Eq Browser : Allakhazam Clone

Bulle · #1 03-18-2008, 04:57 PM

No worries about the demo setup, I could have it up and running in like 20 minutes on my server (proof it is easy to setup). I had just one problem, which may lead to errors down the line : the tar.gz you provide contains a truncated TAR archive (I get an error when opening it with both 7-Zip and Linux tar command). Hopefully only some icons are missing. If you can upload a "better" TAR I'll gladly re-install it.

The way you show the query results is quite interesting. When I start working again on the browser I will have a look at that. You handle paging the results nicely. Although sometimes what I will like is just a brutal query returning 10.000 items and look into them with Firefox search (when running locally performance is hardly an issue). I guess both modes are useful to have. I also liked how everything regarding one item or NPC could fit into one page in the original EQBrowser (I have a 24 inch screen so I put it to good use). I hate Tabs with a passion ever since Windows introduced tham, and that was a long while ago !

I had an error when viewing a character, I don't know if it is "normal" at the moment.

Definitely a good tool with good ideas, I guess the truth for me is in between EQBrowser and the Almanach. Thank you for sharing it, it will certainly help.

slowglass · #2 03-19-2008, 03:33 AM

I have updated the zip file.
I have also placed a demo site on the same box at http://www.slowglass.com/alkabor

I have not had time to look into the problem with the inventory page so I have enabled my Magelo clone on the demo site

Muuss · #3 03-21-2008, 07:37 AM

Hi peeps !

Bulle · #4 03-31-2008, 02:54 PM

As promised (even if somewhat late, the latest week-ends have been busy) here is my updated version of EQBrowser, featuring quite a few improvements, and potentially a few things I have broken. As I plan to maintain/support this tool for the time being your bug reports/remarks are welcome.

I am still unsure on how to maintain this code, but I am thinking of making a Sourceforge project for it. Let's discuss the idea here.

In the meantime, have fun toying with this quite nice tool.

Link : http://dl.free.fr/jRrH6ILnp/eqbrowser-0.6.0.7z

**cavedude** · #5 04-01-2008, 07:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Bulle

As promised (even if somewhat late, the latest week-ends have been busy) here is my updated version of EQBrowser, featuring quite a few improvements, and potentially a few things I have broken. As I plan to maintain/support this tool for the time being your bug reports/remarks are welcome.

I was playing around with this for an hour and so far so good, I tested every function I could and nothing seems broken at all

The links are a very nice addition. The only things I was sad not to see was a link to the editor for tradeskill combines, and a link to Lucy for the spells. Other than that perfect so far! Thank you.

Bulle · #6 04-01-2008, 12:20 PM

This is good news. The reason I did not put icons on spells and tradeskill is simple : I did not touch those pages at all, I was mostly concerned with NPCs, factions and items for a reason you will discover soon (I have a tool in the making for quest "configuration"). I can certainly put that on the wish-list for when I look at the other pages.

I wish I could have put links to other sites as well, like Allakhazam (eh), but the item numbers do not match for example (same applies to NPCs etc). Implementing that would require a mapping table, which would be nice to have, but a tad complicated to build even with some kind of robot.

**cavedude** · #7 04-01-2008, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Bulle

This is good news. The reason I did not put icons on spells and tradeskill is simple : I did not touch those pages at all, I was mostly concerned with NPCs, factions and items for a reason you will discover soon (I have a tool in the making for quest "configuration"). I can certainly put that on the wish-list for when I look at the other pages.

That makes sense, not a big deal really I just felt the tradeskill and spell links would add a bit of completeness. Since spell IDs never change like items do, linking to Lucy wouldn't be a problem. The new tool sounds intriguing... Would it be used to help Allah-ize our quests in eqbrowser?

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I wish I could have put links to other sites as well, like Allakhazam (eh), but the item numbers do not match for example (same applies to NPCs etc). Implementing that would require a mapping table, which would be nice to have, but a tad complicated to build even with some kind of robot.

Allah and Lucy are one in the same, so there really isn't a need to link to Allah for items, since you already have them linked to Lucy. For everything else, oh yeah I thought of that. I once tried to download Allah... 3 days and 12GB later it still wasn't done so I gave up. The site is a massive bird nest of IDs. Linking NPCs and the like would be so difficult it would become impractical, so I wouldn't even worry about it.