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Or you bind it to a specific key on your keyboard or you create a makro.

I don't think there's a way to effectively connect macros to bindfiles, which are needed for rotating binds.

That would imply that there is a point where Johnny Storm is not contemplating lighting Ben on fire. As well all know, this is simply not the case.

As a lark, I set up a variation of this for my Ice/EM Tanker, where I made a big file of insults, one line per insult, and created a Perl script that, when running, read in this file as an array, and would periodically write a file that consisted of a bind that mapped a key to 'say insult in local, taunt, load bindfile', reloading itself with a new bind containing the next random insult. This would let me pop off random insults directed at whatever mob the character was taunting that I could intersperse with taunts without the verbal addition. As a touch of characterization chrome, I used CoX's Unicode support to have some of the insults be in Russian using Cyrillic characters (the character's background being Russian).

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Wait, lark? How does that work?

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Wait, you have a Perl script running at the same time as City of Heroes, writing to the file? Doesn't City of Heroes lock the file while it's reading it?

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Yes, but: it only reads the bind file when commanded to do so, it takes a very short time to read it, and the script that writes to the file presumably waits until it can get a write lock to write to the file. So, there's nothing particularly infeasible about this. If the CoH client is dumb enough to not spawn a separate thread for reading the bind file, then you might get a brief pause in the client if you try to read the file while the script is writing to it.

I considered doing some experiments along these lines myself. I was considering using named pipes, though, with the script pumping a new randomly generated bind file through the pipe whenever the CoH client attached on the read end. I never got very far with it, though. Named pipes are tricky. It's probably smarter to go ahead and write new bind files at a specified interval, but then I start worrying about disk wear. Maybe a file on a ramdisk... hm.

A bit like this.