Addon internet connection

[kraftman]

There are plenty of addons that allow you to upload your data to their website. Using a program to automate the process is not a giant leap.

[Duugu]

Originally Posted by kraftman There are plenty of addons that allow you to upload your data to their website. Using a program to automate the process is not a giant leap.

Yah. But that will require the users to do/execute something.

[Vlad]

The thread is about addons communicating with a site without having to restart the game, but as stated even doing reloading of the UI can only be used to upload fresh data obtained, can't load new data as it will first overwrite the variable in the file, then reload it with no time to edit it.
If you logout the program in the background can upload the new data, then download new data and insert it in the file, before the user enters the world again -that way you would achieve loading data from a site, but not while remaining in the game all the time.

[Shadowed]

Originally Posted by Vladinator The thread is about addons communicating with a site without having to restart the game, but as stated even doing reloading of the UI can only be used to upload fresh data obtained, can't load new data as it will first overwrite the variable in the file, then reload it with no time to edit it. If you logout the program in the background can upload the new data, then download new data and insert it in the file, before the user enters the world again -that way you would achieve loading data from a site, but not while remaining in the game all the time.

Sure you can. Addon files are loaded on UI reload. You keep a blank with an empty table, you have a client that saves new data to that file rather than a SavedVariable. All you have to do is reload to get new data in to the client.

[kraftman]

Originally Posted by Vladinator but as stated even doing reloading of the UI can only be used to upload fresh data obtained, can't load new data as it will first overwrite the variable in the file, then reload it with no time to edit it.

If you were using the savedvariables file. However an external program could still change the code of the addon to incorporate the new data upon reloading the UI, just like when you edit your code and reload to test the new changes.
With enough players going afk/reloading manually/logging in, the data would always be fairly up to date.

[Vlad]

Duh ofc, hehe. I noticed my error.

But you would at least have to /reload the UI to load new data or upload data, not bad ofc.