[b43-1.0.5] Inventory Show All Tabs/Tier-1 Short Circuit Opt

[Zizzo]

So the upcoming v1.3 release apparently modifies the short-circuiting behavior this addon was created to manage: instead of being punted straight to the last level, the player gets a dialog on entering the zone asking whether to short-circuit.

Now, as currently implemented, setting this addon's "Short-circuit some early dungeons" to disabled will go to the first level of the zone without prompt, and setting it to enabled will revert to the base behavior of showing the dialog. Given this, do you the playing audience consider this addon to be obviated by the new dialog (and thus potentially to be removed from ZOmnibus)?

[Actually, now that I think of it, an "Always/Never/Ask" setting as done in Opt-In Adventurers Parties would be nice... [sound F/X: source diving] hmm, no, the dialog is buried far too deep in Game:changeLevelReal() to be able to superload around it; never mind, then.]

[Effigy]

I don't use ZOmnibus, but I will continue to use this addon because I don't plan to ever skip to the last level and I don't want to see a dialog everytime.

[Zizzo]

I don't use ZOmnibus, but I will continue to use this addon because I don't plan to ever skip to the last level and I don't want to see a dialog everytime.

That's my sentiment as well, and since it's shared, I'll keep this addon active (with suitable tweaks to the option description for the v1.3 release).

[Zizzo]

As you probably don't recall, Inventory Show All Tabs By Default used to be part of ZOmnibus, and I deprecated it and clawed it back out when the bug we were working around was reportedly fixed in release 1.0.6. Well, apparently "reportedly" is the right word, because I still run into it sometimes. The quickest way to reproduce it is to create a new Cornac character, leave Trollmire immediately, go to Derth, and go to a store therein; you should see that only the Weapons tab on the player inventory side of the store dialog is selected.

Well, no code ever dies permanently in a Subversion repository, so I've exhumed this addon and bashed it back into proverbial fighting trim (man, I used to write atrocious code 11 years ago… ) and I'm re-releasing it as v2. [Heck, this predates the Steam release; I'm actually gonna have to make a Steam page image for this sucker. ]

[Now, as I said, this addon was originally part of ZOmnibus (heck, it was one of the founding members), but nowadays I would categorize it as a bugfix addon, and we can see from this addon's own history why I'm reluctant to add those to ZOmnibus…]

[Implementation notes:]

Code: Select all

Hooks:
  ToME:load [to set 'first time' flags for our supported dialogs]
Superload:
  mod.dialogs.ShowInventory:
    firstDisplay() [to fix tab selection on first open]
  mod.dialogs.ShowEquipInven:
    firstDisplay() [as above]
  mod.dialogs.ShowStore:
    firstDisplay() [as above]

[GokuderaElPsyCongro]

Ooh that makes me wonder: is it possible to sort the inventory by Recency? (From latest picked item to oldest)

[Zizzo]

Ooh that makes me wonder: is it possible to sort the inventory by Recency? (From latest picked item to oldest)

[sound F/X: source diving] Hmm, tricky; the game doesn't record when an item was picked up. The UI would also be a question: is this something you'd want on all the time, or something you'd want to be able to toggle in the inventory dialog somehow? Would you want pick-up time shown in the inventory list?

[GokuderaElPsyCongro]

Is this something you'd want on all the time, or something you'd want to be able to toggle in the inventory dialog somehow? Would you want pick-up time shown in the inventory list?

It's definitely something I'd love to have enabled at all times. I often pick a big stack of items without looking and find myself scrolling through the transmo tab trying to find what I just picked. A solution I had to that is to directly seek the item tooltip in the message log, not ideal but yeah…
For my use pick-up time wouldn't be needed.

[Zizzo]

It's definitely something I'd love to have enabled at all times. I often pick a big stack of items without looking and find myself scrolling through the transmo tab trying to find what I just picked. A solution I had to that is to directly seek the item tooltip in the message log, not ideal but yeah…
For my use pick-up time wouldn't be needed.

Okay, I've released a stab at this. I figured Inventory Sort Order would be the best place to add this functionality, since we're already sorting stuff.