as some of you might know I won 1st prize in Steam's epic holiday giveaway. I need help choosing my 10 games.  I'm on my phone so just search xvicarious on steam to see my current top 10 and games I own. When I get home I'll add links and maybe a list.

I have taken the liberty (with DJ_O's permission) to create torrents of each of his albums.  The names of the mp3s are nice and formatted, and the ID3 tags are present.  I included the playlist for each album (named "00 Name of Album"), and the cover in JPG format.

Angel In The Stars: http://xvicario.us/torrents/dj_omnimaga-angel_in_the_stars.torrent
Enter The Dream World: http://xvicario.us/torrents/dj_omnimaga-enter_the_dream_world.torrent
It's The End Of Time: http://xvicario.us/torrents/dj_omnimaga-its_the_end_of_time.torrent
More to Come!!!

Please seed this for ever and ever.  And you with limited bandwidth, at least seed a ratio of 1.5 (upload one and a half of each of these) so we can keep these alive.  I will be seeding forever, or until some mishap that forces me to reformat or something (whichever comes first).

edit: I can't seed tonight I'm so sorry, but I will seed right when I get up.

So I am writing a plugin for XChat and I have come to the conclusion that urllib is somehow preventing greenText() from being executed... What is going on ?

Here is the code:
__module_name__ = "IrmageBoard"
__module_version__ = "0.2.0"
__module_description__ = "Liek a real imageboard guies (without the images!!!1)"

import xchat, string, re, random, yaml
from urllib import urlopen

global myFilter
ymlFilter = urlopen("http://xvicario.us/irmageboard/filters.yml")
myFilter = yaml.load(ymlFilter)
ymlFilter.close()

print "\0034",__module_name__, __module_version__, "has been loaded\003"

def greenText(word, word_eol, userdata):
    print "EXECUTING greenText()"
    if word_eol[0].find('>'):
        return xchat.EAT_NONE
        print "FOUND NOTHING!"
    else:
        xchat.command(" ".join(["msg", xchat.get_info("channel"), ''.join(["3",word_eol[0]])]))
        print "FOUND SOMETIHNG!"
    return xchat.EAT_ALL

def filters(word, word_eol, userdata):
    newString = word_eol[0]
    for k, v in myFilter.iteritems():
        if k in newString:
            tempColor = random.randrange(0,16,1)
            tempBack = random.randrange(0,16,1)
            tempReplace = re.compile(k, re.IGNORECASE)
            newString = tempReplace.sub(v, newString)
            newString = "".join(["\003",str(tempColor),",",str(tempBack),newString,"\003"])
    xchat.command(" ".join(["msg", xchat.get_info("channel"), newString]))
    return xchat.EAT_ALL

xchat.hook_command("", greenText)
xchat.hook_command("", filters)

edit: that is everything

So last month I started making UserStyles for Facebook. UserStyles are CSS style sheets loaded into your browser to modify the look of certain websites.

So I made Facebook UserStyles!

My first one is called SmoothRed. It started off modifying a theme of some pink userstyle for Facebook after looking for a red theme. I realized that modifying this style was going to be more of a pain in the ass than to just completely make my own theme. So that is what I did.

It seems like it is getting more popular (close to 7000 installs since it's debut). Not quite a popular as some themes but more popular that most themes.

Find it here: http://userstyles.org/styles/52576/smoothred-for-facebook

xchat.emit_print problem? I don't know!

Postby XVicarious » 31 Aug 2011 16:28
Okay I have been writing a script in Python for XChat over the past few days... I have gotten everything to work through trial and error, except one thing, replacing incoming text. That just seems to not want to work!

