FormActMain Methods

Accepts text commands to perform specific functions. In EQ2, if someone were to type "/act end", the parser would split apart the resulting text and send "end" to this method.

Runs the parsed data through the renaming checks(Data Correction tab), raises API events, notifies the Spell Timers window and adds the data to the current encounter

Runs the parsed data through the renaming checks(Data Correction tab), raises API events, notifies the Spell Timers window and adds the data to the current encounter

Change the current zone name and update history DB

Add a control to the upper-right corner of ACT. Avoid heights greater than 24px

Remove a control reference from the corner controls layout

Clean up any resources being used.

Outputs Encounters as XML CombatActions

Sets the InCombat flag to false, ends the currently active encounters, updates their treeview labels, enters the data into the history database and if applicable runs the export functions

Export the Text property of all Form controls to an XML stream

Exports the Text property of all Form controls to an XML file (the -exportcontroltext switch for ACT can demonstrate this)

Gets a list of column names(Usable in GetColumnByName()) for the AttackType view table

Gets whether the user preferences allow ACT to automatically check for updates

Gets a list of column names(Usable in GetColumnByName()) for the Combatant view table

Creates a file path of a Companion Log file given a Main Log file and Companion name

Gets a list of column names(Usable in GetColumnByName()) for the DamageType view table

Gets a list of column names(Usable in GetColumnByName()) for the Encounter view table

Gets an array of Color structures defined by the Graph Color settings

Gets a text export of an encounter using formatters

Gets a text export of an encounter using formatters

Gets a text export of an encounter using formatters

Gets a text export of an encounter using formatters and column alignment

Gets the current version of ACT

Imports an XML stream to replace the Text property of controls in this Form

Imports an XML file to replace the Text property of controls in this Form

Converts a bitmap to a G19 usable byte array. Optional scrolling.

Converts a bitmap to a G15 usable byte array. Optional scrolling.

Add a mode to the G15's LCD mode cycle

Remove a mode from the G15's LCD mode cycle

Compresses an array of bytes with GZip/DEFLATE

Uncompresses an array of bytes compressed with GZip/DEFLATE

Add a notification to the main window Notifications tab

Aborts the current log reading thread and opens the log file specified in the LogFilePath property

Insert a log line into the parsing engine You should increment GlobalTimeSorter if you expect this line to generate combat data

Plays the sound configured in Options -> Sound -> Command sound

Plays the sound configured in Options -> Sound -> Export sound

Plays the sound configured in Options -> Sound -> Misc sound

Plays a PCM wave file using the currently selected implementation in PlaySoundMethod.

Add a control to the upper-right corner of the Plugin Listing tab. Avoid heights greater than 22px

Remove a control reference from the plugin corner controls layout

Downloads a plugin file. May use WININET caching if requested more than once per ACT execution.

Gets the GitHub API cache file of the plugin at advancedcombattracker.com (No rate limit) If the plugin is not GitHub hosted, this will throw an exception. The cache file is updated every 3 minutes if GitHub says it needs to be.

Gets the DateTime of the plugin at advancedcombattracker.com

Gets the version string of the plugin at advancedcombattracker.com

Gets the data about the current plugin instance

Gets the DateTime of the currently running plugin

Reads the ActPlugins List and reorders the GUI plugins page.

Resets the file watcher to use current settings and enables it if the associated checkbox allows.

Resizes the columns on a ListView depending on the column header length and column content length

Prompts the user to restart ACT with a non-blocking message. (thread-safe)

Add a player to the Selective Parsing list; checkmarked

Completely clears the Seletive Parsing list

Determines if a combatant is in the Selective Parsing list and checkmarked

Remove a player from the Selective Parsing list; unchecking or removing

Unchecks all combatants in the Selective Parsing list

Sends HTML formatted data to the clipboard in plain text format and CF_HTML format, which can be viewed with WYSIWYG applications.

Sends text to the Windows Clipboard in three different ways, if any previous one fails. Also may send clipboard data to the ACT Clipboard Sharer if connected.

Sends a text file to the EQ2 folder

This method ensures combat actions are sent to the correct encounter instance and sets the InCombat flag. It also checks the Selective Parsing list to see if the action should be entered into the encounter or ignored.

Sets the the text of the help panel in the Import/Export tab

Sets the the text of the help panel in the Options tab

Creates and returns a TraySlider on the UI thread with an OK button for 15 seconds and shows within 250ms

Performs Text to Speech using the currently selected implementation in PlayTtsMethod. (Default ACT implementation uses a intermediary WAV file to avoid buggy cutoffs during high CPU usage)

Bypass Windows disk write caching to save a file. If the file exists, it will be deleted first. If the file destination file already contains the data, the entire operation is skipped.

Bypass Windows disk write caching to save a file. If the file exists, it will be deleted first.

Unzips a file to a folder

Raises an LCD update event

Writes a timestamped message to the status area of the LCD options

Immediately force an update to the Mini Window

Makes sure that the ACT options pages list all of the available columns. (Drop down selectors)

Makes sure that the ACT options pages list all of the available columns. (Main table columns/sorters)

Writes debugging information to the error log *if* ACT was started with the -debug switch.

Writes an exception to ACT's default error log

Writes an informational message to the error log

Parses an XML stream created by EncountersToXml()