Do You Use the Infobar?

Started by Halaster, January 30, 2005, 11:00:06 AM

The one, and only real, advantage to infobar (in my humble opinion) is that it gives an instant and constant update to your hp/stamina/movement, where the prompt is sometimes delayed by action-lag. Not really a -huge- thing, but it can sometimes come in handy in combat situations.

Prompt command all the way :)
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Just for the record, I too do use the infobar when I play PC's.  My client is Wintin.net and I can use scrollback features just fine without messing up the infobar.  When scrolling back, the infobar goes away, obviously, but when I return to the bottom, the infobar is intact and works great.  The only issue I have is that log files will have some random numbers in random spots as the infobar got updated, but that's liveable to me.
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I used to use the infobar, and still do when I can't use tinyfugue.  I've set up a hook in tinyfugue to catch my prompt and stick it into a custom infobar - the numbers get colored depending on whether they increased/decreased since the last prompt.

If anyone else uses tinyfugue and would like to see the hook, I'd be happy to post it here.

Quote from: "Nidhogg"I use simplemu and I love my info bar.

I use SimpleMU as well, but the one time I tried using the info bar, it didn't work out.  How did you set it up?
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I just toggled it on. I didn't set it at all. Toggled it on and when something happens it flashes at me. When nothing happens it doesn't, which I like.

Someone else told me they had issues with it with simplemu, the only theory I can throw forth is my default color scheme. I work with a sand background and black typeface, red echo. (I love my armie interface) The info bar shows green.
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At the APM someone showed me the infobar....I soon forgot about it until now.
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Follow up:
I've been informed that my info bar might not be working correctly. On Simplemu, apparently there's an issue with handling some vt thing. What happens on simplemu is this. The info bar is not static like prompt. Meaning that it doesn't appear each time I hit return. Instead it only shows when a stat changes. I like it.
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The infobar doesn't work properly under Gmud either, it doesn't show up as a bar, just dribbling output.

I use it some of the time.  I don't use it in situations where I am moving on foot in a stamina draining area, because having each and every stamina drop drip down my screen is annoying.  I also turn it off durring group combat, because the screen scrolls too fast for me to keep up as it is, and any extra carriage returns are a nuisance.

An amusing side affect of the way the infobar works is that when you turn it on you can see how much mana you have, even if you are not a mana-using guild.  Sure it's useless, but it does provide for the occasional "D'oh, I could have ruled the world!" moment if you get a non-mage with really high mana.  :P


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Ok, after some playing around with it, I got WinTin working, and the infobar working.  So first, change one of those "no" votes to a "yes".  I like my new spiffy infobar.

Second, for those of you who currently can't use the infobar or who get "dribbling" input, as AC described it, this is because your client is probably not set to VT100 emulation mode.  I don't know what clients have VT100 emulation capability - I will say that after much searching, I couldn't find the option on SimpleMU.  I know that WinTin, or really any TinTin derivative, will have VT100 emulation.  zMUD has it as well, I believe.
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I say we write a proprietary client.
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Quote from: "jmordetsky"I say we write a proprietary client.

Sounds like you just volunteered.  Hurray!  So, you'll have it done, when?
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Quote from: "jmordetsky"I say we write a proprietary client.

One with music.
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Quote from: "jmordetsky"I say we write a proprietary client.

Sounds like you just volunteered.  Hurray!  So, you'll have it done, when?


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Done!
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Done!

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I use infobar for the specific reason that it dribbles out information when my guy gets movement back, or health back, or stun back.

Sure, it's not working, but I like to see my movement points grow and at what rate they grow, scrolling across my screen.

I've been using it incorrectly since '98, and will forever use it.

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Quote from: "Tamarin"Hell no I don't use it.  Never have.

It has never been used by me either.

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You do not have that item.

I've never heard of it, until just now.

I would ask that you lengthen the amont of prompt by ten characters, though. Sometimes, I can't get everything I want in because of the character limit

I'll try out the info-bar.
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Quote from: "The7DeadlyVenomz"I've never heard of it, until just now.

I would ask that you lengthen the amont of prompt by ten characters, though. Sometimes, I can't get everything I want in because of the character limit

I'll try out the info-bar.

I'd second the request for more characters in the prompt, sometimes I have to weigh the options of what to include.  I'm another MUSHClient user, infobar never seemed to work right and messed with my colors so I don't use it though it does look helpful in some cases.

Custom prompts are where it's at.

Considering I don't even know what this thing is, I'm going to say no.  I do use prompt and the ansi yellow highlight thing.  To be technical about it :)

I don't ordinarily use the infobar, but I just played around with it and it's kinda neat when you're resting to recuperate health/mana/stamina/stun.  You can just sit back and watch it blip up without having to hit enter to get a new prompt every 10 seconds.

It also refines a data point (for the patient and statistically-oriented).
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Quote from: "jmordetsky"a full set of ethereal plate mail.

So... ya want a set of platemail... that swords can just go right through?

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