A really needed addition: the restart command!

Mindhunter

Yo topic was: Re: A really needed addition: the restart command! Â ;D

Not is FLAC good and should we pay for it.
Thats no solution we dont run flac and we’re not going to buy or to run it.
Nothing against the tool itself, i’ve tried it .
But we’re talking about Char restarts like /restart outcast/navy/corsair for Hook

FR

@Dragnite_MU:

… have a problem paying for FLAC …

Let me answer with an other quote:

…
239. Never be afraid to mislabel a product
…

from the Ferengie rules of aquisition.

It’s up 2 Eagle 2 request money for FLAC.
It’s his stuff, it’s his right 2 request money.
And FLAC will be worth the 35€.
And It’s our right 2 make no use of it, if we don’t like 2 pay.

What i don’t like is calling a price a “minimum donation”.
Selling it is business - as Milkshape does.
And everyone has 2 earn some money 2 pay the bills.

But this is trying 2 take us 4 fools - and it obviously works,
or did anyone donate some xtra $/€ 2 the Milkshape fellows
in addition 2 the price they request 2 pay.

FriendlyFire

I think F!R is right, but, as Mindhunter said, I think we should slowly get back to the original topic of this thread. If you want to continue this discussion, feel free to make a new thread.

Wicked_Witch

@Dragnite_MU:

Makes me laugh that so many people have a problem paying for FLAC

And it makes me wonder how less people know the devenition from the word “donation”
A donation is a free amount of fee, stuff which people can decide how much he/she wanna give.

A program like for instance Milkshape, it’s a payed program. If you go to the store, than you buy your shoppings. The price you pay for that, you call that also a donation? i’m not.
So in this case, how good or bad FLAC is, it’s a payed program for commercial use. The price you have to pay for the program is 35 euro. So, this isn’t a donation.
Otherwise he leave the amount of fee up to the people themselves

Don’t care if he ask a price for it, that’s not my point.
Everybody needs to make a living. And if he can sell the program for good bucks, fine.
But pls, be honest than, and don’t call it a
“donation”

So, i wouldn’t be laugh to loud if i was you

@Friendlyfire: Sorry, both make the post at the same time.
Right, back to topic

jase240

I run Flshell and Flhook at same time on my server, so I dont have any need for this command hehe.

OPR8R

yeah but unfortunatly flshell does refuse to work on 64bit servers

Grey_Wolf

@jase240:

I run Flshell and Flhook at same time on my server, so I dont have any need for this command hehe.

Sounds like a familiar Combination to me as well. And OPR8R is right, FLShell is older, out of development and we have no access to the source code to fix it. In my case, FLShell’s console key intercepts are snagging the /u admin command, basically neutering any FLHook /u… command in the version we are trying to use, most annoying to some is /uncloak. But even with this “reason” to want FLShell replaced, some of the other items “We” use likely would not allow 64bit anyway. ;D

So for now has any additional progress on a plug-in in this area been made as yet?

AND PLEASE, No more from FLAC camp in the FLHook threads, it is getting as pitiful as sending Ford Car Salesmen to sabotage a Chevrolet auction.

jase240

yeah and it cant be that hard to code a simple restart template plugin,

HazardFN

No idea how anyone would go about implementing this theory but here are my thoughts on the subject:
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1.Have a folder server side with template FL Files in e.g.

1.Smuggler - Imperials
2.Smuggler - Rebels
3.Heavy Bomber - Imperials
4.Heavy Bomber - Rebels
5.Pirate
6.Civilian

2.A player types /restart in game and he/she is offered that list, they type in the corresponding number

3a)they are kicked, their FL File is deleted and replaced with the template they chose (obviously with the same name and directory)
OR
3b)they are kicked, the contents of the template are copied and pasted into their FL File…

jase240

could be done by having it edit all but the name of the char in the FL file probably, but how to code that…

Schmackbolzen

As I stated before I already have solved this and recently ported every feature I wrote for New Universe to a plugin, including the restart command. I did some changes to the restart and so far there were no bugs discovered, so i am thinking about releasing the restart command as a plugin soon. The question is wether to wait until I implemented to change the ship and loadout or not. Depends on what the people want I guess

jase240

you could do it now and then, basicly other ppl will edit anything to fit their needs.

