User talk:Amaurice

My Bot
So, All I have to do is add that code as the source code and it goes away and does it?

Do I need to be logged into the account when it needs to edit?

I might need help running it so if you want, come over and I will make you admin + bureaucrat?

14:29, December 30, 2009 (UTC)

Could you please help me, I don't understand what you just said. I think that it could be better if I let you do it but I somehow run it. 19:49, January 4, 2010 (UTC)

New Userpage
Hello Amaurice ! I just wanted to let you know that I stole borrowed a little bit of your coding for my new userpage Specifically the RSS feed table. I hope you don't mind. 05:54, January 5, 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. Well you should actually be complimenting Psycho, I stole all the colors from his revamp to Template:User 99  19:00, January 6, 2010 (UTC)

New Page Idea!
I've an inquiry as to how one would go about asking for the creation of a new page? Because I have often thought of items that currently have no page, as well as calculators that have yet to be created. Also different combat classes do not have a page as of yet describing what they are eg. Void Pures. But anyways, sorry if I'm posting this idea on the wrong page. I just thought that out of everybody, an admin would probably be able to help me. And since you're a software engineer, you would know whether my request is even remotely possible.

New "Calculator" - Outfit previewer
Is there any way that a page could be made so that users could 'mix and match' different armor types, and be able to see what the desired outfit would look like BEFORE they buy the armor, weapons, etc? Perhaps the selected armour could be placed on a set avatar, with a male and female avatar available? I really don't know how much of a challenge this would present for those trying to make the page? Would you have to do screenshots of each and every item that you wanted to add, or maybe make some .gif images of the screen that opens up when you click "show equipment stats" in-game. Perhaps you could start it off with only a couple of the popular items (bandos, dragon, etc.) and then slowly add items as you found the time?

As I stated before, I really have no idea what kind of challenges this project could present. But I just thought it was an interesting idea, which could potentially save a lot of people a lot of time and money, since they won't have to buy the outfit just to see what it would look like...

Thank you for considering my idea =)

Omg So Wolfy 19:40, January 7, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for the forum link, I'll check it out. Good Luck with your new project! ;)

Omg So Wolfy 01:28, January 8, 2010 (UTC)

AmauriceBot
Hi there. I've been taking some java classes recently and wondered if you would be opposed to me playing around with a copy of AmauriceBot's source code. I'm very interested in applying what I've learned to something like a wiki bot, but I honestly have no idea where to start. It would just be interesting and educational for me to see what you did and how/why it works. Thanks -- 20:50, January 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for getting back to me, and of course I'll leave the keep the copyright and GPL header (trust me, I don't think anyone's going to want to take my work =]). I do have just a few question s though. First, I'm unable to compile the code as I have it. Am I missing a piece of code (I already copied down all the code from User:AmauriceBot/Source code, but I get a "missing return statement" error ), or is my inexperience causing me to do it totally wrong. If it's the latter, don't feel pressured to explain it to me, I will probably figure it out eventually. Second, how do you actually test a program like this? Do you run it on the wiki, or is there some other way to test out? Thanks again -- 20:18, January 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * Disregard that piece about the errors, turns out even when I renamed the directory from AmauriceBot to amauricebot, java didn't recognize the change. A totally new folder did the trick =] -- 20:37, January 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * Sounds good, Thanks again! -- 21:10, January 22, 2010 (UTC)

I wonder...?
I just undid a bit of vandilism on Corrupt Dragon Scimitar, its my first time, and I got a bit confused what I needed to do next after I undid it. My question is that "What do I need to report to the CVU?" since I saw something at the top as I undid it. Please post on my talkpage, thanks. 06:55, January 24, 2010 (UTC)

auto updating skill levels code
Hi Amaurice,

I noticed this code on the bottom of your user page:

does this mean that your user page updates itself automatically from your hiscore data page, without having to change all the values manually on the user page? I would like to know how to do this, I have already created the page User:Bob2006ty/Hiscore Data

11:46, January 26, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks a lot, that works great. Now I only have to update the banner and qp and such (about half of what I had to do before), you just saved me a lot of time, thanks fro the great advice, :-))))) 08:51, January 28, 2010 (UTC)

PROBLEM!
I just checked my account and userpage. It's totally screwed. My signature and userpage is gone, it says I only have 7 edits although last time is said WAY more, wich is what I originally had. My whole account got messed up! Help? --WildWings20 20:47, February 9, 2010 (UTC) <-WTF? My sig is gone!

AmauriceBot and commas
Could you update your bot so that they add commas to prices in the Exchange pages? For example, the parameters Price, Last, AbsMin, AbsMaxin, HighAlch, LowAlch, etc. IMO, values with multiple zeroes (i.e. 1600000) would be easier to see if they had a group separator comma. Calculators would not be affected as commas are removed by Template:,. 12:34, February 12, 2010 (UTC)


 * The commas are removed at the source, via Template:ExchangeItem, where the data is stored. Since Template:ExcgDefault and Template:ExcgTable are derived from ExchangeItem, and is not usually used directly, I don't think it is necessary to add the comma remover in these templates. I have included them anyway, as an added precaution.