My script is as follows:
__module_name__ = "XTranzlator"
__module_version__ = "0.7.0"
__module_description__ = "Translate and Send!"

print "\0034",__module_name__, __module_version__, "has been loaded\003"

import xchat
import re, sys, urllib, traceback, codecs, json

if (sys.getdefaultencoding() != "utf-8"):
oldout, olderr = sys.stdout, sys.stderr
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')
sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(oldout)
sys.stderr = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(olderr)

api_url = "http://api.microsofttranslator.com/V2/Ajax.svc/Translate"
app_id = 'myappidgoeshere'

def _unicode_urlencode(params):
    """
A unicode aware version of urllib.urlencode.
Borrowed from pyfacebook :: http://github.com/sciyoshi/pyfacebook/
"""
    if isinstance(params, dict):
        params = params.items()
    return urllib.urlencode([(k, isinstance(v, unicode) and v.encode('utf-8') or v) for k, v in params])

def _run_query(args):
"""
takes arguments and optional language argument and runs query on server
"""
data = _unicode_urlencode(args)
sock = urllib.urlopen(api_url + '?' + data)
result = sock.read()
if result.startswith(codecs.BOM_UTF8):
result = result.lstrip(codecs.BOM_UTF8).decode('utf-8')
elif result.startswith(codecs.BOM_UTF16_LE):
result = result.lstrip(codecs.BOM_UTF16_LE).decode('utf-16-le')
elif result.startswith(codecs.BOM_UTF16_BE):
result = result.lstrip(codecs.BOM_UTF16_BE).decode('utf-16-be')
print result
return json.loads(result)

def set_app_id(new_app_id):
global app_id
app_id = new_app_id

def translate(text, source, target, html=False):
"""
action=opensearch
"""
if not app_id:
raise ValueError("AppId needs to be set by set_app_id")
query_args = {
'appId': app_id,
'text': text,
'from': source,
'to': target,
'contentType': 'text/plain' if not html else 'text/html',
'category': 'general'
}
return _run_query(query_args)

def intercept(word, word_eol, userdata):
line = word_eol[0]
line = translate(line, myLang, theirLang)
xchat.command(" ".join(["msg", xchat.get_info("channel"), line]))
return xchat.EAT_ALL

def transall(word, word_eol, userdata):
line = translate(word[1], theirLang, myLang)
xchat.emit_print("Channel Message", word[0], line, "@", None)
return xchat.EAT_XCHAT

def lang_cmd(word, word_eol, userdata):
global myhook
global myLang
global theirLang
bold = "\033[1m"
stop = "\003[0;0m"
if word[1] == "off":
xchat.unhook(interceptHook)
xchat.unhook(printHook)
print "\0034XTranzlator is now off, to turn on, type /LANG on\003"
if word[1] == "on":
myLang = "en"
theirLang = "fr"
print "\0034The langauges have been set to default values (myLang = \"en\" and theirLang = \"fr\"!\003"
interceptHook = xchat.hook_command("",intercept)
printHook = xchat.hook_print("Channel Message", transall)
print "\0034XTranzlator is now on, to turn off, type /LANG off\003"
if word[1] == "my":
if len(word[2]) < 2:
print "\0034Sorry, that isn't a vaild 2 letter language code!\003"
else:
myLang = word[2]
print "\0034Your langauge is now ", myLang, "\003"
if word[1] == "their":
if len(word[2]) < 2:
print "\0034Sorry, that isn't a vaild 2 letter language code!\003"
else:
theirLang = word[2]
print "\0034You are now speaking in ", theirLang, "\003"
if word[1] == "supported":
print " \002ar\002  Arabic \n \002cs\002  Czech\n \002da\002  Danish\n \002de\002  German \n \002en\002  English \n \002et\002  Estonian \n \002fi\002  Finnish \n \002fr\002  French \n \002nl\002  Dutch \n \002el\002  Greek \n \002he\002  Hebrew \n \002ht\002  Haitian Creole \n \002hu\002  Hungarian \n \002id\002  Indonesian \n \002it\002  Italian \n \002ja\002 Japanese \n \002ko\002  Korean \n \002lt\002  Lithuanian \n \002lv\002  Latvian \n \002no\002  Norwegian \n \002pl\002  Polish \n \002pt\002  Portuguese \n \002ro\002  Romanian \n \002es\002  Spanish \n \002ru\002  Russian \n \002sk\002  Slovak \n \002sl\002  Slovene \n \002sv\002  Swedish \n \002th\002  Thai \n \002tr\002  Turkish \n \002uk\002  Ukrainian \n \002vi\002  Vietnamese \n \002zh-CHS\002  Simplified Chinese \n \002zh-CHT\002  Traditional Chinese"
return xchat.EAT_ALL


xchat.hook_command("LANG", lang_cmd, help="/LANG <my/their> <lang> Changes your langauge (my) to <lang> or their langauge (their) to <lang>")

