Question: Settings order

[Hunteil]

Just a question oh mighty and wise one :-) : In the Settings.ini Can sections be reordered without anything going wrong?

i.e.

'# Text example1 '# Test example1 more text

'# Text example2 '# Test example2 more text

Then move example 2 in front of 1. (b/c it's easier to find a topic you change often) ps: had to add ' to stop formatting here

[Hunteil]

If not then I can add this as a request to move these various items as I think it would be useful grouping in this order. (Currently there's a lot of hunting for and picking and often I forget to check a setting elsewhere b/c it's no where near it.) i.e.

Place these under: Set resource cost of activities Dungeon solo threshold Dungeons to run Raids to run Dungeon/Raids to run Thursday World Boss settings Expedition settings Trails/Gauntlet Decrease difficulty when you lose (settings) PvP GvG PvP stripping World Boss Settings

then auto-consume (move here b/c this is edited often) auto-revive auto-shrine auto-rune etc etc etc (everything below is fine)

[Fortigate]

The order of settings is currently arbitrary, you can move around as you wish.

I have the same issue, I've had a few attempts at changing the template to make it more readable, but at the end of the day its a plaintext settings file and with all the new features it's not very user friendly to find the setting you want to change. If you want to change the template to make it more user friendly feel free to submit a pull request and we'll take a look.

[Hunteil]

by pull request... do you mean pull it myself and edit or just make a suggestion?

PS: I went and edited my template. Looks way better now. :-) ty

[Hunteil]

I think I understand. I'm uploading now.... err I made a fork... Not sure if I did this right sorry. Never used github to edit anything before.

https://github.com/Hunteil/BHBot/commit/8351929a5de2701792389fcbe712d7869a39683b

[ilpersi]

This is quite interesting as I also don't like the current setting.ini system.

What we have is a very old legacy from when the bot has been originally created by Betalord and I never changed it as, even if a bit messy, it works quite well and it is really easy to maintain (if you want to add a new setting, it takes minutes to do it).

Ideally speaking, if you could create a system from scratch, what would you like to have to manage configurations? :)

[Hunteil]

I'm actually fine with the ini system as I've used ini files before to adjust background settings in other professional applications and games. Just wish I can bold and make things easier to see without adding extra accidental code that could mess up the host program.

But I'm also fine with a dialog box to fill out my settings. Something with multiple tabs like the first tab is general settings. 2nd tab basic dungeons/raids/gauntlet/trail/expeditions etc etc. The 3rd would be auto functions like auto-consumables etc... last would be the left over stuff I've never had need to touch. And the nice thing about these is you can't mess them up as a user by accident. And settings you need will always be displayed (no hidden settings like my useDoNotShareURL). You can also set this up as a launcher of some sort. But I'm not sure how hard all of that is to setup and edit/update overtime.

Speaking of that dialog box... I can see that being a stand alone UI mini program that just edits the ini file for the users. Just a easier interface for those who need to edit it often.

PS: if you do this... make sure you can point the program ini in focus... So those who are using the bot in more than 1 instance can edit for each. Also there would be a save/update ini button and a launch button if your doing that.

[ilpersi]

If you ask @Fortigate he will tell you that having a launcher is something I would like to since at least one year 😄

It would mean a lot of work/time and honestly, considering this is a free tool, for the moment I gave up.