SRL Archive - Suggestions

Hey,
There are a lot of suggestions/feature requests. Because I want to see what needs to be done now and what doesn't I decided to skim through all requests and categorize them in three categories: Minor, trivial things, stuff that requires a bit of more work and things that can wait until 2.0 or whatever.

Trivial

• CRTL-G goto linenumber
• File, goto scripts/includes folder Implemented in extension
• Get/Setstatusbartext
• PROPER file directories (application data)
• Drag 'n Drop support (I'm 99% sure I once added that to Simba/Cogat/Whatever..) yes it was added
• Force one instance of Simba

Medium

• Subsections in functionlist
• Right-click for help in functionlist
• Custom hot-keys
• AddPostFile
• Debug stepping/run til line
• UAC support for updating (relates to #4 trivial)
• Tabbed debugging

Major

• Color entropy and texture finding
• Other scripting engine(s) (DWS/CPascal/whatever)
• Multiple scripts/SMART
• Scriptmanager
• Silentmouse
• Script formatter
• Autosave/restore from Simba crashes Done as an add-on!
• Session save/restore
• Multithreaded scripts (really hard due to PS thread unsafety).

Uhm yea this is all I could find right now, post below or edit this post in case you got more (and please, use strike tags when it's already done)

Appa working. I believe Ray said it was something to do with the plugin interpreter. It can't use the records from plugins currently? This is probably close to major but I am unsure.

Change syntax font highlighting styles!

If someone else has other ideas or requests, it may be a good idea to post them here.

From: Markus

• Tabbed debugging

Yes please.

Maybe a code formatter?

the code thing that eclipse does

in eclipse you can put { then press enter and it will add a } and indent

this will make code easier to read and will stop begin/end expected errors as it will be done for them
it will also save people some time, of course this should be able to be switched off for people who cant get the hang of it



also maybe redo the settings gui so it looks nicer and easier to understand

~shut

The latter one sounds like someone who has a little bit knowledge of Lazarus can do. :)

EvilChicken already made a start for a more user-friendly settings interface, once. I'll ask him to send it to me and perhaps one of you can make a start with the settings interface? If you have some there, that is.

Add "Text from clipboard"

function TextFromClipboard : String;

Pretty self-explanatory. Add a function that takes text from the clipboard without the need for roundabout hidden forms.

Edit:
Another something I thought of: OCR doesn't work in Windows 7 due to everything being clear-typed. It'd be a nice it this could be somehow improved, but I know that's a pretty major thing.

From: fmagreed2
Add "Text from clipboard"

function TextFromClipboard : String;

Pretty self-explanatory. Add a function that takes text from the clipboard without the need for roundabout hidden forms.

Edit:
Another something I thought of: OCR doesn't work in Windows 7 due to everything being clear-typed. It'd be a nice it this could be somehow improved, but I know that's a pretty major thing.

It has been addes some time ago. It'll be in the next Simba release. http://git.villavu.com/?p=simba.git;a=commit;h=7f23ae10b5d940e44e43f7902eb39206d7dccd0e
What do you mean OCR does not work?

Sorry for the long-delayed response. I've had other priorities lately.

OCR doesn't work because of Cleartype on Windows 7. I'm sure it's fine RS/similar java apps, but it's useless for other purposes. Windows blurs all the text to make it prettier/more rounded. Anti-aliasing of sorts.

http://www.fsxtreme.com/images/zoom.gif

Also, using nightly build 2010-12-05_16_42 the function getclipboard doesn't return a string (or, more accurately, seems to return an empty one). setclipboard() works as expected.

I finished Sockets today =)

From: fmagreed2
Also, using nightly build 2010-12-05_16_42 the function getclipboard doesn't return a string (or, more accurately, seems to return an empty one). setclipboard() works as expected.

Im a bit late but…. WFM

program new;
begin
  WriteLn(GetClipBoard); //Copy This -> Hello?
end. 

Compiled succesfully in 16 ms.
Hello?
Successfully executed.

This is the output when I run it.
Win 7 x64

Compiled succesfully in 15 ms.

