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[Neyvn]

Just used it for the first time today...
EPIC no more of those annoying Spiral Ramp Cramps...

Though I want to do a 'full' circle in the CVS file. so that means 4 z worth of stuff. How do I make it repeat the 4z on the NEXT 4z, last time I did it, it went back to the top and went one down, thus going over the second layer of my circle...


EDIT: And THATS Why I couldn't find it myself. Its in General Discussion, not modding...

[Aklyon]

joelpt, the build walls part of the surface.xls in /Modular is set to dig mode, not build mode. doesn't do anything but spew walls randomly all over the place.

[Viscen]

The new stockpile settings don't really work with the QuickFortress blueprints. It would be appreciated if you could fix this.

EDIT'd for clarity.
EDIT'd yet again, Toady fixed the refuse stockpiles, but it might be worth taking a look at again.

[jaked122]

sorry bout this necro, but I thought it might be geniunly usefull if it could have a undo thing, read the blueprint, go to the buildings and or designations and just send the delete.

[joelpt]

I'll take a look at the stuff mentioned above this weekend. The Z-level problem Nevyn mentioned sounds like a possible bug in QF2. I'll also get aliases.txt support in, which I believe is what Viscen is looking for. I'll also fix up the blueprint mistake mentioned by Aklyon.

[Nether]

I'll just drop this here...

http://www.irritablegourmet.com/dwarf/index.htm

[Dr. Hieronymous Alloy]

hrm. I'm having some problems figuring out the syntax for the rotate command, etc. I have a blueprint with a designated start point in the *center* of the pattern. Is there a way to make it print the pattern four times, in rotation around that starting point?

Seems to get some errors saying it isn't a square plan >_<

[Tranq]

joelpt,
I'm not really using Quickfort, yet I've got interested to check another tool ... and it works really sluggy.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The main idea is to flood DF with the keystrokes and then let some time for DF to process all the keys at one time.

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xSend(string="")
  {
  global xSendN
  global xSendLimit
  global xSendDelay
  xSendN+=1
  if(xSendN>xSendLimit)
    {
    xSendN:=0
    Sleep,%xSendDelay%
    SendEvent,%string%  ; Yes, SendEvent
    }
    else
    {
    Send,%string%
    }
  }

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xSendN:=0
xSendLimit:=20    ; there was 30 ...
xSendDelay:=150   ;  ... and 100 ...
                  ; even if you will further decrease limit and increase delay
                  ; it might still work way faster then default Send with SetKeyDelay,1,1
SetKeyDelay,0,0   ; this is essential; set delay to 0 before using xSend() and don't forget to set it to your values before using regular Send
xSendN - should be initialized with something.
xSendLimit - the amout of keystrokes will be send before delay; should be concerned with DF input buffer; value of 30 works just fine on 31.61 / windows.
xSendDelay - the delay needed for DF to process the input; should be 1000/fps (time needed to generate 1 frame), probably depends on gfps of DF, 100 is fine for most pc.

Though it's way more code for AHK to interpret it will actually work much faster then regular Send.

I think you got the idea...

[Cypherwulfe]

A note to people using this Mod. I noticed that stockpiles were not setting properly. If you look in the alias.txt file, the counts are off on a couple of the settings. For instance, to set it to seeds only, the alias file says to go down 7, and in the menu now, its down 8.

I have included here the text from the changes I made to correct this.

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# Various aliases to simplify repetitive tasks, such as adjusting a food stockpile to accept seeds only.
# Making new aliases like this is just a matter of mimicking the keys to navigate through the menus, etc.
# Aliases also work with the Alt+T interface.

