CHAOS Owner HUD 1.0

The Owner HUD for the Mesmerizer is going up in my vendors as I type.  I'll add it to my Marketplace store (along with the Mesmerizer 1.4 update) very soon.   The owner HUD was described in a previous post, but I do want to reiterate how much it simplifies the use of the Mesmerizer.  Not all Mesmerizer features are available through the HUD, but it supports most of the things that I use on a regular basis, and actually does a few things that the command-line interface isn't directly capable of (the "Teleport to Me" function, and the ability to precision-strip multiple attachments in a single operation spring to mind).

Apart from the icons in the button-bar (which were explained in the previous post), the HUD is mostly self-explanatory.  The most indispensable function of the Owner HUD is for use when trancing the sub.   As I said the in the previous post, I always use the HUD for trancing.  The textbox used for typing trance text supports both multiline text and embedded "\n" line-break sequences, which makes it easy to paste text from, for instance, a Mesmerizer script, that uses "\n" sequences.  This makes it easy to combine text fragments from scripts with text you compose in real-time.  The 'clear' function is also very useful, to provide "pauses" between sections of trance text, to allow the sub to focus on the spiral without any distracting text from the previous section.  In general for trancing, I find that I mostly use just the button bar, with the Trance tab only used to control whether to generate the on-text event, which I use, as discussed in a previous post, to play a gentle chime when there's new text for the sub to read.

The HUD remembers its on-screen positions independently for minimized mode and bar/full mode.  This allows you to place the minimized form somewhere unobtrusive on your screen, while ensuring that the bar and full forms appear in a place where they won't interfere with other HUDs.   The default position for the bar/full mode is intended to be near the top-right, but below the place where textbox popups appear (the top-right of the screen is the default placement of these).  This is because a major use of the bar-mode is for trancing, and textboxes are employed repeatedly in this mode, so the HUD should be positioned so that it's not hidden by these textboxes.

As the HUD operates by generating command-line Mesmerizer commands, you can use it to discover some commands that you might otherwise be unaware of.   The Owner HUD listens on channel 99 (the Mesmerizer command channel) and displays to you what commands are being issued (including the commands that it itself generates).   These commands will be displayed in local to you (although they're not visible to anyone else), so they will end up in your chat log, if you wish to look at them later.  This allows you to keep a log of trances, as well as any other Mesmerizer commands you issue.