Niceties

[bhaelochon]

• New slash commands (I think they're pretty self-explanatory):
  
  /censusplus auto {on | off}
  /censusplus take
  /censusplus pause
  /censusplus resume
  /censusplus stop
  
  
• Change the minimap button to a different color for each of the different running states (idle, taking, paused).
  
  (Brainstorm: Maybe get even more clever and have two colors for each of the running states: a bright color for when auto-census is on, a dark color for when auto-census is off.)
  
  I don't even know if that's possible. I can't think of another mod that does it.
  
  
• Something about tweaking the current algorithms in order to reduce lag at end of census.
  
  I haven't fully thought this one out yet, but the goal here is to prevent lag death. Maybe do more parsing during the census versus at the end?
  
  
• (Brainstorm) A popup menu when clicking on the minimap button.
  
  Initial list of menu options: take/pause/resume, stop, auto on/off, profiler on/off.
  
  
• (Brainstorm) An optional prompt before initiating an auto-census.
  
  Like the CTRA ready check. Options would be "Procede" and "Skip".

More as I think of them.
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[Rollie]

all great ideas, keep 'em coming =)

[DM.]

I like them all =)

Esp the popup menu and the lag death thing. Census takes longer than most mods to open its UI so if there was a menu then that would be even better, perhaps as a right click or something or just a simple left click with an option to open the UI.
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[Rollie]

You people must have huge local databases if you get a ton of lag when you open the UI. Granted, my local DB isn't that huge so this is never really an issue for me.

[Alanthus]

I don't think that's really the entire problem, I get issues now already at 2-4k surveyed from the first server and I purge quite often. When I do a full run of a bunch of servers it gets worse of course but the initial file size/char number to notice issues has decreased over the last couple of patches.
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[Rollie]

I have started looking at how to lessen the processing lag. Hopefully I can get something worked out well.

[DM.]

Yes mine is large.... Currently the file is just over 2mb in size. I tend to Prune alot, not Purge. But still a addon like MobInfo is one which gathers data and doesn't take a long time to load when you open up its UI, my lua file for that is only 218kb

I like my database size large so I can keep track of things


Hopefully the next version will have some lag reduction methods in place
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[Balgair]

Yeah, I've been noticing really nasty end-of-census lag since 3.3 came out in parrticular - it's always had a slight lag but now it's a second or longer. My censusplus.lua in SavedVariables is under 4MB, and a few months back I had it at 12MB with less lag than currently, so I don't think it's entirely down to my large database

Love the idea of having the minimap button showing the censusing state btw, I often don't notice a census starting and then wonder why /who won't work any more lol. The pop-up menu would be a nice touch if possible too, though I can understand if that's tough to code.
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[DM.]

Oh yea thats another thing.... Being able to do a /who when Census is running.... But I think Blizzard limits the amount of /who you can do to like one every 2 seconds. So Census takes top priority by quickly sending out another /who command once the previous one comes in.

Not sure what can be done here, if anything but ah well. Oh I know... Pause!!
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[bhaelochon]

Oh, how my baby has grown! It's nice to see my thread generated discussion.

Thoughts:

• Lag
  
  Just to be clear, I'm talking about end-of-census, not loading the graph. I could do without the graph 95% of the time.
  
  
• Queuing user /who requests
  
  Excellent idea, and one I'm surprised at myself for not thinking of. It would be even neater if you could intercept standard /who messages instead of having to go through a C+ command.

An additional suggestion:

• Configurable time between censuses
  
  Allow me to configure how often a census runs.

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[Talinda]

Bump.

Especially the bit about the minimap button showing the status!
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[Naraht]

Ideas I've had include
Bar integration (Titan Panel & FuBar are the two biggies) - I have too many icons around my nimimap as it is..*sigh*
a way to identify other census takers (IE you can flag yourself as a census taker and it would transmit on a private channel {I believe this is possible} so that you would know who on your server was also gathering info)
updated graphics for the races/classes...surely someone knows an artist who can draw so more interesting protraits than Blizz's male portraits. >_<
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