Item Links in Social Macros

[Lobus]

Hi folks-

Just wondering if this was something that's possible or if it was disabled purposefully. I've done a little Googling on the subject but the ways described don't seem to work. Just want to know if I'm wasting my time.

I see the same folks in EC all the time with the same block of text hour after hour and day after day... Seems unlikely to me that they retype out the same exact message or stay logged into their EC mule that long.

Thoughts?
-Lobus

[Thulack]

Cant do it. You can hit shift+up to scroll back through previous things you said. Makes it easy to spam your wares aslong as you dont type a lot between auctions.

[joppykid]

Cant do it. You can hit shift+up to scroll back through previous things you said. Makes it easy to spam your wares aslong as you dont type a lot between auctions.

All about dat Shift+Up indeed! Should make an EC guild called Shift Plus Up

[Sorn]

It's possible, but it's more trouble than it's worth for something like selling in EC.

[Thulack]

It's possible, but it's more trouble than it's worth for something like selling in EC.

Pretty sure they actually remove the ability to change the macros outside of game and have them show links in them.

[Secrets]

Links aren't classic. You're asking too much.

[Senn]

As Sorn said, it *is* possible, but not worth the hassle.

[Sorn]

Pretty sure they actually remove the ability to change the macros outside of game and have them show links in them.

Wrong! Your macros can be manually changed in the charactername_project1999 file and links can be inserted.

[Lobus]

Sorn- let's say one works somewhere that you can spend a few hours a day dicking around but not always playing and wanted to spend some time learning how to do it... how would I go about it?

-L

[Sorn]

Note: Do not do this while p99 is running. Also, it's easier to premake the macro you plan to put links into.

Step 1: Have access to live (unless you know a method to get the links on p99)

Step 2: Get item link from live
> You can get most item links from the bazaar (type /bazaar)
> Turn on your log (/log on)
> Open up the item detail window
> In chat input, type ;tell (put item link here)
> You will get a message like this: Could not find player 00757613A09000000000000000000000000000000000000052 3FFD51Knotted
> Copy that link
> Take out everything starting at the last three zeros of that string of zeros, so link looks like this (but remember which item it is!): 00757613A090000000000000000000000000000000000
(For visualization: 00757613A09000000000000000000000000000000000000052 3FFD51Knotted)

Step 3: Find/type a hidden/unprinted character called control-R, octal 22, hex 12 (you will need to be able to input unicode hex). In certain text editors, when typed this will appear as a simple rectangle, other times it will not appear at all. It shows up in notepad and text edit.
(Here (http://www.poynton.com/notes/misc/mac-unicode-hex-input.html) is how to switch to unicode hex on a mac - switch to the unicode hex input keyboard and type option-1-2)
(Here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input#In_Microsoft_Windows) is how to do it in Windows)

Step 4: Go into your character's macro/friends/ignore ini file (ex: charactername_project1999.ini) and find your desired macro (under Socials). To insert the link, you need to follow this format: (r)00757613A090000000000000000000000000000000000 Knotted Turtlebone Ring(r)

(r) is the control-R character. You can change the bit after the zeros to say anything you want. I personally use %T for my incoming messages.

Step 5: Save and test in-game.

For everyone else: alt+O to open options and go to the colors tab to change link colors to something other than obnoxious hot pink. :P

[Lobus]

Amazing, thanks! ill start digging into it

[mev]

An easier way to find item IDs:

1) Search for the item on mqemulator.net. Eg, for blue diamond see this page: http://mqemulator.net/item.php?id=22503

2) Note the ID. You can see the ID in the URL and also in parentheses on that page. In this case, the ID is 22503.

3) Convert the ID to hexadecimal. You can use a site like http://www.binaryhexconverter.com/decimal-to-hex-converter to do this. In this case, the hexadecimal number is 57E7.

4) The number should have two 0s before it and should be padded with 0s at the end so that it's 45 characters total. In this case, the number would be 0057E7000000000000000000000000000000000000000.

5) Format things as Sorn described above (eg, with the control character).

[Lobus]

you guys rock!

If Live had this great of a community back in the day I would have never left :)

-L

[Deji]

you can onlyput like 3 items in your macros though because of the 255 character cap per line....anyway around this?