Successfully executed.

Apart from the debugging I don't see a whole bunch of feature that I find very useful… Markus, we're still waiting on you to do the ``proper'' file structure. ;)

It would be cool if we could have a function list, except instead of loading up whatever functions it normally loads you could favorite functions. So you'd have a favorited function list, and it would be a nice little look up for functions you use the most often.

I didn't read to see if it was already suggested, but I code in Dreamweaver a lot (For work, not here :P), and one nifty thing you can do with that is click on the line number and it will select that whole line of code and you can drag it to select more and such.

What would be an even better addition to that is if you clicked on one line of code and then ctrl+click on another one (That is not continuous) to select to lines of code that are separated by other lines of code. If that makes sense.

The ability to write/compile/execute multithread scripts?

Edit: If its possible to do this already, then ignore this.

From: Markus

Medium

• Tabbed debugging

Workin on it =)

What I got so far, https://github.com/Dgby714/Simba/commits/TabbedDebug

function GetBitmapCanvas(bmp: integer): TCanvas;

From: marpis
function GetBitmapCanvas(bmp: integer): TCanvas;

TMufasaBitmap has no canvas. You'll have to convert it to TBitmap to perform Canvas specific stuff and then copy/convert it back.

From: Wizzup?
TMufasaBitmap has no canvas. You'll have to convert it to TBitmap to perform Canvas specific stuff and then copy/convert it back.

I want to copy a part of client canvas to a TCanvas so that I could easily handle the TCanvas in my plugin. How could that be done?

… What exactly does this famous plugin of yours do, it keeps needing more and more features… :p

Anyway, <MufasaBitmapHere>.ToTBitmap

From: Wizzup?
… What exactly does this famous plugin of yours do, it keeps needing more and more features… :p

Anyway, <MufasaBitmapHere>.ToTBitmap

^^ It gets your tile using only colour. It's actually working already, takes 500-1500ms to finish the search, and this bitmap thing is to make it more like 200-1000ms. Atm my bitmap handling is kinda inefficient.

Basically, I want to grab 100x100 bitmap from minimap and turn it into a T3DIntegerArray that will be used later. Atm I'm doing it in Simba, cause I don't know how to handle bitmaps in plugins and it takes over 250ms to make the damn T3DIntegerArray and that's way too long.

Something I noticed last night was when you go to close tab it doesn't always go in order from right to left and will skip around which can be annoying when you want to close multiple tabs in a quick secession of each other.

From: marpis
^^ It gets your tile using only colour. It's actually working already, takes 500-1500ms to finish the search, and this bitmap thing is to make it more like 200-1000ms. Atm my bitmap handling is kinda inefficient.

Basically, I want to grab 100x100 bitmap from minimap and turn it into a T3DIntegerArray that will be used later. Atm I'm doing it in Simba, cause I don't know how to handle bitmaps in plugins and it takes over 250ms to make the damn T3DIntegerArray and that's way too long.

Are you importing the MML already? Might as well do the hardcore manipulations in precompiled code, since we all know PS is already very slow.

From: Nava2
Are you importing the MML already? Might as well do the hardcore manipulations in precompiled code, since we all know PS is already very slow.

I don't understand a word of that :p

How about adding a script compare option, where the user can compare two scripts and it points out the differences between the two and/or an option to view two scripts side by side in one instance of simba instead of opening up two.

P.S. The Ctrl-G option has been added, so maybe you can cross it out. :)

From: kongking
How about adding a script compare option, where the user can compare two scripts and it points out the differences between the two and/or an option to view two scripts side by side in one instance of simba instead of opening up two.

P.S. The Ctrl-G option has been added, so maybe you can cross it out. :)

Paste both scripts with Paster and click the compare button…

From: marpis
I don't understand a word of that :p

I think in your other thread I also said you had to include MML. (The one with the FastGetPixel question) I also stated that if you posted the source I could help adding MML to it.

How about an interactive mode like the one python has?

