Little Help-Chat line reading

[rustymetal]

What I'm trying to do is make a script that filters chat lines to only show what you want, like linkshell, party, ect.


MyText=Graphics.text_CreateObject()
Graphics.text_SetColor(255,255,255,255,MyText)
Graphics.text_SetPosition(100,100,MyText)
Graphics.text_SetFont("Arial",10,MyText)
Graphics.text_SetVisibility(1,MyText)

while true do

function ChatType(x)
local Type
Type=FFXI.chat_GetLineType(FFXI.chat_GetNewestLineNumber()-x)
return Type
end
function ChatText(x)
local Text
Text=FFXI.chat_GetLine(FFXI.chat_GetNewestLineNumber()-x)
return Text
end
function Line(x)
local Type,Text,output
repeat
if ChatType(x)==06 then
output=ChatText(x)
else
x=x+1
end
until ChatType(x)==06
return output
end

ChatLine=string.format("Test: %s",Line(0))

Graphics.text_SetText(ChatLine,MyText)
Windower.script_Sleep(1000)
end


Thats what I have so far, it does not display anything on screen, I can't seem to figure out where my error is. I know its somwhere in the line function.

What I was doing, is sense the line # arnt 1 2 and 3. To find the 5 (or might be 8) lines displayed on screen, you take the current line -x.

And say the line is not LS, then -1 more to go up another line and another until it gets to the top. Well, Im not even sure this the right way to do this at all. I can already see 2 problems doing it this way, Your going to get the same line more then once when the last LS chat was over 5 lines ago, and that so far, it only shows out going ls not incoming...

Any suggestions helpful.

Also a bug i found, if you use auto-translator it wont come up in ChatText, its skipped.

[TinyTerror]

The main problem here is that you are defining functions, but never calling them.Just defining a function does not automatically call the code in the function. Also, chat type codes are strings. It looks like you might be treating them as integers. This is how you might want to try it:


MyText=Graphics.text_CreateObject()
Graphics.text_SetColor(255,255,255,255,MyText)
Graphics.text_SetPosition(100,100,MyText)
Graphics.text_SetFont("Arial",10,MyText)
Graphics.text_SetVisibility(1,MyText)

function ChatType(x)
local Type
Type=FFXI.chat_GetLineType(FFXI.chat_GetNewestLineNumber()-x)
return Type
end

function ChatText(x)
local Text
Text=FFXI.chat_GetLine(FFXI.chat_GetNewestLineNumber()-x)
return Text
end

function Line(x)
local Type,Text,output
repeat
if ChatType(x)=="06" then
output=ChatText(x)
else
x=x+1
end
until ChatType(x)=="06"
return output
end

while true do

--Call some of the functions you defined above here.

ChatLine=string.format("Test: %s",Line(0))

Graphics.text_SetText(ChatLine,MyText)
Windower.script_Sleep(1000)
end


Heh, I don't know if this will work. I'm still sorta learning Lua myself. All the time I have spent on Lunar so far has been under the hood, on the C++ side of things.

[rustymetal]

Well, It does not display anything on screen atm. Not sure why... I should atleast see the "Test:" but I don't.

But, what I think I was really asking, is whats a good way to filter the chat line types to be displayed? Current way i'm trying/planning to do seems to be too weak.

[TinyTerror]

Ok, once I finish tonight's build, I'll run this one myself to see if I can get it working. Does chatline.lua work for you? Its one of the demo scripts I gave out with Lunar.

[rustymetal]

Ya, the one you gave out works. Sometimes, lol I dunno what causes it but sometimes when it loads it dispalys garbage, like 66986 as the line# and (a ) type crap where the text should be. Ill take screenshot/write what it says down.

[TinyTerror]

Ok.

I can't wait until windower 3.3 comes out. It will eliminate more than half of the buggy code in Lunar, and will be totally awsome.

[rustymetal]

nvm