Plugin::MM() usage

[DanCanDo]

Just curious about this possiblity. I've been playing around with that plugin and
having fun with it, but I was wondering, is it possible to use this plugin to feed
all world clients , similiar to quest::we(..) Where everyone on the server gets
it at the same time, when event is triggered ?

[Akkadius]

Originally Posted by DanCanDo

Just curious about this possiblity. I've been playing around with that plugin and
having fun with it, but I was wondering, is it possible to use this plugin to feed
all world clients , similiar to quest::we(..) Where everyone on the server gets
it at the same time, when event is triggered ?

It's possible, just not currently implemented.

[DanCanDo]

I didn't think so, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask. But Thank You Sir !

[ghanja]

Completely untested (including simply running a perl -c on the code), as I'm away from home atm:

# /quests/global/global_player.pl
use File::Copy qw(copy);

sub EVENT_SAY {
	@args = split(' ', $text); # Something I use for custom gm commands
	if ($text=~/#globalmarquee/i) {
		if ($args[1]) {
			$formattedstring = "";
			for ($count = 1; $count < scalar(@args); $count++) {
				$formattedstring = $formattedstring." ".$args[$count];
			}
			my $filename = "C:\EQEMU\QUESTS\GLOBAL\GlobalMarquee.txt";
			move $filename, $filename.".bak";
			open my $fh, '>', "output.txt"
				or die "Cannot open file: $!";
			print $fh "$formattedstring\n";
			close $fh;
			quest::crosszonesignalnpcbynpctypeid(10, 99999);
		}
	}
}


# /quests/global/zone_controller.pl
sub EVENT_SIGNAL {

	elsif ($signal == 99999) {
		$filename = "C:\EQEMU\QUESTS\GLOBAL\GlobalMarquee.txt";
		my @marqueemessage = do {
			open my $fh, "<", $filename
				or die "could not open $filename: $!";
			<$fh>;
		};		
		my @clist = $entity_list->GetClientList();
		foreach my $sclient (@clist) {
			$sclient->SendMarqueeMessage(15, 510, 1, 1, 3000, $marqueemessage);
		}
	}
}

When there is a will, there is a way (with Perl).

[Kingly_Krab]

World-wide Marquees? Yes, please. Once this is merged they'll be possible using quest::worldwidemarquee(type, priority, fadein, fadeout, duration, message).

Example script:

sub EVENT_SAY {
    if ($text=~/#test/i && length($text) > 6) {
        quest::worldwidemarquee(315, 510, 1, 1, 3000, substr($text, 6));
    }
}

[DanCanDo]

Originally Posted by Kingly_Krab

World-wide Marquees? Yes, please. Once this is merged they'll be possible using quest::worldwidemarquee(type, priority, fadein, fadeout, duration, message).

You seriously got this to work, that is awesome Kingly !!!
Thank you

[jpyou127]

Some seriously cool stuff King!

Celestial

[Kingly_Krab]

Merged as of ~5 minutes ago.

[DanCanDo]

Originally Posted by Kingly_Krab

Merged as of ~5 minutes ago.

Holy Rock Lobster (chuckle)
Just gitpulled, anxious to play around
Thanks a lot Kingly

[DanCanDo]

This little test works awesome, but had one tiny little question (grin)
Is it possible to change that grey color output ? ( I do have the color codes)

sub EVENT_ITEM {
    if (plugin::check_handin(\%itemcount, 13005 => 1, 13006 => 1)) {
        quest::worldwidemarquee(315, 510, 1, 1, 3000, substr("This is a Test. Is it working?", 0));
    }
}

EDIT: SORRY, Nevermind, just figured out the 'type' number was what I needed to change.

[Kingly_Krab]

Yeah, type indicates color. substr isn't necessary for what you're doing because that's for cutting a string apart based on indexes. You can use just "This is a Test. Is it working?" instead of substr("This is a Test. Is it working?", 0).

[DanCanDo]

Ahh, ok, thanks for that tip. My original thoughts on using this marquee was along the
lines of my little test example there. Although the quest::we is good for world emotes,
I figured sometimes, if a serverwide message goes out and a player's chat window is
busy with hits, misses, etc., the world emote may not be seen. But this marquee can
definately show up noticed, (chuckle) But it's got a lot of potential for other things,
(like above) letting the server know when a player has achieved something on the high
end, or for that matter "Newbie $name has finally got out of the Tutorial" (chuckle)