[Release] Bot1448 v2.1.0 - UPDATE FIX

2016-10-13 10:57:57

Bot1448 v2.1.0!

v2.1.0 focuses mainly on improvements to the auto-updater. Oh, and it's completely open-source (available under the MIT license) now!

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v2.1.0 Download
- A different fill algorithm (you'll see this change in almost every update now until I perfect it)
- A new admin command: `.kicklol <player> <reason>`. This kicks a player and immediately forgives them.
- Admins can no longer ban the owner (I should've done this sooner)
- The bot asks you if you want to enable the auto-updater
- Update-checking is less buggy
v2.0.0 Download Outdated
- Added an auto-updater. This means that you just have to download this file once, and newer versions are installed automatically! (Hooray, no need to use crappy MediaFire again)
- Added a Custom Snake tool.
- Improved block-placing! Seriously. This time, !fill should work flawlessly.
- Silenced the bot even more! Now all it says publicly (unless you enabled welcome and goodbye messages) is "Gained edit access! " and "Lost edit access! ".
- Added themes! Currently, the only theme is Dark, but I'll post a theme creator soon.
v1.8 Download
- Silenced the bot a bit (it now PMs some messages)
- The bot can multitask now
- Modified the fill command to make it more user-friendly
- Changed how the command system works (this is more internal than external)
- The bot tells the user to add arguments to commands when they are not present
- The bot should throw less exceptions now
- Modified this forum post a bit
- Fixed a bug where some values aren't rendered
v1.6 Download
- The UI is now slightly bigger
- Added the Build tab to the UI
- Added the Ignore Snake option
- Added an button to toggle god mode
- Now you can send the code for a world
- Added the fill tool (the !fill <block ID> and !cancel commands)
- Added the !name command
v1.1 Download
- Fixed bug where stalker options were not being saved.
- Fixed bug where the bot gets cranky when you modify its data files.
- Fixed bug where stalker's godmode keeps flickering on and off when it's stalking the bot's owner.
v1.0 Download Here's where the confusion was; this was originally named v0.2
- Fixed the bug where the bot doesn't clear the online list and the chat list when disconnected.
- Fixed the "adminhelp" command not appearing in the "!help" list. (The adminhelp command had already existed, but there was no way you would have never known about it if you were new to bots.)
- You can no longer kick the owner of the bot.
- You can no longer report yourself or the owner of the bot.
- Added a stalking option to the GUI
- Added the !stalk <player> and !unstalk commands
BETA Download
- Bot released!

Bugs? Suggestions?

Please post them here! It would be really helpful if you do.

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Koya · 2016-10-13 11:10:51

Just have to point out the file storage because you pointed it out, why bother with binary when the only benefit is speed when the only things that are written are infrequent things and most of the data is stored in memory without the need to read or write. Also, as you mentioned XML I don't think you have used the holy grail of general data storage of the JSON file.

The reports and comments does sound interesting and will be used for bullying in a few circumstances.

2016-10-13 11:19:14

Koya wrote:

The reports and comments does sound interesting and will be used for bulling in a few circumstances.

I don't understand what "bulling" means. I assume it is a typo for "bullying".

Yes. The report system may be used for bullying. I understand. That's why I added the number of reports for a ban option, and I set it to 5 as default.

If bulling means "speaking bulls***", then the 1 comment per person limitation will take care of that. The owner of the bot can also remove comments if he wants, through the GUI. The same is true for reports. I can report you only once if I wanted to. The owner can also remove reports.

EDIT:

Koya wrote:

(below)

Oh lol well anyways I think I answered that.

Koya · 2016-10-13 11:20:45

Whoops, I did mean bullying and nothing else.

capasha · 2016-10-13 13:11:45

Saving settings would be best to use JSON. I really like JSON now. And it's easy to read too.
I don't know why binary would be best. What if you want to edit an setting in the document when it's binary? I mean in notepad.

Instead of using this:

if (e.GetString(1u).StartsWith("!") || e.GetString(1u).StartsWith(".") || e.GetString(1u).StartsWith("@"))
{

You could use regex, which is better and easier.

if (Regex.IsMatch(line.Substring(0, 1), @".|,|-|_|!|\&|%|\?"))
{

Then can people use . , - _ & ! % ? as first letter.

You could also use something like this if you want to use !help x

1448

Koya · 2016-10-13 13:30:03

Careful, "." in regex means any non-breaking character, and make it search only the beginning of the string.

You want this:

[\.,\-_!&%?]

