For those who compose their posts out of game while RPing

[Kuzhuk]

Here's a little tool I made: 

 

UPDATED: http://www.rptoolbox.com/

 

Has a lot of neat features, I think. Not perfect, but I hope someone gets some use out of it.

Edited January 7, 2019 by Ezenzakhialga

[Caspar]

This is quite cool. I will try it out!

I usually post in game but I don't think it is efficient. Does this have a built-in character limit proportional to FFXIV's chat?

[Delilah Scythewood]

This is lovely! Bumpbumpbumpbump.

[Aoi Fukiku]

I do have to say that this is very handy! Totally will be bookmarking this! Thanks for the heads-up!

[Kuzhuk]

Yep! The character limit is set exactly to FFXIV's chat limit. It'll tell you how many characters you are using and how many posts that requires, and if you click split it'll auto-split them with (continued) at the end so your partners know there's more to read.

[ShoggMommy]

This is fantastic. Thank you.

[Teadrinker]

Very neat tool.

[Rance]

Impressive.

If you don't mind me asking about a technical aspect about the tool: What did you use to code it?

[Knight Kat]

This is an awesome idea. I'll be trying it out soon.

 

At a glance, it looks like everything someone would need to compose a post.

[Kuzhuk]

Impressive.

If you don't mind me asking about a technical aspect about the tool: What did you use to code it?

The interactive stuff is written entirely in Javascript with HTML for the 'output' essentially and css to style it. In short, every button has a 'function' attached to it that manipulates the text or performs some kind of browser action based on rules I've defined. It's just complicated text parsing and formatting. I bought the domain name and have it hosted via google's cloud storage platform (which is neat).

 

I'm kind of new to all of this or it wouldn't have taken me as long as it did to write it, I bet. It took a lot of revisions cause I made a lot of mistakes along the way :blush:

[Roen]

Oh! I am so going to try this out!!

[SapphireSkylines]

Woo! Something that will help me from being redundant and will let me check my spelling. Going to try this.

[Mermaid]

Between counting characters and the spell checker I'd say this is better than what I use for out of game stuff too. :surprise:

[Mercer]

Wonderful tool!

[Kuzhuk]

http://www.rptoolbox.site/

 

Tool is updated with a new preview button that makes it easier to copy individual posts.

[Nebbs]

It does not seem to work for me just spins around busy but never loads.

[Kuzhuk]

What browser are you using? Does it do that from load-up? Can you reproduce the issue now and describe to me exactly what happened?

 

Thank you!

[Nebbs]

What browser are you using? Does it do that from load-up? Can you reproduce the issue now and describe to me exactly what happened?

 

Thank you!

 

I have tried with Explorer, Chrome and Opera. The page is blank and appears like it is trying to load, but never does. There are no errors.

 

What has worked is using a VPN to the US, then it comes up. I am in the UK.

 

And it is a lovely thing you have done :love:

 

[EDIT] It's now working without the VPN.. so who knows

[Kuzhuk]

I'm using cloud platform hosting through google so it handles international accesses strangely

 

I may need to move to another host.

[Nebbs]

I'm using cloud platform hosting through google so it handles international accesses strangely

 

I may need to move to another host.

 

All is working fine now, I suspect my ISP or maybe my DNS needs changing. Unless anyone else has the issue I would say you are good where you are.

[Kaiverta]

That's awesome. Thanks for sharing.

 

There's also something called Grammarly? Not sure if that's just essay-related or if you can write your posts in it, too (etc).

[Kuzhuk]

The tool has been updated and has a new URL: http://www.rptoolbox.com/

 

Grammarly is a browser extension that will work with any browser-based tool like this.

[Rosekitten]

I will be 100% be keeping this around for future use. ^^ Thank you for sharing~!