Help: General

Welcome to SWGAide!

This application provides you with some utilities focused at SWG, for example a mail client, a screen shot viewer, and many tools aimed at crafting.

Generally speaking, I hope most options and features are completely intuitive, without the need for these help pages. However, some hints...

If there still are areas that you think should improve with a help text, please PM me your thoughts. Anyway, here comes some short notes:

Universe Tree:

Leftmost at the main view is a tree-like structure enabling you to quickly find stations, galaxies, characters' mail clients, editors for aliases, macros, notes, and possibly more over time.

In the tree you may find stations, galaxies, and characters you perhaps play no more. That is since they have left some foot print at your harddisk. You may either

  1. delete these traces from the harddisk using for example Explorer, or
  2. right-click a node in the tree and choose Hide.
Hidden nodes are simply not visible in SWGAide, but can later be made visible by the option Unhide at the Edit menu.

Email:

In-game mails must be saved to harddisk by the command /mailsave to be recognized by SWGAide. Once they are saved you can delete them from your in-game mail client.

In game, should the command /mailsave never complete with a system message, then one or more mails are corrupt at the mail server. In game, select one mail at a time, starting with the oldest. If its mail body never shows up you better delete that mail. Wait a little to see if the command /mailsave completes, otherwise, repeat with next mail.
SWGAide moves these saved mails from their original location to within its "mail" folder, mainly for performance reasons. Concurrently all mails are categorized in that Auction mails are sorted into the Auction folder, which also makes them into the Trade view of SWGAide. Reports on resources from Interplanetary Survey Droids are sorted into the ISDroid folder. Mails from self are sorted into the Sent folder, i.e. to keep a copy of sent mails you also add your character's own name at the TO field (names separated by semi-colon).

The ISDroid folder has its special features with its own help screen. To enable these features, select the checkbox named ISDroidPanel rightmost at the mail data field, which will change the bottom area to contain those features.

Selected mail(s) can be moved to other folders or deleted, which moves them to Trash. Deleting mails in Trash will erase them permanently.

Add or delete personal folders as you please, e.g. for guild mails, a buddy, etc.

Search for any text in all mails for the selected character, which reduces the list of mails to those meeting your query.

Album:

A plain screen shot viewer that presents screen shots taken in-game.

SWGAide moves all screen shots to the "album" folder, mainly of security reasons: SWG sometimes overwrites older screen shots with newer images. Probably this is an issue while running multiple accounts.

Select SWG or TC to bring up their thumb nails respectively.

The selected image has some options, such as delete (which just moves it to the "trash" folder within SWGAide's folder), or Save As.

You can add or delete personal folders as you please, e.g. Space, or Hunting, etc.

Aliases, Macros, and Notes:

At the present time these are just plain text views, but Notes is an editor.

In-game the Notepad is brought up with the command /note which opens the default file "notes.txt". However, the command /note xyz opens the file "xyz.txt", or creates it if necessary. Notice that you must not type the ".txt" file ending, it is added by the game.

Notes can be created, edited, erased, and saved in SWGAide transparent to SWG. Notice though, it will not work if you in-game have a note up but also edit/save it out of game since when you close it in game that will overwrite the external changes. Hence, always have the note closed in-game while it is edited externally.

Other Views:

Most other views have their individual help pages available while you use these screens.

More features are planned for in future releases of SWGAide, so feel free to PM me your ideas and suggestions, they are warmly welcomed.

Zimoon @ Gorath