I crossed out Go-to line number (it's now Ctrl + G), and for "File, go-to script/includes folder," Quickmarch made an Explore Folders extension. I can't imagine that would be too difficult to add to Simba (not the extension, but the actual Explore Folders part).

I also suggest a bookmark scripts feature where you can set certain scripts as favourites so they're easier to open. :)

Bookmark scripts, I like it.

Yeah, that's a great idea :)

Two things I'd like to suggest:
1) When the client is selected and i pick a color using the color picker, it deselects the client, so if i wanted to get say 20 different colors at different points I'd have to select the client after every time I pick a color, can you make it so it doesn't 'forget' the client.

2)Allow the color history to be saved in something like pixel-color format(eg: (120, 120)-16635) or another format which is easier to include in a script, rather than the current xml format(or whatever is being used now)

A procedure to return the created date of a file

From: KingKong
Two things I'd like to suggest:
1) When the client is selected and i pick a color using the color picker, it deselects the client, so if i wanted to get say 20 different colors at different points I'd have to select the client after every time I pick a color, can you make it so it doesn't 'forget' the client.

This doesn't happen to me

Add an beep sound when an error comes up when a script stops running pl0x(due to an unforeseen/random error)

From: KingKong
Add an beep sound when an error comes up when a script stops running pl0x(due to an unforeseen/random error)

And make it optional in the settings… Possible not a compiling error though(it would be annoying for debugging)

From: KingKong
Add an beep sound when an error comes up when a script stops running pl0x(due to an unforeseen/random error)

Do it in your script?

begin
  try
    { Script Here }
  except
    PlaySound('error.wav');
  end;
end.

Doing that will play the sound, but it won't show where and why the error occured.

From: Dgby714
Do it in your script?

begin
  try
    { Script Here }
  except
    PlaySound('error.wav');
  end;
end.

From: KingKong
Doing that will play the sound, but it won't show where and why the error occured.

begin
  try
    { Script Here }
  except
    PlaySound('error.wav');
    ExceptionToString(ExceptionType, ExceptionParam);
  end;
end.

Tried that, but seems to only tell me why, and not the where.

E: Is there a list of all the functions with explanations that are native to simba anywhere, because that would solve all my problems and would prevent me hijacking this thread

From: KingKong
Tried that, but seems to only tell me why, and not the where.

E: Is there a list of all the functions with explanations that are native to simba anywhere, because that would solve all my problems and would prevent me hijacking this thread

http://docs.wizzup.org/simba/

Request: CTRL + D to clear debug so I wont have to click the icon :)

/Lazy

From: Dgby714
http://docs.wizzup.org/simba/

That doesn't list all the functions :(

On the sidebar in Simba there is a list of all inbuilt functions and procedures, but I'm not sure if it gives a description.

You can click on them, to view them in source code :)

How difficult would it be to add the ability to export a script to an executable file? Not necessarily for scripts, but for small programs in general.

From: Coh3n
How difficult would it be to add the ability to export a script to an executable file? Not necessarily for scripts, but for small programs in general.

pretty difficult.

Tho you can manually do it by making a new project in Lazarus, add MML and PS to it, and hard code the script in.

From: Coh3n
How difficult would it be to add the ability to export a script to an executable file? Not necessarily for scripts, but for small programs in general.

We had a project previously that did this. Can you be more precise?

From: Wizzup?
We had a project previously that did this. Can you be more precise?

I'd like to be able to make an .exe that the player can place, say, on the desktop, which when opened, will load and run a script that the player already has downloaded (So there's no hidden code or anything)

From: Zyt3x
I'd like to be able to make an .exe that the player can place, say, on the desktop, which when opened, will load and run a script that the player already has downloaded (So there's no hidden code or anything)

I think this is what everyone is trying to get to but unless all our scripts use Player forms then it'd be pointless. I'd like to see that happen all the same. I plan on making a ton of Forms for everyone's scripts anyway.

~BraK

From: BraK
I think this is what everyone is trying to get to but unless all our scripts use Player forms then it'd be pointless. I'd like to see that happen all the same. I plan on making a ton of Forms for everyone's scripts anyway.

