Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I wish....


I wish that I could select a group of items in assets window (a cargo container, a giant constainer in a hangar, or in space, my cargo, my ships hangar, my items hangar, a corporate hangar, a corp hanger in space, a mobile depot, a ship construction array, a ship maintenance array, anything that presents an items window)

and request that this select be copied to the operating system clipboard as an xml results dataset.
item typeName, typeID, quantity

(I wouldn't ask for the hierarchical contents.. no need to show the contents of a container that I have selected)

I wish I wish I wish... as this would enable quite a few useful utilities.

For example, without an api-sync, you could copy all your salvage to an xml like this, paste it into a web-form.. and have that web-app tell you what rigs you can make from it. (currently such apps exist but rely upon you typing in the #'s or it does an api-poll of your assets.. in this way you can be more precise.. no no.. not *all* my assets.. just my personal assets, or my corps assets, or assets in this particular hangar.. whatever)

Or you could use it to help automate buyback programs... corp is offering to buy the stuff but my goodness, I have to go type in all the stuff I have? Why can't we copy/paste from eve to the web eh?

For example, suppose I selected two stacks of tritanium and a stack of mexallon, hit my OS's copy command
My operating system clipboard should now have an xml description of the items, something like...
<>'s replaced with .'s to avoid the html filter

.items version="1".
.currentTime>2013-11-18 20:57:55./currentTime.
.result.
.rowset name="items" key="itemID" columns="typeName,quantity".
.row typeID="34" itemName="Tritanium" quantity="12345"/.
.row typeID="34" itemName="Tritanium" quantity="55"/.
.row typeID="18" itemName="Mexallon" quantity="123"/.
./rowset.
./result.
./items.

really? I thought I tried that a recently.. no luck.

I just checked again and I get no change to the operating system clipboard with I select items and ctrl-c.. the clipboard is unchanged (a bit of chat-text i copied from local actually)

The text chat was copied to clipboard by a right-click context menu... (right-click on chat text, select copy or copy-all are the choices). I see no similar choice when right-clicking some objects in my asset hangar.

So what secret incantation is required to make this copy?