AuldLangSyne combines the functions of CT_PlayerNotes and FriendsFacts.
It will remember information about friends and display it in your friends list while they are offline.
It also allows you to write short notes about these friends.
Type /auld for a (very minimal) command listing.
If you already use CT_PlayerNotes, load the game with both addons enabled, and type "/auld ctimport" to load its notes. (Due to the way CT_PlayerNotes stores its data, you will have to do this once for each character whose friends you have made notes on.)
ctimport doesn't work for me, giving the following error message:
AuldLangSyne.lua:157: attempt to index field `?' (a nil value)
How much info does it remember about friends? FriendsFacts just about anything there is to know about a character, including guild membership and gender. Guild membership is useful to know, and although gender isn't that important, it's a fun tidbit I like to have.
Yes, please, do add notes to the ignore and guild panels.
ctimport doesn't work for me, giving the following error message:
AuldLangSyne.lua:157: attempt to index field `?' (a nil value)
Oops! Sorry, I changed the defaults that I registered for the database, and missed one spot where this required me to change something. I just committed a fix for that.
UPDATE: To explain in slightly more depth, I removed a wildcard from the database defaults when I noticed that it made checking to see whether the unit you were mousing over was being tracked by the addon create a whole bunch of empty tables in the SavedVariables. Since you're going to mouse over a lot of characters in the course of playing WoW, this seemed like a bit of an ongoing memory issue.
A feature I'm really looking for in addition to the two you combined is storing the time you've seen them last. While this data doesn't indicate that someone hasn't been online since that moment, it is an indicator wether someone quit playing or transferred to a different server. My friendslist is full as I use it to store all the people I group with from time to time (even if it's only once a month), and while I'm pretty sure at least 10 of them have quit playing I couldn't tell who they are. With such a feature I could delete people from my friendslist if they havent been seen for e.g. 2 months.
PS: no idea how you came up with AuldLangSyne as addon name, but it's terrible to remember. Worse than KLTHM, err KTLMH, err KLHTM_ThreatMeter. Why not call it something like MyFriends, FriendsNotes,...?
A feature I'm really looking for in addition to the two you combined is storing the time you've seen them last. While this data doesn't indicate that someone hasn't been online since that moment, it is an indicator wether someone quit playing or transferred to a different server. My friendslist is full as I use it to store all the people I group with from time to time (even if it's only once a month), and while I'm pretty sure at least 10 of them have quit playing I couldn't tell who they are. With such a feature I could delete people from my friendslist if they havent been seen for e.g. 2 months.
I'm happy to say that this is already in there. On offline friends it includes a little "last seen 2 days ago" note. With the appropriate number, of course.
...I need to add formatting that nicely to the todo list.
PS: no idea how you came up with AuldLangSyne as addon name, but it's terrible to remember. Worse than KLTHM, err KTLMH, err KLHTM_ThreatMeter. Why not call it something like MyFriends, FriendsNotes,...?
My spouse didn't get it either, which surprised me. Auld Lang Syne is the name of a song, mostly sung around New Years Eve, whose opening line goes "should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind." (Literally, "auld lang syne' translates from Scots as "old long since", but may be better rendered as "times gone by".)
How much info does it remember about friends? FriendsFacts just about anything there is to know about a character, including guild membership and gender. Guild membership is useful to know, and although gender isn't that important, it's a fun tidbit I like to have.
It remembers pretty much everything that FriendsFacts does. (Including the zone you last saw them in... which I may take out. It seems kind of pointless.) It currently doesn't actually display the gender, but it's the database. I just need to add something to color code the name.
Note that guild membership, race, gender, and PVP rank will only be stored when you mouse over that player, as it's hard to pick up on at a distance. I need to hook the /who functions like FriendsFacts does so that it'll be remembered then as well.
Oooh Aaah, my only suggestion is to have this do what FriendsShare does, add friends to alts when you log on em and that type of thing, I play like 5 alts on one server and find it very handy.
Oooh Aaah, my only suggestion is to have this do what FriendsShare does, add friends to alts when you log on em and that type of thing, I play like 5 alts on one server and find it very handy.
If you do that, please make it an option that can be turned on or off... I tend to use my main's friendslist as a list of people that won't make instance runs suck, and I'd hate for that list to get copied over to my bank alts (where I just have my main and a friend, for ease of autocompletion sending).
I also like AuldLangSyne as an addon name. But then, I caught the reference, and I hate addons with obvious names - they're hell to find again afterwards if I lose track of where I got them from, and there's a higher chance of another addon author picking the same name.
I'd like to add some suggestions, as I prefer to have my friends list as compact as possible:
- option to disable level display or simply don't display it for lvl60 friends
- pvp rank as number (replaced by lastseen if offline)
- player notes in second line
this would sum up to something like:
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Dummyname / Rk7 / Guildname
This is a player note
--
Dummyname2 / Rk3 / L59 / Guildname
(no player note here)
--
Dummyname3 / 3days / L43 / Guildname
another player note here
--
(with the player names colored by raidclass, and everything in dark grey for offline players)
Also, location is no longer tracked. It seems like the most fragile piece of information on there.
One thing I actually liked with FriendsFacts (the non-Cosmos, icky embedded Seahooks one) was its recording of last-friend-location. Didn't work too well (only really updated location when you did a "who"), but it was better than nothing.
