This addon will allow you to open multiple item link windows from text links in the chat window. Ever been asked to compare items from the chat window for someone? Sitting there clicking back and forth between the two links, trying to remember the statistics of each? Ever want to look at multiple items as they blaze by you in the chat frame only to find out that the other links have long since disappeared by the time you are done with the first? This is the addon for you!
Features:
- Clicking on text linked items will bring up multiple different item reference windows for side-by-side comparison or just for simultaneous browsing.
- Extra buttons on the tooltip to:
. minimize the tooltip
. compare with your currently equipped items
. whisper to the link originator
. relink back into the chat box
. try on in the dressup window
- Key binds to close or minimize all windows
- Key bind to open a LinkWrangler window for the Item under the mouse pointer
- Refer to the included LinkWrangler.htm file for basic instructions
Compatibility:
- Many other AddOns have been written to use LinkWrangler windows. Documentation for other AddOn developers is included in the file Developer.htm
- Supports Auctioneer (and any other AddOn that uses EnhTooltip)
- Can be configured to avoid conflicts with other AddOns. Also you can disable features which you do not use. All commands are documented in the included SlashCommands.htm file
Version 1.72
- Updated TOC for World of Warcraft patch 2.4
- Can display the new Spell and Quest links (if you have the 'alllinks' option turned on)
- Fixed problem with Compare and Dressup buttons not always displaying the first time you view a particular item
There is a summary of these and earlier changes in file changelog.txt
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.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
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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brykrys saidGood News!
Altoholic now supports LinkWrangler tooltips :)
Altoholic
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Lordfury007 saidGreat Addon, Just a question, is there any way to open up a tooltip WITHOUT having to link it in a chatframe? The reason i ask is that i like to compare quest rewards and such to my own items, and sometimes Equipcompare goes off the side of the screen, so to open up my tooltips i need to /say and link the items, then click the links, then do the comparison.
Thanks
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brykrys saidCheck under Keybindings for the LinkWrangler section - there's a bind to open a tooltip from mouseover.
Works from bags, inventory and quest rewards - and most other places that show a popup tooltip (actually, it grabs the link from GameTooltip).
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coani saidWas posting a ticket ingame to gm about goldseller, when I clicked on submit (or whatever to send the ticket), blizzardui spammed a Taint error in LinkWrangler (disable/ignore) at me... unfortunately meaning I lost the ticket I had made ;p
Been so long since I saw that Taint error dialogue window, I had almost forgotten about it ;)
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brykrys saidI think I know what caused that, and unfortunately I believe there is nothing I can do to fix it.
It happened because you shift-clicked the spammer's name into the GM ticket - LinkWrangler intercepts all clicks in the chat box, which causes the taint. I think only the GM tickets have this problem (at least I've not heard of shift-clicks causing problems elsewhere).
Note that to report goldsellers and spammers, the GMs prefer you to use the Report Spam function (right click on the player's name and select from the pop-up menu). If you must put someone's name into a GM ticket, the only option is to type it yourself.
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brykrys said<techstuff> For those who want to know: LinkWrangler hooks SetItemRef using a non-secure hook method. It is not possible to use hooksecurefunc, as that is a post-hook, and LinkWrangler would not be able to prevent ItemRefTooltip from opening. There appears to be no more suitable function to hook into. </techstuff>
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Crusadebank saidIs there a way to resize the item links because i had them set to alot smaller.
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brykrys saidThere's no feature in LinkWrangler to scale the tooltips, though that's a good idea for future...
The tooltips do scale according to the UI scale, but using that makes Everything smaller.
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brykrys saidNew beta version 1.713
Fixes a problem where the Compare and Dressup buttons do not always get displayed when viewing an item you haven't seen before.
It seems to be taking slightly longer for new items to get into the client's cache, and LinkWrangler can't get some information until it arrives. You may sometimes notice LinkWrangler windows flickering as they get new info and redraw themselves.
Also removes some debugging output to chat when you use the Grab function - accidentally left in 1.712, sorry :/
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acapela saidlooks like the LW 1.712 beta (latest/greatest as of 4/01/2008) is generating a link window on every item link that appears in my chat, even though i am not even mousing over these links, much less clicking on them).
these link wrangler windows have only close and minimize buttons.
the following addons show as registered with LW:
1. Pawn: main enabled, compare enabled
2. SomeAssemblyRequired: main enabled, compare enabled
3. ItemPriceTooltip: main enabled, compare enabled
4. RecipeBook: main enabled, compare enabled
i will try selectively disabling addons later (headed for bed now, and this might have an easy explanation that won't require me to do that :-). will follow up here if i learn anything.
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brykrys saidI've been unable to to replicate this, and I've no idea why 1.712 would suddenly start doing this when earlier versions didn't :(
It could be caused by another AddOn, and not necessarily one of the 4 you've listed. If you do figure it out, let us know!
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Pyro76 saidI don't know why and I don't know if you can do anything about it, but Link Wrangler's newly integrated "LinkGrabber" functionality doesn't work with items displayed in AtlasLoot. Which is a shame because it's exactly the primary thing I would use it for in order to compare different items on different pages w/out having to shift-click link them to myself and click on the link in order to get a window up, which I do ALL the time in AtlasLoot.
I have not tried the beta LW, I am running 1.71. Also running the latest AtlasLoot. Any thoughts you have about this would be great, thanks! Awesome addon btw, I don't know what I would do without it!
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brykrys saidThe Grab function only works from the standard Game Tooltip, but Atlas Loot uses it's own custom tooltip.
I don't intend to build any other-AddOn-specific features into LinkWrangler itself. However it is probably possible to write a 'patch' AddOn to grab from Atlas tooltips too. (OK, I may end up writing a patch myself, but only after LinkWrangler is release-ready!)
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Nihlo saidthanks! also got a nil sometimes but I forgot to copy,maybe it's done now anyway...
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brykrys saidNew beta version 1.712
Now displays Quest links too
Fixed a 1.711 bug which prevented tooltip from closing when clicking on a chat link a second time (and throwing a lua error if you had them turned on)
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brykrys saidThanks for the report Nihlo, should be fixed very soon...
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Nihlo saidwhat I'm missing is,I can't close the links anymore while clicking again on them in chat ?
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brykrys saidNew beta version 1.711
I've made quite a few internal changes, so I want to post this as a beta for a bit, to make sure I haven't broken anything that was working before.
Visible changes: TOC updated for 2.4, and can now handle those new Spell links
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brykrys saidVersion 1.71 posted
Pretty much the same as the last beta, but with code cleaned up and debug functions turned off.
Note that I've changed the title of the project - this is to match the title on wowui.incgamers.com, to avoid confusion
Also, the LinkWrangler Grabber functionality is now built into LinkWrangler itself, so Grabber has been discontinued
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slimshady191 saidplease i really need the addon whcih shows the item model in the item tooltip...btw nice addon , running on 2.3.3 without any problems so far .