# food stockpile adjustments
##################################

seeds,s{Down}deb{Right}{Down 8}p%wait%{ExitMenu}
noseeds,s{Down}dea{Right}{Down 8}f%wait%{ExitMenu}
booze,s{Down}deb{Right}{Down 4}p%wait%{ExitMenu}
foodonly,s{Down}dea{Right}{Down 4}f{Down 4}f%wait%{ExitMenu}


# refuse stockpile adjustments
##################################

corpsesonly,s{Down 4}dea{Right 2}{Down}{Enter}{Down}{Enter}{Down}{Enter}{Down}{Enter}%wait%{ExitMenu}
boneonly,s{Down 4}deb{Right 2}{Down}{Enter}{Down}{Enter}{Down}{Enter}%wait%{ExitMenu}
hideonly,s{Down 4}deb{Right 2}{Down}{Down}{Down}{Down}{Enter}%wait%{ExitMenu}

# stone stockpile adjustments
##################################

nometal,s{Down 5}dea{Right}f%wait%{ExitMenu}


# misc stockpile adjustments
##################################

# Artifacts stockpile, activateable on any type of existing pile. Will exclusively allow artifacts of any type onto the pile. You'd still want to ban artifacts from other piles.
artifacts,sd{Down}d{Down}deu{Right}{Up}f{Right}{Up}{Enter}{Left}{Left}{Down}d{Down}d{Down}d{Down}d{Down}d{Down}d{Down}d{Down}de{Right}{Up}f{Right}{Up}{Enter}{Left}{Left}{Down}d{Down}d{Down}d{Down}de{Right}{Up}f{Right}{Up}{Enter}{Left}{Left}{Down}de{Right}{Up}f{Right}{Up}{Enter}{Left}{Left}{Down}de{Right}{Up}f{Right}{Up}{Enter}%wait%{ExitMenu}

# Crappy furnished goods stockpile settings. Position such a stockpile near entrances to (hopefully) let thieves steal low quality junk.
junkgoods,s{Down 10}de{Right 2}{Enter}{Down 5}{Enter}{Down}{Enter}{Down}{Enter}{Down}{Enter}{Down 8}{Enter}{Down 2}{Enter}{Left}{Down}f{Right}{Down}{Enter}{Left}{Down}f{Down 2}f{Right}{Enter}{Down}{Enter}{ExitMenu}



# quickly set farm plots to grow
##################################

# Sets a farm plot to grow the LAST type of seed in the list of available seeds, for all 4 seasons.
# The last seed is used because it's usually Plump helmet spawn, suitable for post-embark. If you only have 1 seed type, that'll be grown.
growlastcropall,a{-}{Enter}b{/}{-}{Enter}c{/}{-}{Enter}d{/}{-}{Enter}

# Like growlastcropall but grows the first one in the list instead.
growfirstcropall,a{Enter}b{Enter}c{Enter}d{Enter}

Just replace what is in your aliases.txt
If you made any changes or additions yourself, then just replace the food section.
I have not figured out the corpse and bone only section yet.
If anyone else can properly explain it to me, I will fix that too.

[Nabobalis]

IS there more blue prints?

[Cypherwulfe]

The blue prints I have been using are the ones for the example fort in the download. Most of the bedroom types that are on the wiki have been loaded by others.

I have noticed another issue, and I am not a programmer so I dont know what it might be. Even if I use the example blueprints, nothing that is 2z levels in the csv digs our right when repeated. Such as the plumbing-1dig. It will dig the first level, then go down a level. Once it digs that second level, it starts digging the first again without dropping a zlevel. and if I try to create my own multilevel blueprint, it completely craps out. Is there a setting I have to check to fix this?

[Draco18s]

Try adding a third, blank, level.  That'll force it to drop another Z before repeating.

[Cypherwulfe]

Actually, I started using the 2 pre release, and it works wonderfully.

[drailgre]

I LOVE THIS!

[joelpt]

I'm not really using Quickfort, yet I've got interested to check another tool ... and it works really sluggy.
The main idea is to flood DF with the keystrokes and then let some time for DF to process all the keys at one time.

Interesting approach. In my earlier testing if I sent certain keys too fast DF would miss them. For example, in QF 1.x there is an extra delay added between {Enter} keys because DF would miss keys while working on displaying a menu with a lot of stuff (e.g. a list of all your stone).

QF 2.x's use of DF's builtin macros makes things much faster and more reliable than keystroke based sends, at the obvious expense of increased code complexity.