Friends consolidation tool

[Captiv8]

There's your answer! Funny it is currently the next thread

[salimoneus]

I have the bulk of the app written, just need to finish up some testing on the actual file updates. I decided to write a separate app since I do not run eqlauncher or any other launcher program, and I prefer not to interject anything into the normal start-up process if at all possible. Here is what it looks like in the early stages:


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Basically you select the EQ install folder, then select a server (list is built from whatever .ini files are found), it will then populate the Character box with all toon files from that server.

Then just select whichever characters you would like to combine the friends list for, and it displays a unique list of friends from all selected characters in the right box. As you can see, my list is over 100 (max supported by the EQ client), so I will need to delete a few from the list on the right before it will allow me to Update the selected character files.

It works exactly the same way with Ignore lists, so I added that as a radio toggle option. Ignore probably isn't nearly as useful anymore since the casinos were banned, but it was trivial to add support for that so it's in there.

I could probably post up a version now, but I'd like to do some more testing, and I also plan on adding a backup feature, so that in the event of something going wrong, the last good set of files will be available for a simple copy restore.

Comments/feedback always encouraged.

[salimoneus]

A pic of the server selection box with a few actual servers in the list:


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The server names are parsed directly from the character .ini files, so they may not be as descriptive as I would prefer. They should still be fairly easy to figure out which is which though, and if not all you need to do is select one and see what toons are listed for it.

[Zaela]

was bored so I made one too: link

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More or less like the above guy's, except it assumes you want the same list on all your characters on a server. If more than 100 names are found, excess names will be remembered and go into an overflow list which you can swap names from.

Can add/remove names in the tool, etc. Can also filter the lists of names, why not.

Changes are saved to all relevant files automatically; if you just want to copy the first 100 or less friends and ignores to all your characters, just start it up, select your server and it's done.

[salimoneus]

I have released the initial version of this tool, it can be found here: http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=173380

Signing off of this thread.

[captnamazing]

praise for this