Warframe Alerts Informer

[SonicSonedit]

Warframe Alerts Informer is a standalone tool (application) for Windows XP/7/8. It will scan for alerts and inform you about new alerts which you want to know about. It's very easy to set up - for example, if you only want to be informed about Orokin Catalyst Blueprint and Orokin Reactor Blueprint alerts, just add "orokin" keyword to filter list!

 

This program:

• Will inform you about alerts you want to know - flexible filter settings.
• Easy to use and setup - Unzip & start!
• Has nice and user-friendly interface, but can also quietly run in tray.
• Well optimized, this tool will not use more than necessary of your CPU or RAM. Much less than a browser tab with plugins.

 

Languages supported:

English

Русский

Espanol

Taiwan

French

German

Portuguese (BR)

 

Current version 1.6.1:

 

First of all, a big thanks to NTYD1S for updating filters, nodes and lang strings.

 

- Fixed a bug with popup windows not going away after you click it

- Now WAI only writes error to log file if same error happened at least 15 minutes ago

- Fixed a bug when settings window will go into background after executing "Open file" dialog on Windows7 and later

- Scrapped windows API sound functions, using custom function to set music volume, now it affects .wav files just fine (affected mp3, ogg and others formats but not wav before)

- Increased volume range

- Fixed popup window not updating it's picture for the first second of notification

- Fixed a lot of bugs related to Test Alert, also you are now prompted about saving the config before launching test alert

- Added new option for when game is already running:

-- Reduce notification time: default 3 seconds, This affects BOTH sound and popup window! If set to 0 then WAI will not notify anything at all while game is running

-- Do not show notification popup window: default off, this basically means "sound only" while game is running.

-- Reduce notification sound volume: default 25%, if enabled, this volume will override any event notification sound volume setting while game is running. Setting volume to 0% makes it "popup window only" while gaming is running.

- Added button to open Warframe alerts twitter "Twitter | (@WarframeAlerts)" to both alert list popup menu and tray popup menu

- Added "Close to tray" option: default off, minimizes app instead of closing it

- Program settings window is now blocked while saving settings to avoid confusion

- Program settings title is now translated

-- Translation:

- Added Portuguese (BR) translation by Kitessencial

- Added 5 new strings which need translation in first post, under "Stings which need translation" section, wrapped in spoiler tag.

 

Older update notes:

Version 1.1 update notes

Version 1.2 update notes

Version 1.3 update notes

Version 1.3.3 update notes

Version 1.3.4 update notes

Version 1.4 update notes

Version 1.4.1 update notes

Version 1.5 update notes

Version 1.5.1 update notes

Version 1.6 update notes

 

 

Screenshots:

 

Windows 7:

Windows XP:

 

 

Settings:

To edit settings click a button with gears on it.


1) Twitter URL - don't edit this.
2) GMT - program should automatically detect your GMT. But still it better check if it detected your GMT correctly (Windows XP users notably). You can check your GMT here. Just select your region under "What's the Time in every country in the World?".
3) You can save keywords to ini file by clicking or load them from ini file by clicking . For example click and load Keywords.ini which should be in program's directory.
4) This is keyword list. When any of these words are present as alert reward, program will inform you about the alert.
5) To add more keywords, click . To delete a keyword, first select it in the list (#4) and then click . To edit a keyword, first select it in the list (#4) and then click .
6) If "Play sound" is checked, program will play "Music123.wav" when alert is detected. If "Flash on taskbar" is checked, program will restore itself from tray and blink on taskbar. if "Show alert info notification" is checked, program will show balloon-popup info about alert (see screenshots above).
7) The notifications above (#6) can be repeated set amount of times or until program's window gets focus.

 

Language strings in "Lang" folder which need an update:

Spanish:

EditKeyword2 (hint when you hover over "edit filter" button)

ActionType (actions to take when informing about alert/invansion/infestation - in other words notification settings for selected filter)

Restore (Restore application from tray icon to normal mode)

CompactMode (Switch to compact mode)

StandardMode (Switch to full mode)

OpenSoundFile (Title for open sound file dialog)

ErrorConnection (This message is logged in error.log on connection error to any URL, not just twitter now)

ErrorNoLib1 (This message will popup if libeay32.dll is missing)

ErrorNoLib2 (This message will popup if ssleay32.dll is missing)

SelectFilterFirst (This message will popup if you try to activate test alert but didn't select filter from which notification settings will be used)

NotificationSettingsFor

EnableCategoryEdit

AutoGMTcorrection (need to be translated into "do this automatically" in 1 word, "Auto" in English)

Defended (Invasion timed out)

Cleared (Infestation timed out)

StartsIn (Countdown when Alert is not available yet but will start soon) (yes this happens)

Saving (When options window is blocked while settings are saved to file)

BalloonPopup (Show small notification popup window with information about alert)

GameIsrunning ("If Warframe is already running" or "When warframe is being played")

