Auction Monitor! [Request Fulfilled]

[Amadeus]

I have no idea if this is even possible, but I would like to request a macro that would 'listen' on the auction and market channels for a particular string, and then send a siren/beep/something and spam me until I turn off the macro. It should allow for wildcards (in a perfect world).

For example: /macro AuctionMonitor.mac *othmir*

As soon as someone in either auction or market had the word othmir in their chat, some sort of audible alarm would go off and I would see their chat spammed to me in red or something every 2 seconds until I turn the macro off.

An added bonus is that this macro would work without the auction/market channels being visible. (From what I've seen of ShowEQ this might be possible).

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Perhaps someone else has a better way of implementing this idea, but was something that went through my head today

[L124RD]

Salutations,
Heres two macros for you, both falling under auctions...

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| repeatedauction.mac
| syntax: /mac repeatedauction <delay> "<msg>"
| for example /mac repeatedauction 300 "WTB ravenscale"
|   will auction 'wtb ravenscale' once every 30 seconds
sub main
 /auc $p1
 /varset t0 $p0
 :aucloop
  /if $t0==0 /auc $p1
  /if $t0==0 /varset t0 $p0
 /goto :aucloop
/return

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| auctionsearch.mac
| searches auctions for up to 4 words
| for example: /mac auctionsearch Raven Scale Ravenscale dex
|   returns only auctions that contain raven or scale or ravenscale or dex
#chat auc

sub main
 /varset v0 $p0
 /varset v1 $p1
 /varset v2 $p2
 /varset v3 $p3
 /echo Looking for auctions containing $v0 $v1 $v2 $v3
 :aucloop
  /doevents
 /goto :aucloop
/return

sub Event_Chat
 /if "$v0"!="" /if "$p2"~~"$v0" /echo $p1: $p2
 /if "$v0"!=""  /if "$p2"~~"$v0" /return
 /if "$v1"!=""  /if "$p2"~~"$v1" /echo $p1: $p2
 /if "$v1"!=""  /if "$p2"~~"$v1" /return
 /if "$v2"!=""  /if "$p2"~~"$v2" /echo $p1: $p2
 /if "$v2"!=""  /if "$p2"~~"$v2" /return
 /if "$v3"!=""  /if "$p2"~~"$v3" /echo $p1: $p2
/return

Problem with this macro is if you do

/macro auctionsearch rs

you'll also get posts that say something like

want to buy ogre wearable armors

[Amadeus]

Thanks ...pretty much exactly what I was looking for :)

[L124RD]

Salutations,
you're welcome... some of the stuff i had written but never posted... you can edit the /auc in the first command and the #chat command in the second macro to change what channel your operating on, you could also probably combine the two macros...

[Amadeus]

I really havn't looked at it closely...but altering it for the new custom channels shouldn't be a problem, right? (ie, market)

[Plazmic]

just add "#chat chat" next to "#chat auc" and it will pick up stuff from all the chat channels you are in.

[L124RD]

Salutations,
so, to make it search the auction channel, you would do this:

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| auctionsearch.mac
| searches auctions for up to 4 words
| for example: /mac auctionsearch auction Raven Scale Ravenscale dex
|   returns only auctions that contain raven or scale or ravenscale or dex
#chat auc
#chat chat

sub main
/leave $p0
/join $p0
/varset v0 $p1
/varset v1 $p2
/varset v2 $p3
/varset v3 $p4
/echo Looking for auctions containing $v0 $v1 $v2 $v3
:aucloop
  /doevents
/goto :aucloop
/return

sub Event_Chat
/if "$v0"!="" /if "$p2"~~"$v0" /echo $p1: $p2
/if "$v0"!=""  /if "$p2"~~"$v0" /return
/if "$v1"!=""  /if "$p2"~~"$v1" /echo $p1: $p2
/if "$v1"!=""  /if "$p2"~~"$v1" /return
/if "$v2"!=""  /if "$p2"~~"$v2" /echo $p1: $p2
/if "$v2"!=""  /if "$p2"~~"$v2" /return
/if "$v3"!=""  /if "$p2"~~"$v3" /echo $p1: $p2
/return

Changes to syntax are just before all 4 words, put the name of the channel to search. All the code does is make sure your in the channel, other then that it doesn't use that variable, so

/macro auctionsearch auction ravenscale

all it will do is leave the auction channel (if you're in it already) and then join auction.

[Amadeus]

The macro above seems to still work properly with the new release; however, I am getting syntax errors on the /varset lines.

I did review the readme, and the changelog, and tried some different things with changing to #define, but could never get it to work correctly any other way.

The fact that it works properly, but gives the syntax errors on the /varset lines is interesting.