Authors CurseForge

With Cataclysm coming out and the questing mayhem that ensued I kept wishing that someone would create an addon that would add an additional button to the Quest Complete dialog that would complete and equip the chosen reward.

Anyway, I created a JPG with an example which I will attach to this post. Sorry for the terrible artwork... I'm not an addon programmer or an artist!

Cheers,

Hmm... maybe the button should say "Complete Quest & Equip Item". Seems more logical. Meh.

there is no secure code to worry about as far as i know (my ldb equipment manager allows me to switch equipment during combat( it switches weapons right away and then waits till out of combat to switch the rest) this however uses the equipment manager sets but i don't see what would stop you from doing in per item

Well, if it requires many hardware events wouldn't it work with a simple popup after the dialog is closed?

I know nothing of addon coding but it seems to me that it might be possible by cloning the [Complete Quest] button's function while watching for the next item acquired.

The next function would trigger the item to be equipped (like yssaril's addon).

Obviously this would break in the event of multiple items being acquired at once but someone smarter than me might be able to figure out the logic there. (I'm not very smart so this might be really easy!) ;)

Anyway, thanks for your observations thus far!

I like that idea Nickenyfiken.. it would be one additional step but still way better than searching through bags to find the item.

Thanks!

my personal solution for this is using a bag addon that can highlight new items (i use AdiBags) because most quest rewards are not upgrades but rather i just pick the one that vendors for the highest price.

But as far as implementing this i would add a checkbox to each itemframe(which is equip-able) then when the user checks it off it will get equipped after you complete the quest

You would need to the following things:

• modify each itemframe and add a checkbox
• show/hide checkboxes on each itemframe when the quest dialog updates/shows
• prehook the Complete Quest button so that you can record the itemids/strings of each checked of item
• wait for your bags to update and make sure the item is in your bag
• equip the item this entails the following:
• PickupContainerItem(container, slot) -- pickup the item from your bag
• AutoEquipCursorItem() -- drops the item into the first available slot

you will want to add some sort of function that checks that you are not in combat and delays any non weapons to be equipped when you exit combat

Well I certainly can't write this (not without someone else basically walking me through the whole thing) so does anyone want to write it?

got bored at work not 100% sure if it works
http://www.wowace.com/addons/autoequipquestitem/
don't have any quests with items i can equip atm so cant test (last test threw an error which i think i remedied but need another quest to test)

very simple addon shows an extra button if you can equip the item otherwise its business as always (also only equips items which you need to select)

Hey yssaril,

Thanks for making this a reality! I downloaded and installed the addon and went and did a quick quest. When I completed the quest the button was not visible until I clicked on the item I wanted and then it appeared. Very nice!

When I opened my character window the item had not been equipped so there's something going wrong there somewhere.

Thanks again for taking this on!

any errors?

Oh - if you tell me how to find it, I'll post an error log for you.

No, no in-game errors were reported.

you need to turn on lua error reporting and then they pop up when it happens

not much i can do after the fact (gonna try to get some more quests on my lock that drop usefull items)

maybe this could be done as in a BAG_UPDATE event. when you get an item that equipable and has a higher itemlevel than the item it would replace, it could ask if you want to equip it. perhaps showing the tooltip and the compare tooltip.

options could include automatically utilizing pawn scoring systems and maybe turning off the check for non soulbound items (so it would suggest you equip items that you might intend to sell, trade, stash away for an alt, etc).

maybe it could plug into the quest reward window by highlighting what it thinks is an upgrade.

could also maybe check your equipment sets and replace the item there, too. (including item set mods like item rack).

$.02

Quote from lilsparky

maybe this could be done as in a BAG_UPDATE event. when you get an item that equipable and has a higher itemlevel than the item it would replace, it could ask if you want to equip it. perhaps showing the tooltip and the compare tooltip.

options could include automatically utilizing pawn scoring systems and maybe turning off the check for non soulbound items (so it would suggest you equip items that you might intend to sell, trade, stash away for an alt, etc).

maybe it could plug into the quest reward window by highlighting what it thinks is an upgrade.

could also maybe check your equipment sets and replace the item there, too. (including item set mods like item rack).

$.02

hehe i'm gonna keep it very simple for now :)

lol. you could certainly start simple with just an itemlevel check and go from there. :)

i think the equipment set stuff would be nice either way because it's nearly useless to use equipment sets while leveling because equipment changes so often.

still broken atm will fix after we are done running old raids