Garan

Well, you could sign up for the Alt Viewer service, it comes with a script that automatically synchs your plugindata files with a web server and lets you view all of your characters and their inventories on any device and even set viewing privileges for other people. Only problem is, it only partially exists as a 'proof of concept' on my test server and the rest is on my whiteboard among a loooong list of other ToDo items

So, the only real way to synch plugin info between two PCs is to manually synch the .plugindata files. To do this, you would need to share the documents folder from one of the PCs, open them both, sort them by date and copy the files with the newest dates. The data is all saved in the AllCharacters folder for the server but the settings files are saved in the individual character folder. (you only need to synch the settings file if you change views or icon locations, etc. and want that synched as well)

The default path to the AllCharactes folder is:
where accountName is your account name and serverName is the server name.
The relevant files in the AllCharacter's folder are:
AltInventoryCharList.plugindata
AltInventoryData.plugindata

You can ignore the data snapshot files as they only serve as data backups and are never used by the plugin.

If for some reason you want to synch settings, the relevant file is in each characterName folder (instead of AllCharacters) and is named:
AltInventorySettings.plugindata

Prairie Dog

Alt Inventory is awesome! I can't imagine playing LOTRO without it!

I have a desktop PC and a laptop PC, both running Windows 7, and I play LOTRO on both machines (not at the same time; one day I may be playing on the laptop, and another day I may be playing on the desktop). How can I keep the Alt Inventory data synced between the two machines?

Krazny

Thanks so much! I can't believe I missed that skull icon in there all this time...

Garan

Hi. To delete a character from the list, load the plugin, select the character you wish to delete. As long as you have not selected the character you are currently playing (you aren't allowed to delete yourself), a skull icon will appear to the right of the character selection list. When you click the skull it will display a confirmation dialog asking whether you wish to remove all of that character's data. The skull only displays for the character data, the related vault data is automatically removed when a character is removed.

There is no way to rename a character in the list so you will need to delete the old data and then log back in to that character to initialize their new data. Don't forget to visit the vault-master and open your vault for any new/renamed characters.

Krazny

I've deleted and/or renamed several of my characters. Is there a way to forcefully remove them and their inventory from the plugin's list? Even a way to reset the plugin's list would be ok with me - I just can't seem to find a way to do either.

Thanks

Garan

Short answer: Equipped items were displayed as a tab in Ver 1.x but were disabled due to a serious bug in Turbine's API that was causing client crashes.

Long answer: It was such a pain disabling that panel and all the associated data and event handlers that I decided to remove all of the non-inventory functionality including Equipped Items completely and instead implement them as panels in a separate plugin, AltViewer, that was designed from the ground up to separate all of the functionality of its various panels to avoid this situation in the future. Unfortunately, it took Turbine so long to fix the underlying crash bug (two years) that I lost interest in the AltViewer plugin and stopped publishing updates. I kept it for private use for a while but eventually abandoned it altogether as I only play one character now and that only once every few months. In fact, the only reason I've logged in for the last year was to maintain MoorMap and TerrainMap (which is also why it took me so long to reply to this message).

fade2gray

Alt Inventory 3.05

Equipped items are not listed unless removed to a bag.

Garan

Good point. I'll have to look into adding a note about the required vault-keeper visit to initialize data to the plugin description.

fade2gray

Right, got it, but is that documented elsewhere as it doesn't appear to be in the plugin's description above?

Garan

Have you visited the vault-keeper and opened the vault with each toon? Lua can only access the vault when you have actually talked to a vault-keeper and are still in range, any other time it is working from the snap-shot it makes while at the vault-keeper. The shared storage will be visible after the first toon opens it at the vault-keeper, but each individual vault has to be initialized by visiting the vault-keeper on each toon. Additionally, the plugin has to be loaded whenever you visit the vault-keeper or the snapshot will get out of synch.

fade2gray

Hi Garan,

Both my toons can see their own and the other's bag contents, but neither can see their own or the other's vault contents.

What am I doing wrong?

Garan

I actually had to verify the functionality because that's not an option I usually use. Basically, the "Current bags display total items" comes into play when you have multiple stacks of items on the current character, particularly in separate bags. When the option is on, they will display as one large stack in AltInventory and hovering over the description will show the qty per bag. When the option is off, they will show as distinct stacks exactly as they exist in the underlying default bags and hovering over the description does not show any information.

I am still looking into an option to display the alt quantities in the popup for each character the same as the "ALL" character. In theory this should be a relatively easy programming task but it may cause a performance issue so it will at best go on the ever growing ToDo list.

EDIT: I just realized that the "bag" totals are no longer correct as the bag # is calculated based on the old fixed sized bags. The plugin was not updated to handle variable sized bags, the quantities are correct, just the bag locations are incorrect. Yet another entry for the dreaded ToDo list...

Boldwyn

Ok, thanks for the explanation - I'm not familiar with the LotRO interface's interface limitations.

That said, what does "current bags display total items" actually change? From the sound of it it sounds kind of what I wanted, but obviously it's not.

Garan

Hi, thanks for the comment (no, there's no donate button but thanks for the consideration).

This is a multi-part issue. First, we have no control over the tooltips of the default bags, assuming you mean the built-in Turbine provided bags. Second, in AltInventory, when the current character is selected, the tooltips are generated by the client, not the plugin, as the items are actual usable items, not just a snapshot. With that said, I'll have to get back to you about other characters as I can't log in at the moment.

Boldwyn

Hi,

First of all, this is a wonderful plugin and many thanks for it. I'd buy you a beer if I could (do you have a donate button somewhere?)

Now, is there a way to enable the quantity number in item tooltip when using default bags or single-char filter? It looks like it only displays the total quantity when using "ALL" storage.

Let's say I am on char A, and am browsing his bags. I want to check if any other alt has the item X - currently I have to switch to Alt Inventory window and select "ALL" chars - it's not possible from default bags/vault or even Alt Inventory with char A selected, even with "current bags display total items" enabled.

Is this something I am missing or it's not supported?