ReduceTimeTo (If warframe is being played, reduce notification time to)

DoNotShowPopup (If warframe is being played, do not show small notification popup window with information about alert)

ReduceVolumeTo (If warframe is being played, reduce volume to value to)

CloseToTray (When close button is clicked (the "X" at the top right border of the screen) minimize to tray instead of closing the application

 

Taiwan:

None

 

French:

NotificationArea (Small always-on-top notification window settings)

NotificationPosition (position of said window)

AutoGMTcorrection (need to be translated into "do this automatically" in 1 word, "Auto" in English)

Defended (Invasion timed out)

Cleared (Infestation timed out)

StartsIn (Countdown when Alert is not available yet but will start soon) (yes this happens)

Saving (When options window is blocked while settings are saved to file)

BalloonPopup (Show small notification popup window with information about alert)

GameIsrunning ("If Warframe is already running" or "When warframe is being played")

ReduceTimeTo (If warframe is being played, reduce notification time to)

DoNotShowPopup (If warframe is being played, do not show small notification popup window with information about alert)

ReduceVolumeTo (If warframe is being played, reduce volume to value to)

CloseToTray (When close button is clicked (the "X" at the top right border of the screen) minimize to tray instead of closing the application

 

German: 

NotificationArea (Small always-on-top notification window settings)

NotificationPosition (position of said window)

AutoGMTcorrection (need to be translated into "do this automatically" in 1 word, "Auto" in English)

Defended (Invasion timed out)

Cleared (Infestation timed out)

StartsIn (Countdown when Alert is not available yet but will start soon) (yes this happens)

Saving (When options window is blocked while settings are saved to file)

BalloonPopup (Show small notification popup window with information about alert)

GameIsrunning ("If Warframe is already running" or "When warframe is being played")

ReduceTimeTo (If warframe is being played, reduce notification time to)

DoNotShowPopup (If warframe is being played, do not show small notification popup window with information about alert)

ReduceVolumeTo (If warframe is being played, reduce volume to value to)

CloseToTray (When close button is clicked (the "X" at the top right border of the screen) minimize to tray instead of closing the application

 

Portuguese (BR): 

Saving (When options window is blocked while settings are saved to file)

BalloonPopup (Show small notification popup window with information about alert)

GameIsrunning ("If Warframe is already running" or "When warframe is being played")

ReduceTimeTo (If warframe is being played, reduce notification time to)

DoNotShowPopup (If warframe is being played, do not show small notification popup window with information about alert)

ReduceVolumeTo (If warframe is being played, reduce volume to value to)

CloseToTray (When close button is clicked (the "X" at the top right border of the screen) minimize to tray instead of closing the application

 

Version 1.6.1:
Download
Steam thread
Virustotal

 

Found a bug?
Have idea for a new feature?
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Contact me here!

Edited February 21, 2015 by SonicSonedit

[Jiala]

Useful tool, I like. But there does seem to be a bit of an error with the timezone things. I live in -7 UTC (Or GMT whichever you prefer) time zone, and I notice if I set it to the actual timezone it shows them up as expired. But if I set it to -6, it shows them up properly.

 

I'm wondering if the program doesn't take into account daylight savings time?

[SonicSonedit]

Useful tool, I like. But there does seem to be a bit of an error with the timezone things. I live in -7 UTC (Or GMT whichever you prefer) time zone, and I notice if I set it to the actual timezone it shows them up as expired. But if I set it to -6, it shows them up properly.

 

I'm wondering if the program doesn't take into account daylight savings time?

It uses system time. I believe you have same problem with Skype and sometimes with steam (the first message in steam chat with friend will have incorrect time for you). It's a problem for some non-english OS. Namely Windows XP.

[Jiala]

It uses system time. I believe you have same problem with Skype and sometimes with steam (the first message in steam chat with friend will have incorrect time for you). It's a problem for some non-english OS. Namely Windows XP.

actually... I don't with steam, it shows the correct time whenever I send a message in the time stamps. o.O I don't use skype either.

 

And I'm on Windows 7, an english version o.O. The date and time on my computer is set correctly. 

Edited August 24, 2013 by Jiala

[SonicSonedit]

Hmm, I will look into it a bit further.

[kyse]

updated one cant find the sound file and times on it all run one of them said like 10 hours lol so back to 1.3.3 for me

[honeybadger]

actually... I don't with steam, it shows the correct time whenever I send a message in the time stamps. o.O I don't use skype either.

 

And I'm on Windows 7, an english version o.O. The date and time on my computer is set correctly. 

 

Same problem here.  I think whatever time it thinks im in, its 7 hours off.

[honeybadger]

updated one cant find the sound file and times on it all run one of them said like 10 hours lol so back to 1.3.3 for me

 

Go into your options, there is a place to define the path to the provided sound file.  He just used an absolute path to the file on his local machine, which obviously does not exist on your computer.  It is provided in the download though.

