arhat's Gi +1 from items_armor.xml and I didn't crash when I triggered an action to equip it, it just didn't equip, which I find to be an improvement over crashing the game. Thank you.

I appreciate the explanation, I was more just curious rather than looking for it to be changed. But if you use windower scripts, and try to equip stuff that is already there, you don't actually get any red chat log spam. It sounds like the technical reason is for if equipmain="verethragna" type rules, which is understandable.

I didn't push an update, it should have crashed. It must be crashing for another reason on new items.

[Vyvian]

I didn't push an update, it should have crashed. It must be crashing for another reason on new items.

Are the ID's indexed somehow, new items outside of the expected range? Arhat's gi is pretty well in the middle, so its inside the expected range of numbers.