FriendlyFire

You can release multiple versions; I am sure people are dying for this feature…

Jerzy

Someone can will make a plugin based on this code. This is flshell-like restarts

void UserCmd_Dots(uint iClientID, wstring wscParam)
{
	if(set_bAllowRestarts)
	{
		WIN32_FIND_DATA FileData; 
		HANDLE hSearch; 

		wchar_t oldDir[MAX_PATH];
		GetCurrentDirectoryW(MAX_PATH,oldDir);
		SetCurrentDirectoryW(set_wscRestartDotsPath.c_str());
		BOOL fFinished = FALSE; 

		// Start searching for .fl files in the current directory. 

		hSearch = FindFirstFile("*.fl", &FileData); 
		if (hSearch == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) 
		{ 
			PrintUserCmdText(iClientID, L"Dots not found");
			FindClose(hSearch);
			SetCurrentDirectoryW(oldDir);
			return;
		} 

		wstring wscMsg =L"";
		string scFileName=""; 
		// 
		while (!fFinished) 
		{ 
			// add filename
			scFileName = FileData.cFileName;
			size_t len = scFileName.length();
			scFileName.erase(len-3,len);
			if (scFileName[0]!='_')
				wscMsg+=stows(scFileName)+L" ";
			if (!FindNextFile(hSearch, &FileData)) 
			{
				if (GetLastError() == ERROR_NO_MORE_FILES) 
				{ 
					PrintUserCmdText(iClientID, L"You can use these restarts:");
					PrintUserCmdText(iClientID, wscMsg);
					fFinished = TRUE; 
				} 
				else 
				{ 
					PrintUserCmdText(iClientID, L"Internal server error");
					FindClose(hSearch);
					SetCurrentDirectoryW(oldDir);
					return;
				} 
			}
		} 
		// Close the search handle. 

		FindClose(hSearch);
		SetCurrentDirectoryW(oldDir);
	}
	else
	{
		PRINT_DISABLED();
	}
}

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
void UserCmd_Restart(uint iClientID, wstring wscParam)
{
	if(ClientInfo[iClientID].bAllowRestart)
	{
		wstring wscError[] = 
		{
			L"Error: Invalid parameters",
			L"Usage: /restart <faction>",
		};

		wstring wscFraction = GetParam(wscParam, ' ', 0);

		if(!wscFraction.length())
			PRINT_ERROR();

		// get rank for MaxRank limit
		int iRank;
		pub::Player::GetRank(iClientID, iRank);

		// searching restart
		string scPathDot=wstos(set_wscRestartDotsPath) + wstos(wscFraction)+".fl";
		if(_access( scPathDot.c_str(), 0 ))
		{// file not exists
			scPathDot=wstos(set_wscRestartDotsPath) + "_" + wstos(wscFraction)+".fl";
			if(_access( scPathDot.c_str(), 0 ))
			{
				PRINT_ERROR();
				return;
			}
		}

		if (iRank > set_iMaxRank)
		{
			PrintUserCmdText(iClientID,L"Error: You must create a new char to restart. Your rank is too high");
			return;
		}

		wstring wscCharname=Players.GetActiveCharacterName(iClientID);

		// Kick player
		CAccount *acc = Players.FindAccountFromClientID(iClientID);
		HkMsgAndKick(iClientID, L" restarting... ",set_iKickMsgPeriod);
		acc->ForceLogout();