____

How I would do it:

(match the whole incoming text for ease and you can use the match to filter off commands)

Regex.IsMatch(line, regex)

Valid command format:

^[\.,\-_!&%?][A-Za-z]+\b

For overkill, if you want to allow anyone to use whatever punctuation as a prefix:

^[^a-zA-Z0-9][A-Za-z]+\b

Extending this you could match other variables in a neat manner

^[^a-zA-Z0-9]([A-Za-z])+\b( [A-Za-z0-9]+)*

Match m = Regex.Match(line, @"^[^a-zA-Z0-9]([A-Za-z])+\b( [A-Za-z0-9]+)*)");
if(m.Success)
{
    string command = m.Groups[0].Value; //This doesn't include whatever prefix was used.
    string var1 = m.Groups[1].Value;
    string var2 = m.Groups[2].Value;
    //...
}

capasha · 2016-10-13 13:31:35

Koya wrote:

Careful, "." in regex means any non-breaking character
You want this:
^[\.|,|-|_|!|\&|%|\?]

I guess I forgot to add \ to .

den3107 · 2016-10-13 15:40:42

Or you just make it

^[.,-_!&%?]

All chars between [] are automatically escaped.
Besides, I think you meant to use () instead of [].

Koya

Koya · 2016-10-13 15:44:23

den3107 wrote:

Or you just make it
[^.,-_!&%?]
All chars between [] are automatically escaped.
Besides, I think you meant to use () instead of [].

*deep sigh* good point, makes no sense to have [|]; I blame C&Ping capasha
Still need to put the start outside and escape . and - though

^[\.,\-_!&%?]

den3107 · 2016-10-13 15:49:48

Koya wrote:

Still need to put the start outside and escape . and - though

Yeah, edited it, for some reason I thought you meant to use negative (instead of start of string).

Koya · 2016-10-13 15:52:37

den3107 wrote:

Koya wrote:
Still need to put the start outside and escape . and - though
Yeah, edited it, for some reason I thought you meant to use negative (instead of start of string).

I'm matching the whole chat message while capasha is matching the first char.

Extended overkill ftw!

SirJosh3917 · 2016-10-13 15:58:41

This whole regex thing seems confusing but amazing...
Could anybody give me 1448 a link to a guide using regex?
I think we all need to start using this instead of StartsWith

Koya · 2016-10-13 16:15:21

@OP - what other new features are you planning to add to this bot?

ninjasupeatsninja wrote:

This whole regex thing seems confusing but amazing...
Could anybody give me 1448 a link to a guide using regex?
I think we all need to start using this instead of StartsWith

Regex is super useful and would be a core programming skill (it's cross-language too - even in CSS).
StartsWith still has use for quick things though, which doing with regex will look messy.

I learnt through DDG searches but I found a resource that outlines things nicely @ and I use this site to text complex regex patterns @.

Edit: I am more than happy to help with regex patterns as they can get complex, message me on the forums #.

Myst · 2016-10-13 16:36:52

best bot ever

1448

Tomahawk · 2016-10-13 18:06:29

You must be trolling with that regex. It's overkill for comparing the first char to 3 things and is probably more performance-intensive than 3 StartsWith()s - it's certainly much less readable.

I would leave your code how it was, but if you want to add more prefixes it will be easier to do:

if (new char[] { '!', '.', '@' }.Contains(m.GetString(1)[0]) { ... }

This creates a char array and fills it with the command prefixes you want. It then checks if the array contains the first character of the chat message, so if the chat message starts with a command prefix (! . @), the statement returns true.

Koya · 2016-10-13 18:12:14

Tomahawk wrote:

You must be trolling with that regex. It's overkill for comparing the first char to 3 things and is probably more performance-intensive than 3 StartsWith()s - it's certainly much less readable.
I would leave your code how it was, but if you want to add more prefixes it will be easier to do:
if (new char[] { '!', '.', '@' }.Contains(m.GetString(1)[0]) { ... }
This creates a char array and fills it with the command prefixes you want. It then checks if the array contains the first character of the chat message, so if the chat message starts with a command prefix (! . @), the statement returns true.

I did say it was overkill but the final one works perfectly for commands, accept any punctuation and with no effort I now have the command used alone without the punctuation, it's useful to be able to fully parse a command - may as well have the best solution early on.

XxAtillaxX · 2016-10-13 18:15:10

Tomahawk wrote:

You must be trolling with that regex. It's overkill for comparing the first char to 3 things and is probably more performance-intensive than 3 StartsWith()s - it's certainly much less readable.

It's perfectly acceptable to use low-performance code in applicable scenarios, such as this, nor is it unreadable to anyone that knows regular expressions.

den3107 · 2016-10-13 22:53:10

Regex indeed is very intensive, mostly compiling them (or so I hear on work). In case you do want to use regex: Compile them beforehand (put them in a Regex object), and obviously don't do this compilation inside any loop, since then you'd compile them over and over again instead of just once. Compilation over regex' are very resource intensive (obviously using them too, but it'll only get significant when they're very complex or are applied on large portions of text).

