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EC: Tracking skill UI and additional improvement (part 2)

ForeverFunForeverFun Posts: 888
in General Discussions
This is a version 1 of some UI / behavior improvements to tracking.

  1. Introduces Interface.ForcedTrackingType (defaulted to tracking players) to allow the first tracking gump to be auto-selected.  See this thread for background on EC auto-selecting gump choices.
  2. Second tracking gump will automatically be handled for player tracking, if forced by #1.
  3. New TrackingIgnoreList provides a list of target names to avoid tracking.
  4. New TrackingEnemyList provides a list of target names to prioritize tracking.
  5. Target selection will automatically ignore already tracked targets.
  6. Target selection will automatically ignore party members.
  7. Target selection will automatically ignore guild members. (must have green mobiles dock enabled)
  8. Target selection will automatically prioritize orange targets as enemy (must have orange mobiles dock enabled).
  9. Player target selection is generally automatic. and will hide gump when no suitable targets (based on logic above).
The logic can be easilly extended to cover prioritizing reds/blues, etc.  Uncomment out the Debug.PrintToChat() statements for debugging purposes.

Feel free to suggest changes/other logic.

First, pickup the changes at this link.

The changes in this thread are all made to GumpsParsing.lua

Add this right under GumpsParsing.SOSTids.  Note the names are case-sensitive unicode, with no titles or suffixes.
GumpsParsing.TrackingEnemyList = {L"Yoshi",L"Mervyn"}					-- enemies to prioritize tracking.  All entries are Unicode strings (must have L prefix)
GumpsParsing.TrackingIgnoreList = {L"Trinity",L"Neo",L"Morphius"}	-- players to ignore for tracking.  All entries are Unicode strings (must have L prefix)
GumpsParsing.TrackingForcedType = 0

Add this under following line in GumpsParsing.ShowHide:
    for gumpID, value in pairs(GumpData.Gumps) do

		if (gumpID == 12350000)	then	-- GUMP_TRACKING_ONE
			local buttonID = 0

			-- 1= Animals, 2=Monsters, 3=NPCs, 4=Players
			if(Interface.ForcedTrackingType) then
				buttonID = Interface.ForcedTrackingType
			else
				buttonID = 4								-- default to tracking players if no type set
			end

			if(buttonID ~= 0) then
				GumpsParsing.PressButton(gumpID, buttonID)	
				GumpsParsing.ToShow[gumpID] = 0
				GumpsParsing.TrackingForcedType = buttonID	-- save away type that was automatically selected
			end
		elseif (gumpID == 12350001)	then	-- GUMP_TRACKING_TWO
			local enemyindex = 0
			local foundEnemy = false
			local founddata = {}
			-- you see no evidence of those in the area (avoids tracking_two)
			
			if( GumpsParsing.TrackingForcedType == 4 ) then		-- if players were automatically selected in GUMP_TRACKING_ONE, trigger additional logic.
				for labels, data in pairs(GumpData.Gumps[12350001].Labels) do
					if(data.text ~= nil) then
						founddata = data.text
						break
					end
				end
			end

			for entry, textentry in pairs(founddata) do
				local foundIgnore = false
				local trimmedname = textentry

				-- strip out Lord+Lady from returned string choices. tracking gump data doesn't include suffix in name
				trimmedname = wstring.gsub(trimmedname, L"Lady ", L"")
				trimmedname = wstring.gsub(trimmedname, L"Lord ", L"")
				
				local ofPos = wstring.find(trimmedname, L"%sof%s")		-- tracking names can include trailing "of Vesper"
			
				if(ofPos) then
					trimmedname = wstring.sub(trimmedname, 0, ofPos-1)
				end				

				-- skip ignorelist targets
				for i = 1, #GumpsParsing.TrackingIgnoreList do
					if(trimmedname == GumpsParsing.TrackingIgnoreList[i]) then	-- exact string match
						foundIgnore = true
						break
					end
				end

				if(foundIgnore == true) then
					--Debug.PrintToChat(L"foundIgnore, ignoreList ".. trimmedname)
					continue
				end

