[2.x] ProTag - PlayerMobile Tag-Based Properties 1.2

[Felladrin]

Felladrin submitted a new resource:

ProTag - PlayerMobile Tag-Based Properties (version 1.0) - Complete Standalone Plug & Play System to add new properties to PlayerMobiles.

Similar to ArteGordon's XmlAttachment and Tru's PlayerMobile Helper, this is an alternative way to save your custom PlayerMobile properties.

More information coming soon.

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[fwiffo]

I have to criticize some aspects that I consider relevant when dealing with those things, as using xml savings...

It's slow, compared to XmlAttachment, just consider a discretely populated server with 2k+ accounts, old and new, consider the save time required by the system.

Consider also another thing, not only related by the performance, there is no safety in dealing with accounts in your script:

- in SET the null check for the account isn't done, so if I DELETE an account I could get in a server crash
- same thing elsewhere.

Also, if I delete the script, the tags remain here, while in XmlAttachment you'll get rid of the at the next reboot.

Maybe you should think of using your custom xml serialize if you want to do something like this, but a binary save would be lot better:

For performance, for the sake of the user running it and if someone just want to get rid of the system, a simple delete would work.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[Felladrin]

Thanks for the feedback, fwiffo.

 

[Felladrin]

Felladrin updated ProTag - PlayerMobile Tag-Based Properties with a new update entry:

Added two config options and fixed account check

Two new options were added in the top of the script.

private static bool GetNeverNull = true; // Setting this to True will make the Get method always return a string (StringForNull) instead of Null when the ProTag is not set.

private static string StringForNull = "Not Set"; // This is the string to be returned if GetNeverNull is set to True.

GetNeverNull is true by default, so you can use this, for example, without worring, as Get will always return a string:...

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[Felladrin]

Felladrin updated ProTag - PlayerMobile Tag-Based Properties with a new update entry:

Get method reverted back to return null if the protag is not set

To avoid complications when creating scripts based on this, the Get method was set back to return the same as the GetTag RunUO method: The value of the protag or null if the protag doesn't exist.

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