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| Compatibility: | Update 6 (1.6.5) |
| Updated: | 03/14/15 09:50 AM |
| Created: | 04/09/14 02:05 PM |
| Monthly downloads: | 58 |
| Total downloads: | 17,617 |
| Favorites: | 63 |
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| Categories: | Discontinued & Outdated, Graphic UI Mods, Info, Plug-in Bars, Utility Mods |
PL Research Timers 
As of 2015-06 I am not actively maintaining this mod any more as I have moved on to other things. Thank you to everyone who downloaded and used the mod. The source code is available on github (MIT license) should anyone wish to take over.
What's timers, precious?
PL Research Timers adds visual timer indicators to the UI which tell you how long you have left on your research. These times pop up either when you ask, or at certain important milestones. What do they look like? Like this:
These appear for a short period just below the compass/target name/target title. They tick in real time, then they go away again, so the UI isn't permanently cluttered. The addon can be configured to show you just one character at a time, or all the characters on your account.
You can show the timer info in these ways:
Timers will automatically appear when the research is at one of these default important milestones:
.. but you can configure these via the settings menu (under Research Timers > Alarm 1/2/3 time). You can even turn of the automatic timers completely (turn off Research Timers > Enable alarms).
Cross-character timers
PL Timers can show you timer information from all the characters on your account. Each character's timers and other information is displayed beneath a header when the timers are invoked (slash command, keybind, or log in).
This feature is optional and can be turned off in parts via the addon settings menu.
Alarms will also be displayed for research on other characters, if they pass through one of the milestones defined in the settings (default 1h, 15m, 5m).
This feature is provided to prevent you needing to switch characters as often, but bear the following in mind:
Configuration
You can configure the following things via Settings > Research Timers:
An optional keybinding can also be configured, but by default it is not. Find it under Controls > Keybindings > General > Research Timers.
Known Issues
I'm sure there's lots
Here's a list of issues I do know about. Yellow ones are my top priorities.
TODO List
What's timers, precious?
PL Research Timers adds visual timer indicators to the UI which tell you how long you have left on your research. These times pop up either when you ask, or at certain important milestones. What do they look like? Like this:
These appear for a short period just below the compass/target name/target title. They tick in real time, then they go away again, so the UI isn't permanently cluttered. The addon can be configured to show you just one character at a time, or all the characters on your account.
You can show the timer info in these ways:
- Just do nothing! Let your research happen. Then, when your research is at an important milestone the addon will show you the relevant single timer automatically.
- Log in - the timers can be configured to display when you first log in to a character.
- Via a key binding
- Use the slash command /timers
Timers will automatically appear when the research is at one of these default important milestones:
- 1 hour left
- 15 minutes left
- 1 minute left
.. but you can configure these via the settings menu (under Research Timers > Alarm 1/2/3 time). You can even turn of the automatic timers completely (turn off Research Timers > Enable alarms).
Cross-character timers
PL Timers can show you timer information from all the characters on your account. Each character's timers and other information is displayed beneath a header when the timers are invoked (slash command, keybind, or log in).
This feature is optional and can be turned off in parts via the addon settings menu.
Alarms will also be displayed for research on other characters, if they pass through one of the milestones defined in the settings (default 1h, 15m, 5m).
This feature is provided to prevent you needing to switch characters as often, but bear the following in mind:
- The game API does NOT provide a means to actively check other characters timers, so I have had to implement my own timekeeping, based on snapshots of timer data taken at regular intervals from the character you are logged in to
- Therefore you must log in to every character who has research timers periodically to allow the addon to gather up-to-date data from them, which it can then use offline.
- The timer data from your other characters is saved in a SavedVariable - which is what addon settings generally use - which means it will be 'reset' every time the game is patched. Just log in to each character and it will work again.
- The UI presentation degrades if you have LOTS of timers on multiple characters, because the list goes off the screen. This is something I really want to fix, but have not currently got the time or inclination to address.
Configuration
You can configure the following things via Settings > Research Timers:
- Enable/disable the addon functionality (n.b. the addon will still be loaded, just inert)
- Enable/disable sounds - the addon re-uses sounds from the stock ESO UI to draw your attention to timers.
- Enable/disable alarms (timers automatically appearing)
- Enable/disable timers being shown when you log in
- Enable/disable showing timers from all characters on login, when you use the keybind, or when you run /timers.
- Enable/disable alarm notifications for research on other characters (also applies to research completion notifications).
- The time remaining which triggers 'alarms' to be displayed.
- The time remaining which causes timers to be in red, amber or green state.
- Whether or not you care about un-used research slots.
An optional keybinding can also be configured, but by default it is not. Find it under Controls > Keybindings > General > Research Timers.
