Parcel Organizer

[EnGarde]

Ok, maybe that name isn't really the best, but this is what I am thinking. After hunting, I tend to have a lot of crappage in my bags. Tradeskills, loots, etc. I keep a pantheon of mules for dropping trade stuff on and then all my characters as well. So I run up to the parcel guy and start trying to organize my loots to send em all out to various toons. What would make this so much easier is when you click on the parcel guys, a popup comes up with all the names of your toons in it, you click on a name, it places it in the parcel destination and then you proceed to shoot em out. Click another name and continue. Ooops, forgot something, go back to one of the last toons and send it out. It's only about putting the name in the box so I don't have to type it in each and every time and have the possibility of mis-typing the name. A popup kinda like the guild portal one, possibly best as a plugin perhaps but not absolutely necessary.
Anyway, this is something I want to do myself and I'm trying to wrap my head around it, I've never done any UI stuff. Nor a plugin.
If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them...
Thanks

 

[durango773]

There is a parcel mac? or plugin? that ships stuff off, havent really messed with it.

 

[Littch]

Interesting concept, could be useful. Let’s say your on a toon and bought a bunch stuff off of the bazaar on one toon and need to sort through it and distribute it amongst your box set.
Sure would be good tool to have, make it a lot easier to manage things like that.

 

[Lidori]

This is what I use. https://www.redguides.com/community/resources/itemsorter.1265/

Works great, runs off an ini which is not great, but allows quick ini update by hovering over new item and pressing a hotkey... which is AWESOME.
Since there's only one ini file, ANY character can use it. Run to parcel guy, open his window, type /mac itemsort and go make a cup of tea..

 

[Littch]

Let’s say I buy all the blood-soaked items off the bazaar vendor and I’m on my SK. Now they all sitting in my SK’s parcel and I have to scroll through them all and pull them out hopefully I got enough bag space to grab them all to hand them to each of my box set.
Or parcel every thing to them all piece by piece.
Just saying a true plugin to open when dealing with a issue like I just explained would be a nice tool? Walk up to the parcel guy run the macro/plugin and it opens it up like Boxer plugin window UI , where you have options click on to G inv task add etc, but this is the stuff in your parcels you click on item in the window and it has your box teams names etc and away it goes to them
Hopefully this makes sense to somebody?
Maybe it’s just me?

 

[rojadruid]

There is a parcel mac? or plugin? that ships stuff off, havent really messed with it.

Yup and a very good macro at that. its only for Tradeskill and Collectibles. but great for freeing up bag space in a hurry.

 

[EnGarde]

Thanks for the feedback. I did see the parcel.mac, but it's really not what I am looking for. That sorting script sounds interesting, so I downloaded it and will give it a look. I've got a number of things in the oven atm so I don't know exactly when I am going to begin work on my macro.. so for now I will just cogitate on it for a bit. But I do plan on making it available in the near future..
Until then...
Cheers!

 

[RobRenfro]

Interesting concept, could be useful. Let’s say your on a toon and bought a bunch stuff off of the bazaar on one toon and need to sort through it and distribute it amongst your box set.
Sure would be good tool to have, make it a lot easier to manage things like that.

Or you want to avoid sending a full suit if 120 Cleric gear to a 112 Monk. Like my dumb ass did

 

[EnGarde]

So I am looking for some code that is similar to The Portal Setter plugin in macro form so I can get an idea of how to create a popup box like that. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it...
Thanks

 

[ChatWithThisName]

Well there is a couple of ways to make a UI, neither of which are simple to explain.
You have the everquest UI hijacked and turned into elements using an XML. Which iirc requires a plugin to do.

Then you have imgui, which can be done with either a plugin or Lua.

Neither of the options will work for a macro.
So the options are do it with Lua, or do it with a plugin.
Regarding options for such a thing Lua is typically the most user friendly regarding access. There are a lot of examples in already existing projects. But there is no one size fits all.

I recently started working on a new interface to replace the xml variant moving to imgui and it was a bit to learn for sure, but overall if you're familiar with any programming then it's doable with a bit of effort.

Ultimately your best bet is to find a Lua or two that have a UI and download them, then look at how they are done.
Then try creating your own Lua and fiddle with all the options.

 

[EnGarde]

Well there is a couple of ways to make a UI, neither of which are simple to explain.
You have the everquest UI hijacked and turned into elements using an XML. Which iirc requires a plugin to do.

Then you have imgui, which can be done with either a plugin or lua.

Neither of the options will work for a macro.
So the options are do it with lua, or do it with a plugin.
Regarding options for such a thing lua is typically the most user friendly regarding access. There are a lot of examples in already existing projects. But there is no one size fits all.

I recently started working on a new interface to replace the xml variant moving to imgui and it was a bit to learn for sure, but overall if you're familiar with any programming then it's doable with a bit of effort.

Ultimately your best bet is to find a lua or two that have a UI and download them, then look at how they are done.
Then try creating your own lua and fiddle with all the options.

Thanks for the response. Sounds like such an easy little program, but it looks like I am gonna have to learn something new, lol. No experience with Lua. And have not done a plugin either. I did find a little Lua program that does some UI stuff that I have looked over.. but it's all greek to me.
Well.. guess I'll just have to pull up my sleeves and dig in. Thanks!