V4.1 Progress

Arcon is really trying to get this deadlocking thing on 4.1 worked out. He's mutexing this and that and unmutexing that and this. I don't know how much progress we're making really, but I can tell you that something he did made battlemod/gearswap/shortcuts load instantly. No more lag at all.

Anyway, I went through tonight and updated all addons in the 4.1 repository to the 4.1 syntax for registering events. This quite possibly caused massive numbers of syntactic errors. Please post if you notice anything.

Old Syntax :

New Syntax:

If you have personal addons that use the old syntax format, you will want to update them as the old format is not going to be supported in the near future.

Battlemod v3 has been released into the wilds of v4.1.

It blocks messages by altering incoming packets, which avoids some of the errors that occurred with Battlemod v2. It should no longer interfere with add_to_chat in any way.

There is a chance that certain AoE things that no longer condense. I changed how this works and need to make an explicit remapping list. Let me know if you see this.

Bug reports go here please! https://github.com/Byrth/Lua/issues

Thanks for the hard work. Didnt know 4.1 was out!

It's the experimental version. We currently have a deadlocking issue (POL freezes) that makes it kind of painful to play. On the upside:
1) Chat log blanking is gone, to the limits of our ability to find it.
2) We have a metric shitton more tools for Lua.

Killer, i just DLed it, where is the location of the 4.1 directory?

Found it, just kinda tosses it in the folder you ran installer in

ffxidb is bad ***! Is there any documatation on it? I would like to see whatelse it can do.

NP!

I'm not sure about FFXIDB documentation. The guy that made it (months ago) now plays FFXIV pretty heavily I think. There is a pretty reasonable chance that it doesn't all work, as I think it had some compatibility issues in the last few months.

Also, mind what I said about freezing. The current joke on the #lua IRC channel (you can get there via ffochat) is that one of the Windower Devs has his finger on a freeze button that he hits as soon as we mention we're going to do anything important. Got KB to 10%? Freeze Button! Entering Salvage? Wait 10 minutes, then freeze button! Skilling up on mandies? Nope, no need to freeze then.

It's only a joke in the sense that we laugh about it. I almost lost KB the other day and crashed 5 times while fighting the SSR2 boss.

I think you're talking about Timers. Battlemod is the one that changes the chat log text for battle messages.

Are these the settings you're looking for? Those are what I use. If you're having trouble with text overlapping between bars, you might want to use the <barspacing> property.

Hmm, tried 4.1... Says guildwork is out of date and that I should download an up to date version.

Deleted guildwork.dll, loaded launcher, clicked to download guildwork and same thing. Are we supposed to download it from another source?

Guildwork doesn't work on v4.1.

I am currently rewriting battlemod's filter system. v3 is going to be pretty dramatically different from the current version.

Probably some new message that isn't in the dialog.xml resource yet.

>< Does Stan have any plans to do something about it?

Stan doesn't want to support three versions of Windower, and for some reason he supports v3.4 and v4.0.

dialog.xml should be auto-updated when it's pushed.

That's not Stan's fault, there have been rather severe API changes between the two versions, and the GW plugin used much of the API, which means it needs a lot of adjusting to work. I'm hoping to get it done soon, I already know what needs changing, but for reasons I can't add them right now. Won't be long, though.

GearSwap and Battlemod are back to working together. Please let me know if you observe any odd behavior. Off the top of my head:
1) I expect that Scavenge and probably Libra are broken.
2) Target condensation for certain spells may be broken.
3) For some reason Spikes do not use the simplified battle lines.
4) I changed various settings and I'm not sure what I changed them to.


The major benefits of this version are:
1) No longer blocks by color code, so you can add_to_chat any color without fear.
2) Blocks and changes text in a more robust way, so it shouldn't break as often in the future.
3) Condenses text in a much more robust way, so it shouldn't break at all in the future.

Does 4.1 include LuaSocket?

Not yet. We want to add it but are very busy working on other things atm. We just eliminated one major deadlocking bug, although others remain, but at least it's going somewhere.

LuaSocket will be added when we get the rest of 4.1 fixed and stable.