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10/09/18, 06:57 AM   #3
Baertram
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I've loved the LOTRO inspection feature and show the bio as well!
Tried to do something like this within ESO but due to the lack of the sahring of information, it was not possible.

Maybe sometoime ZOs wil lgive us an extra chat addon channel where we could shre this kind of information, but for now you could only use something like this:

Write an addon which recognizes incoming whisper messages. If the whisper message got a special format like "/w @accountname/username -showbio" then answer something.
But as addons are not allowed to write automatically to the chat the answering user would need to get a popup saying there is a bio request and if he wants to answer, then click yes and press return key so the chat message is send.

The send chat message would be a string containing all the info you'd like to share. Maybe an external link to some "sahre my bio portal online" as the string cannot be that long, only xxx chars in the edit field. MAybe use libBinaryEncode or other compression/serialization methods on sender/receiver end.

So for now this would have to code a lot, implement checks like "do not allow to spam ask -showbio requests", "do not ask if in fight", "do not ask if duell accepted", "do not ask if ...." and so on.

This is only an idea. But would work with all kind of users.
Other users would need tha ddon instaleld too in order to make this work.

If you are in the same guild you can use the guild history text of each account but it's crowded with several addons already and also not that long in char count.

If you are in a group one could use LibGroupSocket to send/receive data via a mapping but this also will only allow a distinct kind of text length and information shared, maybe only integer values (never tested or used it).

Last edited by Baertram : 10/09/18 at 06:59 AM.
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