[TGDM]

To people talking about the time:

 

There is an option to adjust for GMT. Don't forget it's Daylight Savings Time.

 

edit: MANUALLY adjust for it. i.e. you put in the difference.

Edited August 26, 2013 by TGDM

[SonicSonedit]

Go into your options, there is a place to define the path to the provided sound file.  He just used an absolute path to the file on his local machine, which obviously does not exist on your computer.  It is provided in the download though.

Yep, I forgot to delete Config.ini after testing. It's surprising how easy it's to confuse users sometimes.

 

 

To people talking about the time:

 

There is an option to adjust for GMT. Don't forget it's Daylight Savings Time.

 

edit: MANUALLY adjust for it. i.e. you put in the difference.

I'm working with daylight saving settings ATM. It's quite a tricky part actually. One solution works for one group of people and other solution works for another.

[Sev1107]

We just extract the files and run the .exe program, yes? Making sure i do it right b4 i mess up.

 

Nvm, got it done. :)

 

Really awesome tool btw.

Edited August 27, 2013 by Sev1107

[Dimon_1972]

Can You add option "Close to tray" and right click on icon tray to exit? Like in Utorrent.

And the list of exceptions will be good as your program.

[Mr_Freen]

Dude, this is realy cool. Thank you.

[TGDM]

Weird... There was an alert today for the Swindle Loki helm, but no tweet (hence no alert prompt in your program)

 

Not sure how to work around that other than player informants

[honeybadger]

To people talking about the time:

 

There is an option to adjust for GMT. Don't forget it's Daylight Savings Time.

 

edit: MANUALLY adjust for it. i.e. you put in the difference.

 

 

I had overlooked this option before.  Thanks for pointing it out.  I had to adjust it to "20" for EST, whatever that means.

[Corevi]

Dude, this is realy cool. Thank you.

i agree

[Dubstepper01]

I like how the default credit notification is set to over 9000!

[Samoosa]

Love this program, way easier to follow than twitter itself and all that extra awesoem functions.

 

Is there any way to turn off the "Warframe Alerts Informer: An error occured while requesting Twitter Data. Errorcode: 200" or 0 or -1 etc?

It tends to spam itself if the connection is down or it just keeps randomly popping up even if the line is connected, as in, over time I'll have 100 of these on top of each other and the only way to remove it is end process or click through all 100 instances or so that cropped up overnight.

 

But apart from that little nuance great work ^^

[SonicSonedit]

Is there any way to turn off the "Warframe Alerts Informer: An error occured while requesting Twitter Data. Errorcode: 200" or 0 or -1 etc?

It tends to spam itself if the connection is down or it just keeps randomly popping up even if the line is connected, as in, over time I'll have 100 of these on top of each other and the only way to remove it is end process or click through all 100 instances or so that cropped up overnight.

It should only appear in error.log, no popup messages with connection errors should appear since v1.2.2

[Xenrax]

Want to give this a MAJOR thumbs up!

 

-Minor Requests:

I would like the ability to resize the window.  Why can't we do this!? :P

 

I'd love to have a button with 'Activate Test Alert' as well as being able to modify the size/font/color of the Alert text.

If this is not all possible, then just using the default stuff might work :)

 

-Minor 'Bugs':

Also seems the settings window needs to have 'exclusive focus' when open.

Otherwise, if I accidentally click outside the window, the settings window gets hidden and has to be 'found' again.

Since window positions are saved, a workaround is to just put the settings window away from the main window so that there is no overlap.

 

At the place to 'Play Sound' there's a green 'Play' button that turns into a red square/circle 'Stop' button while the sound is playing.  If the sound finishes playing then it doesn't change back to the 'Play' button.  It'll only do this if you click the 'Stop' button while the sound is in 'Play' mode.

-I am using a custom sound (windows notify) so that might be the issue.  Please test this out on your end.

 

 

 

-Unsure if 'Bug':

The GMT correction is a very long string of digits instead of just rounded to 2 decimal places.  I appreciate the accuracy but do we need it to be *that* accurate to ~10+ decimal places?  I'm in GMT-4 so I'm not sure if this is working as intended or a 'bug'.

Disregard this.  Minor quibble.  Realized I can just edit it manually instead. :)

Edited September 16, 2013 by Xenrax

[LaCosaNostra]

great program

wolud be better with window reisizeing

[Frendh]

The 24 hour orokin reactor alert did not show up for me. I have default settings.

[SonicSonedit]

The 24 hour orokin reactor alert did not show up for me. I have default settings.

Yep, because they started at the same time. I will fix it with bugs posted by Xenrax and some ugly bug no one noticed in next version, which will be out soon.

[Asbeel]

Thank you very much.

[Soopineer]

Loving this, got myself Energy Siphon thanks to you! :D

[GorgutzGunsmasha]

This is a fantastic tool. Thanks for developing it!