Authors CurseForge

I want to make s simple Cartographer module that would keep track of the different FlightMasters. So I copied Cartographer_ExtractGas, fiddled with it a bit and it seemed to be working (it wrote one note to the Cartographer_FlightMaster. I fiddled some more and (a long time after I stopped fiddling) I realised the Cartographer_FlightMaster.lua was no longer updated with the notes, but the Cartographer.lua was.

Now I've compared the code with Cartographer_ExtractGas, Cartographer_Mailboxes, and some others and the differences are minimal. Still, I guess, I'm doing something wrong.

This appears to be all the code involved with the database.

function mod:OnInitialize()
  -- general options stuff

  self.db = Cartographer:AcquireDBNamespace("FlightMaster")  
	Cartographer:RegisterDefaults("FlightMaster", "profile", {
		iconAlpha = 1,
		iconScale = 1,
		minicons = true,
	})

	if not Cartographer_FlightMasterDB then
		Cartographer_FlightMasterDB = {}
  end
end

function mod:OnEnable()
	if Cartographer_Notes then
  	  Cartographer_Notes:RegisterIcon('FlightMaster', {text = L["Flight Master"], 
                             path = "Interface\\TaxiFrame\\UI-Taxi-Icon-Green"
                            }
                    )
		Cartographer_Notes:RegisterNotesDatabase('FlightMaster', Cartographer_FlightMasterDB, self)
	else
		Cartographer:ToggleModuleActive(self, false)
	end
	self:RegisterEvent("TAXIMAP_OPENED", function() self:SetNote() end, 2)
end

function mod:SetNote()
	local x, y = GetPlayerMapPosition("player")
	if x == 0 and y == 0 then return end  
  local npcName, _ = UnitName("target")
  local zone = GetRealZoneText()
  -- check if we have an existing note, if not add one
	if not Cartographer_Notes:GetNearbyNote(zone, x, y, 0.10, 'FlightMaster') then
    Cartographer_Notes:SetNote(zone, x, y, 'FlightMaster', L["Flight Master"],'title', npcName)
  end
end

Any suggestions are welcome.

self.db = Cartographer:AcquireDBNamespace("FlightMaster")

Means you will be saving it in the Cartographer DB and not your own. Now I suggest you give up on this idea and just use HandyNotes since Cartographer is on life support.

Lovely reply...

So, how come those other addons save their data in their own file (they seem to be using the same code)?

So, how should I code it? (Rather than telling me to use yet again something else...)

So, why is Cartographer on life support?

its in the .toc file for what db to save to

Thanks. :)

## SavedVariables: Cartographer_FlightMasterDB

Right?

The only thing that gets written there is a Version label...

Quote from Jayhawk »

Lovely reply...

So, how come those other addons save their data in their own file (they seem to be using the same code)?

So, how should I code it? (Rather than telling me to use yet again something else...)

So, why is Cartographer on life support?

ck has already made a Cartographer 3.0 which isn't compatible with the current trunk version.

Crikey...he does love a new version, doesn't he? =/
Any idea when it will be released? Or where to find it, if it has been released already?

Quote from Jayhawk »

Crikey...he does love a new version, doesn't he? =/
Any idea when it will be released? Or where to find it, if it has been released already?

It's on CurseForge.

Cart 3 is nothing like Cart 2, i.e. no such things as notes, or anything else on the map

Well since Cartographer3 doesn't have icons I'm sure its a complex issue caused by Cartographer3 allowing you to zoom and some other mod creating icons that are scaled to the worldmaps size.