 * I've tested out Exchange:Test in various ways, such as in Template:GEPrice, in GEMW pages for up/down arrows, category inclusion (AbsMin/AbsMax), and in calculations. If you want, you can perform other tests as well... I'm fairly confident that adding commas will not affect the Exchange pages, and any problems can easily be fixed by adding the comma remover template wherever necessary.


 * I have proposed this to Rich Farmbrough before, but I think you should ask him again. My only concern is when AmauriceBot adds commas, SmackBot removes them or messes up the pages. Both bots should be updated at the same time to prevent any "misunderstandings". 14:58, February 12, 2010 (UTC)

Hey Amaurice
Just wanted to say Hi, and congrat you on mining along with every achievement you have. Just started back up after a long break. Wont take such a long break next time :). So much is new. Any Goals now? Hope to see you on RS soon. Take care Reyna Jane

--Reyna Jane 21:37, February 14, 2010 (UTC)

Typo
"My dislike of Merchanting Clans

I personally like merchanting clans manipulating the market for the following reasons."

Just thought I point that out. :D 08:34, February 25, 2010 (UTC)

About the potential update to AmauriceBot
Hey Amaurice,

Since TLULbot contains all of the critical source code of AmauriceBot (though some of it has been rearranged and reworked, especially Main), and can therefore hypothetically perform GE updates, could you notify me if and when you upload the latest source code? I would like to include these changes in TLULbot just in case it is ever necessary to run GE updates.
 * Mhmm, the problem is that the wiki insists on adding every page I edit to my watchlist, despite my repeated attempts to change that setting. I'm too lazy to uncheck "add to watchlist" every time, so my watchlist has several hundred items on it. I'll still be checking the pages manually from time to time. I noticed that one of the changes that you had made to the GEChecker class was nearly identical to one I had made myself (something to do with the tasks being executed).
 * Also, the bar at the top was one of my failed tests with Template:transheader. I had layered several of them and tried to change the z-order so that the links remained clickable. I was unaware that it didn't work on Internet Explorer. I thought that IE had returned close enough to the standard to actually display rgba colours.
 * Okay, thanks for letting me know about the change. I have made the corresponding change in TLULbot.
 * Judging by the previous updates to GEChecker (which I finally got up-to-date in TLULbot), I guess we're not updating junk items anymore?

Minor problem
A minor problem with the bot is that with the new update, the Calculators/Combat_level has Constitution instead of Hitpoints, and the bot doesn't recognize it. You can fix it whenever you get the chance, and there's no hurry, as it's fairly minor. 07:16, March 5, 2010 (UTC)

Something new: I made a simple java version at the page, here: Calculators/Combat_level. But the old one still exists Calculators/Combat_level/Old, so you may want to point your bot toward the new page incase cleanup is needed. 08:56, March 6, 2010 (UTC)

CVU
Hi, the disruptive editors that I reported to the CVU (the first one was reported about 40 minutes ago) are still there. Since no administrators are looking there, can you go and see if their edits warrant a block and remove them from the CVU? Thanks, 21:23, March 7, 2010 (UTC)

Problem with copying from AmauriceBot Utils class
When I copy from User:AmauriceBot/Source code/Utils, the ampersand encoding disappears, causing a compiler error on line 144 and invalid results from the decodeEntities method. I fixed this by going into the wiki source, but that shouldn't be necessary. Just in case the problem is with browser-specific handling of the &lt;pre&gt; tag, I tried it in both Firefox and Chrome. I suggest replacing each ampersand with "&amp;amp;" even if it looks a bit confusing while editing, like this message's source is confusing. I hope that's the only thing lost in translation, since it's the only compiler error. --MarkGyver 23:17, March 10, 2010 (UTC)

Update to AmauriceBot
Okay, all of my code was updated to the version as of the 10th. What files are affected by the &amp;amp; problem, besides Utils? I see that they were all updated, presumably by SourceMgr, and then updated a second time. Which of them actually had a change I would need to make?
 * Okay, I had already fixed the thing on Utils on my own XD. I will probably add SourceMgr myself just in case I ever have a need of it.

Wrong redirection to your userpage
I typed "Shattered hearts" in the searchbox and a "search results" screen appeared. The first link in it is "Shattered heart", and the description below it matches what the Wiki page about the minigame says, so I clicked it. But I was redirected to YOUR userpage about Shaterred hearts! I'm assuming this was some kind of mistake and not a retarded attempt to make your userpage get more views... King Muumuu 13:13, March 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * That's a glitch with Special:Search. its happened before. 13:18, March 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * I think it needs to be fixed by staff, check Forum:Weird search bug (most/all of the examples there were fixed, but it was quite odd at the time). Maybe this is just a one-off thing. 16:21, March 14, 2010 (UTC)

RuneScape:Bots/List
Hello. We have recently created a page to maintain a list of all RuneScape Wiki bots and their functions. If you could possibly create a subpage solely for your bots tasks so it can be transcluded onto RuneScape:Bots/List, that would be fantastic. Thanks! -- 18:15, March 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * Excellent, thanks so much! - 23:35, March 22, 2010 (UTC)

Re Barbarian Assult
I tried to post on site, but couldnt. Had a friend to post for me. Real nice talking to u again. *hugs* --Reyna Jane 02:26, March 28, 2010 (UTC)