hooker

WHY DO I CARE?
well good golly miss molly, hooker is insanely cool (i'd say roXors ... but i'm toooo old for that). now that i've got her, i can ... umm ... er ... well ... what CAN i do with hooker? explain to me why i care?!

as it so happens, hooker will catch ANYTHING put into the char bar, whether typed by the user, or generated by an extrnal macro program like ACScript. So hooker becomes a simple communications mechanism by which ACScript can write something to the AC chat window that the USER can see ... but is not shouted for all the world to hear (well, read actually. whatever). 

HOW DO USE hooker?
simple ... just use the fSay() function of the acscriplib, and start the text with /D.

So go change your ACScript macros to:

    fSay("/D Mana Potions Complete");
        rather than
    ac.debug("Mana Potions Complete");

yes, this is probably the simplest plugin anyone would ever write ... but it works for me. hope it does for you.

ANYTHING ELSE?
not really. the hook text and color is settable through an ingame decal control, as well as a master enable/disable check box. note that while the enable/disable checkbox is effective immediately upon clicking, any changes to the hook text and text color boxes are NOT applied until the "SAVE AND APPLY" button is pushed.

OTHER THOUGHTS
possible bugs: does/how does she interfere with other plugins using the same hook text?
possible enhancements
  * obviously, the major enhancement would be to move the text from the chat window to a decal control ... since decal does not have a multi-line text box, the best way would be to do this in a scrollable list. i'm working on that, but am having some problems managing the list size so far ... but expect it in the not too distant future.
  * validate hook text and text color immediately upon change, rather than upon button press
  * work with ACScript to add a parameter to the ac.debug function to "output as fSay"
  * hook the Windows OutputDebugString function for true transparency
  * audible output for incoming messages
  * priority/filters for different hook texts
  * external script launcher

CREDITS
All the credit goes out to Your God: this would not be possible without Text Hack -- hooker is REALLY just a heavily abridged version of Text Hack.