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Samapico · Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 2:05 pm Post subject: <C> cmdlist

Following the discussion in this topic, I made a simple ?cmdlist module.
It will list all the commands available to the player, for all the modules in the arena. The commands are sorted alphabetically. It lists commands that can only be sent privately separately. However, commands that can be sent both publicly and privately are only shown in the 'Public commands' section, it would be pretty spammy otherwise.

It needs to be loaded right after the chat module, in modules.conf.

Feel free to make improvements on this and post updates.

Source and windows binary included.

Possible improvements:
-Filter option (i.e. "?cmdlist set" would return all commands containing "set")
-Column formatting (sort commands and display them top to bottom, left to right, instead of left to right, top to bottom)
-Get the chat interface in POSTLOAD or on the first ?cmdlist called; this would allow us to load the cmdlist module earlier
-Variable number of columns / column width, perhaps even automatically adjust the column width depending on the longest command name

UPDATE 20/02/2011: Uploaded new version. Includes makefile. Compiles and runs properly both on Linux and Windows.
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Cheese · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:21 am Post subject: Re: <C> cmdlist

Dr Brain · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 6:52 am Post subject:

The server does know the client's resolution, you know.
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Samapico · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 8:09 am Post subject:

By the way, these 'possible improvements' are stuff that I probably won't do myself (unless I specifically need it at some point), but you're all welcome to do it

Cheese · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:23 pm Post subject:

Arnk Kilo Dylie · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:16 pm Post subject:

Server doesn't know the text size the client is using though

Anyway...I was hoping that you wrote something that magically could replace hz's cmdlist module. While you're doing a clever hack, I figure cmdman needs to be redone anyway...grouping commands into sections is a must--such that one could filter out staff vs player commands, commands for each module or game, etc. That's already on the list of 1,000 desirable asss revamps that might happen in the next 10 years...ramble ramble

P.S. Would recommend not using POSTLOAD.

Samapico · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:38 pm Post subject:

Arnk Kilo Dylie · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:54 pm Post subject:

I know, that's why I brought up that cmdman needs an overhaul anyway. Oh, and capman too...

Brainstorm things you need in new versions of those and it might happen.

Samapico · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 6:59 pm Post subject:

One way to do things would be:

1) Add a 'AddCommand' function that has another parameter for a 'category'
2) The default AddCommand would use "" as category

Unless there's really a way to know from which module the AddCommand was called from...

And to differentiate player commands from staff commands, the only way I can think of is some kind of:
GroupHasCapability(somegroup (i.e. "default"), somecapability (i.e. "cmd_stats")); function.
From what I see and understand in capman.c, it would be pretty easy.........
Actually:
return(cfg->GetStr(groupdef, somegroup, cap) != NULL);

Samapico · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 1:12 am Post subject:

Found a stupid bug in function AddCommandInt...

Correct code:

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local void AddCommandInt(const char *cmdname, CommandFunc func, Arena *arena, helptext_t ht)
{
LOCK_MUTEX(lockcmd);

commandInfo* cmdinfo = (commandInfo*)amalloc(sizeof(commandInfo));

instead of [...]sizeof(commandlist)[...]

Updated first post

Cheese · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 10:25 am Post subject:

recompiled from source with this fix, and it works 100% now

good job, this thing is awesome

also, since this is probably going to be used by everyone, variable column lengths and vertical alphabeticismness are going to be pretty much mandatory.
ill write it when i get some free time in about six months from now...

PS filter would be icing on the cake

Samapico · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 11:49 am Post subject:

Dr Brain · Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 4:33 pm Post subject:

If your looking for output formatting, hs_util's menu module works decently well.

http://forums.minegoboom.com/viewtopic.php?t=8092
and
https://bitbucket.org/drbrain/hs_util/

I think Jowie wrote a python equivalent.

JoWie · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 6:31 am Post subject:

Align column left, right or center
Custom characters for the borders (padding, configurable width for borders, custom junction chars, etc)
Maximum width based on screen resolution
Maximum width configurable with the command ?menuwidth (persistent)
Multiple tables within a menu can be stretched to each others width
Column less tables (text area) within a menu
Custom seperators
Toggle visibility of columns
Calculates the best column width to use based on the data contained in each row (like html tables)
word wraps column data without breaking lines

Requires cPickle