		// get savefile
		wstring wscDir;
		if(!HKHKSUCCESS(HkGetAccountDirName(acc, wscDir)))
		{
			string err=wstos(L"Restart failed. " + wscCharname + L" not exists. wscDir = "+wscDir);
			AddLog(err.c_str());
			return;// HKE_CHAR_DOES_NOT_EXIST;
		}

		wstring wscFile;
		HkGetCharFileName(wscCharname, wscFile);
		string scCharFile = scAcctPath + wstos(wscDir) + "\\" + wstos(wscFile) + ".fl";

		// delete savefile
		if(!(_access( scCharFile.c_str(), 0 )))
		{// file exists
			DeleteFile(scCharFile.c_str());
		}

		// rewrite savefile
		if(!(CopyFile(scPathDot.c_str(),scCharFile.c_str(),FALSE)))
		{
			string err=wstos(L"Restart failed. " + wscCharname + L". Files not copied ");
			AddLog(err.c_str());
			return;// HKE_CHAR_DOES_NOT_EXIST;
		}

		// restore nickname. Copy&Paste from HkRename
		wstring wscNewNameString = L"";
		for(uint i = 0; (i < wscCharname.length()); i++)
		{
			char cHiByte = wscCharname[i] >> 8;
			char cLoByte = wscCharname[i] & 0xFF;
			wchar_t wszBuf[8];
			swprintf(wszBuf, L"%02X%02X", ((uint)cHiByte) & 0xFF, ((uint)cLoByte) & 0xFF);
			wscNewNameString += wszBuf;
		}
		if(HkIsEncoded(scCharFile)) 
		{
			string scCharFileNew = scCharFile + ".ini";

			if(!flc_decode(scCharFile.c_str(), scCharFileNew.c_str()))
			{
				string err=wstos(L"Restart failed. Name " + wscCharname + L" not set. File ")+scCharFile;
				AddLog(err.c_str());
				return;// HKE_COULD_NOT_DECODE_CHARFILE;
			}

			IniWrite(scCharFileNew, "Player", "name", wstos(wscNewNameString));

			if(!flc_encode(scCharFileNew.c_str(), scCharFile.c_str()))
			{
				string err=wstos(L"Restart failed. Name " + wscCharname + L" not set. File ")+scCharFile;
				AddLog(err.c_str());
				return;// HKE_COULD_NOT_ENCODE_CHARFILE;
			}
			DeleteFile(scCharFileNew.c_str());
		} 
		else 
		{
			IniWrite(scCharFile, "Player", "name", wstos(wscNewNameString));
		}
	}
	else
	{
		PRINT_DISABLED();
	}
}
[/i][/i]</faction>

w0dk4

Can you give the name of the author of the posted code?

Should be very easy to put in plugin form. (copy & paste anyone^^)

Cannon

Right, I’ve hacked up a plugin with this functionality. You can get it here

http://host-a.net/Cannon/restart0.1_plugin.zip

I haven’t done much testing but it seems to work okay. Comments and questions welcome.

It’ll be up on the forge shortly…as soon as I can get the forge upload working again.

I’ve based the code on the post by Jerzy - with a few modifications. If anyone knows the original author(s) of the code please let me know and I’ll credit them.

FriendlyFire

VERY nice work there Cannon

FR

@FriendlyFire:

VERY nice work there Cannon

YUP!

(And i really enjoy, you just did + posted that, without telling half a year
‘Oh i v done that….’ - ‘…as i told before…’ - ‘…’ - ‘… i m soooo good …’
as we hear from other pebs, without ever seeing, what they did in fact.)

Jerzy

@w0dk4:

Can you give the name of the author of the posted code?

This is my code. I have made a mod to Alliance server. My FLHook AE = FLHook 1.6.0 without plugins + FLShell features + fixed reputation

Cannon

@Jerzy:

@w0dk4:

Can you give the name of the author of the posted code?

This is my code. I have made a mod to Alliance server. My FLHook AE = FLHook 1.6.0 without plugins + FLShell features + fixed reputation

Nice. Thanks for the code. I’ll update the plugin to say this.