About Snoopers

[greenseng]

Well... been looking for some eye-candy and things slowly starts to "light up" a little.
And when it comes to Snoopers - it is at least not disturbing.
Actually...
It does nothing at all.
Nothing...

Have Oolite 1.75.3, Snoopers 2.1.1.oxp, Snoopers2.x_gal2.oxp, Cabal_Common_Library1.4.1.oxp.
Something Missing??

Yes, I have been using it for a while and, as it is said, pressed F7.
Nothing.

So... what am I missing?

Something that must been bought? Some secret button? A magic formula - or... is it just me?

Or maybe it will start at Christmas or New Year. What do I know.

But.. as I said.. it is at least not disturbing.

[Commander McLane]

Snoopers serves you the latest news, but it does so only very rarely. Once in a while, when you approach a main station, you'll get a message that tells you to press F7 as soon as you are docked. If you do so, a newsflash will be displayed. That's it.

And it happens rarely. Once after every 20-50 jumps or so.

[Svengali]

Yep. CMcL is right. The interval is based on your ship clock and set to 25 days as default and the chance that a newsflash gets displayed is still not very high. Snoopers does display the news on main stations and on stations that have set the flag for it (script_info snoopersNews) or have set hasNPCTraffic. To raise the chances and/or lower the interval between newsflashes you can adjust it via OXPConfig or edit the properties in its startUp (this.sliderA and this.sliderB).

[greenseng]

Ahaa... I see.
I thought it was just me.

25 jumps or something.. if you are saving and then restarts - does it continue from where you were or does it start count jumps from zero?

And in the programming... why the word this."some parameter"? What does this refer to? Is it some kind of Java?

[DaddyHoggy]

Ahaa... I see.
I thought it was just me.

We didn't want the news to appear to often, I've only written about 100 for Chart 1 and another 50 for chart 2, once there's at least 50 for all the charts, I'll go round again and keep adding and then the frequency can be increased as the chances of a memorable duplication occurring is reduced.

I've started on Chart 3, so once RL(tm) cuts me some slack I'll get that finished.

[Svengali]

25 jumps or something.. if you are saving and then restarts - does it continue from where you were or does it start count jumps from zero?

Not jumps, days. And yes, it is saved and will continue where you left (thanks to Micha).

And in the programming... why the word this."some parameter"? What does this refer to? Is it some kind of Java?

The ominous 'this' in JavaScript is a referrer. Here it is pointing to the Snoopers script, but it can be a beast .-)

[greenseng]

Wwooaahh.. there it was. Didn't even have to mess with some parameters.

Suddenly a signal. - Wonder what that was? I thought. But nothing seems to be wrong.
I had forgotten everything about something called "Snoopers".

Pressed F7 but nothing happened.

Then I docked and when I pressed F7 then, there it was.
An intrigant story about some nav-pilots that had got a little too much liquid into their bodies, and decided to fly between the legs of a big statue.
Somehow they survived but the statue was damaged and people were upset.
And Nav probably has to pay for the party.

Good. At least it works. Rather entertaining actually.

Is there some way to get the message back again - at least on the same station?

And about this " this.---" parameter or whatever to call it.
Have found it in C++ too and it surprized me there too.
When a compilator needs such an argument to handle the code - it somehow makes me wonder...

[DaddyHoggy]

Wwooaahh.. there it was. Didn't even have to mess with some parameters.

Suddenly a signal. - Wonder what that was? I thought. But nothing seems to be wrong.
I had forgotten everything about something called "Snoopers".

Pressed F7 but nothing happened.

Then I docked and when I pressed F7 then, there it was.
An intrigant story about some nav-pilots that had got a little too much liquid into their bodies, and decided to fly between the legs of a big statue.
Somehow they survived but the statue was damaged and people were upset.
And Nav probably has to pay for the party.

Good. At least it works. Rather entertaining actually.

Is there some way to get the message back again - at least on the same station?

And about this " this.---" parameter or whatever to call it.
Have found it in C++ too and it surprized me there too.
When a compilator needs such an argument to handle the code - it somehow makes me wonder...

The news will repeat (eventually and randomly) - but as you know, news is a hip-and-happening-now-now-now-type-thing. We watch repeats of our favourite television programmes, we don't watch repeats of the news (this also goes for news based programmes for me too - "Have I got news for you", "8 out of 10 cats" etc)

I remember that news article... :¬)

[greenseng]

Wwooaahh.. there it was. Didn't even have to mess with some parameters.

Suddenly a signal. - Wonder what that was? I thought. But nothing seems to be wrong.
I had forgotten everything about something called "Snoopers".

Pressed F7 but nothing happened.

Then I docked and when I pressed F7 then, there it was.
An intrigant story about some nav-pilots that had got a little too much liquid into their bodies, and decided to fly between the legs of a big statue.
Somehow they survived but the statue was damaged and people were upset.
And Nav probably has to pay for the party.

Good. At least it works. Rather entertaining actually.

Is there some way to get the message back again - at least on the same station?

And about this " this.---" parameter or whatever to call it.
Have found it in C++ too and it surprized me there too.
When a compilator needs such an argument to handle the code - it somehow makes me wonder...

The news will repeat (eventually and randomly) - but as you know, news is a hip-and-happening-now-now-now-type-thing. We watch repeats of our favourite television programmes, we don't watch repeats of the news (this also goes for news based programmes for me too - "Have I got news for you", "8 out of 10 cats" etc)

I remember that news article... :¬)

Yes.. and now I am really waiting for next news-message.