ATSW is a complete replacement for Blizzards tradeskill window with more overview and special functions.
This replacement (works for all tradeskills, now even enchanting!) provides you with:
- a better overview
The ATSW is bigger than the standard window, resulting in a much better overview over the thousands of items you can produce. Additionally, it lets you sort your recipes either by groups (as in the standard window), alphabetically or by difficulty. Alternatively, ATSW even lets you create your own groups and sort the recipes the way you like!
ATSW also has a filter function: enter something into the filter line and ATSW hides all recipes that don't contain the text you entered. But this filter function can do more: it's a powerful search function that can filter for minimum/maximum level requirements, producable item counts, item rarity (color) and reagents necessary. Check out the readme for details on using this function!
- more comfort
The ATSW has a production queue: you can queue several different items and have them all produced automatically by just clicking one button.
The ATSW is able to consider items you have to produce in order to use them as reagents in the production of other items. So: if you need item A to produce item B, you don't have to manually produce first item A, then item B. The ATSW does that for you: you just tell it to produce item B and it automatically queues the production of item A and - afterwards - item B. If you are missing some reagents to produce both items you get a message telling you exactly which reagents you need.
ATSW helps you telling your friends what reagents you need for a specific item: just click on a recipe with your shift-key pressed and the chat line opened and the reagent info will be added to the chat line.
ATSW shows you what reagents you need to process the whole production queue. It even tells you how many of each reagent you have in your bank, on alternative characters on the same server (in this case, it can even tell you on which characters) and which reagents are buyable from merchants. In case of buyable reagents ATSW can automatically buy all missing and available items from a merchant when you are speaking to him.
Please note that ATSW has grown to be quite a complex addon and it might still contain some bugs. Please tell me if you encounter one so I can fix them.
ATSW is localized in german, english and french language.
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r5 | slartibartfast | 2009-08-08 23:54:27 +0000 (Sat, 08 Aug 2009) | 4 lines
Changed paths:
A /tags/v0.7.7 (from /trunk:4)
v0.7.7:
- fixed: fixed a bug which caused ATSW to block if multiple items are to be created in a row
- fixed: if you require an anvil or an additional reagent (or something else) to create a recipe, the corresponding queue entry should not be deleted anymore
- added: a new checkbox which allows direct filtering of the recipe list for recipes which you can create with available materials (similar, but not entirely identical to the checkbox in the standard tradeskill window - the ATSW box considers items in your bank, on alts or buyable stuff too, if you want)
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r4 | slartibartfast | 2009-08-08 23:39:18 +0000 (Sat, 08 Aug 2009) | 8 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/AdvancedTradeSkillWindow.toc
M /trunk/README.txt
M /trunk/atsw.lua
M /trunk/atsw.xml
M /trunk/atsw_language.lua
v0.7.7:
- fixed: fixed a bug which caused ATSW to block if multiple items are to be created in a row
- fixed: if you require an anvil or an additional reagent (or something else) to create a recipe,
the corresponding queue entry should not be deleted anymore
- added: a new checkbox which allows direct filtering of the recipe list for recipes which you can
create with available materials (similar, but not entirely identical to the checkbox
in the standard tradeskill window - the ATSW box considers items in your bank, on alts or buyable
stuff too, if you want)
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r3 | slartibartfast | 2009-08-05 10:31:18 +0000 (Wed, 05 Aug 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/AdvancedTradeSkillWindow.toc
M /trunk/README.txt
M /trunk/atsw.lua
M /trunk/atsw_language.lua
wow 3.2 (v0.7.6)
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r2 | slartibartfast | 2009-04-18 23:29:41 +0000 (Sat, 18 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk
A /trunk/AdvancedTradeSkillWindow.toc
A /trunk/BarTexture.blp
A /trunk/README.txt
A /trunk/UI-TaxiFrame-BotLeftReplacement.blp
A /trunk/UI-TaxiFrame-BotRightReplacement.blp
A /trunk/UI-TaxiFrame-BotRightReplacement2.blp
A /trunk/UI-TaxiFrame-InBetween1.blp
A /trunk/UI-TaxiFrame-InBetween2.blp
A /trunk/UI-TaxiFrame-TopLeftReplacement2.blp
A /trunk/UI-TaxiFrame-TopRightReplacement2.blp
A /trunk/atsw.lua
A /trunk/atsw.xml
A /trunk/atsw_customsorting.lua
A /trunk/atsw_customsorting.xml
A /trunk/atsw_language.lua
initial import, version 0.7.5
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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 has 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)...