Trac B0T Status

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 5:59 am

just thought i would upload a pic of the bot so far. its an animated gif so watch it as it aint a still image

ps. this will not be the look of the end product
a note on variables

theres currently only 2

%user% - this is replaced with the username of the person who said the command

%extend% - if you have a rather long command you can make the rest of the text a new message (example: line one %extend% line two) line two would be typed as a new message kinda very useful for long responses as trac has a limited amount of text allowed

any input on the bot would be welcome especialy functions i could add or more variable ideas

Post by **DeVice** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 9:04 am

What is actually the purpose of that "bot" proggie ? Is it in anyway related with the game ???

I frankly don't get it

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 10:00 am

ah yes sorry i forgot to mention

its a bot for a-tractor and you can have it for 2 things

1) as a sort of help menu system type thing

2)fun

is that what you wanted to know dev ?

Post by **DeVice** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 12:06 pm

Ok, not something you plan to be able to interact with island servers so, just a new chat thingy, right ?

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 12:53 pm

if you mean by interacting with the actual server window, yes it can the bot is 99% window manipulating to do what it does

if an island owner wants to use it on there island to run 24/7 for helping people then they can set it loose on the chat screen in the actual server rather than the client chat

can work bothe ways

hedgehog · Post by **hedgehog** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 1:47 pm

awesome andy, was wondering if you were still moving ahead with that thing :]

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 2:04 pm

oo, nice, should be able to easily set up an islands automated help system with it.
i've still been unsuccessful in trying it via AIM / MSN / mIRC so far.

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Sat Dec 13, 2003 12:12 am

yeah h, ive not had time to come on the net to test it with tractor so i couldnt realy update it

zar i aint sure about servers yet, but i promise you ill get it to work on the server window. aint had a chance to download the server yet
(EDIT: i just downloaded the server software and and the bot doesnt need any extra code to get chat text and send messages to chat

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updates:
re-written the window handling from scratch. now 100% user friendly
before when you wanted to use the bot you had to drag a little circle on to the chat area and then the message area. rather annoying after a while dont you think

so now it can find all your open tractor chat screens and gives you a list of islands to use it on where as before it would have some trouble if 2 or more islands were open.

it also had trouble finding the window if there was another topmost window like ie explorer or windows folders (will make it easier to use bot without it needing to be on screen, same goes for the server i asume)
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ill keep this post updated on major changes i make to the bot as they are completed.

Hero · Post by **Hero** » Sat Dec 13, 2003 3:54 pm

what languege are you programming in cuz i could help and/or you can teach me

looks like vb....i like c++ tho i think vb is a hight abstraction level languege

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Sat Dec 13, 2003 9:04 pm

vb.

dont need any help. thanks anyway

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 10:07 pm

will release bot for a field test as soon as i sort out some security setting stuff for island owners

owners of an island can ban bots that are being used on there island by other people
all they have to do is type 'bot ban' into there server chat to ban a bot

(bot has to be in chat at the time this will not ban all bots from entering chat unless i can sort somthing out with mit)

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 11:17 am

script editor binned

i had some problems testing it with zar and to get it working properly id need alot of 3rd party ms ocx's & dll's which would all be larger in file size than the bot its self is already

instead ill make a better command editor. same as old one but better

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 4:03 pm

will release bot for a field test as soon as i sort out some security setting stuff for island owners

owners of an island can ban bots that are being used on there island by other people
all they have to do is type 'bot ban' into there server chat to ban a bot

(bot has to be in chat at the time this will not ban all bots from entering chat unless i can sort somthing out with mit)

i was just sitting here thinking of what i should do on the bot today and i was thinking of owner security settings to ban bots from there island and and how to do it without the owner having to type bot ban for every single bot that enters chat. then it hit me like a brick. use island public notices

add a public message syaing "no bots allowed" (all lower case no quotes) and before the bot even gets into chat it reads it all from start to finish and if it doesnt see the no bots allowed message then it asumes that bots are allowed

all to be done now is fixing pm function and a wildcard thingy that whirl suggested (add *before command in command editor to make the bot listen for command within a chat msg) then ill release it

Whirl · Post by **Whirl** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 6:05 pm

Nice idea

Finally public island notices come in handy.