~BraK

Making forms isn't hard at all. :)

Wouldn't it be easier to have a few built-in forms for Simba that any script can just use? Something like a player manager. This is somewhat planned for the script manager.

From: Wizzup?
Wouldn't it be easier to have a few built-in forms for Simba that any script can just use? Something like a player manager. This is somewhat planned for the script manager.

The SRL Player form has been needing rewriting for a while I might look into bringing it back eventually. It's been on my to do list for a good minute.

~BraK

I think hotkeys or custom hotkeys should be major. As its probably gonna get used alot more. Also a find next function would be nice:P

From: Main Ftw
I think hotkeys or custom hotkeys should be major. As its probably gonna get used alot more. Also a find next function would be nice:P

Find next function?

I mean "find next" function, the button you see when you press control f to search something. Simba highlights it instead of scrolling.
Just a personal perference, and it'd be awsome to have one:P.

From: Main Ftw
I mean "find next" function, the button you see when you press control f to search something. Simba highlights it instead of scrolling.
Just a personal perference, and it'd be awsome to have one:P.

I agree with this… It supposedly has a find next function… if you check the edit tab… It isn't working for me for some reason…

From: Main Ftw
I mean "find next" function, the button you see when you press control f to search something. Simba highlights it instead of scrolling.
Just a personal perference, and it'd be awsome to have one:P.

Just hit the enter button and it will find the next one..

Wizzup, I just meant like an option to export to .exe. Tools > Export. And like Zyt3x said, can run straight from the desktop. Also a generic player form would work for username/password, but unless it can be changed to work with whatever the script needs, it seems kind of pointless to me.

@BraK, yeah, if you want a form for every script, fixing the SRL Player Form would be the easiest thing to do.

From: Coh3n
@BraK, yeah, if you want a form for every script, fixing the SRL Player Form would be the easiest thing to do.

If I do I doubt it will be Multi Army. Most likely will be just multiplayer :p Might look into it after I finish building the one for Awkwardsaw. I'm having problems getting motivated/getting distracted by other things :)

~BraK

From: BraK
If I do I doubt it will be Multi Army. Most likely will be just multiplayer :p Might look into it after I finish building the one for Awkwardsaw. I'm having problems getting motivated/getting distracted by other things :)

~BraK

Oh yeah of course, it should just be a tool available to scripters to make a basic form that get's the job done.

From: Coh3n
Wizzup, I just meant like an option to export to .exe. Tools > Export. And like Zyt3x said, can run straight from the desktop.

But not export it in such a way that it makes the code unreadable. This way there's not a security threat

From: Zyt3x
But not export it in such a way that it makes the code unreadable. This way there's not a security threat

Is that possible?

From: Coh3n
Is that possible?

Anything is possible with programming! :p :)

It must be possible.

At least making a shortcut to simba like this: "Simba.exe –open C:\Simba\Scripts\Myscript.simba –run –hidesimba" (E: This wont work yet. Simba only accepts –open (-o) and –run (-r) so far)

From: Zyt3x
Anything is possible with programming! :p :)

It must be possible.

At least making a shortcut to simba like this: "Simba.exe –open C:\Simba\Scripts\Myscript.simba –run –hidesimba" (E: This wont work yet. Simba only accepts –open (-o) and –run (-r) so far)

What if your script runs on the rs website version? So just in a browser like IE?

From: masterBB
What if your script runs on the rs website version? So just in a browser like IE?

Then we'd need a function like FindWindow() or something

From: Zyt3x
Then we'd need a function like FindWindow() or something

You can use GetProcesses and search thru it.

From: Zyt3x
Anything is possible with programming! :p :)

It must be possible.

At least making a shortcut to simba like this: "Simba.exe –open C:\Simba\Scripts\Myscript.simba –run –hidesimba" (E: This wont work yet. Simba only accepts –open (-o) and –run (-r) so far)

The very simple solution to that could be to just use Simba and try to add some sort of resource file to it. Lock the editor (perhaps even hide it), hide the things you don't need and there you have it?