If it causes massive problems in Auld, fine, but if it doesn't, would be nice to see it back in this. Ideally as a switchable option so that people who don't want to see that data don't have to.
On turning off showing of PVP rank (/auld show pvp), get the following error (and my friendslist reverting to its plain, non-ALS'd version) when opening the friendslist:
On turning off showing of PVP rank (/auld show pvp), get the following error (and my friendslist reverting to its plain, non-ALS'd version) when opening the friendslist:
Oops. Fixed that now.
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Curse PremiumIt will remember information about friends and display it in your friends list while they are offline.
It also allows you to write short notes about these friends.
Type /auld for a (very minimal) command listing.
If you already use CT_PlayerNotes, load the game with both addons enabled, and type "/auld ctimport" to load its notes. (Due to the way CT_PlayerNotes stores its data, you will have to do this once for each character whose friends you have made notes on.)
http://svn.wowace.com/wowace/trunk/AuldLangSyne/
On WoWI now: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=5320
AuldLangSyne.lua:157: attempt to index field `?' (a nil value)
How much info does it remember about friends? FriendsFacts just about anything there is to know about a character, including guild membership and gender. Guild membership is useful to know, and although gender isn't that important, it's a fun tidbit I like to have.
Yes, please, do add notes to the ignore and guild panels.
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Curse PremiumOops! Sorry, I changed the defaults that I registered for the database, and missed one spot where this required me to change something. I just committed a fix for that.
UPDATE: To explain in slightly more depth, I removed a wildcard from the database defaults when I noticed that it made checking to see whether the unit you were mousing over was being tracked by the addon create a whole bunch of empty tables in the SavedVariables. Since you're going to mouse over a lot of characters in the course of playing WoW, this seemed like a bit of an ongoing memory issue.
I love you.
Er - in a mod-related, platonic way, that is :P
*runs off to download*
Though testing will have to wait, because the server I play on is currently affected with latency around 10-20k... sigh.
PS: no idea how you came up with AuldLangSyne as addon name, but it's terrible to remember. Worse than KLTHM, err KTLMH, err KLHTM_ThreatMeter. Why not call it something like MyFriends, FriendsNotes,...?
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Curse PremiumI'm happy to say that this is already in there. On offline friends it includes a little "last seen 2 days ago" note. With the appropriate number, of course.
...I need to add formatting that nicely to the todo list.
My spouse didn't get it either, which surprised me. Auld Lang Syne is the name of a song, mostly sung around New Years Eve, whose opening line goes "should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind." (Literally, "auld lang syne' translates from Scots as "old long since", but may be better rendered as "times gone by".)
In this, as in all things, Wikipedia shall be your guide.
I didn't expect this to be so little known. ;_;
Oh, and...
It remembers pretty much everything that FriendsFacts does. (Including the zone you last saw them in... which I may take out. It seems kind of pointless.) It currently doesn't actually display the gender, but it's the database. I just need to add something to color code the name.
Note that guild membership, race, gender, and PVP rank will only be stored when you mouse over that player, as it's hard to pick up on at a distance. I need to hook the /who functions like FriendsFacts does so that it'll be remembered then as well.
... I think I love you too.
PS: I like the colouring of the persons class in the friends frame, very swish.
If you do that, please make it an option that can be turned on or off... I tend to use my main's friendslist as a list of people that won't make instance runs suck, and I'd hate for that list to get copied over to my bank alts (where I just have my main and a friend, for ease of autocompletion sending).
I also like AuldLangSyne as an addon name. But then, I caught the reference, and I hate addons with obvious names - they're hell to find again afterwards if I lose track of where I got them from, and there's a higher chance of another addon author picking the same name.
But that may be just me ^^
Yeah it busts my friends pane.
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Curse Premium* Disable PVP rank display.
* Disable guild display.
* Disable showing colors for gender or class.
Also, location is no longer tracked. It seems like the most fragile piece of information on there.
(Type "/auld show" for a list of options.)
AuldLangSyne\\AuldLangSyne.lua:150: attempt to concatenate global `lastseen' (a nil value)
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Curse PremiumI just committed a fix for that.
- option to disable level display or simply don't display it for lvl60 friends
- pvp rank as number (replaced by lastseen if offline)
- player notes in second line
this would sum up to something like:
--
Dummyname / Rk7 / Guildname
This is a player note
--
Dummyname2 / Rk3 / L59 / Guildname
(no player note here)
--
Dummyname3 / 3days / L43 / Guildname
another player note here
--
(with the player names colored by raidclass, and everything in dark grey for offline players)
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Curse PremiumSure. Type "/auld show compact" to enable it.
Then type "/auld show clevels" to toggle showing levels. (I'll think about adding something like 'clevels60'.)
Also, "/auld show pvpnum" will now toggle non-compact mode between showing rank names and numbers.
One thing I actually liked with FriendsFacts (the non-Cosmos, icky embedded Seahooks one) was its recording of last-friend-location. Didn't work too well (only really updated location when you did a "who"), but it was better than nothing.
If it causes massive problems in Auld, fine, but if it doesn't, would be nice to see it back in this. Ideally as a switchable option so that people who don't want to see that data don't have to.
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Curse PremiumOops. Fixed that now.