Anyways, if you would want to micro-optamize but keep regex, I think this regex would be more efficient, mostly on the compile side: ^\W
Matches everything except ranges "a-z", "A-Z", "0-9" and the "_" character. If you'd want to also include "_" it'd simply be: ^(\W|_)

Would also increase readability to use \w instead of all those alphanumeric ranges, in my opinion. And I'd also use \s+ just in case somebody's an idiot and places multiple spaces...

Btw, Koya, why do you limit the user to just alphanumeric characters in their command messages? They can't even put a good-grammar "." and the end of a report message! D:

XxAtillaxX · 2016-10-13 23:01:03

It's completely nonsensical to get worked up over the performance costs of using regular expressions in this scenario, because it's utterly negligible.

Koya

Koya · 2016-10-14 17:22:20

den3107 wrote:

Regex indeed is very intensive, mostly compiling them (or so I hear on work). In case you do want to use regex: Compile them beforehand (put them in a Regex object), and obviously don't do this compilation inside any loop, since then you'd compile them over and over again instead of just once. Compilation over regex' are very resource intensive (obviously using them too, but it'll only get significant when they're very complex or are applied on large portions of text).
Anyways, if you would want to micro-optamize but keep regex, I think this regex would be more efficient, mostly on the compile side: ^\W
Matches everything except ranges "a-z", "A-Z", "0-9" and the "_" character. If you'd want to also include "_" it'd simply be: ^(\W|_)
Would also increase readability to use \w instead of all those alphanumeric ranges, in my opinion. And I'd also use \s+ just in case somebody's an idiot and places multiple spaces...
Btw, Koya, why do you limit the user to just alphanumeric characters in their command messages? They can't even put a good-grammar "." and the end of a report message! D:

Commands do not include numbers, anywhere; you can add them by all means.

I use Regex because with one variable I now have the command without the punctuation and all values in the message, it simplifies and keeps the code cleaner; this process is run for each command and not 10 times a second.

den3107 · 2016-10-14 22:16:25

Koya wrote:

Commands do not include numbers, anywhere; you can add them by all means.

I was more pointing at the parameter part: ^[^a-zA-Z0-9]([A-Za-z])+\b( [A-Za-z0-9]+)*

So first off: Perhaps sometimes you would like to use numbers? I mean, can't hurt to implement the functionality.
Also, why the /b? the white space already takes care of that.

But yeah, currently the parameters wouldn't be very "message" friendly. For example the report feature: can't use "&" or "." or "!" or "(" etc.

So I'd personally use a regex like:
^(\W|_)\w+(\s+\S+)*)

EDIT: also thought of a bug with your current regex regarding special characters, but nevermind.

2016-10-16 10:40:28

OP wrote:

What new features are you going to add to this bot?

I'll answer it anyways.

I'll try to add new features but I don't get time.
Right now, I'm not doing anything because I'm busy with other things.

When I do get time, I'll try to add a fill tool which lets you fill blocks in a rectangular area between 2 co-ordinates. And a digbot once I get my hands on Processor's deserialization tool.

GermanPower68 wrote:

best bot ever

Thanks

XxAtillaxX wrote:

It's completely nonsensical to get worked up over the performance costs of using regular expressions in this scenario, because it's utterly negligible.

Not on the PC I use. I take more than 2 minutes to compile my code. I work on a potato.

den3107 · 2016-10-16 13:53:39

1448 wrote:

XxAtillaxX wrote:
It's completely nonsensical to get worked up over the performance costs of using regular expressions in this scenario, because it's utterly negligible.
Not on the PC I use. I take more than 2 minutes to compile my code. I work on a potato.

We're talking about run-time optimizations
Beside the fact that it's very hard to optimize compilation time, it's way more important to focus on the run speed.

capasha · 2016-10-22 17:59:32

Sorry to bump this. But I was reading the readme and found this.

<For security nerds> Bot1448 doesn't collect any of your data. You can be a 100% safe when you use Bot1448.</For security nerds>

Still you save the email and password in settings.dat.

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den3107 · 2016-10-22 23:37:28

capasha wrote:

Sorry to bump this. But I was reading the readme and found this.
<For security nerds> Bot1448 doesn't collect any of your data. You can be a 100% safe when you use Bot1448.</For security nerds>
Still you save the email and password in settings.dat.

I think will collecting he meant something ninja once did with his bot. Actually mining data and putting it on HIS pc instead of the one of the user.
The bot is entirely safe to use when all data is saved locally. The person might be less safe when another person get access to said file.
Obviously encrypting the data would be BETER... But the bot is still doesn't do anything freaky with your data.

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