First!

After a short vacation, I am pleased to announce the forums are back. They never really went anywhere .. they just got lost somewhere in the ether! The hosting has moved to a new provider, but I am assured that everything will continue as it should be!

Ok, my ll_AOU_Guides.cs plug-in is pretty much feature complete.  It optionally depends on ll_XML_Items.cs.

It allows users to look up all guides currently on AO-Universe in-game without ever having to alt-tab to a web browser.

I think this would be a great addition to Helpbot.  Is Iriche still around and taking care of Helpbot?  Can someone add my plug-in to Helpbot?

I know Helpbot will eventually get ported to botSharp, but in the meanwhile, I think this would be a great resource in-game. 

https://bitbucket.org/Vhab/vha.aoml/overview
Try to catch me on IRC if you need the guided tour

Consider yourself poked sir.. LOL.
That would be awesome to see...

Ghehe
Poke me if you're looking for a runtime intermediate format for AOML.
One of Vha.Chat's library has a full DOM model for AOML.

Yes AOML, I wrote those messages while trying to configure <cough cough...> a new ClearCase VOB on a new project. I loved being forced to leave a perfectly working Visual Source Safe repository into such a messy environment.
Anyways, I had XML on the brain there since the project was using VoiceXML. Boy I typed that over and over again didnt I?

Going to jump on this to prevent terminology confusion


Do you mean AOML? AOML is a term coined many years back to describe the HTML variation AO uses.
VhaBot has been using AOML exclusively.

AOXML is an XML compatible language used to describe AO-supported formatting designed and implemented for Bot# fixing some very inconvenient quirks in AOML.
Note there's a difference, AOXML and AOML are not compatible but rather use parsers and converters in between.

Would be an awesome plugin. I was thinking of doing one myself but no time.
I cant remember the timing, but I know some people that have it down pat.
They use the orgs !timer function atm.. They get it to the second.

The unoffical release I put out was put out was an offering to the hard working VHABOT developers.
When the bot was shown to be retired again, I couldnt accept the fact that development was anywhere near done.
When I was convinced that FC intends to put effort into keeping AO alive (and maybe reworked), I decided that I would share the changes I made 2 years ago and fit them into the .79 release. I made a lot of the changes when the bot was left for dead a few years ago on the 76 version I think. However, I lost my source code due to three (yes three) servers dying in the same week. So I had to rewrite the changes from memory, which was fine because the .79 baseline that verm and others done was very exciting.
Sorry for the broken up messages, I am constantly traveling around the country and in meetings.