NSBreeze | Keyboard Shortcuts Extension (Chrome)

[Shizensky]

*Extension in development and currently only available on the Chrome Store.

NSBreeze on the Chrome Web Store

NSBreeze adds keyboard shortcuts to nationstates.net.

d - Visit the nation page for the current region's delegate.

f - Visit the nation page for the current region's founder.

m - Move to the current region being viewed.

e - Endorse the nation currently being viewed.

r - Visit your home region's page.

n - Visit your nation's home page.

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NSBreeze is currently in very early stages of development. I've only got a few keys mapped to add functionality. There's a bit of cleaning up to do, but everything seems to work as expected. I'm happy to hear suggestions for other shortcuts, but I can't promise that any of them will be implemented due to RL responsibilities. Please use this thread to report any bugs, comments, or suggestions for improvement.

Based on my understanding of NS script rules, this extension should be completely legal as it has been designed to strictly adhere to the "one action per click" rule. This extension simply replaces the need to move the mouse with a keystroke.

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Version 0.5.1.2 Source Code:

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 $(document).ready(function () {

 
      $(window).keypress(function (e) {
         if($("input,textarea").is(":focus")){
            return;
         }      
         else{
           if(e.keyCode == 101){
              $('.unbox').children('form').submit(); 
           }
           else if(e.keyCode == 109){
              $('.button[name=move_region]').trigger('click');
           }
           else if(e.keyCode == 100){
              $('#content').children('p:nth-child(2)').children('a.nlink:first')[0].click();
           }
           else if(e.keyCode == 102){
              $('#content').children('p:nth-child(3)').children('a.nlink')[0].click();
           }
           else if(e.keyCode == 110){
            if ($('#paneltitle').length > 0){
               // using Rift
               $('#paneltitle').children('a')[0].click();
            }
            else{
               // Default theme
               $('#banner').children('a')[0].click();
            }
           }
          
           else if (e.keyCode == 114){
            if ($('#paneltitle').length > 0){
               // using Rift
                $('#panel').children('.panelcontent').children('.menu').children('li').children('a')[0].click();
            }
            else{
               // Default theme
               $('#panel').children('ul').children('li').children('a')[1].click();
            }
         
           }
         }
      });

});

I'll add more comments in the next update so less technically inclined individuals can better understand what's going on.

[The Church of Satan]

So far so good! Good work Shiz, love NSBreeze!

Suggestion: A shortcut that goes to the region your nation is in. You know, kind of like a shortcut "home."

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

"...man, that'll make things so much faster and easier!"

"...You can't do that, that's too easy. Takes the fun, the human element out. Why not bind every step of the raid to a key and do it in two seconds flat by hitting qwertyuiop? Same reason you use manual triggers, not sheets!"

[Shizensky]

I thought of the R/D implications after publishing and realized this will likely help defenders more than raiders. Raiders have the advantage of knowing their target ahead of time, and often only need a single click to be done. If they need to endorse anybody, it probably won't be the current delegate. This might make defending easier as it removes the need to scroll and find the move button, click a delegate link, then scroll and find an endorse button, all of which can waste precious seconds in the current R/D landscape. With this tool, interested parties simply type 'm, d, e' between page loads.

I'm sure people will dislike it for further removing the human element, but it's not 2006 anymore and we have tools to make life easier. I'm not going to turn a screw by hand if a power tool allows me to get the job done in 1/10 of the time.

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

but....sometimes the power tool either strips the screw, or cracks the wood Best to do things by hand in some cases....

[Shizensky]

So far so good! Good work Shiz, love NSBreeze!

Suggestion: A shortcut that goes to the region your nation is in. You know, kind of like a shortcut "home."

Done! Also added shortcut back to your own nation's home page.

r - Visit your home region's page.

n - Visit your nation's home page.

[New Kvenland]

So far, I like it

I assume the shortcuts not working forumside is intentional?

[Shizensky]

Things are set up a little differently between NS and the forums. I could add a fix sometime today to get n and r to work from the forums, too.

[Nullarni]

I know you are only in development, but I added you to my cutesy"Useful Sites and Utilities" dispatch. Let me know if you think it is too early in development for me to include it.

[Shizensky]

That's fine. There is still room to make improvements beyond simply getting it to work, but I try to make sure I'm not going to break anything before I release updates.

Thanks for the inclusion.

[Tim Stark]

Any chance this is Open Source, or we can know what exactly it collects? I trust you far more than Afforess, but NS extensions always make me a little bit wary

Looks great, though, will have to try it out.

[Shizensky]

I'll paste the current version to a spoiler in the OP. You can always check on your own for the current version of any extension you install. On Windows, you can go to:

C:\Users\[your profile]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\hodpmjjbaiacgdjlgebeapapfojemlgo

From there, open the folder with the highest version number to see what you're currently using. Right now we're on 0.5.1.2. I don't have any other OS nearby to find the extension's location, sorry.

For anybody who doesn't know how to read code, I can say that I'm not doing anything to collect any data. I'm looking for certain keys to be pressed, then simulating a click on a specific link for the appropriate key. There are certainly more efficient ways to do this, but right now I'm in a "Proof of concept/Get it done" phase. No data is being stored on either your local machine or a remote server, and I have no plans to change that in the future.

[Tim Stark]

Awesome! Thanks Shiz

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

So, as an uneducated question....

If you're on a region, and boom, you start typing in the RMB....you'll set off these keys, right? So yo'd have to disable the extension to do any typing gameside?

[Shizensky]

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...
        if($("input,textarea").is(":focus")){
            return;
         }     
         else{
...


That's precisely what this part checks for. If you've clicked in a text area (:focus), the rest of the script is ignored.

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

Hm. Nice.

[Dominionaire]

Could it be possible to add shortcuts for bold text, italics, underlined text, and so forth on regional RMBs and telegrams? That would be really useful. Just a suggestion

[Hobbesistan]

Could it be possible to add shortcuts for bold text, italics, underlined text, and so forth on regional RMBs and telegrams? That would be really useful. Just a suggestion

I do believe this was designed more for Gameplay than general use.