API Request

hafeliel · Post by **hafeliel** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:56 am

Greetings! I'm a mod developer and not currently a user of CensusPlus, so please bear with me if this has been covered earlier.

I've developed a mod (http://ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=4294) that helps people get groups together. Like CensusPlus, my mod does /who requests also, so if a user is running a census in the background while trying to use my mod, the mods will interfere with each other and neither will function correctly.

Unlike CensusPlus, my mod doesn't continue to do /who requests in the background once my main window is closed, so I'd like a way to cooperate with CP instead of competing with it. Ideally, I'd like a way for me to ask CP to pause when the user asks my mod to search and then have a way for my mod to tell CP to continue when my mod is done.

Obviously, I could do this by reverse engineering your code, but I'd really rather not, or I'll end up updating my code everytime you guys make a change to yours. Would it be possible to add (or do you already have) an API that I could work with? All I would really need is:

* An identifier whose value I could test to see if CP is present or running.

* A method I could call to ask CP to pause any /who requests.

* A method I could call to ask CP to continue.

Many thanks for any feedback other than flames.

Post by **Rollie** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:19 pm

You can check the variable

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g_IsCensusPlusInProgress

to see if a Census is currently running. Try just setting

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g_CensusPlusPaused

to true to pause the census and false to resume. Alternately you could call

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CensusPlus_TogglePause

which will set a manually paused if a Census is running and will resume if a Census were running but paused.

Looking at the code, it looks that would probably be the easiest thing to do.

Just before you do your /who data, call CensusPlus_TogglePause and then call it again when you're done.

hafeliel · Post by **hafeliel** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:22 pm

Sweet! Many thanks. It is working with projects like this one that makes software development so worth it.

Phreeze · Post by **Phreeze** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:14 pm

an thanks to a such good developper like Rollie, that has by far the best support for his addon, this one and newer addons like yours have no problems to coexist