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Last Update:	May 10, 2008 (3 days ago)
Category:	Combat
Tags:	combat, drums, interface, leatherworking, and raid
Project Manager:	Avitus
Website:	visit
Current Version:	SimpleDrumAnnounce 1.22 (for World of Warcraft 2.4.0)
Downloads Today:	50
Downloads Total:	672
Favorites:	9
Comments:	8

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Created On:	April 29, 2008
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Avitus

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About SimpleDrumAnnounce

SimpleDrumAnnounce is a lightweight WoW addon that announces in party when you use drums and warns again 2 seconds before the drum buff expires.

The purpose of this is to keep up Drum rotations with ease.

Features:

-Works always, regardless how you activate your drums (from bags, from a shortcut on your UI, from a consumables mod).
-Warns 2 seconds before the buff expires so the next person in the rotation gets ready.
-Does not spam if you mash your drums button in contrast to a macro button.
-Does not waste a macro slot.
-No config, just install and forget it's there. No need for every leatherworker in your raid to be told how to make a macro.
-Clear visible markings for when you use drums (battle = orange circle, war = yellow star, restoration = green triangle, speed = pink diamond) and when Drums of Battle are about to expire (skull icon).
-Very lightweight/small addon.

Updates: v1.22 Spanish localization.
v1.21 Chinese localization.
v1.2 German and Korean localization.
v1.1 now supports: Drums of Battle, War, Restoration, Speed. Timeout warning only for Drums of Battle for the time being.

Planned:

-Options panel to enable/disable specific announcements/timeout warnings.
-Further localizations: French, Italian (PM or post here if you want to help)

1 Installation Guide
2 Translations
3 TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
4 Mac Support
5 Directory Structure

Installation Guide

Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
  - Windows XP a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
  - WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
  - WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
  - StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
Start World of Warcraft
Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.

Translations

When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".

TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)

When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.

If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.

Mac Support

WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.

Directory Structure

World of Warcraft
    |_ Interface
        |_AddOns
            |_*AddonName*
                |_ *AddonName*.toc
                |_ *AddonName*.xml
                |_ *AddonName*.lua
                |_ (possibly others as well)...

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XanaX said
May 11, 2008, 06:33AM (2 days, 1 hour ago)
"{crâne} Tambours de bataille se terminent dans 2 secondes, au suivant {crâne}" =
"Drums of Battle" = Tambours de bataille
"{cercle} Tambours de bataille terminés {cercle}" = ?
"Drums of Speed" = Tambours de vitesse
"{losange} Tambours de vitesse terminés {losange}" = ?
"Drums of War" = Tambours de guerre
"{étoile} Tambours de guerre terminés {étoile}" = ?
"Drums of Restoration" = Tambours de restauration
"{triangle} Tambours de restauration terminés {triangle}" = ?

good luck

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Avitus said
May 10, 2008, 10:43AM (2 days, 21 hours ago)
@XanaX: Post a French translation here and I'll gladly add it. I need the following text translated into French:

"{Skull} Drums of Battle out in 2, next person get ready! {Skull}" = ?
"Drums of Battle" = ?
"{circle} Drums of Battle used {circle}" = ?
"Drums of Speed" = ?
"{diamond} Drums of Speed used {diamond}" = ?
"Drums of War" = ?
"{star} Drums of War used {star}" = ?
"Drums of Restoration" = ?
"{triangle} Drums of Restoration used {triangle}" = ?

Also looking for Italian translator.

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XanaX said
May 10, 2008, 07:25AM (3 days ago)
French version soon ???

or not...

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Avitus said
May 9, 2008, 12:58PM (3 days, 19 hours ago)
*Added Chinese localizations, thanks Xio@WindRose

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Avitus said
May 8, 2008, 11:45PM (4 days, 8 hours ago)
* Added German localization (thanks Fyrgloth (Blackrock-EU), bashti (WoWint) and Birkenstock (wowace)).

* Added Korean localization (thanks cronan (wowace)).

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DraXon said
May 4, 2008, 03:37PM (1 week, 1 day ago)
A German version would very nice.
Tell me if i can help with the german localization.

Herer are the german names for the drums:

Drums of Battle ---> "Trommeln der Schlacht"
Drums of War ---> "Trommeln des Krieges"
Drums of Restoration ---> "Trommeln der Wiederherstellung"
Drums of Speed ---> "Trommeln der Geschwindigkeit"

Fyrgloth (EU) Blackrock

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Avitus said
April 30, 2008, 03:27AM (1 week, 6 days ago)
Merebo:

At the moment yes, it only announces Drums of Battle for the purpose of maintaining a rotation, but not for Drums of War since I don't believe anyone actually runs rotations for that.

I could add additional announcements for when other Drums are used if people think that would be helpful, though I was generally trying to keep down any unnecessary party chat spam that would just grab attention away from the Drums of Battle rotation. Possibly if added, they will have different icons.

There will probably be either a slash command and/or hooking into the new Blizzard Addon UI to toggle these functions on/off if I add them.

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Merebo said
April 30, 2008, 02:16AM (1 week, 6 days ago)
This only work on Drums of Battle? I use Drums of War on trash so was wondering.

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shadrage said
April 29, 2008, 01:17PM (1 week, 6 days ago)
Sounds nice! Will try this out.

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