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Good News Everyone!

2009-08-15T00:00:00-07:00

This week we’ve got your usual patch fixes and two new addons, Good News Everyone! and Gnomish Vendor Shrinker

Good News Everyone!

Yes, I really named an addon that.

Good News Everyone! is a basic proc warning addon based off of OhSnap. The idea of course is to alert you to abilities and procs where you would want to make a decision. That means that every proc under the sun is NOT supported! Holy Concentration is certainly a nice spell, but in the heat of battle I don’t need to know when it’s active… I won’t be changing what spells I cast when it is up.

For now, GNE! simply uses the “thrust in your face” effect to get your attention… but I may add a sound if demand is high enough.

Oh, and if you think I missed any buffs or you find a “reactive” ability that doesn’t trigger like it should, let me know on GitHub

Gnomish Vendor Shrinker

The other new addon this week is Gnomish Vendor Shrinker. For some time I’ve wanted a better vendor frame, but motivation is such a bitch. Yssaril was nice enough to allow me to go all OCD on AdvancedMerchantFrame… mix in a bit of GAS (crud, I need to release that too)… and there you are.

Quick feature rundown: simple scrolling list instead of big buttons and “pages”, highlights recipes you don’t know to make them easy to find, one-click buying, alt-click full stack buying, and a search for those really big vendors that have way too much shit.

Patch fixes

This week I’ve also got a few patch fixes going out:

Quel’evel was partially broken by the new quest log, but as a bonus the fixed up code is even smaller.
EquipSetUpdater had it’s button sat upon, so I changed it’s behavior to override the “save” button instead of creating a new button in the already-crowded equipment manager frame.
teknicolor was mostly replaced by the new chat name coloring, but there were a few features that Blizzy missed, so it covers those now.
Panda got updated panels for the new jewelcrafting stuff (thanks to the users that dug up the itemIDs so I didn’t have to).
Kennel got some fixes to some not-patch-caused issues.
tekKompare wasn’t broken by the patch, but some new goodness was added which it now takes advantage of.
Bimbo wasn’t broken either, but I added some stuff for lower level toons, since I’m currently leveling a bearcow.

Interview & Kennel per-zone pet settings

2009-06-20T00:00:00-07:00

This week NoStockUI published a little interview with me. I know I got a little ranty, especially about Wowmatrix, but you’re welcome to skip over those parts. Thanks to Matticus for the change to ramble a bit, I’m happy to support a nice UI-centric blog.

Oh and it’s the weekend that means new addon builds…

The highlight this week, Kennel now has per-zone pet settings. This means you can set Kennel to always use the same pet when you are in a zone or subzone. Want to show off your White Kitten when you’re in Stormwind, or your Cockroach in Naxx? Now you can!

Setting a pet is fairly simple, summon the pet you want, open the config panel, and click “Add zone” or “Add subzone”. A new rule will be added for your current pet in your current zone or subzone. Subzone rules will always override zone rules. If no zone or subzone rule is found and a pet is needed, Kennel will fall back to the random pet settings.

Horde wrath guides (finally!)

2009-05-31T00:00:00-07:00

After far too long of a wait, I’ve finally compiled Northrend TourGuide files for horde. As usual, you can find the download at WoWInterface.

A big huge thanks is due to Spugnort’s guides. After the development policy was laid down by Blizzard, their TourGuide files could no longer be given to paying customers only. Instead of removing their in-game guides, or simply ignoring the policy like some other guide authors (I won’t name names…), they instead donated their guides for the betterment of TourGuide for everyone.

I’ve gone through each guide, merging in ally guide data for the neutral quests and the quests that are similar for both factions. TourGuide Recorder data from users (thanks guys!) has also been merged in, so you should get some nice coords even if you don’t run LightHeaded.

Again, big thanks to everyone that made this possible. Even though I’m usually not one for paid guides (hell, I wrote TourGuide to undermine the ones that I thought were poor quality, especially for a paid product…), I encourage you guys to hit up Spugnort’s and show them some support for donating their guide data for everyone to use.

Oh, and if any of you hordies out there have the time, I’m still missing a guide for Storm Peaks. You could use the ally guide as a starter, since 2/3 of the zone are neutral quests.

Equipment Manager Fun

2009-05-23T00:00:00-07:00

As I’m sure you’re aware, patch 3.1.2 finally brought us the equipment manager. I love it in all it’s simplicity, but I’ve found that it’s lacking in two little areas… it doesn’t link to the dual-spec system, and it’s only about 4 friggin clicks to update an existing set. As I am unable to overlook design flaws like this, I’ve written Crossdresser and EquipSetUpdater.

Crossdresser

First up we have Crossdresser. This addon will automatically switch to a chosen equipment set when you switch talents. There’s a minimal config panel in the addon config UI, as well as two little “CD” buttons on the equipment manager and talent UI panels for fast access.

Oh and as a little bonus, if you hover over the titles in the config panel you’ll be shown that spec’s details.

EquipSetUpdater

Next we’ve got EquipSetUpdater. This addon simply adds an “Update” button to the equipment manager. Pick a set, change the items in it, and click. You don’t have to dig through the icon list, nor will you have to click past that annoying “do you want to overwrite” dialog.

Note that there appears to be a bug with “Ignore This Slot” not being loaded by the manager, so you will need to set this each time you update if your set ignores slots.

TourGuide Online

2008-10-05T00:00:00-07:00

All the guides included with the released version of TourGuide are now viewable online. Print them out! Show your friends! And of course, install the addon!

The web-based guides will be updated whenever a new version of the addon is released.