Telnet to EQ Machine on Zone?

[ether]

I really thought I'd seen this mentioned before, but all the searching I've done has turned up empty...

I don't want to run my key grabber in a continuous cycle. Call me paranoid or whatever, but I just don't like it. Plus, with any sane loop time, there would be a delay when zoning anyway. So, I just run it once everytime I zone, and that works fine.

What I'd like to do though, is find a way to have SEQ run a telnet session to the EQ machine and execute the key grabber when SEQ sees that I'm changing zones. I'm fairly confident that I can add that functionality myself, but I just wanted to make sure it's not already something that's down before I fool with it.

[l0s3r]

just zone, go to window mode, run your shortcut, go back to full screen mode.

[ether]

That's what I do currently. It's just a little bit cumbersome, and I'm overly anal about getting things working together just right.

I'm sure I can dig in and add that myself. I just wondered if it was already a feature (since it seems like it would be useful for pretty much anyone) that I've overlooked. Maybe an optional external script execution on zoning, or something.

[forty-two]

You could add a spawn filter for your character, and when you zone in and therefore spawn, it triggers the telnet... and just have a perlscript running on your EQ machine that watches Socket connections on a certain port and execs the sniffer when there's one.

That's it.

[cbreaker]

You could also have something on your windows machine watch your log file for "Loading.." or something, and run the key sniffer then.

[ether]

Now, that's an excellent idea, Cbreaker. Thanks.