BarFiller

Greetings fellow Adventurers!

First I'd like to point out that I have never programmed in Lua before attempting this!

Also I'd like to thank Byrth and SnickySnacks for their work on BattleMod, and PointWatch respectively. I borrowed some of their code including the menu, and incoming chunk analysis code for use in this addon.
 
With all that out of the way, I'd like to introduce to you all the Windower addon, BarFiller!

View on GitHub

Download latest ZIP (v0.2.5)

1. Copy addons\barfiller to your local Windower4\addons folder
2. Copy addons\libs\images.lua to your local Windower4\addons\libs folder
3. I recommend installing Montserrat, and/or Ubuntu Mono fonts, otherwise the Addon will use your PCs default "sans-serif" font

What does it do? Simply put, it displays an experience bar above the Help Window. It will display at the top-center of the screen no matter what resolution you're using, and display your current level progress below. Includes XP needed to reach the next level, overall %, and XP/hr.

If you have any requests, and/or feedback please let me know. I'll be monitoring this thread often.

Available commands

barfiller help - Shows the following information below
barfiller clear - Resets exp counter to 0
barfiller reload - Turns itself off, and on again
barfiller unload - Disables addon completely

bf h   |   //bf h
bf c   |   //bf c
bf r   |   //bf r
bf u   |   //bf u

Future Features & Screenshots

Version History

Edited by Morath, 05 June 2015 - 06:26 PM.

Looks great! Two things:

1. Where is the official pull request?
2. I sure hope it fills smoothly and doesn't just jump to the next value! This is 2015 after all, everything needs to be smooth~

Edit:

Also, I vote changing colors depending on fill status! Greener or bluer the higher it gets

Thanks!

1. Somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean at the moment. It's coming shortly.

2. Smooth animations is on my todo list, and I'll look into shifting colour palettes.

EDIT: I think I finally got my Git Pull Request up. I can see it on the website, so I assume it's pending now.

v0.1.9 was just pushed, and brings with it detailed information below the Experience bar:

• Main Job
• Main Job Level
• Current XP
• Total XP for Current Level
• XP To Next Level
• % of Current Level

v0.2.0 was just pushed with added EXP/hr counter, and now loads properly at character selection screen:

EXP/hr only updates on chunk updates, instead of every second like in PointWatch. This was to limit the amount of wasted calculations, and keep the memory usage down.

Looks awesome!!  Pardon me for my ignorance but how can I start using this addon?

Looks awesome!!  Pardon me for my ignorance but how can I start using this addon?

Thank you! However, I would wait until it's merged with the official Windower repo before using it. Arcon and some others are helping me to clean up the code to make it safe and ready for public use. My first few updates were pretty ugly and using very bad coding practices to get it to work.

EDIT: Once it's merged with the Windower repo you'll be able to download the addon properly in the Launcher > Addons tab.

Edited by Morath, 12 May 2015 - 05:52 AM.

Sounds great!! Can't wait for it.  Keep up the great work man!

v0.2.1 adds a new Image library, converting all the prim to Image Objects

I like it reminds me of 14. Keep up the great work.

That's what I'm going for

The base functionality is all there, now I'm going for style updates. Working on smooth animations next.

v0.2.2 now has smooth animations, thanks to Iryoku for the logic

Zippy Gif Preview

Gfycat Preview

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Edited by Morath, 01 June 2015 - 06:22 PM.

v0.2.3 removed the need for 10 second delay on startup, I was forgetting to update windower.ffxi.get_player(), and re-added frame_count to prevent Text flicker.

Hey, made an account here to tell you this, but in the current version there is a bug for new players who don't have a subjob on line 337 of static.lua.

if you replace that line with this code:

You can't message other people on GitHub, but you can commit a fix for the issue yourself there, or open an issue on his or our issue tracker

Thanks for letting me know, I'll add that in! 

EDIT: I don't have another mule to test this on, but it should simplify things, basically: IF variable == true THEN true ELSE false END

player.sub = (info.sub_job and '('..string.lower(info.sub_job)..') ' or '(---) ') 

Hey, made an account here to tell you this, but in the current version there is a bug for new players who don't have a subjob on line 337 of static.lua.

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Hey I've installed this to test it aswell and see the bar, but no job or exp is shown.

Hey I've installed this to test it aswell and see the bar, but no job or exp is shown.

Thanks for downloading it to test, but make sure you copy all the contents of addons\barfiller, as well as the addons\libs\images.lua file in order for the addon to work.

v0.2.4 Fixed memory leak when calculating new width, renamed functions to be read easier, strings are now updated by a factor of time instead of frames for a more consistent experience at any frame rate.

Image library also updated to include drag support, and some functions were added: width, height, get_extents, draggable

NOTE: BarFiller does not have dragging enabled by default!

I am getting an error at line 120 of barfiller.lua. 
 

if chunk_update then
     local old_width = foreground_bar:width()
     local new_width = calc_new_width()

I'm not entirely sure what is causing it, I copied fresh so maybe I missed something.

*edit submitted too soon*

Further information:

The addon loads, doesn't show text under the bar, and when I goto status in the menu (to update the chunk) it spams the error constantly.
 

Barfiller: Lua runtime error: barfiller/barfiller.lua:120: attempt to call method 'width' (a nil value)