Originally Posted by Praetorian
Basically -- EQDKP annoys me, but I'd be happy with a non-bloated UI mod that:
1) Records all drops and who looted them
2) Records attendance at the time of each boss kill (including the people in a user-specified chat channel as a waitlist)
3) Exports smoothing to EQDKP
By late Naxx, CT_RT was so frustrating, missing seemingly every other boss kill, not correctly attributing some items to the right bosses, messing up join/leave info so that everyone who was ever in the raid group got added to some boss kills, and so forth. I'd almost rather do it by hand than deal with that again.
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What I've written is quite limited in it's functionality; it was only ever intended to make my life easier, for our loot system. It's not very flexible.
Basically, when a purple drops, it compares the looter and item name to the last known drop in it's system. If either one differs, it records a new drop. If the "trash" flag is set, it records a new "raid" with a new attendance rollcall (a rollcalll simply records all the people in the raid, and their location - you can't see their location in the mod, only when you upload - useful for catching late people still on the windrider when the first boss is downed).
People don't get credit for drops within the mod; you start the night's runs with what the website exports, and you get deducted for what you '"buy". Your dkp will go up by the next night (or upload, process & import).
The export to eqdkp is done cut'n'paste style from within the mod; you hit export, it gives you a textbox with everything in it's system in one xml string (the intention is that you would be updating after the end of each night). Alt-tab, paste into my hacked up xml parser. It's not meant to store every raid, only a small number.
The xml format is something I've just knocked together; it doesn't conform to any ctrt format/method.
If I made it available for others to use, I'm happy for people to make changes, but I'd rather they rename the mod, as I'd like to keep it as simple as possible, for our use. However, if someone designed a nice ajax interface for tweaking uploaded data before you add it to eqdkp, I'd be stoked.
At the moment it's simply add or discard; you have to dump the xml into a text editor and tweak it by hand, and resubmit (hence in the screenshots you can see "processed" and "discarded").