Update: Updated for PoE version 0.10.0g. Gems, Currencies and Maps are now in the notify list per default.
Update: Updated for PoE version 0.10.0f.
I don't play this game, but I've seen some game play and it looks pretty much like Diablo 3, so I figured this might be useful.
This program intercepts server messages that notify the client about new objects (more specifically: new items that drop on the ground). At the moment filtering is only possible by name, but if this program is even useful I might reverse some more stuff to filter by modifiers, stats, etc.
Every time an item drops that is of interest to you ("of interest" meaning that you added this item's name to the ItemNotify list), the program will play a sound and show the item name in a console window.
It's open source and I've decided not to release any stand-alone binaries. You'll need to install Python (2.7) and 2 additional libraries. More information on this is in the INSTALLING file. Once you have installed Python & dependencies and made sure that the path to the Python binary is in your PATH environment variable, you can run the item alerter by executing this in a command window: python.exe ItemAlertPoE.py
You're obviously free to alter this program in any way (you need to in order to change the ItemNotify list), and you're free to do whatever you want. It carries a simple BEERWARE license (just for the sake of it). Just keep my name on it, please.
I've hacked this together in 1 day, which explains the sloppy programming and the documented (and probably undocumented) problems.
Source code is here: https://github.com/zku/ItemAlertPoE
Sample output: https://raw.github.com/zku/ItemAlert...img/sample.png
WARNING: This may very well be considered a bannable offense. Use at your own risk, I take no responsibility for any actions taken against the user.