I have traced it back to the transall function, but I can not seem to figure out what is wrong.  That one piece of code crashes XChat when someone else says something.  Please please help me .

edit: got it not to crash, but line seems to not get run through translate... And I get a traceback "TypeError: must be string, not None"

Okay. So some of you know my program BNDSRM that helps you manage ROMs and stuff. So I have been planning on changing the listboxes to DataGridViews so I can have information in multiple columns. I have an idea how I am going to set it up and how I was going to fill the boxes and stuff, but its like an information overload kinda thing. I can see how I am going to do it, but I just stop and am like... How... How... I don't know.

I am using Visual Basic .NET I started this program in it and I am planning to finish it all the way until v1.0.0 in VB.NET and then rewrite it in C# .NET.

I need help with taking information and filling the DataGridView (4 columns), with the number of the ROM, the Name (of the file minus extension), the size, and the type of file it is (taken from the extension). I have For loop setup to list files in a listbox, looking at it, it looked like I could reuse most of the code but I just gave up after stalling (I have a tendency to do that).

Here is my function for listing the files:
    Private Sub ListFiles(ByVal folderPath As String, ByVal exten() As String)
        ListBox1.Items.Clear()
        For Each fileEX As String In exten
            Dim fileNames = My.Computer.FileSystem.GetFiles(folderPath, FileIO.SearchOption.SearchTopLevelOnly, fileEX)
            For Each filename As String In fileNames
                Dim inSlash As Long
                Dim arry = 0
                inSlash = InStrRev(filename, "\")
                filename = Mid(filename, inSlash + 1)
                ListBox1.Items.Add(filename)
                Dim array(0 To 9999) As String
                array(arry) = filename
                arry += 1
            Next
        Next
    End Sub

If you need more info, please ask.

Okay. Post pics of food you have made and taken. Ill go first mac and cheese with hot dogs
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/593/imageeub.jpg/

As some of you may know, I have been working on an RPG engine in Axe, which will be completely open sourced.  It is ASCII based. I started this engine because 1) I always wanted to do a text-based RPG, and 2) Inspired by DJ_O's Illusiat 6 (and above).

The Rott RPG Engine has the following features planned (suggest more!):
-- Loading of "chapters" from appvars, chapters include maps and strings. And other stuff that I haven't exactly thought of
-- Loading of resources from the external appvar appvROTTDATA. appvROTTDATA includes resources that are constant throughout all of the chapters, such as text sprites, leveling, enemies, and items
-- Menu screen, including items, stats, possibly a map showing your area (just a lit up pixel on a grid).
-- Normal RPG stuff, MAYBE magic. If I have time before the end of summer magic is a must!
-- Levels, but not levels.  You gain EXP but you don't have a level number. You simply get skill points which you put towards skills (Attack, Defence, Quickness, Health Points, and Mana Points). You start off with 2 attack, 1 defence, and the minimum Quickness (actually I think I called it Swiftness in my notes) of 5. No enemy will have below a 5 Quickness just so battles don't take forever.

Stats For Engine

Items Planned for Engine

Mockup of Battle Screen

Current Bestiary

Current Files in RoTTRPG Engine:

This is programmed with Axe Parser and I started coding on the calc, then moved to tiDE, and now am using TokenIDE, while tiDE solves some issues, because it doesn't even convert the Axe to a source *.8xp yet. But whatever. I hope to do this on my own, so no team. I will probably be asking for help with somethings, and it might take awhile due to my lack of concentration and the attention span of a dog...



Please tell me what you think! Code here: http://xvicario.us/git/rott-rpg.git
git clone http://xvicario.us/git/rott-rpg.git
It says other open source license, but I may change it. I kinda wrote one of my own. I might just add an SVN repo to my website for simplicity, and kill the project on Google Code. Nothing too impressive right now.

Suggesting are always welcome! I might not add something right away or at all, but after I finish the initial engine and finish the game I am making this for, I probably will be adding most of the suggestions to the engine!