Authors CurseForge

Hi guys,

I'm releasing my very first addon, called Altoholic. Its main purpose is to search player bags (& alts) or loot tables (based on AtlasLoot 4.04) in an AH-like frame. The addon will be useful to altoholics (like me ;D), but not only. See this link for details, screenshots & download:

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=8533

Could anyone point me to the right guide to upload it on wowace ? (and do whatever needs to be done to comply with wowace's publishing rules)

This is my first addon, it's not perfect, it's not finished, but it's stable. Any suggestion, functional or technical, will be appreciated :)

I hope you'll enjoy using it :D

Is there a slash command to open the gui as opposed to the minimap button?

Great addon so far,
epic.

Sorry to say this, but bump

There's no slash command yet. The addon lives a little bit on its own so far, but I intend to change this as I make progress. There will be fubar support as well soon.

Are there specific actions you'd like to do via the command line other than opening the GUI ?

Simply want to open the UI, as I hate minimap buttos :P

Regards,
Epic.

i love this addon.
it would be nice if you could include questlogs.

and gogogo on the fubar integration. my radar already has a full row of buttons around it, and there's no more room for this one.

My next actions will be to implement /altoholic & basic fubar support (to begin with). Regarding the quest log, it will happen, but I can't say when yet. I'll have to play a bit with the quest functions available in the API to see what can easily be done.

Looking real good sofar!

This will hopefully be able to replace a few of my addons i use to track alts.

Any way to stop the ""[00:04:43] Altoholic: Enchanting scan successful"" spamm every time i open an proffession? Like a silent mode or something.

@Nirek:
Yes there's a reason why mails are marked as read (ie: grayed out), this is because the Blizzard API function that reads mail content and attachments marks them as read. Without this, it would be impossible to get valuable mail information. Not a bug thus, and can't be worked around.

@Kerecha:
There are certain conditions, which I have yet to determine, under which scanning professions fails, when this happens, the list of crafts would simply be messy and unusable. I can at least detect with certainty when this happens, and let the user know that he should close the window and open it again. Removing this message right now would leave the user unaware that a problem has occurred. What I could do though is to implement an option that removes the message when things go right, but displays it when things go wrong.

Yes there's a reason why mails are marked as read (ie: grayed out), this is because the Blizzard API function that reads mail content and attachments marks them as read. Without this, it would be impossible to get valuable mail information. Not a bug thus, and can't be worked around.

Is this really needed?

An example:

You have three chars, CharA, CharB, CharC (and you logged in with all of them so Altoholic knows them) and CharA sends 1 x [living Ruby] to CharC (which is delivered imediately because it's your own char) why not reflect that change in the database without the need to read CharC's mailbox?

Regards,
Highend

Quote from highend »

You have three chars, CharA, CharB, CharC (and you logged in with all of them so Altoholic knows them) and CharA sends 1 x [living Ruby] to CharC (which is delivered imediately because it's your own char) why not reflect that change in the database without the need to read CharC's mailbox?

Indeed, Possessions(+WhoHas) seems to behave this way, and doesn't open mailbox items in order to scan them.

Postal is another addon showing that it's possible to get the contents without opening the mail, as it adds a list of the items included in a mail message to the tooltip when hovering over the icon for that message in your inbox.

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@Kerecha:
There are certain conditions, which I have yet to determine, under which scanning professions fails, when this happens, the list of crafts would simply be messy and unusable. I can at least detect with certainty when this happens, and let the user know that he should close the window and open it again. Removing this message right now would leave the user unaware that a problem has occurred. What I could do though is to implement an option that removes the message when things go right, but displays it when things go wrong.

That was basicly what i was looking for, ability to hide the message unless something goes wrong.


Also is there any way to purge a char from the lists?
(short of editing the SV's)

B/f's bro played a bit on our comp when he was here and now he's chars are showing to.

Quote from highend »

Is this really needed?

An example:

You have three chars, CharA, CharB, CharC (and you logged in with all of them so Altoholic knows them) and CharA sends 1 x [living Ruby] to CharC (which is delivered imediately because it's your own char) why not reflect that change in the database without the need to read CharC's mailbox?

Regards,
Highend

This is already the case, I'm populating the mailbox of an alt at the moment I click the send button, but you forget that what you have in your inbox has not necessarily been sent by one of your alts. So my goal is that, when I check my mailbox, I keep a copy of each mail in the addon's DB, no matter who sent it, and as I said, using mail functions marks mails as read, can't be fixed, really :(

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Also is there any way to purge a char from the lists?
(short of editing the SV's)

B/f's bro played a bit on our comp when he was here and now he's chars are showing to.

At the moment, this has to be done manually. Use a text file editor, I use notepad++, it's free and easy to use (avoid the simple windows notepad), and:

- WoW should not be running.
- open WTF/your_account/SavedVariables/Altoholic.lua
- In notepad++, you'll have the ability to fold lines with the "+" symbol on the left, but if you can't, try to locate :

AltoholicDB = {
 ["account"] = {
  ["data"] = {
   ["Alliance"] = {
    ["Your realm"] = {
     ["char"] = {
      ["character-to-delete"] = {   **Remove from this line**
 ....
      },                    ** to this line **

- Save the file
- Restart wow

That's it :)

Quote from Thaoky »

At the moment, this has to be done manually. Use a text file editor, I use notepad++, it's free and easy to use (avoid the simple windows notepad), and:

- WoW should not be running.
- open WTF/your_account/SavedVariables/Altoholic.lua
- In notepad++, you'll have the ability to fold lines with the "+" symbol on the left, but if you can't, try to locate :

AltoholicDB = {
 ["account"] = {
  ["data"] = {
   ["Alliance"] = {
    ["Your realm"] = {
     ["char"] = {
      ["character-to-delete"] = {    **Remove from this line**
 ....
      },                     ** to this line **

- Save the file
- Restart wow

That's it :)

NotetabLight ftw :p

guess ill have to do it the lua way then :p

The reason is simple, I scan the body of the mail, they don't :)

The function that marks mails as read is : http://www.wowwiki.com/API_GetInboxText

I use it to get the body of the mail, which other mail addons don't. What I can do is to turn this into an option though.

Very nice addon, just what I have been looking for.

A few ideas:
Only show messages when scanning the professions is something goes wrong.
Option to hide/show fubar text and Icon(like most other fubar addons have).
Option to not scan the body text of the mails so they won't turn grey.

Keep up the great work!

The tooltip info sadly doesn't work with auctioneer's (Informant I believe?) :(