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Hi all, I have a request for the next version of the offline KI. This feature is very easy to implement, and a little change to the .age file is all it takes I'm asking this request since it can be a bit of a hastle to do this every time a new offline KI version comes out.

Ok, in the city's .age file you'll see the following lines:

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Page=islmLibBanners00Vis,59,1
Page=islmLibBanners02Vis,60,1
Page=islmLibBanners03Vis,61,1
Page=LibraryAhnonayVis,56,1
Page=LibraryErcanaVis,58,1
Page=LibraryGarrisonVis,54,1
Page=LibraryKadishVis,57,1
Page=LibraryTeledahnVis,55,1


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It will look like this afterward:

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Page=islmLibBanners00Vis,59
Page=islmLibBanners02Vis,60
Page=islmLibBanners03Vis,61
Page=LibraryAhnonayVis,56
Page=LibraryErcanaVis,58
Page=LibraryGarrisonVis,54
Page=LibraryKadishVis,57
Page=LibraryTeledahnVis,55


Save the .age file.

Now when you go to the Library, you will see this

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Can you guys make this small change please?

I am opposed to changing it in the age file since that will force the change for everyone, and there might be people - myself included - who don't like to see these additional books and banners. However, there already is a command "/getlibrarybooks", which you can run when you are in the city, and which will have almost the same result - almost because I disabled two of the books which would act weird when clicking on them. That change is not permanent though as there is no SDL var controlling these books.

diafero, you can make it permanent by paging them in through city.py like the userKI did.

Well, but how can I easily make that configurable? I want it to be permanent only for those who chose to get it.

Create a chronicle that the command will modify. city.py can check that.

Or just create the SDL variable islmLibraryBannersVis and make city.py respond to it. Here is what I did in my installation.

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    def OnServerInitComplete(self):
        #your bahro stuff here
        try:
            ageSDL.setFlags('islmLibraryBannersVis', 1, 1)
            ageSDL.sendToClients('islmLibraryBannersVis')
            ageSDL.setNotify(self.key, 'islmLibraryBannersVis', 0.0)
            banners = ageSDL['islmLibraryBannersVis'][0]
            if banners:
                self.ILoadLibBanners(1)
        except:
            print "ERROR!  Couldn't find Library Banners sdl"


    def OnSDLNotify(self, VARname, SDLname, playerID, tag):
        #your bahro stuff here
        if (VARname == 'islmLibraryBannersVis'):
            val = ageSDL['islmLibraryBannersVis'][0]
            self.ILoadLibBanners(val)


    def ILoadLibBanners(self, state):
        pages = []
        pages += ['islmLibBanners00Vis',
         'islmLibBanners02Vis',
         'islmLibBanners03Vis']
        vault = ptVault()
        entry = vault.findChronicleEntry('JourneyClothProgress')
        if (type(entry) == type(None)):
            PtDebugPrint('DEBUG: city.ILoadLibBanners: No JourneyClothProgress chronicle')
        else:
            ageChronRefList = entry.getChildNodeRefList()
            for ageChron in ageChronRefList:
                FoundJCs = ''
                ageChild = ageChron.getChild()
                ageChild = ageChild.upcastToChronicleNode()
                FoundJCs = ageChild.chronicleGetValue()
                length = len(FoundJCs)
                if (length == 7):
                    if (ageChild.chronicleGetName() == 'Garrison'):
                        pages += ['LibraryGarrisonVis']
                    elif (ageChild.chronicleGetName() == 'Kadish'):
                        pages += ['LibraryKadishVis']
                    elif (ageChild.chronicleGetName() == 'Teledahn'):
                        pages += ['LibraryTeledahnVis']

        if state:
            PtPageInNode(pages)
        else:
            for page in pages:
                PtPageOutNode(page)


There is some extra stuff from the userKI which only showed the books for those who had finished the age.

Cool, thanks a lot D'Lanor
I wonder what else I missed from the UserKI because I only looked at the xKI file... *tries to find the sources again, they must be somewhere on this HD *

D'Lanor wrote:Or just create the SDL variable islmLibraryBannersVis and make city.py respond to it. Here is what I did in my installation.

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    def OnServerInitComplete(self):
        #your bahro stuff here
        try:
            ageSDL.setFlags('islmLibraryBannersVis', 1, 1)
            ageSDL.sendToClients('islmLibraryBannersVis')
            ageSDL.setNotify(self.key, 'islmLibraryBannersVis', 0.0)
            banners = ageSDL['islmLibraryBannersVis'][0]
            if banners:
                self.ILoadLibBanners(1)
        except:
            print "ERROR!  Couldn't find Library Banners sdl"


    def OnSDLNotify(self, VARname, SDLname, playerID, tag):
        #your bahro stuff here
        if (VARname == 'islmLibraryBannersVis'):
            val = ageSDL['islmLibraryBannersVis'][0]
            self.ILoadLibBanners(val)


    def ILoadLibBanners(self, state):
        pages = []
        pages += ['islmLibBanners00Vis',
         'islmLibBanners02Vis',
         'islmLibBanners03Vis']
        vault = ptVault()
        entry = vault.findChronicleEntry('JourneyClothProgress')
        if (type(entry) == type(None)):
            PtDebugPrint('DEBUG: city.ILoadLibBanners: No JourneyClothProgress chronicle')
        else:
            ageChronRefList = entry.getChildNodeRefList()
            for ageChron in ageChronRefList:
                FoundJCs = ''
                ageChild = ageChron.getChild()
                ageChild = ageChild.upcastToChronicleNode()
                FoundJCs = ageChild.chronicleGetValue()
                length = len(FoundJCs)
                if (length == 7):
                    if (ageChild.chronicleGetName() == 'Garrison'):
                        pages += ['LibraryGarrisonVis']
                    elif (ageChild.chronicleGetName() == 'Kadish'):
                        pages += ['LibraryKadishVis']
                    elif (ageChild.chronicleGetName() == 'Teledahn'):
                        pages += ['LibraryTeledahnVis']

        if state:
            PtPageInNode(pages)
        else:
            for page in pages:
                PtPageOutNode(page)


There is some extra stuff from the userKI which only showed the books for those who had finished the age.

I guess I still have the thought process of "zOMG NO TOUCHIE THE SDL!!!"

Ah, the nostalgia.