guild name display ideas?

[mvern]

I was looking into trying to find a good way to add a guild name display for players, and I've ran into some trouble. So far I've got the easy part covered, I can display guild id #'s, but getting actual names is a bit more difficult.

My understanding of the system is, the guild names are stored on the client in guilds2.dat, and it only gets updated at certain times when it changes, or you switch servers. Anyway, the problem is, I havent come up with any easy way to keep showeq aware of, and updated with, the current guild name database.

If I cant come up with a simple way to handle this, I'll clean up what i have so far and just post a patch in the next couple days to display the actual ID #'s atleast. They almost never change for an existing guild, so its still useful for setting up alerts for a rival guild or something. Maybe someone else can pick up from where I left off and add actual names eventually.

[high_jeeves]

I would recommend just putting the onus on the user. Just read from the whatever guilds2.dat file is placed in the showEQ directory to get the names. If the user doesnt keep the file up to date, they wont get the right info.. "Automating" this could be more trouble than it is worth.

Just make sure there is plenty of error checking , incase the id is higher than what is found in the file and such...

--Jeeves

[fryfrog]

i like jeeves's's idea the best, just get the user to place the guild file into the seq dir. isn't there something like that already? the spell casting messages file? i should put that into my seq dir shouldn't i :)

[fee]

The ability to map guild names to guild numbers will be coming soon to a cvs near you. Please be patient.

Fee

[Aelorean]

I get this feeling we're in for a nice, new release of ShowEQ soon! *dance*

[link129]

Anything new with the Guild names? I'm looking forward to filtering out people in range of me from my Guild (without adding individual names) to my PVP category.

[fee]

Soon

[baelang]

EDIT: nevermind. i was wrong.

but i am sure fee has it worked out already.