				-- skip party members
				for mobileId, bho in pairs (PartyHealthBar.PartyMembers) do
					if(PartyHealthBar.PartyMembers[mobileId].name) then
						pname = PartyHealthBar.PartyMembers[mobileId].name
						pname = wstring.gsub(pname, L"Lady ", L"")
						pname = wstring.gsub(pname, L"Lord ", L"")
		
						if (wstring.find(pname, trimmedname)) then	-- pname can have suffixes, etc
							foundIgnore = true
							break
						end
					end
				end

				if(foundIgnore == true) then
					--Debug.PrintToChat(L"foundIgnore, partymember "..trimmedname)
					continue
				end

				-- skip guild/friendly
				for mob, value in pairs(MobilesOnScreen.MobilesGreen) do

					if(WindowData.MobileName[value] ~= nil and WindowData.MobileName[value].MobName ~= nil) then
						mobname = WindowData.MobileName[value].MobName

						if(wstring.find(mobname, trimmedname)) then	-- first parameter may have stray [XXX] (young), " The " " Of "suffixes
							foundIgnore = true
							break
						end
					end
				end

				if(foundIgnore == true) then
					--Debug.PrintToChat(L"foundIgnore, guild "..trimmedname)
					continue
				end
				
				-- skip target already being tracked.
				
				for waypointId, whocare in pairs (TrackingPointer.TrackWaypoints) do
					
--					if(WindowData.MobileName[waypointId] ~= nil and WindowData.MobileName[waypointId].MobName ~= nil) then
--						local mobname = WindowData.MobileName[waypointId].MobName	--wstring.trim(WindowData.MobileName[waypointId].MobName)
					if(TrackingPointer.TrackWaypoints[waypointId] ~= nil and TrackingPointer.TrackWaypoints[waypointId].MobName ~= nil) then
						local mobname = TrackingPointer.TrackWaypoints[waypointId].MobName
						
						if(wstring.find(mobname, trimmedname)) then	-- first parameter has suffix, guild etc.
							foundIgnore = true
							break
						end
					end
				end
				
				if(foundIgnore == true) then
					--Debug.PrintToChat(L"foundIgnore, already_tracked ".. trimmedname)
					continue
				end

				-- check enemylist
				for i = 1, #GumpsParsing.TrackingEnemyList do
					if(trimmedname == GumpsParsing.TrackingEnemyList[i]) then	-- exact string match
						foundEnemy = true
						enemyindex = entry
						break
					end
				end

				if( foundEnemy == true ) then
					--Debug.PrintToChat(L"foundEnemy, EnemyList ".. trimmedname)
					break	-- exit loop.
				end				
				
				-- check for enemy/orange
				for mob, value in pairs(MobilesOnScreen.MobilesOrange) do
					if(WindowData.MobileName[value] ~= nil and WindowData.MobileName[value].MobName ~= nil) then
					
						mobname = WindowData.MobileName[value].MobName

						if(wstring.find(mobname, trimmedname)) then	-- first parameter may have stray [XXX] (young), " The " suffixes
							foundEnemy = true
							enemyindex = entry							
							break
						end
					end
				end

				if(foundEnemy == true) then
					--Debug.PrintToChat(L"foundEnemy, enemy/orange "..trimmedname)
					break
				end
				
				-- default to selecting current item (not marked enemy, not marked ignore), continue search for better match
				enemyindex = entry

			end	-- found tracking (players) target names loop

			if( enemyindex ~= 0 ) then
				GumpsParsing.PressButton(gumpID, enemyindex)	
				GumpsParsing.ToShow[gumpID] = 0
				--Debug.PrintToChat(L"Tracking selected targetname ".. founddata[enemyindex])
			elseif( GumpsParsing.TrackingForcedType == 4 ) then
				GumpsParsing.ToShow[gumpID] = 0	-- avoid showing the gump if no enemy identified, and Players checking was used
				--Debug.PrintToChat(L"Nothing to do, hiding tracking gump")
			end
		end


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