Scripting Questions

[DaemonSambe]

After spending a couple weeks toying with this UI, i'm pretty much ready to say 'Frak Off'. So before i do, i have a few questions:

1. How do you do math with strings, that contain non-numeric chars?
28.5% - 3.5 % = 0
I know i can convert to an int() but i want to work with decimals.

2. How do you do string compares?
localtext="-1"
valid = localtext == '-1' ? true : false gives false.

3. Where is the dynamicdatafilter="0010" stored? This would supercede #1, since i i can just extract the value.
DynamicData="/GameData.Self.TradeskillExperienceCurrent" DynamicDataFilter="0010" gives nothing.

4. Has anyone made any headway extracting tradeskill information for Tinkering/Adorning?
From root it's Persona.MainPage.Skills.SkillTabPages.InnerPage.Tradeskill.Frame.TradeskillCompo site.CategoryTemplate.Composite.931275816 is the path to the status.localtext, as given by the UI itself (i found this by printing every parent.name up from the Adorning element in Skills), but trying to access that path gives a missing element.
Tinkering is 1038997614 along the same path.

5. And finally, does anyone at SoE still even read these boards? What happened to Rothgar and all the work that was going to be done towards Lua implementation, or even giving the tools to do basic s#!t with this UI?

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Forgot a question:

6. Why does this work? /alias z:camp
does this not work? /alias uis:do_file_commands ui_save.txt



.Regards