Can you search for a container moreover a gump

Can I search or find stuff like bufficons_gump or spellicongump?

Thanks

Can we(moreover, you) set Ctrl-F to the Find/Replace menu?

Not a sales pitch!

DirecTv has a new tool in beta that used to be called widgets but now is called TVApps.  They are just a frame work to put a 400x300 image on your screen, but a clever fellow can do fairly cool things with this.  It does not yet allow for interactivity, but it has an auto-refresh rate.  One cool thing to do is to gather some information and then create your own dynamic image that's 400X300 and send it.

I said that to say this.  I have a few published widgets and I understand their plumbing fairly well so I can hijack my own widget to display stuff only I want to see.  I built a widget to report on my miner.  Last night while my miner was out and about he woudl update that silly database thing that I started playing with.  Then every 15 seconds my directv widget updates and shows me what he's up to.

I do a little image manipulation so that teh vast majority of teh 400x300 image is transaparent then I write a one liner about the status that is transalucent.  So I can still watch TV upstairs while the miner runs downstairs.

If you're a geek, this is kinda cool.

If you're in a guild you can have your guildies run a macro when they log in and then you can push that info to your DirecTv tuner.  If you wish then you can go to the computer and play.

Feel free to move this if I posted in the wrong forum...

Now I recall the day when there was that goofy *variablename and that went to the registry I believe, which I hate that.  Philosophically, stay out of my registry.  Practically it's no fun to try and extract data from when using external apps.

So then folks started writing to files and who does love the DOS flash and the sweet speed of that process.  I didn't like this either.

I then recall someone starting to exec stuff like exe or vbs files, but then you had to either code the receiver app to accept a bajillion commands or you had to concatenate the send then unbundle the concatenation at the receiver.

I always hated most of those, because it was not easy to keep track of changes and the like.

I'm a Application Architect and Database Programmer.  So I like stuff stored in relational databases.  What I did was leverage the send HTTPPost and a localhost website that interacts with a database.  I like this because I can quickly create data repositories and I have front-ends to look at the database and change settings or analyze data, etc.

As an example.  I am mostly stealing CyperPopes radar and Papua Rune Wall Mining.  No code is reused but I did use their code as my study guide.  My mining routine will find all the rune books in your pack with a keyword in them.  It will then start the day by mining all the spots in those books.  Similar to Papua.  I mine all spots the first time around.  I modified it to pick one tile in each resource grid within my reach.  Once I hit ore i log the x,y,z,tile,facet as a mineable location.  So on future visits we only mine the mineable spots.  I log all ore that is extracted (by color) as well as granite and gems.  After the first loop of the day (visiting each book and rune within) it sends me all the ores that were found and then I tell it which spots to mine that day.  I have only run this two days so far, but imagine I could analyze the data to possible determine if there is a pattern to how they spawn the ore.  But how I use the data is not the topic.

Btw, this works really well for storing different settings for different characters.

Since I like this method of persistent data and assume not everyone is sitting at home with a SQL server and IIS or the ability to code IIS.  How do I really post useful scripts? 

And besides it being less portable, what other gotcha do you think I'm in for?

Where are the Heartwood scripts?

btw, what is heartwood?

please note tongue firmly planted in my cheek.

I too left UO for many a year and recently found more time to play.
I'm currently modifying my mining to work a little better with what I presume to be a server uptime randomizer.  <-- If anyone wants to confirm this please do so.

Hopefully I can spend time here as well as in my EUO editor.

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I play on OSI Atlantic mostly.  I float in and out of guilds as they often ebb and flow.  I have a few PvP chars a few social chars and a boatload of mules.