[Data Mods] ESO Grinder

[Baertram]

Thanks for this addon + description what it does. Sounds handy.

Just an idea and I do not know what the python poll will use for system ressources and how it checks if changes were done at the sv file (like read last changed date and time only or open the file, parse and read a line to see if a flag "updated = true" was set?
Every 3 second seems a bit too quick/often imo. SV only update at loading screens or logout so 10seconds or even 30 should be enough.

Maybe python is also able to see if the process eso64.exe is running and if not auto load the sv fle data once as it was updated for sure at logout then.
But this would need to poll for the exe file/process in a short timeframe again so this wouldn't be a win :-)

[marcjordan]

Originally Posted by Baertram Thanks for this addon + description what it does. Sounds handy. Just an idea and I do not know what the python poll will use for system ressources and how it checks if changes were done at the sv file (like read last changed date and time only or open the file, parse and read a line to see if a flag "updated = true" was set? Every 3 second seems a bit too quick/often imo. SV only update at loading screens or logout so 10seconds or even 30 should be enough. Maybe python is also able to see if the process eso64.exe is running and if not auto load the sv fle data once as it was updated for sure at logout then. But this would need to poll for the exe file/process in a short timeframe again so this wouldn't be a win :-)

I played around with the polling initially a long time ago and in frustration defaulted to using the filecmp.cmp(shallow=False) command to compare the save file to a local copy of the last changed file - with shallow=False it compares the files, not timestamps. I'm not sure of the performance but I don't seem to notice any issues while playing. I'll be adding some timing measurements to the Python soon.

Thanks for taking a look.

[marcjordan]

Originally Posted by Baertram Thanks for this addon + description what it does. Sounds handy. Just an idea and I do not know what the python poll will use for system ressources and how it checks if changes were done at the sv file (like read last changed date and time only or open the file, parse and read a line to see if a flag "updated = true" was set? Every 3 second seems a bit too quick/often imo. SV only update at loading screens or logout so 10seconds or even 30 should be enough. Maybe python is also able to see if the process eso64.exe is running and if not auto load the sv fle data once as it was updated for sure at logout then. But this would need to poll for the exe file/process in a short timeframe again so this wouldn't be a win :-)

I fixed the file change detection with the watchdog Python module. Check it out.