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--- textcommandhelper [2023/08/03 03:51] – [Main Tab] mistahmikey
+++ textcommandhelper [2023/08/23 16:27] (current) – mistahmikey
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-<hexadecimal digits> is the desired encoding, and must contain an EVEN number of hexadecimal digits.  For example, to embed the fancy die character that results from a /random FFXIV command, you would enter the FFXIV message token [0212024a03], or to embed the UTF8 die character, you would enter [ee80be].  A decent level of technical skill is required to figure out what the proper sequences are, but for those that have such skill, this allows you to create all manner of fancy messages. In the future I hope to add a tool with TCH that you can use to automatically format selected lines from the chat log to contain the proper embedded hexadecimal strings that correspond to the contained UTF8 characters and FFXIV message tokens. That will allow you to more easily create your own private catalog of encodings that you can cut/paste into commands as you please.
+<hexadecimal digits> is the desired encoding, and must contain an EVEN number of hexadecimal digits.  For example, to embed the fancy die character that results from a /random FFXIV command, you would enter the FFXIV message token [0212024a03], or to embed the UTF8 die character, you would enter [ee80be].  A decent level of technical skill is required to figure out what the proper sequences are, but for those that have such skill, this allows you to create all manner of fancy messages. In the future I hope to add a tool to TCH that you can use to automatically format selected lines from the chat log to contain the proper embedded hexadecimal strings that correspond to the contained UTF8 characters and FFXIV message tokens. That will allow you to more easily create your own private catalog of encodings that you can cut/paste into commands as you please.
 Since the < character is used to introduce color tags, and the [ character is used to introduce an embedded hexadecimal string, the ability to escape them (or any character) is provided by the \ character.  So to include < in and FFXIV text command, you'd type \<.
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 This control is self-explanatory for the most part; if you enter something wrong, TCH will provide an error popup.
-Because the product Minion provides developers to create a UI, IMGui, is a very old version and is quite buggy, there isn't currently an easy way to enter the potentially long text strings you might want to associate with an alias via the Command text field.  I developed a kludge to at least provide for such entry, but it requires you to click in the Command text field to activate it (it cannot be automatically focused via keyboard navigation), and the text field is displayed on a single line in the UI (IMGui does not provide automatic text wrapping.) To somewhat mitigate this inconvenience, I also provide a view directly below that the Command text field that shows you a wrapped version of your complete command, and also displays the current lengths of both the FFXIV text command "verb" and it's arguments.  After some testing, I determined that the total length of all arguments can be no more than 1022 characters, and that includes any characters needed to encode color tags into FFXIV color frames, or any FFXIV special characters you paste in, if they are included.  The verb length does not appear to have any impact on the arguments length limitation.
+Because the product Minion provides developers to create a UI, IMGui, is a very old version, there isn't currently an easy way to enter the potentially long text strings you might want to associate with an alias via the Command text field.  I developed a kludge to at least provide for such entry, but the input text field can only be displayed on a single line in the UI. To somewhat mitigate this inconvenience, I also provide a view directly below that the Command text field that shows you a wrapped version of your complete command, and also displays the current lengths of both the FFXIV text command "verb" and it's arguments.  After some testing, I determined that the total length of all arguments can be no more than 1022 characters, and that includes any characters needed to encode color tags into FFXIV color frames, or any FFXIV special characters you encode or paste in.  The verb length does not appear to have any impact on the arguments length limitation.
-Another quirk of the Command text field is that it is not possible to use Ctrl-V to paste certain UTF8 characters into it, especially the FFXIV special character codes, because IMGui filters them out.  As another kludge workaround, I allow you to do this by using the Paste button that appears below the Command text field.  When you click the Paste button, the contents of the clipboard are appended to the current Command text field contents, and in this case, no characters from the clipboard are filtered out. The Command text field will lose focus when you do this, which is necessary for the kludge to work. This obviously isn't very user friendly, but it's the only way to get those special UTF8 characters into the Command text field.
+Another quirk of the Command text field is that it is not possible to use Ctrl-V to paste certain FFXIV UTF8 characters into it because IMGui filters them out.  As another kludge workaround, I allow you to do this by using the Paste button that appears below the Command text field.  When you click the Paste button, the contents of the clipboard are appended to the current Command text field contents, and in this case, no characters from the clipboard are filtered out. This obviously isn't very user friendly, but it's the only way to get those special UTF8 characters into the Command text field.
-I realize this method to enter a FFXIV text command is sub-optimal at best, but hopefully is better than nothing.  Be aware that as you edit the command, it will be dimmed to indicate you have changed it from the original, but unfortunately, entering Return or Tab cannot be detected for this control.  So to enter what you have typed in the command control, you must hit the OK button at the bottom of the control.  I apologize for the clunkiness of the Command text field, but it is the best I could come up with at this time.  As a result, I suggest that you use an outside text editor to create the text you want, copy it to the clipboard, then use the Paste button to put it into the Command control.
+I realize this method to enter a FFXIV text command is sub-optimal at best, but hopefully is better than nothing.  Be aware that as you edit the command, it will be dimmed to indicate you have changed it from the original, so be sure to hit the enter key before you try to exit the control.
+To enter what you have typed in the command control, you must hit the OK button at the bottom of the control.  I apologize for the clunkiness of the Command text field, but it is the best I could come up with at this time.  As a result, I suggest that you use an outside text editor to create the text you want, copy it to the clipboard, then use the Paste button to put it into the Command control.
 Finally, if you have the requisite technical skill, you can use the hexadecimal string embedding feature to encode any fancy character you desire.
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-As you can see, TCH uses the echo command to send the /exec command to the chat window. TCH sees this, and executes the command.  The result:  my multicolored carnival barker shout touting the virtues of TCH; the name has been blanked out to protect the guilty.
+As you can see, TCH uses the echo command to send the /exec command to the chat window. TCH sees this, and executes the command.  The result:  my multicolored carnival barker shout with embedded die characters touting the virtues of TCH; the name has been blanked out to protect the guilty.
 Theoretically, you should be able to execute any FFXIV text command using TCH. However, as I am but one person, and rarely use FFXIV text commands myself, I have not tested this theory even remotely rigorously. As always, if anything odd pops up, just refer to the support section in this wiki and submit your issue.

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