When an LUA, taint, or XML error occurs, the mod makes a sound, and info on the error can be gotten by clicking the button that will appear near the minimap. If you want the button to appear in a different place, drag it while holding the shift key.
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- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.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TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)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 This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface.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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Highfather saidFor some reason I can not download the archive. Clicking on the mirror page leads to a dead end, trying with the Curse installer gives you a 1kb empty file.
EDIT: working as intended now, thanks to whoever fixed it.
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Stryth saidThis addon does not seem to be working for me. It is activated and in the proper folder but when I log on I still get errors and I see no button
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picachu saidIs it possible to optional disable taints and/or xml errors?
Cause i get around 200!!! taints from different (well known and updated) addons getting blocked from using some frames/buttons/ui/etc.
The error sound is nice, but in this occasion it can get really annoying. So i suggest to have an option to be able to show only lua errors in such occasions.
Thanks for this useful little addon. :)
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Drgnfyre saidThanks for the quick reply. I can't think of any mod I'm using that should preclude WoW from saving the location of the button. I played with it this morning, and after changing it several times, it finally seems to have decided to remember where I put it. :P I think possibly I was putting it in a 'bad' position, so WoW was resetting it or something.
Anyway - it's all working great now - again, thanks for the mod!
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Baudzila saidWarcraft automatically saves the position of the button, and it is working for me. If it isn't saving, it could possibly be interference from another addon you're using.
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Drgnfyre saidAny chance to make it remember where I move the button to? It seems to reset every time I log back in.
Awesome Mod.
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Baudzila saidImproved Error Frame didn't pick up taint errors because it wasn't designed to. Taint errors, like script errors, can cause your UI to malfunction until it's reloaded. Make sure you don't clear the error list if you don't wanna be alerted the next time the same error comes up. Also, not all taint errors are random, and a poorly designed addon may constantly cause them.
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Ch3vr0n saidI love this mod but imo its a tad TOO sensitive, as in i received errors with this one that my mod "improved error frame" didnt intercept, probably because they werent that erroneous anyway. Is this fixed in 1.2 ? Such as that taint error ?
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Baudzila saidThe new version 1.2 has that feature.
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txagentorange saidplease make it so i can disable the chat window notification!!!
its driving me nuts
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Baudzila saidThat's a taint error. I design all my mods to have the least possible chance to cause taint errors, but it does still happen randomly. Just reload the UI if it causes any problems.
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Ch3vr0n saidJust got this error
!BaudErrorFrame blocked from using UIParent:SetAttribute() Count: 1
Call Stack: [C]: in function `SetAttribute' Interface\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:1356: in function `UpdateUIPanelPositions' Interface\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:1073: in function
`SetUIPanel' Interface\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:1006: in function `HideUIPanel' Interface\FrameXML\LootFrame.lua:55: in function
`LootFrame_OnEvent' [string "*:OnEvent"]:1: in function
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caliga4221 saidLove the new changes, cant think of anything else that it could need. this is the best error reporter i have tried. thanks a lot for the mod and the changes you put in.
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Baudzila saidThe new version 1.1 has a button to change the sound effect, and the minimap button can be moved by dragging it while holding shift.
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caliga4221 saidwondered if there was some way to detatch the icon from the minimap? i use a minimap mod and fubar with many others. i would like to be able to set a spot on the corner where the icon could show up not attatched to the map if there is some way. i can post a screenshot with a dot showing where i wanted to put it to give you a better idea what i was wondering about. and about the gnome sound, could you maybe send me a msg about how to change the soud? i was thinking about the sucubus sound file "oh no, your in trouble now" figured out how to pull the sound file out and i have a copy of it but not sure how to reference it instead of the gnome sound. thanks for any help you can give me.
Screenshot here...
http://img153.imageshack.us/my.php?image=baudgn5.jpg
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Baudzila saidreale: I really like the sound of gnomes dieing too much. But I bet a lot of the people that would need a mod like this would know how to add their own sounds anyways =p
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JohnCover saidAwesome, thank you :)
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reale saidWorks great thank you. Would like the "Fatality" sound from BugSack instead though :)