Client development question

[HalfCent]

To start off, if this question belongs somewhere else please let me know!

I recently got into competitive Pokemon and after a couple days I decided that I wanted a couple features in the client that weren't there. I forked the client on github and made the changes I wanted. All of the changes I made are client side, and have no interaction with the Pokemon Showdown servers. Only after making the changes did I realize that when you pack for desktop, it loads the ENTIRE client, not just resources from the showdown servers.

I was wondering if there was an accepted / easy way to use my changes in a custom desktop client and still connect to the official pokemon showdown servers. I know that I could rewrite the index.html that node-webkit uses to force it to load local files instead, but wanted to check if there was a simpler way before I went through that work.

Thanks in advance!

 

[MJB]

To start off, if this question belongs somewhere else please let me know!

I recently got into competitive Pokemon and after a couple days I decided that I wanted a couple features in the client that weren't there. I forked the client on github and made the changes I wanted. All of the changes I made are client side, and have no interaction with the Pokemon Showdown servers. Only after making the changes did I realize that when you pack for desktop, it loads the ENTIRE client, not just resources from the showdown servers.

I was wondering if there was an accepted / easy way to use my changes in a custom desktop client and still connect to the official pokemon showdown servers. I know that I could rewrite the index.html that node-webkit uses to force it to load local files instead, but wanted to check if there was a simpler way before I went through that work.

Thanks in advance!

I would assume it would be a lot easier to do it through browser version of PS (it sounds like you are using the desktop downloaded version).

You should with the browser just need to run test-client.html (i think thats what its called, i cba looking it up right now, its something like that) and it should work fine.

 

[HalfCent]

Thanks for your response! Yeah, I had been testing with test-client.html, but some things are missing or annoying to do in it, like logging in. I ended up just making a new index.html that loads the resources I modified from the filesystem, and loads the rest from Showdown. I can launch it with the desktop client launcher, so all is good and done. Sound doesn't work, I assume because of some cross-domain issues with flash, but it doesn't really bother me because I play without sound most of the time anyway.

 

[pick]

I'd suggest writing an userscript to mess with the DOM directly, but that's just me.

If you give an example of what you'd like in a client, I can tell you how to implement that without having to edit the actual files.