Online Players Viewer

Bladefist · Post by **Bladefist** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 12:33 am

I've released a little tool called the Illarion Online Players Viewer some time ago. In fact I've finished the first version about two years ago, but it was only available to the Grey Rose until now.

I've decided to make it available to the public and just created a website for it. I hope you like it.. feedback is welcome

[Feb 9th] Version 2.91 released.

Go there for details: http://illarion.moo3.at/

Cuderon · Post by **Cuderon** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 12:42 am

Thank you!

I was wondering when the new one would come out.

Bladefist · Post by **Bladefist** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 12:50 am

It's still version 2.5, I just thought I should announce that there's an Online Players Viewer

Kincent Nolatri · Post by **Kincent Nolatri** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 12:54 am

umm....Be for I download this could you tell me what it does I'm a bit confused

Caranthir the great · Fri Aug 08, 2003 12:57 am

Hey, this is neat.
Many thanks

Bladefist · Post by **Bladefist** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 12:59 am

Kincent Nolatri wrote:umm....Be for I download this could you tell me what it does I'm a bit confused

Sorry, I thought the description at the website is enough.
Basically it shows you the people currently playing Illarion. Another feature is that you can decode the names.dat file which stores the names and corresponding numbers. The numbers will get displayed next to the names in the online list. You may also add comments to players.
I think the rest should be explained well at the website.

Josefine da Vince · Post by **Josefine da Vince** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 1:03 am

Thanks a lot, this program realy is neat!

Kincent Nolatri · Post by **Kincent Nolatri** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 1:03 am

Thanks,

Crosis · Post by **Crosis** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 2:00 am

I downloaded the program, it works nicely, but when I tried decoding the names.dat files for my characters, it always came up with errors. It lists a couple names saying they are not valid interger values. Is anyone else having this problem?

Kincent Nolatri · Post by **Kincent Nolatri** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 2:25 am

Yes...I had this problem too

Crocket · Post by **Crocket** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 2:25 am

That program is awesome. Thanks

Sir Giandor · Post by **Sir Giandor** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 2:28 am

look at the format that your txt file already have.

Bladefist · Post by **Bladefist** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 2:32 am

Crosis wrote:I downloaded the program, it works nicely, but when I tried decoding the names.dat files for my characters, it always came up with errors. It lists a couple names saying they are not valid interger values. Is anyone else having this problem?

Could you give me more details.. are you sure you've set the path to the names.dat file in your Illarion directory correct?

Umar · Post by **Umar** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 6:43 am

how did you make teh backround for the website?

Salathe · Post by **Salathe** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 12:09 pm

yea crosis, i kind of have that problem, when i click decode names.dat a errror thing pops up and says ironhad|O|Kringin then i have a blank list...

Josefine da Vince · Post by **Josefine da Vince** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 12:26 pm

I got the same problem as well. It says

'Sunny' is not a valid integer value.

then I get a list with some zeros '0' and on the bottom it shows two names, well it kind of does.

26452
urnupto¨YBrendan Mason the Fisherman_jSir 2048

And I am sure that I set the path to the names.dat in the illarion directory folder.

Bladefist · Post by **Bladefist** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 12:34 pm

Thanks! To be honest I wasn't able to test the program with the latest Illarion client (no account). If anybody would be so kind to send me his/her names.dat file I could try to solve the problem.

Please email to: bladefist@moo3.at

Another question: Did people who you already knew had to introduce themselves again after the last (few) client version(s)?

Ghoun · Post by **Ghoun** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 12:56 pm

Yes all the people had to introduce again.

The program is quite nice, except for the names display. I will send you my names.dat !

Bladefist · Post by **Bladefist** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 12:59 pm

Thanks Josefine, Aragon and Ghoun!
I think I'll be able fix the problem today

Bladefist · Post by **Bladefist** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 1:00 pm

Umar wrote:how did you make teh backround for the website?

I took it from another site and modified it. Source: http://spellforce.moo3.at

Bladefist · Post by **Bladefist** » Sat Aug 09, 2003 3:58 am

I've released version 2.6 of the Illarion Online Players Viewer. It now supports the names.dat format introduced with the latest Illarion clients. The source code has been completely re-written which should optimize the overall performance. Added some new graphics and other minor changes. I've tried to update the online groupfile too.. I hope I could include the most important guilds.

HP: http://illarion.moo3.at
Direct Download: http://www.moo3.at/illarion/opv/onlineviewer.zip

Please report if anything's not working properly now. When decoding the names.dat file it could happen that some names will appear more than once (that's what happened with Josefine's file). That's not an error in the decode algorithm, but content of the file if people introduced to you before and again after the format change of the names.dat file.

Bladefist · Post by **Bladefist** » Sat Aug 09, 2003 9:21 am

Another 2 errors have been found:

The program is looking for illonlinegroups.data instead of .dat. I've forgotten changing this back from debugging.
If there's only one player online the label "There is 1 player online.." doesn't get displayed correctly.

Bugs like that happen when you're rewriting the whole program, I apologise. Thanks for reporting the bugs to Crosis.
A new version will be out soon.

Kincent Nolatri · Post by **Kincent Nolatri** » Sat Aug 09, 2003 9:25 am

I downloaded 2.6 the other day and didn't see that problem,maybe I missed it,or maybe I'm crazy.

Ghoun · Post by **Ghoun** » Sat Aug 09, 2003 9:53 am

There are lots of new errors!

This morning I tested the 2.6.
Well, no player was online, a mix of some html tags and a few other crap stuff was listed. The second error was that the onlineviewer said that the illnamegroups.dat is no valid Illarion names dat file.
What did you do, Bladefist...?

Bladefist · Post by **Bladefist** » Sat Aug 09, 2003 11:34 am

Ghoun wrote:There are lots of new errors!

This morning I tested the 2.6.
Well, no player was online, a mix of some html tags and a few other crap stuff was listed. The second error was that the onlineviewer said that the illnamegroups.dat is no valid Illarion names dat file.
What did you do, Bladefist...?

Hehe, yes those are exactly the bugs I've been talking of

Give me some minutes.

Bladefist · Post by **Bladefist** » Sat Aug 09, 2003 11:53 am

Version 2.7 - Bugfree this time I hope.

http://illarion.moo3.at/

Ghoun · Post by **Ghoun** » Sat Aug 09, 2003 12:55 pm

Allright, everything works correctly now!

Sir Giandor · Post by **Sir Giandor** » Sat Aug 09, 2003 2:17 pm

How can i use the decode modus. It only show me 100 of persons. Nothing else.

Bladefist · Post by **Bladefist** » Sat Aug 09, 2003 2:42 pm

Sir Giandor wrote:How can i use the decode modus. It only show me 100 of persons. Nothing else.

That's the purpose.
The following information is stored in the names.dat file:
Number (+ Length of corresponding name) + corresponding name of all characters that have already introduced themselves to you.
If you try to open the file with notepad or a hex editor you'll only see the names and some symbols. With the Online Players Viewer you can have a look at the decoded file (=correct display of names and numbers).

Ghoun · Post by **Ghoun** » Sat Aug 09, 2003 4:46 pm

I think his problem is that he is just shown 100 of the introduced persons in the onlineviewer but in his list there should be more than just 100.