Selected Item window just needs to be a few pixels wider, and the big icons return.

Here is the issue I'm facing:

If I make the cargo window a bit narrower and instead expand the UI with the icons further to the left, the bot subsequently readjusts the size of the cargo window, almost completely covering the first icon. As a result, the scan can no longer detect the UI. If I bring the UI to the foreground, the bot recognizes it immediately and attempts to dock. But as soon as the cargo window is brought to the foreground again, the exact same thing happens.

If I knew whether and how I could manually adjust the pixel values for size and position, this issue could be easily fixed.

Best regards,
CPM


As a follow-up
Yesterday (Sunday), I did some further testing. I reached a fairly good result — though not perfect — by first keeping the original size of the ore hold. After undocking (which made the Overview and the icon bar above it visible), I widened the icon bar until the icons returned to their large size. I also pushed the window all the way to the right edge of the client. As a result, the window for the ore hold was slightly overlapped on the right side.

Next, I adjusted the width of the client window until the icon window and the ore hold were sitting neatly side by side again. After making these adjustments, I closed the client, opened the settings in EvePilot, copied the Eve settings to local, and saved them.

Then I started the bot. The Eve client launched with my latest adjustments, and mining worked again. It also successfully recognized the docking process.

However, there still seem to be occasional issues. I suspect it's because the client doesn't have the exact window size the bot expects. I observed that, every now and then, the client was closed upon undocking. After the bot restarted the client, it docked first, did its routine tasks, undocked again, warped to the belt as usual, and resumed mining.

Until Slav2 fixes the issue with the icons, you should definitely keep an eye on it while running. If the client restarts too frequently, it might be better to hold off on mining for now. Constant restarts are visible to CCP, which could eventually make them wonder what's going on.

So much for my workaround. If it works for you, I'm glad I could contribute a bit. Of course, no guarantees.

Best regards,
CPM

Good that you found your workaround. And I totally get the whole window error thing, which I strongly suspect he has solved in other/later code, but still happens there because of that functionality's age, which is otherwise known as the headache causing term 'tech debt'.

This type of issue is exactly why in my codebase I always immediately take a few minutes to add the smaller versions of buttons when I see them. I nerdily designate them as polymorphicButton class buttons because they do the same thing but can change shapes, like how comic shape-shifters are called polymorphs. However, I have to say that I'm thankful for Slav and Eve Pilot because he has already automated all the fundamental botting functionality that would bore me to tears and included a way for me to easily augment things with my code if I choose, while also maintaining a large number of stable bot types in one of the most complex MMOs ever. Slav definitely deserves his time off, especially since (last I heard) he also has a highly technical IRL job. I too have a technical job, an have come to appreciate the task of engineering highly optimized solutions to the complexities of eve as a fun and challenging hobby. (I don't bot for ISK, I bot to find coding challenges in need of optimized solutions. I don't have much interest in actually playing or spending the ISK.) So, much respect to Slav.

EDIT: Oh shit! Just saw his post about the drone attacks being near him. Safety first!

Hello innominate,

Thanks for your response to this thread. However, as I mentioned earlier, my workaround isn't 100% reliable either, which is why I included that well-meaning warning at the end. Some days it works fine for a few hours, while on other days I give up after 30 minutes because the bot is already on its fourth login attempt.

I don't really use the bot to get rich on ISK either. I mainly use it for ice mining to manufacture fuel blocks for Metenoxes and Upwells. Most of the time, I run it semi-afk while I'm doing something else.

As for Slav's work, what he built into this bot is truly a masterpiece. I even tried looking at the source code, but since everything is obfuscated and I didn't feel like digging through all of that, I gave up pretty quickly. Still, I find his programming approach with individual modules called via the Algorithm Editor very interesting. I wish I'd thought of structuring things that way for some of my own ideas and projects. It would be awesome if there were an editor where you could manually enter the size and X/Y coordinates of individual UI elements — that would turn my workaround into a really comfortable solution.

If Slav ever has the time and inclination, maybe he could build something like that down the road. But I completely agree with you: safety comes first, especially in critical regions.

CPM

CPM wrote:
I also pushed the window all the way to the right edge of the client. As a result, the window for the ore hold was slightly overlapped on the right side.
I missed that part.
This might be causing the issue. It being cut off on the right side might be causing it. I widened it without docking it to the right edge, then made the cargo window go against it. Worked fine for me. GL!