How was it done now???

[Strokker]

I tried the other day to chack and see if my Tailoring kit I had was the old or new one and I typed the ";" before the link and it would not show any info on the kit regular linking would work but not if I places the Semicolon in front of it...Has this been nerfed?

[Gorse]

Error processing request. Words recognizable, intent of statement unknown.



Gorse

[Twistagain]

Try using ;tell <LINK> (or /tell <LINK>...my mind's fuzzy at the moment.)

[Gaell Stormracer]

Is this some way of seeing the item ID string while inside EQ? If so, please do tell

[Bobaten]

It is ;tell <link>.
Yes, it lets you see the ID numbers while inside EQ. You get an error message from the UCS that looks something like
"Could not find player 0032CE000000000000000000000000000000007ECE4F07Wate r" (that's the message for Water Flask)
The first 6 digits of that mess is the item id# (in hex).
Grab your calculator(or use the one built into Windows) and you can convert that to decimal.

Interestingly, this doesn't work for Doubloon or Orum, the UCS just spits the intact link back at you.

[Unapuma]

Yes I've had some trouble getting the item ID lately. When UCS was running, I often got the same thing back but when UCS crashes and I check before it gets up, I usually got the ID number.

Since UCS often won't reload or refresh until you zone, put the item(s) on your trader mule and then check it in the morning.

[Strokker]

Yup it is ;t or ;tell <item name> and it does show the hex dex number at the end right before the item name. People also use it for their Incoming messages so they show up in purple.

[Gaell Stormracer]

That could help identify things like those darned mechanoinstruction scraps (for the Bellfast quest) before looting/buying... thanks for the info.

EDIT: This doesn't seem to work for items with a single-word name - eg "bottle" - but does work fine for things like "Bazu parts mold". This is probably why the "Orum" and "Doubloon" fails above -- since that's like a player name, being 1 "word".

(Now to see if I can cook up a little Javascript URL to take the hex string and look up the ID in Lucy.... or maybe even a little pattern-match for Tango )

[KyrosKrane]

That last line piqued my interest. The JS to convert hex to decimal for Lucy look-ups is trivial, but what's Tango?

[Strokker]

EDIT: This doesn't seem to work for items with a single-word name - eg "bottle" - but does work fine for things like "Bazu parts mold". This is probably why the "Orum" and "Doubloon" fails above -- since that's like a player name, being 1 "word".

(Now to see if I can cook up a little Javascript URL to take the hex string and look up the ID in Lucy.... or maybe even a little pattern-match for Tango )

That last line piqued my interest. The JS to convert hex to decimal for Lucy look-ups is trivial, but what's Tango?

Either the Spicy Latin Dance or maybe this. However i was not aware of the single name item limitation, I will have to check this out myself.../grin.

Yup bad linking on my part ..but hey I was wrong anyhow.../grin.

[KyrosKrane]

Bad link there, Strokker. =/ I think you copy/pasted the wrong chunk of text.

[Gaell Stormracer]

Tango is a log parser for EQ... that is mostly for giving voice feedback, including timers, and can take plug-ins to do things like DPS calculations and look up raid points. Since it ONLY uses the EQ logs, and doesn't do illegal things like grubbing about in process memory, it's not breaching of the EULA.

I was thinking in terms of a plug-in that would find that pattern, look up the Lucy ID (or a local copy of the EQitems dump) and speak the ID number and maybe the LORE text.

See http://www.personaluse.org/tango/Tango.html for info.

[KyrosKrane]

Ah, nice. I use a similar program called EQWatcher that does essentially the same thing, though it's a bit friendlier to a non-programmer, and not as powerful (it has a programming interface, but it's a souped-up scripting language, not a full programming language, from what I could tell). I would find it very hard indeed to play without all my precious voice alerts. =)

[Gaell Stormracer]

I used to use the "followup" to EQwatcher, called Fury, but Tango is just a lot more handy for most of what I do in EQ -- and Fury just doesn't seem to be being supported at all anymore. So I'll see what I can make do with Tango...

[Gaell Stormracer]

KyrosKrane - I just had a revelation of sorts: try /www <paste link here> in EQ:

I'm going to try and create a little local pseudo-proxy for this, maybe you have another approach?

EDIT: Firefox was chucking the "invalid" URLs without checking it, so took an alternate approach: wrote a perl script and made that the default http handler, then got it to rewrite the URL if it was in the form of an EQ item link to be a search on the main EQtraders site.

ZIP file of script and registry file attached -- perl required, and tweaking of the paths in the registry file and where the script expects to find the firefox binary. (Although I guess it could be changed to iexplore.exe).

Hopefully this will let someone that knows more about Windows programming convert this into a more generally useable standalone thing in VB or C# or somthing -- or, better yet, something like a Firefox add-in that does the rewrite within the browser.