PoE Helper (unofficial chrome extension to help with crafting/inventory)

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BaggerX wrote:

First off, amazing tool!! It's become absolutely essential for me. I love the new export options!

Just had a few suggestions for the tool after using it for a while now:

1. In the CSV output, formatting the stats that have ranges like "10-27" rather than "10 to 27" makes Excel screw it up and format them as dates or other gibberish, and even changing the column format to general or text won't fix it. The other option would be to put a single-quote character in front of the numbers in those columns, which Excel interprets as making it a text value.

Hrm, that is pretty odd, the quotes around it should be telling it that it's a string. I think adding the extra quote in there would probably break it for anything other than excel.

There is probably some html that goes in there as well sometimes I've noticed. I think if I can be arsed one day i'd replace the cut n paste that chrome does with a dodgy flash one which lets me cut rich text to the clipboard, that way i can send something a bit more formatted to excel.

probably not going to be anytime soon tho. lacking motivation since i got bored of running low level maps :p

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BaggerX wrote:

2. When using the tool for rares trading, it would be nice if the "Compare Rares" results wouldn't include all the columns that I have displayed for the inventory view, or at least would have the option to toggle them off in that view. Makes it easier to skim through the list reading the names and looking at sets.

yeah it should be using the crafting list, i'll update that next time i do a run through bugs. I've never used the clipboard/compare tools :p

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BaggerX wrote:

3. What would also be great is if the "Compare Rares" option would flag items somehow that would make a Regal set for the other player as well as those that would make a Regal for you, or that would make a Regal for either of you. Right now it's easy to see those names that would make a Regal set for yourself since you'll have two of them together in the comparison results, but you have to manually go through the other person's list to figure out which ones would make a Regal set for them or for both of you. This would just be a major time-saver.

I think that whole part of the extension probably needs some love. It's probably the only part of the code I haven't looked at yet :p

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BaggerX wrote:

4. It would be really nice to be able to re-order the columns in the inventory display and output. Not sure if that's something that could be saved somehow for us though. Would just be nice to be able to put the most important columns like Level or Avg Damage immediately after the item name :)

It'd be possible but if you had a lot of rows that sort of thing gets pretty nasty.

Anyways, i'll add some tickets to github, probably not going to do any big modifications to this piece of junk til open beta. I suspect at that point it's highly likely the PoE website will change again and break things.

thanks for the feedback tho :-)

and of course, anyone else who wants to fix things is more than welcome, i'm always happy to pull/merge updates in :p

Is it possible to add ilevel to the crafting recipe list?

I regularly make chaos/regals and i don't want to use ilevel 65+ armors/weapons i am saving just for regal if they are end game equipment. Usually the name is enough to tell.. but when I see a 68 .. i will make sure its not one of those items.

Just a thought.

Funding

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Funding wrote:

I regularly make chaos/regals and i don't want to use ilevel 65+ armors/weapons i am saving just for regal if they are end game equipment. Usually the name is enough to tell.. but when I see a 68 .. i will make sure its not one of those items.

This is what the "partial refresh" function is for. He's assuming you've kept your stash somewhat organized, with things you want to keep stored in specific places.

Put all your valuables in tabs 1-2, all your junk rares in tabs 3-infinity. Now you only get an output of the recipes you're willing to actually sell.

Just a thought.

still dont get the Orb of Alchemy recipe,
even though i had 3 pairs of rares in my stash

Do you see the items in the extension's list? Can you link them here? I never got the impression of a miss.

One more thing: it needs some time until the web stash take notice of new stuff (but should be ok if its visualized at the web stash) - and after this the extensions needs a refresh to be up to date.

hmmm I am pretty sure that was not the case,
I was online all afternoon.
However today it seems to be fixed,
so I am thankful:)

sounds like perhaps you just needed to do a refresh. the data in the extension only gets updated when you do a refresh.

Here's how you get around google's app-store requirement to load poe_ext if you're on linux without a working drag-n-drop setup.

First, download poe_ext.crx to Downloads
Now fire up a terminal.
Rename the file to a .zip, and move the zip file to its own directory.
just unzip it! .crx files are actually zipfiles.
Now you've unpacked it. You can manually load an unpacked extension by browsing to it. From chrome://extensions, check "developer mode". Load unpacked extension, browse to where you unpacked it.

Now you have PoE helper on Linux :D

njs, I don't expect you to know anything about linux, but maybe you can help me figure out why this plugin can't load my inventory from chrome-on-linux.

When I load into PoE helper, I get a "Loading..." overlay, with dimmed background. In the background I see all the menus I'd normally expect. With the message

"You appear not to be signed into Path of Exile.
Please sign in and refresh this page."

However, I am signed in.

Rather than asking you to help solve this problem, give me information to figure out what's up. Where would I look to see how it's getting stuck? Is there any way I can turn on a debug trace, or something like that? I know nothing of chrome plugins.

hrm, i think there might be a directory you can just dump the crx file in to get it into chrome. also even if your window manager doesn't do drag and drop, you should be able to drag the file within chrome itself. i.e from the download bar at the bottom of the screen back up to the extension page in the middle of the screen.

I don't have a linux box with a front end on it atm to try it out unfortunately, thats how i do it on my mac tho.

also if you unpack it then your autoupdate isn't going to work, if yer going to do it that way i'd clone it from github instead, then you can just use git to update it at least.

checkout from git (wherever you want it to go):

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git clone git://github.com/njs50/poe_ext.git

update it (from wherever you checked it out)

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git update

If there are any errors they should be in your javascript console. I'd check you have version 0.66. around version 0.63 GGG removed a web service we were using to get the character lists, so anything older than that isn't going to work.