This isn't a question tho..

Hey guys, I am back, some people won't recognize me and some people will, Well anyways, I had this idea I wanted to make but I just need to know if it's a good idea or not, Since people can't memorize all the commands, I was thinking of making an application, that generates commands, like "/command name amount" or items/skills IDs, So yeah I'll do it for all possible clients (as long as there are different commands/IDs I'll make a version for that client)
So the poll is open for everyone, vote and tell me what you think, and who can help in anyway just PM me or just reply lol

Well, I voted that it wasn't a good idea; here's my reasoning why: Why have an application that generates commands when you can have a much more "user friendly" table of some sort or webpage categorizing and displaying every command that they can execute? A program is too heavy of a client just to display commands. If you wanted to integrate your commands into the server, you could do that with a help command (possibly). Either way, I say keep it light and simple - go with an organized webpage. You could also have it so if they type the help command, it links them to the webpage - simple stuff that still looks professional. Good luck.

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Originally Posted by Fаng Well, I voted that it wasn't a good idea; here's my reasoning why: Why have an application that generates commands when you can have a much more "user friendly" table of some sort or webpage categorizing and displaying every command that they can execute? A program is too heavy of a client just to display commands. If you wanted to integrate your commands into the server, you could do that with a help command (possibly). Either way, I say keep it light and simple - go with an organized webpage.

I think you miss-understood what I mean, I never meant making a program that generates the command into the game, it's a program (that won't be more than 1-2 MB) that when you choose a command/item/skill from a combobox or insert its name (case sensitive) it will give you what you asked for, lets say you chose money command (I know everyone knows it, it's just an example) you press generate, the textbox's text = "/money 999999999", chose an item, textbox = "the ID for that item" but it doesn't generate the code into the game.

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Originally Posted by ►™SuperE™◄ I think you miss-understood what I mean, I never meant making a program that generates the command into the game, it's a program (that won't be more than 1-2 MB) that when you choose a command/item/skill from a combobox or insert its name (case sensitive) it will give you what you asked for, lets say you chose money command (I know everyone knows it, it's just an example) you press generate, the textbox's text = "/money 999999999", chose an item, textbox = "the ID for that item" but it doesn't generate the code into the game.

I wouldn't suggest doing that. That's a huge security hole if you don't do it correctly. You could have it so on the webpage, you can click on a command and it'll offer you premade commands (which you can click on to copy to your clipboard). I really don't suggest you do a program though unless you really know how to connect to the server properly. If you really want to make a program for commands, the best option would be to hook the client and when you click on a command button, it pastes the text command into the client's chat or sends a chat message packet.

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Originally Posted by Fаng I wouldn't suggest doing that. That's a huge security hole if you don't do it correctly. You could have it so on the webpage, you can click on a command and it'll offer you premade commands (which you can click on to copy to your clipboard). I really don't suggest you do a program though unless you really know how to connect to the server properly. If you really want to make a program for commands, the best option would be to hook the client and when you click on a command button, it pastes the text command into the client's chat or sends a chat message packet.

You didn't understand what I mean yet lol, If you have skype, add me and I'll try to explain, Neosimsponn, or just give me yours and I'll add you.

Why not just implement the program as a middleman to the server that sends the command -> server, rather than generating anything.

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Originally Posted by ►™SuperE™◄ You didn't understand what I mean yet lol, If you have skype, add me and I'll try to explain, Neosimsponn, or just give me yours and I'll add you.

Oh, I think I see now. You want to make a program that just generates the code for you to copy and paste into the client. You can easily do that in ASP.NET, JSP, or PHP though. It's too light weight to need a program for. I still say go with a website that can do that for you.

Just look at the pictures and you both will understand, in the spoiler
I don't think a webpage would be better, this will be more organized, classified into categories and everything in 1 ._.

What Fang said stands.

(And fyi a well designed web page would look a ton better)

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Originally Posted by _DreadNought_ What Fang said stands. (And fyi a well designed web page would look a ton better)

A well designed webpage will also be a ton larger in size (not a ton lol), but okai, I guess my idea was refused lol

this was something i did few month ago nothing big i only added few commands but if you going to do this i suggest you just put 1, 2 commands and make it open source and let the other commands people put coz allot sources use different names so let them finish up the tool.

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Originally Posted by ►™SuperE™◄ A well designed webpage will also be a ton larger in size (not a ton lol), but okai, I guess my idea was refused lol

You can still have it like the pictures you had, just have it use JSP, ASP.NET, or PHP. Have a drop down menu for the type of command they want to copy, then let them customize it with text boxes just like in the UI you showed. Open the source if you'd like some help and suggestions.

I think that there are tons of them, but yeh whatever, clicked good idea.
And it's not on us to decide whether you want to release program or not, you just do it if you want.

dude application like that is useless . i dont think that ppls are lazy that much to type Commands themselves

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Originally Posted by ►™SuperE™◄ A well designed webpage will also be a ton larger in size (not a ton lol), but okai, I guess my idea was refused lol

Not really, a few kb at max.