A Discord Rich Presence addon for Guild Wars 2.

https://gw2rpc.info

Features:

• Display maps with loading screens
• Display character and elite spec
• Automatic update checking
• Web based registry for maps
• Supports multiple accounts

Exe versions are made using Pyinstaller

Development Instructions

This project was tested with python3 version 3.9.1, allthough later versions might work too.

Install dependencies

Install dependencies with the command pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Generating locales

First you have to generate the binary locale files with msgformat.py, i.e.

cd locales/de/LC_MESSAGES/
../../../Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py -o base.mo base

to do this for all available languages in one command, run the following from the project root directory:

for file in $(ls locales); do cd locales/${file}/LC_MESSAGES && ../../../Tools/i18n/msgf
mt.py -o base.mo base && cd ../../../; done

Inside the LC_MESSAGES folders, you should now have the base.po and base.mo files.

Running

Make sure to change locales_path = resource_path("./locales") to locales_path = resource_path("../locales") in gw2rpc.py and run the program from the projects root directory with python.exe .\run.py.

Make sure that you run it from a Windows Terminal / Powershell as there are some Windows specific dependencies to get the tasks list. The tray icon should appear when the program is running.

Debugging

Something like

        print("{} {}".format(map_id, map_name))
        print("{} {}".format(position.x, position.y))

in the get_map_asset function in gw2rpc.py might be helpful to develop and debug.

Build

First make sure to change the locales_path back to ./locales, as mentioned above.

Next, create a .spec file for the project and place it in the projects root directory. It might look like the following:

# -*- mode: python ; coding: utf-8 -*-

block_cipher = None

added_files = [("locales", "locales"), ('icon.ico', '.'), ('RPC.ico', '.')]

a = Analysis(['run.py'],
             pathex=['C:\\Users\\X\\Projects\\GW2RPC'],
             binaries=[],
             datas=added_files,
             hiddenimports=['pkg_resources', 'infi.systray'],
             hookspath=[],
             runtime_hooks=[],
             excludes=[],
             win_no_prefer_redirects=False,
             win_private_assemblies=False,
             cipher=block_cipher,
             noarchive=False)
pyz = PYZ(a.pure, a.zipped_data,
             cipher=block_cipher)
exe = EXE(pyz,
          a.scripts,
          a.binaries,
          a.zipfiles,
          a.datas,
          [],
          name='gw2rpc.exe',
          debug=False,
          bootloader_ignore_signals=False,
          strip=False,
          upx=True,
          upx_exclude=[],
          runtime_tmpdir=None,
          console=False , icon='RPC.ico')

Adapt the path to your project in the .spec file accordingly.

Start compiling simply with pyinstaller.exe --onefile .\run.spec. Pyinstaller 4.3 was used for this.

Again make sure that you run pyinstaller from your Windows installation!

If you get any errors when starting the compiled exe (like Failed to execute script), change console to True in the .spec file, run pyinstaller again and start the compiled exe from a powershell window. You hopefully will get error messages then.