FreeSoftwinâ„¢ RuneScape Toolkit

Hi there people!

I am making a RuneScape toolkit and I am now looking for some sweet suggestions on how to make the toolkit really good.

The current features are:
- Highscores
- Grand exchange (does not work properly, would love some recommendeations on how to make a good GE tool)
- World map
- Media player
- Addons manager (still in early BETA)
- Profile (log-in required on startup unless playing without a profile)
- Notebox
- Stopwatch and other timers
- Nice design with good looking icons etc.

More features to come...
- Calculators (such as those Swiftkit uses)
- Merchanting guide (with daily updates on what item to merchant)
- Alching guide (with daily updates on what item to alch)
- Editable themes
- Chatroom
- Facebook plug-in
- Spotify plug-in (if I can make it work)
- World jumping
- YouTube plug-in
- Screenshot manager
- Better media player
- And more...

Please post your suggestions!
I am coding with .NET (VB 2010), any source codes to help me with my project would be greatly accepted! Your name will also be in the Credits window

Thanks!

 

How does your Grand Exchange thing work at the moment? What do you want it to do?

 

As for the GE tool, have it return the prices. Then have a button to a popup window of the graphs.

 

If you want source for a client, click the link in my sig, you'll have have the work done for you.

 

@Darthatron - It doesnt work at ALL at the moment. I have tried several different methods (using WebBrowser etc) but can't figgure out a good way of getting it to work properly...
@iJava - But how do I know what string a browser uses for each item's price?
@Covey - That would be "cheating" But I can give it a look Thanks!

 

The document source remains constant in every browser, just look for the pattern and split the surrounding text.

 

That's how i basically taught myself vb6 and .net, by looking at sources. You don't generally have to used source, but at lead you'll get a good idea of how to do it.

 

Read this thread: http://www.sythe.org/showthread.php?t=1271380

And if that doesn't work, I made a C# version I can translate/comment for you, found here: http://www.sythe.org/showthread.php?t=1291897

 

There's a Grand Exchange API available now, just FYI. Google that shit

 

Yeah, that's fine if you want specific details on a single item (which you know the ItemID of), but not for listing/searching.

http://services.runescape.com/m=rswiki/en/Grand_Exchange_APIs

 

I have a good list of features that would make EVERYONE use it:
MAKE IT A NEW ELITE SWITCH WITH....
Auto Account creator,
Fast world switcher,
Every feature that elite switch had, but supporting the new runescape,
ELITESWITCH.

 

An MSN plugin would be a great idea too if possible, considering that majority of sythe's dealings are done via MSN.

 

If you want an idea on how to do the GE feature, take a look at my VB program. It's pretty simple and basic, and should help you figure out how to do it.

https://github.com/Kyle-Undefined/GrandExchangeParser

 

Does Microsoft offer the API anymore?

 

For the alching guide I recommend taking a look at this website.
(http://www.scape-xp.com/runescape-high-alchemy.html)

Personally I believe the website is efficient and works well for what I need. Even if you're not making it exactly the same, I believe this is a good method for this section of your Toolkit.