Known Issues
I'm sure there's lots
Here's a list of issues I do know about. Yellow ones are my top priorities.- If you have lots of timers they go off the screen.
TODO List
- Localisation - if you can translate into French or German, get in touch
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v3.3 released
v3.3 is live, with support for ESO 1.4.3, no longer nuking your settings on every update, LAM 2.0, and more. See changelog for details.
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09/11/14, 07:36 PM
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Timer issues are back with 1 character.
I log him in (fresh PL_Timers.lua), do a /script to dump the timer data. I see correct numbers duration = 2211840 remaining = 1506508 timerstamp = 1410484183 I then log out, and I see this in the saved variables for the same entry. duration = 2764800 remaining = 2059422 timerstamp = 1410484229 I've deleted the PL_Timers.lua, 2x now and only logged in this character with similar results. Not sure if it matters at this point, but I'm logged out in a VR zone. Gave it a few minutes, and wanted to again see if we could rule out the VR Zone being the issue (I happen to have just started a new VR Zone, Rivenspire) Knowing the values were still incorrect in my saved variables, I logged in and ported to a non-VR zone, did a /script dump of the timers, looked good. Logged out of the game completely. Checked saved variables and they look similar to the dump (they're good  )Ok...lets see if I can recreate this...good data in the saved variables, I log back in real quick, ported the character back to Rivenspire (VR Zone), dumped the timers, they looked good. Logged out of the game completely. Checked the saved variables and they're off again. Similar to what you're seeing above with the duration increasing back to 2764800 when it should be 2211840. No idea what's going on. Everything always looks fine in the game until I log out. |
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09/11/14, 03:01 PM
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Last edited by GetBackYouPansy : 09/11/14 at 05:04 PM.
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09/10/14, 05:38 PM
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Thanks for all your work
(BTW, I'm guessing you might be on the EU servers?)
Last edited by Rashy : 09/10/14 at 05:44 PM.
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09/10/14, 04:43 PM
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OK please do
I have an update in the works with a couple of minor changes in it, most notably upgrading to LibAddonMenu-2, putting the active char first and making the red/amber times configurable. I need to port CombatIndicator over to LAM 2.0 as well, then I can release |
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09/10/14, 09:11 AM
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09/09/14, 03:45 PM
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 thanks for pointing it out |
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09/09/14, 12:56 PM
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Haven't had much time to do some testing, but I'll will do it soon!
Meanwhile..while looking over your code, I noticed this... Code:
function PL_Timers:Initialise()
self:InitialisePools()
self.timerData = {}
self.activeCharacter = false
self.updates = 0
self.timerData = {}
self.currentAlarms = {}
self.slotUsage = {}
self.renderList = {}
self.gracePeriod = false
EVENT_MANAGER:RegisterForEvent(PL_Timers.name .. "OnPlayerActivated", EVENT_PLAYER_ACTIVATED, function(...) self:OnPlayerActivated(...) end)
EVENT_MANAGER:RegisterForEvent(PL_Timers.name .. "OnPlayerDectivated", EVENT_PLAYER_DEACTIVATED, function(...) self:OnPlayerDeactivated(...) end)
Just an FYI |
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Last edited by GetBackYouPansy : 09/08/14 at 11:35 AM.
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09/07/14, 04:23 PM
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Can you try this? It's a bit long-winded, sorry:
* Delete saved vars * Start game * Log in as Char X (timers will appear and be correct) * Dump the timer data with /script, record the duration, remaining and timestamp for one of the timers (doesn't matter which, just one that you know will end up wrong later). * Sanity check: those times should be consistent with the timer you saw on login. * Log out to character selection (leave the game open) * Saved vars file should have appeared, grab the same three values from the same timer, I expect them to be about the same * Log in as Character Y * Sanity check: Saved vars file should not have changed * Timers displayed for X are correct? * Dump timerData again, grab the values for the chosen timer * Log out to character select * Saved vars file should have updated. Timer data for Y will have been added (if any). Timer data for X should NOT change. * Log back in as X, again sanity check that saved vars don't change * Dump timerData, sanity check it matches displayed timers * Timers are correct * Log out * Sanity check: saved vars file updated (new times, which are consistent with timers display in game), only X's data should change * Log in as Y * At this point timers start appearing incorrectly? * Sample the timer data and saved vars again. Hopefully that is the minimal case to reproduce this now, in which case I'd be interested to know the duration, remaining and timestamp from each time they were sampled in-game or from the saved vars. The basic procedure from here is start from nothing then work out at which point the problem first appears by sampling the saved vars and ingame vars at each point along the way. I'm still failing to reproduce this locally so I only have your data to go on, which is frustrating as I want this 'bug' gone now 
Last edited by GetBackYouPansy : 09/07/14 at 04:30 PM.
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Last edited by Rashy : 09/07/14 at 02:47 PM.
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