Lua - Group Inventory Management Lua Script?

[Valthonis]

So how hard would it be to make a Lua window with a dropdown box of all your characters on dannet to show their inventory that you can click to see stats for quick upgrades (for those of us that run more than 6 toons)

 

[Cannonballdex]

So how hard would it be to make a lua window with a dropdown box of all your characters on dannet to show their inventory that you can click to see stats for quick upgrades (for those of us that run more than 6 toons)

Are you talking about some type of in game magelo? lol

 

[Valthonis]

well yeah that would basicly be it heh, but just for toons on your dannet. I run 24-50, would be nice to be able to just run the Lua and see everyone's inventory for easier loot passing

 

[MrPatate]

That would be neat!!!

 

[brainiac]

I don't think dannet is capable of doing this. This would need to be purposefully built and likely very complicated.

 

[Mythas]

We have items.txt which contains everything we need to do the comparisons. The Lua would need to:

1. Accept input for either Item.ID or Name of Item.
2. Read items.txt (or construct a table with SQL) and query that item and store its stats and who can use.
3. Query via DanNet the usable classes' current item in that slot.
4. Read items.txt (or consult said table) for that item and store its stats for comparison.
5. Arrange and Display in sortable columns the +/-'s.

In theory it's easy, but I have no idea how quickly it can read items.txt or create that honkin' table and query it.

 

[Valthonis]

right now I have boxhud pulling slot names via dannet with a button to send a tell

 

[Valthonis]

I'm starting to learn some about Lua, but I don't know enough to take on a project like this yet heh.

 

[Cannonballdex]

Finding the items on other toons would be the easy part, but to actually pull stats from items is beyond what I would try to figure out.

 

[Mythas]

I think you could query it with SQLite, but it might take a bit. Items.csv is approximately 134MB. Still, a 30 second hang might be preferable. I wonder if there's a property exposed to us for when the EQ item window does it's little comparison shenanigans?

 

[methodx]

Mq2itemscore does what you want without the gui stuff, I've just started using it myself in the last week. You set it up and shout a link over /gu and then your toons will say over dannet if the item is an upgrade for them and by how much. I just have it comparing/scoring AC and HP for mine.